INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHY PROJECTS PARTICIPATION

HMGS cooperates with respective foreign geographic services at a European and international level. Bilateral Cooperation agreements have been signed with US NIMA, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic.

HMGS actively participates (through physical presence on a case-by-case basis) in national committees, international scientific cartographic forums and committees at UN, NATO and EU level. The scope is the constant update on developments in the field of its expertise and thereby to ensure and promote national interests in issues of geographic interest.

In particular, HMGS participates in:

• The State Geodetic and Geophysics Committee,
  
  

• The integrated European Geo profiling and Altimeter Network (EUREF-UELN),
  
  

• The NATO and European Army bodies,
  
  

• Eurogeographics, and more specifically:
  
  

  • EuroGlobalMap (EGM), (1:1.000.000 map)

  

  
  

  • EuroRegionalMap (ERM), (1:250.000 map)

  

  
  

  • EuroBoundaryMap (EBM), (1:100.000 map)

  

  
  

  • EuroDEM

  

  
  

  • EuroGeonames,
    
    

  • State Boundaries of Europe,
    
    

  • European Location Framework (ELF),
    
    

• UN Committees, such as the Geonames Committee and the Global Geodata Management Committee.,
  
  

• The following international cartocraphic data coproduction projects:
  
  

  • Multinational Geospatial Data Coproduction Program (MGCP)

    
    
    

    MGCP Production of digital geodata in vector format of 1:50000 or 1:100000 range in regions of interest for which there are no sufficient geospatial data. HMGS is in charge of producing 12 cells for the Western Balkans region. The program was launched in 2012 and will be completed in 2022-23.
    
    

  • TanDEM-X High Resoloution Data Exhanging (TREX) Program.

    
    
    

    TREX Development of a Digital Ground Model (DTM) that will be globally covered by satellite images radar with 12 meters accuracy. HMGS is in charge of the Southern Balkans region, Greece, Cyprus and the production of 32 cells for the China-Mongolia region. The program was launched in 2017 and will be completed in 2020.