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The Global Resource Information Database (GRID) is a system of cooperating
Centres within the United Nations Environment Programme that is dedicated
to making environmental information more readily accessible to environmental 
analysts as well as international and national decision makers. Its mission 
is to provide timely and reliable geo-referenced environmental information.  
Besides acquiring and disseminating integrated, spatially-referenced 
environmental data, GRID provides decision-support services to environmental 
analysts and international and national decision makers, and fosters the 
use of geographic information systems (GIS) and satellite image processing 
(IP) as tools for environmental analysis.  

GRID is coordinated from a Programme Activity Centre (PAC) at UNEP
headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.  There are also GRID centres in
Brazil, Denmark, Japan, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand, the 
United States, and Western Samoa.  The long-term objectives of GRID are 
to:  a) enhance availability and open exchange of global and regional 
environmental geo-referenced data sets, b) provide UN and intergovernmental 
bodies with access to improved environmental data management technologies, 
and c)  enable all countries in the world to make use of GRID-compatible 
technology for national environmental assessment and management. 
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