Characteristics
	National name of organisation	Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano
	English spelling of organisation	Italian Military Geographic Institute
	Member status	Associate
	Foundation date	1872
	Responsible ministry / organisation	Ministry of Defence
	Number of staff	608
	Annual budget in M€	21.2
	% state funding	87
	Annual sales in M€	2.9
	Role/mission	• in the geodetic field, installation, maintenance and updating of the geodetic and high precision nets, that are fundamental for the geodetic classification of the national territory. • production, updating and distribution of the national official geographical information and the relative documentation at medium and small scale. • the systematic airphotogrammetric survey coverage of the national territory. • topographic and maintenance works of the state boundaries, carried out according to the existing International Agreement. • production and management of the geographic databank. • validation of the geographic information production of the public and private organisation by the verification and control of their technical attributes. • geotopocartographic support to the Army Staff, according to the NATO directives. • professional education of the personnel, belonging both to the Defence Ministry and other Ministries. • study, research, experimentation and scientific information in collaboration with the Research National Centre, national Universities, the territorial information Services and national and international scientific Agencies, geographic culture diffusion.
	Objectives	-
Activities
	Geodetic survey	Yes
	Topographic mapping	Yes
	Land registration	No
	Military Mapping	Yes
	Thematic mapping	No
	Hydrographic mapping	No
	Aerial photography	Yes
	Satellite imagery	Yes
	Scale range of products	-
Customers
	Central government	-
	Local government	-
	Utilities	-
	Commercial	-
	Military	Yes
Distribution
	Direct	Yes
	VARs	-
	Map publishers	Yes
Country information
	Region/Country name in English	Italy
	Inhabitants in millions	57.7
	Size in km2 (x 1000)	301
	Population Density in km2	191
	Gross Domestic Product	$25,320
Contact details
	Head of organisation	Renato De Filippis
	Permanent Correspondent	Giovanni Orru
	Postal address	Via Cesare Battisti 10 - 12 I-50100  Firenze Italy
	Website address	www.igmi.org

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