The vision of the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia is to become the key Slovene co-ordinator in providing environment (knowledge and technology) that allows accelerated application of spatial information for the decision making process of different user groups (individuals, public and private sectors).
The Institute was founded on the 14th December 1953 as an independent research institute of the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering within the Technical Higher Education School in Ljubljana. The initiator of its foundation was Prof. Ivan Čuček, who was also its first director. The first few years of the then Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry (IGF) were marked by lack of equipment and insufficient human resources from the pool of Slovene geodesy. Apart from performing demanding geodetic works, the Institute also developed numerous original solutions for precise mechanical geodetic instruments, which demonstrates vast practical knowledge and ingenuity of its personnel. In this time levels, a redresser, a photocopier and a photopantograph were designed. Numerous new technologies were introduced, mainly in the area of photogrammetry.
The basic mission of the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia is in its connecting function between the government, science and private sector in the area of geomatics (primarily in the area of geodetic and hydrographic activity), on the national and international level.
Following the Institute's work programme, which is part of the annual programme of the national land survey service, its forty employees perform the following tasks according to the principles of project management:
