GSDI - 10
25-29 February, 2008
Theme: Small Island Perspectives on Global Challenges: The Role of Spatial Data in Supporting a Sustainable Future
Technical sessions below are linked to the Program Overview. Exhibits will be open from Monday 12:30 through Thursday 14:00. Posters will be on display during the same time period with judging to occur during the lunch period on Thursday. Silent Auction bids will close at the end of the afternoon coffee break on Thursday. All plenary and technical sessions will be held in the Learning Resource Center (LRC) unless otherwise noted.
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Onsite Registration |
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Workshop
1 - Building an Accurate GIS |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Workshop
6 - Roadmap Toward Effective Mainstreaming of GIS |
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Bus departures to conference hotels |
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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Onsite Registration |
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PS 1 - Welcome/Opening: Conference
Theme Session Small Island Perspectives on Global Challenges:
The Role of Spatial Data in Supporting a Sustainable Future National Anthem
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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PS 2 - Opening Session - Future Visions
for SDI: Corporate Perspectives David Maguire, Chief Scientist, ESRI Mark Doherty, Executive Director, Technology Architecture and Strategy, Intergraph Ed Parsons, The Geospatial Technologist of Google |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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TS 1 - Regional SDI Initiatives TS 1.1 - Evaluating Spatial Data Infrastructures in The Caribbean for Sustainable Development TS 1.2 - Implementing Features of Regional Spatial Data Infrastructures TS 1.3 - SITNA: Evolving Beyond an SDI TS 1.4 - Creating Spatial Data Infrastructure at Various Levels from Local to National in India TS 1.5 - INSPIRE State of Play: Development of the NSDI in 32 European countries between 2002 and 2007 |
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TS 2 SDI Policy Strategies TS 2.1 - Developing an Open and Participative Spatial Data Infrastructure for Europe: The INSPIRE Progress and the Challenges Ahead TS 2.2 - What do we need laws for? The Use of Regulatory Tools in Establishing an SDI TS 2.3 - Spatial Enablement of Government and NSDI: Policy Implications TS 2.4 - The Evolution of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure in Colombia: A High Level Strategy to Support Policy Formulation and Spatial Information Management in the Context of the Colombian Space Commission |
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TS 3 Application of SDI for Disaster Mangement
and Development TS 3.1 - The Use of SDI in Aid Management and Donor Coordination TS 3.2 - Natural Disaster Prediction/Assessment Modelling for Small Islands with Arc GIS and Google Maps TS 3.3 - The Andean Information System for Disaster Prevention and Relief-SIAPAD: An Initiative for the Development of a Thematic SDI TS 3.4 - Developer of Geospatial Portal for the Mexico’s Disaster Prevention with Data Infrastructure Approach |
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TS 5 Roundtable Session - GSDI Technical
Working Group |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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TS 6 Web Services Trends and Applications
in SDI TS 6.1 - Shared Land Information Platform - A Cost Effective Spatial Data Infrastructure Supporting Sustainable Development TS 6.2 - Integrating 3D, Geoprocessing and Location Services into future SDIs TS 6.3 - The Development of Taiwan Geospatial One-Stop Portal TS 6.4 - Distributed Geoprocessing in SDIs - A Forest Fire Risk Mapping Application TS 6.5 - Reconceptualizing User in the Context
of Two-Way Spatial Data Infrastructure, Nama Budhathoki, Bertram
(Chip) Bruce, Zorica Nedovic-Budic (USA) |
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TS 7 Government Policy and Management Issues TS 7.1 - The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: The Double Role of the Public Sector in making Spatial Data Available TS 7.2 - Geographic Information Prices for the Colombian SDI Development TS 7.3 - Institutional quality management in Dutch SDI TS 7.4 - Building a Sustainable Land Information Infrastructure in British Columbia |
| 16:00-17:30 Auditorium A (left) |
TS 8 Applications of SDI: Internal and Cross
Agency Challenges TS 8.1 - Informing Above-ground Geospatial Data Coordination by Looking Down Under: Netherlands Case Study TS 8.2 - Fostering a Culture of Metadata Production TS 8.3 - Marine Geospatial Infrastructure: Workflows and Standards TS 8.4 - SDI’s and Knowledge |
| 16:00-17:30 Auditorium B (right) |
TS 9 Organized Session: Disaster Management |
| 16:00-17:30 Room 3 (upper level) |
