As the official mapping agency for the State of Qatar, The Centre maintains and provides on-line access to Qatar's Digital Topographic Database. A physiographic map of Dukhan showing terrain elevation classified by color zones. Green shades for the low, brown shades for the medium and grey shades for the high zones.
Red lines indicate sharp discontinuity of slope.
A 3-D earth model of the same area with an overlay of the corresponding ortho image, depicting a bird's eye view of Dukhan. The same earth model of Dukhan draped with a topographic map extracted from Qatar GIS topographic database. By convening and chairing GIS Coordinators Group meetings on a regular basis, with representatives from every agency, The Centre encourages cooperation, sharing and coordination of GIS activities and ensures adherence to and compatibility of all GIS standards. The Centre maintains the high speed fibre optic network called GISnet, linking all of Qatar's GIS databases and ensures it is secure and operational at all times. As the official geodetic agency for the State of Qatar, The Centre maintains precise horizontal and vertical geodetic networks and maintains an active GPS Base Station, which tracks GPS satellites 24 hours a day.