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Cook Islands Completes Maritime Boundaries Negotiations

Friday, 28 March 2014 14:31 administrator
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Cook Islands is the first Pacific nation to complete negotiations with its neighbours on its maritime boundaries.

But it has taken several years to conclude the border treaties with states like Kiribati Niue and Tokelau and involved working closely with Geoscience Australia and the Applied Geoscience and Technology Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.

Listen to the full interview

Speaker: Vaipo Mataora, Technical Adviser, Maritime Boundaries Project, Cook Islands

Source: Radio Australia, 27th March, 2014

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2015 09:56  

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“Satellite technology has changed the way that Utility companies throughout the South Pacific manage assets and plan future development.”

So said Dr Wolf Forstreuter, SOPAC’s Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist. Dr Forstreuter has been responsible for the on-going delivery of the EU-funded programme to assist South Pacific Utility companies with GIS.

The programme was first introduced in Tonga, closely followed by the Solomon Islands, Fiji and a similar programme later for Samoa and Tuvalu.

GIS (Geographical Information Systems) is a computer-based tool, to collect, combine and overlay information in the form of easily understood maps constructed from up-to-date-satellite images and field data.