TS 10 Roundtable Session - Sponsored Projects
Committee |
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Opening Reception |
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Shuttles to Hotels |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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08:00- |
Onsite Registration |
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PS 3 Plenary Session - Future Visions for
SDI: National Agency Perspectives Jacqueline daCosta, Chair, Land Information Council, Jamaica Dorine Burmanje, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of the Dutch Cadastre Jeff LaBonte, Director General, Data Management and Dissemination Branch, Natural Resources Canada) John Naustdal Director, Mapping Division, Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee |
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PS 4 Plenary Session - Future Visions for SDI: Emerging Needs and Approaches John Wilbanks, Director, Science Commons Karen Siderelis, Geographic Information Officer, USGS Santiago Borrero, Director, PAIGH, Mexico Karl Steinacker, Co-chair, UN Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
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Lunch |
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TS 11 National SDI Initiatives: Latin America and the Caribbean TS 11.1 - Towards the Implementation of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure for Trinidad and Tobago TS 11.2 - SDI in Chile: National System of Coordination of Territorial Information (SNIT), State of the Art and Projections TS 11.3 - Geographic Information System on the Internet (PROSIGA) TS 11.4 - The Implications of SDI Development to the Family Land Communal Tenure Structure in Trinidad and Tobago TS 11.5 - Status of Spatial Data infrastructure Construction for Brazil |
| 14:00-15:30 Room 2 (lower level) |
TS 12 SDI and Land Administration Initiatives TS 12.1 - E-Governance Solutions: How SDI Forms a Foundation TS 12.2 - SDI Supported Land Administration and Management: The Single Agency Model of Hungary TS 12.3 - The Current Status and Development Direction of Korea Land Information System (KLIS) TS 12.4 - Mainstreaming Spatial Data Infrastructures in Land Management and Administration |
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TS 13 Application of SDI for Disaster Management
and Development TS 13.1 - Improving Disaster Management in Jamaica Using Spatial Data Infrastructure TS 13.2 - Open Access Geospatial Information in Decision Support for Environmental Resource Management and Climate-related Disaster Risk Mitigation in SIDS TS 13.3 - Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Management in Part of Lagos N.E. TS 13.4 - Municipal Level Geo-Information Usage in Disaster Mitigation - A Case Study of Ratnapura Municipality of Sri Lanka |
TS 14 Organized Session: Development Partners Supporting Sustainable Geoinformation Organizer: Roger Longhorn, Moderator: Bruce McCormack [report] [Longhorn slides] [EUROGI slides] |
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TS 15 Roundtable Session - Industry Advisory
Committee |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee |
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TS 16 National SDI Initiatives TS 16.1 - The Danish e-Government Initiative Versus INSPIRE Implementation: Synergy or Conflict TS 16.2 - Mapping and SDI Perspectivesin India: Technology, Applications and Policy Considerations TS 16.3 - CartoCiudad: Integration and Harmonization of Official Digital Geographic Information exploited by OGC Services through the Spanish National SDI TS 16.4 - Technical Architecture and Implementation Plan for GDI-DE |
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TS 17 SDI and Land Administration Initiatives TS 17.1 - Universal Land Registry to Support Independent Economic Development in Tanzania TS 17.2 - Assessing Poverty, Risk and Vulnerability: A Study on the Flooded Households in Rural Bangladesh TS 17.3 - Migrating to an Integrated Digital Spatial Data Infrastructure System for Parcel Management in Jamaica TS 17.4 - Implementing the Core Cadastral Domain Model |
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TS 18 Application of SDI for Disaster Management
and Development TS 18.1 - The Role of Spatial Information in Rebuilding a Sustainable Future for Aceh TS 18.2 - The Development of NSDI as part of Afghanistan Reconstruction TS 18.3 - The Design and Implementation of a National Disaster Risk Management Geospatial Portal TS 18.4 - An Assessment of the Threats to Food Security in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria |
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TS 19 Organized Session: SDI in the
Caribbean TS 19.1 - Assessing Spatial Data Infrastructure Development in the Caribbean TS 19.2 - Towards Building a Strong Spatial Data Infrastructure in the Caribbean |
| 16:00-17:30 Room 3 (upper level) |
TS 20 Roundtable Session - Legal and Socioeconomic
Committee |
