National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark
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| Established | September 10, 1987 |
| Activated | January 1, 1989 |
| Director | Jesper Jarmbæk |
| Budget (2005) | 220 million DKK |
| Homepage | www.kms.dk |
| Employees | ~275 civilian |
The National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark , short KMS, is the Danish state owned central agency responsible for surveying, mapping and land registering of all of Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, Greenland
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
, the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
and all waters associated with these. KMS is an agency under the Danish Ministry of the Environment.
The overall goal of KMS is to supply and insure that all in the Danish society has access to reliable and accurate maps and information on all parts of the Realm.
Until December 31, 2004 KMS was a Sector research institute
Sector research institutes of Denmark
Sector research institutes of Denmark are state-owned independent research institutes under various Danish Government ministries, whose primary task is to do research in various fields...
for the Ministry of the Environment in the fields of seismology
Seismology
Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of earthquake effects, such as tsunamis as well as diverse seismic sources such as volcanic, tectonic, oceanic,...
, geodynamic and geodesy
Geodesy
Geodesy , also named geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space. Geodesists also study geodynamical phenomena such as crustal...
.
The seismology part was detached July 1, 2004 and moved under the responsibility of Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (GEUS). On January 1, 2005 the geodesy part was detached and together with Danish Space Research Institute
Danish Space Research Institute
Danish Space Research Institute was the space agency of Denmark from 1966 to 2005. It was a Danish sector research institute formed in 1966 under the Danish Ministry for Education and Research, later the Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation...
it formed Danish National Space Center
Danish National Space Center
The Danish National Space Center is a Danish sector research Institute and a part of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. It is located in Copenhagen at Østerbro...
.
History
KMS was official formed January 1, 1989 by combining Geodætisk InstitutGeodætisk Institut
Geodætisk Institut was a Danish state-run cartographic institute.It was created by law number 82, of March 31, 1928, combining Generalstabens Topografiske Afdeling and Den danske Gradmaaling, two institutions that did somewhat overlapping cartographic and topographic mapping of Denmark...
, Søkortarkivet and Matrikeldirektoratet, in an effort to strengthen mapping in Denmark and resources expended. The political decision was conceived in Royal resolution of September 10, 1987. The definition of its responsibilities is described in law # 749 of December 7, 1988. Initially it was located under the Ministry of Housing, but in 2001 it was moved to the Ministry of the Environment.