About Mountain GeoPortal

The Mountain GeoPortal is a web-based virtual platform for geo-information and knowledge resources of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The GeoPortal aims to facilitate the sharing, integration, and use of geographic information across a broad user-base, giving consideration to standardised metadata datasets, training and educational resources, map services, applications and decision support systems, spatial visualisation, and other related geo-information based services.

The GeoPortal is an important step in establishing a Himalayan Spatial Data Infrastructure (H-SDI) which will promote collaborative effort to build, share, and disseminate geo-information resources for the mountain environment. The H-SDI will work through a decentralised network of users and providers of information by forging partnerships with key national institutions in ICIMOD regional member countries and strategic alliances with relevant regional and global partners.

The Mountain GeoPortal is maintained by ICIMOD’s MENRIS (Mountain Environment and Natural Resources' Information System) Division .