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In collaboration with universities, public services and companies the NCG conducts research that it considers important for the development of geodesy and geo-information.
The NCG offers online publications in the series ‘Publications on Geodesy’ and the ‘Green series’, including results from research, study days and symposia (see Publications).
The NCG also conducts research itself.
The then Netherlands Geodetic Commission was commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment to carry out the knowledge, innovation and education strategy of the GIDEON project – Basic Provision of Geo-information in the Netherlands. As a result the ‘Netherlands 2020 – Virtual Delta. Agenda and approach to knowledge, innovation and education – Gideon Strategy 7’ was drawn up.
The report notes that geo-information has become increasingly ’embedded’ in the network society. The boundary of the field of geo-information is no longer easy to draw. This position in the network requires actual connections: collaboration in the network, also internationally. The role of the geosector thus becomes more integrative in nature. The current situation of the knowledge infrastructure is not yet sustainable and mature. Although the components are very strong in some areas, the knowledge system for knowledge, innovation and education as a whole is not running optimally and is too internally focused. However, the potential is great and the approach is to tie in with the Netherlands 2020 agenda of the Innovation Platform.
As a vision of the future, the report outlines the ‘Virtual Delta for decision-making in processes in the Sustainable Delta’. In 2020, the Sustainable Delta was optimized in space and time in the Netherlands and was therefore optimally utilized socially and economically through decision-making in (policy) processes with the geo-information sector as a geo-integrator for spatial questions and the use of the Virtual Delta for a joint shared image. With the government as a ‘launching customer’ and flywheel for the business community, and also a driving role from the business community with regard to the geo-ICT infrastructure, the ambition is aimed at international export of knowledge and an internationally recognized top position for the Netherlands as a geo-information country.
Five spearheads have been identified for the focus in the research programming. These concern decision-making in (policy) processes with geo-information and citizen participation, information models for exchanging data, modeling of reality in 3D, sea level variation and land subsidence and sensor-data fusion.