Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016): Melanesian Journal of Geomatics and Property Studies (MJGPS) Volume 2 - 2016

Editorial Note - 2016

Our maiden issue published in 2015 carried seven peer reviewed scientific papers. The papers received good attention and gave us the desired momentum to carry forward. Basic aim of commencing this journal was to motivate our university academics to engage themselves in healthy competition of writing papers from their research outputs. My peers often comment that it is the adrenaline that starts a scientific journal with much fanfare does not inhabit for long. Sustaining the journal year after year is the real challenge for everybody concerned.

I am happy to see that our publishing team has not allowed the ecstasy to fade away. This year also we received very good contributions from the researchers in the relevant fields and we are going to publish five blind-folded peer reviewed papers amongst the contributions received for the 2nd issue. We would crave to see this journal attaining international standard through contributions of researchers from various parts of globe with multi-faceted geographic issues. With the continued recession in the country we keep facing severe financial crisis and allocating fund to innovation and research is becoming a bigger challenge. It is indeed heartening that with very limited resources our department has been able to keep our research engine in full throttle.

I reiterate my belief that our resolute enterprise will assist in getting over such hurdles and make the journal an ongoing success story through participation from national as well as international researchers.

Professor D K Pal, Ph.D (IIT) Head, Department of Surveying and Land Studies, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae 411, Papua New Guinea