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Bus departures to conference hotels |
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Port of Spain at Night (buses depart from hotels, return at 22:30) |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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Onsite Registration |
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PS 5 Plenary Session - Future Visions for SDI: Emerging Needs and Approaches Gilberto Camara, Director, National institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil Mark Reichardt, President, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Chris Holmes, Managing Director and Strategic Development, Open Planning Project |
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Coffee |
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TS 21 Data Models & Metadata Standards TS 21.1 - Developing a Comprehensive Address Data Standard for the United States TS 21.2 - Towards an International Address Standard TS 21.3 - Spatial Data Infrastructure Aspects in the Development a Continent-wide Transportation Map for Accessibility Modeling of Latin America TS 21.4 - Metadata Development, The Big Picture! |
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TS 22 SDI Assessment and Management TS 22.1 - Evaluating SDIs using a Multi-view Assessment Framework TS 22.2 - Designing Performance Indicators for Local SDI Assessment: A City of Fredericton Case Study TS 22.3 - Spatial Data Infrastructure Management and Workflows TS 22.4 - A Spatial Approach in the Context of Measuring Human Impact on Coastal Areas: The "Anthropogenetic Intensity" Implementation along Hellenic Coasts |
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TS 23 Island Challenges TS 23.1 - Development of a Marine Park Management System for Buccoo Reef utilizing Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing TS 23.2 - Role of GIS and Remote Sensing in the Sustainable Development of Mauritius, C.P. Johnson (Mauritius), Benidhar Deshmukh, Manish Kale (India) TS 23.3 - Spatial Analysis and Landscape Archaeology of St. Kitts TS 23.4 - Developing the National SDI with Local Action: A Multi-Benefit Citizen Science Methodology for Small Island Developing States |
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TS 24 Organized Session: Mapping Agency Roundtable |
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TS 25 Spatial Aspects of Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation [abstract] [paper] [slides] |
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Lunch and Final Judging of Posters |
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TS 26 Exploring SDI Solutions TS 26.1 - Improved Metadata Management and Publication in an SDI Environment TS 26.2 - OGC + Open Source: The Keys for the Colombian National Geographic Institute Agustin Coddazzi Development of Shared Geographic Services TS 26.3 - Practical Experiences to Successfully Renew All GIS-based Production Applications in the National Land Survey of Finland TS 26.4 - GeoServer: Uniting the 'geoweb' and Spatial Data Infrastructures |
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TS 27 SDI Institutional Issues and Management TS 27.1 - After Setting Up An SDI: How To Maintain It TS 27.2 - Spatial Data Infrastructure and Public Sector Innovation in Flanders TS 27.3 - Construction Methods for Interoperable SDI Nodes TS 27.4 - About Data, Services and User needs of the Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (SAKSS) |
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TS 28 Coastal Challenges 28.1 - A Comprehensive and Quality Controlled GIS Database of Trinidad: East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) Facilities 28.2 - Assessing Coastal Populations Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise 28.3 - Building Seamless SDI to Facilitate Land and Marine Environments 28.4 - Building Geographic Database for Maritime Traffic Safety Assessment |
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TS 29 Organized Session: GEO and GEOSS TS 29.1 - Introduction to GEO and Perspective on GEOSS Directions from the GEO Secretariat TS 29.2 - National Perspective on GEOSS and What New Elements GEOSS Brings to the SDI Table TS 29.3 -A European/EC Perspective on How One Can Meet the Goals of both SDI and GEOSS TS 29.4 - A Commercial Perspective on the Types and Significance of Opportunities Relative to GEOSS |
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Coffee and Closing of Auction Bids |
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TS 31 Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (GEOSS) TS 31.1 - Development of Proposed Guidelines for Implementing the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles TS 31.2 - Facilitating the World-wide Sharing of Geospatial Resources through GEOSS Registry TS 31.3 - Global Earth Observing System-of-Systems (GEOSS): A Global SDI Framework |
