The Singapore Land Authority ( SLA ) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law of the Government of Singapore . SLA optimises land resources for Singapore's social and economic development.
5-463: The SLA was formed on 1 June 2001 when the Land Office, Singapore Land Registry, Survey Department and Land Systems Support Unit were merged. With the vision of 'Limited Land, Unlimited Space', SLA is responsible for maximising Singapore's land resources, by: SLA has two functional roles: developmental and regulatory. SLA also operates GeoWorks, Southeast Asia's first geospatial industry centre. As
10-579: A co-working space , GeoWorks aims to nurture and strengthen the geospatial ecosystem in Singapore and beyond, bringing together MNCs, scale-ups and government agencies through partnership, collaboration and innovation. The GeoWorks GeoInnovation Programme is home to more than 20 startups and scale-ups in geospatial and related domains, including artificial intelligence , drones , autonomous vehicles , augmented reality , virtual reality , geospatial analysis , satellite imagery and route optimisation . GeoWorks
15-444: Is also called geospatial data and information , georeferenced data and information , as well as geodata and geoinformation . Location information (known by the many names mentioned here) is stored in a geographic information system (GIS). There are also many different types of geodata, including vector files , raster files , geographic databases , web files, and multi-temporal data. Spatial data or spatial information
20-481: Is broader class of data whose geometry is relevant but it is not necessarily georeferenced , such as in computer-aided design (CAD), see geometric modeling . Geographic data and information are the subject of a number of overlapping fields of study , mainly: "Geospatial technology" may refer to any of "geomatics", "geomatics", or "geographic information technology." The above is in addition to other related fields, such as: This geography -related article
25-485: Is located at mTower . Notable properties managed by SLA include: This Singaporean organisation article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Geospatial Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position ). It
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