Major Projects
- Environmental Vulnerability Index
- SOPAC has contributed to the development of EVI to provide a new global indicator related to environmental issues.
- Reducing Vulnerabilities in Pacific ACP states
- This project, based on three components, Water, Risks and Aggregate, is also providing assistance in Bathymetry mapping, Remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems and the installation of open source web based map servers (Geospatial Content Management System) for fourteen Pacific Islands Countries.
Read more about this topic: South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
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