Riyadh - Sharikat Mubasher: The General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GEOSA) launched the Saudi Arabian National Geospatial Ecosystem (SANGE) during LEAP 2024.

The launching ceremony was attended by Ahmed Alsuwaiyan, Governor of the Digital Government Authority (DGA), and other senior officials and specialists in the sector.

SANGE is the Kingdom’s sustainable, active, and nationally relevant geospatial ecosystem that contributes to all activities and applications that require any element of geospatial knowledge through an interconnected geospatial ecosystem of people, policies, practices, and​ procedures addressing the needs of the modern world.

It aims to create a network that provides powerful components, data, and services that directly address real-world problems and future what-if scenarios

SANGE’s objectives include connecting diverse stakeholders for geospatial data and solutions partnerships, integrating existing datasets within the Saudi Arabian Geospatial network by adopting a shared semantics-based architecture, and adopting an intelligent automated approach limiting human interventions.