Continuous Operating Reference Stations (CORS) are vital to the
government’s vision of ordered and sustainable land use within the
framework the Green State Development Strategy (GSDS) and the
establishment of the green economy in Guyana.
The closing ceremony for the third in a series of workshops on the use
of the recently rehabilitated CORS network in Guyana was held at the
Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) training room earlier
today.
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> Minister of State, Joseph Harmon who addressed the gathering, said the $93Million dollar investment “will also be an important tool for efficiently dealing with the inevitable increase in demand for state lands for the extensive developments that are taking place and are expected to take place as a result of revenue inflows from our oil and gas production in the near future”.
The State Minister, stressed the importance of the exercise since
there has been an increase in requests for land, particularly “along
the riverbanks of the Demerara and Berbice rivers and on the Atlantic
coast shores.”
In addition, Minister Harmon noted that the CORS network will add
efficacy to the GLSC’s management of the nation’s land resources
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> “The government regards the establishment of the CORS network in Guyana as a very important development which will enable the GLSC to fulfil one of the main aspects of its mandate, which is to execute geodetic topographic hydrographic and cadastral surveys in relation to the land and water resources of Guyana,” Minister Harmon added.
According to David Cole, Manager of Information Systems at GLSC of the
eight (8) previously established CORS, two have been made operable in
Georgetown and New Amsterdam with another in Linden soon to be fully
functional. The restoration of the remaining stations is to be
completed by year-end.
In June, a $93Million contract was signed with Peter Headland of
Ordnance Survey and Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC)
Commissioner, Trevor Benn for the realisation of eight re-established
CORS stations becoming functional at the Eclipse Falls – Region One;
Supenaam – Region Two; Georgetown – Region Four; New Amsterdam –
Region Six; Olive Creek – Region Seven; Lethem – Region Nine; and
Linden – Region Ten.
Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) is a network of
reference stations that provides a virtual base station that allows
users to access long-range high-accuracy Network RTK corrections.
