Easing the Way for GIS

摘要

The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), previously the Agricultural University of Norway) is a small institution with 2,600 students and eight hundred members of staff, four hundred in academic posts. The university offers degrees in Life Sciences, as well as Landscape Architecture, Spatial Planning, Geomatics, Agricultural Engineering, Economics, Resource Management and other disciplines. It has been an OGC university member since 1997, supporting standardisation work within the OGC and gaining early access to draft OGC standards.