Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): Melanesian Journal of Geomatics and Property Studies (MJGPS) Volume 4 - 2018

Editorial Note

It is indeed gratifying to note that the Melanesian Journal of Geomatics and Property Studies (MJGPS) is going to see a successful 4th year in a row. This year we are bringing out 7 peer-reviewed papers. In order to retain the international stature of the journal we have introduced one paper originating from Nigeria on ‘Nigerian land administration system as the facilitator of sustainable land development.’ We have another important paper on ‘Decision making toward eking out livelihood in customary land holding system’ coming from researchers in the Department of Higher education, National Capital District of Papua New Guinea. 

Most importantly, we have achieved our goal of instilling a trend amongst the national academics to publish research findings, which is evinced in five papers. All these five papers are focused on segments of paramount national interest. The significance of applying Geomatics in diverse sectors like infrastructure development, resources inventories, disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management has been aptly demonstrated.

With the advent of this journal 4 years ago, now we find a broad spectrum involvement of faculties and graduate students from our department. Previously our department had a narrow-based engagement of a few prolific researchers. That the canvas has metamorphosed today, gives me immense pleasure.

Wish you all happy reading and drawing motivation leading to a spree of useful research activities in the years ahead.

Regards and best wishes,

Dilip Kumar Pal, PhD (IIT, India), Professor and Head, Department of Surveying & Land Studies The Papua New Guinea University of Technology