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TS 32 Island and Regional Challenges TS 32.1 - Transforming SDI Implementation Using GIS Server Technologies: A Caribbean Perspective TS 32.2 - Cost Effective and Open Web-GIS for CZMP on Small Islands: The Azorean Case TS 32.3 - MapAction LAC: Adding GIS and Situational Mapping to the Disaster Response Capability of the Latin American and Caribbean Region TS 32.4 - Emergency Response Unit (ERU): Locations Using Distributed Geographic Information System (GIS) for Small Island Communities TS 32.5 - GRISI: Geomatic Regional Information Society Initiative |
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TS 33 Applications of SDI: Urban, Health,
Environment TS 33.1 - The Challenge of SDI for Managing Emerging Megacities in Developing Countries: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria TS 33.2 - Geospatial Analysis and Decision Support for Health Services Planning in Uganda TS 33.3 - Predictive Modeling of Health Data over Jurisdictional Borders using Spatial Data Infrastructures and Web Mapping TS 33.4 - Administration and Management of Georeferenced Information in the Alexander Von Humboldt Biological Resources Investigation Institute (IAvH) TS 33.5 - Environment Modeling using Google
Map API for Site Selection in Developing Countries, Amit Jain (India) |
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TS 34 Organized Session: Conservation Data
and the Infrastructure to Support It TS 34.1 - National Geographic Conservation
Mapping Projects, Frank Biasi TS 34.2 - The Implementation of Transforming
Technologies in the Caribbean: A Review and Recommendation for a
Regional Center, Larry Tieszen TS 34.3 - The Nature Conservancy's Conservation
Data Portal for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, Steve Schill and
George Raber TS 34.4 - Open Source Resources and Solutions,
Justin Deoliveira and Chris Holmes |
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TS 35 Roundtable Session: Communications Committee |
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Bus departures to hotel |
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Gala Reception at Hilton Hotel |
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Departure of shuttles to other hotels |
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
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08:00- |
Onsite Registration |
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| 09:00-10:30 Room 1 (lower level) |
TS 36 SDI Investigations and Harmonization TS 36.1 - Exploring Worldwide the Impact of Society on the Success of National Spatial Data Clearinghouses TS 36.2 - Improving SDI Local Relevance: Developing Trust through Accuracy TS 36.3 - Marine Overlays on Topography: Land-Sea Data Harmonisation Issues TS 36.4 - An Emergent Geo-information Semantics Approach to the Semantic Integration of Geo-services and Geo-metadata in Spatial Data Infrastructures |
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TS 37 Role of the Cadastre in SDI (jointly
organized with FIG) TS 37.1 - Role of the Cadastre in SDI TS 37.2 - Land Administration and SDI TS 37.3 - Explaining the National Integrated Land System (NILS) TS 37.4 - National E-Cadastre: Bottom up Approach for NSDI Development |
| 09:00-10:30 Auditorium A (left) |
TS 38 Applications of SDI: Business, Agriculture,
Environment, Education TS 38.1 - Local Spatial Data Infrastructure Creation for Business Development and Retention TS 38.2 - Leveraging the GSDI for Harmonization of Spatial Resources in Support of Global Agricultural Development TS 38.3 - Geographic Data Warehouse to Consolidate Dispersed Environmental Information TS 38.4 - Using GIS/RS/GPS for SDI Capacity-building, Protected-Area and Coastal Zone Management in Northern Mesoamerica |
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TS 40 Roundtable Session - International Steering Committee for Global Map Organizers: Fraser Taylor, ISCGM Secretariat (Canada) |
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Coffee |
| 11:00-12:30 Room 1 (lower level) |
TS 41 National and Regional SDI Web Portals TS 41.1 - National Web Atlas SNIT - Chile TS 41.2 - The GeoSUR Program, A Regional Initiative to Integrate and Disseminate Spatial Data in South America TS 41.3 - Geoportals in Selected European States: A Comparative Analysis TS 41.4 - SERVIR: An Integrated Approach for the Monitoring & Visualizing the Land, Sea and Air of Mesoamerica |
| 11:00-12:30 Room 2 (lower level) |
TS 42 Cadastral Developments (jointly organized
with FIG) TS 42.1 - An Analysis of User Input Regarding a National Land Parcel Data program in United States TS 42.2 - Building the Cadastral Framework: Achievements and Challenges in the English-Speaking Caribbean TS 42.3 - Charles: Development of a method to create and maintain a survey-accurate cadastral map for any surveyed area in Trinidad and Tobago TS 42.4 - Towards Coherent Parcel Information for the Bahamas |
| 11:00-12:30 Auditorium A (left) |
TS 43 Applications of SDI: Innovations TS 43.1 - The AWARE Geoportal for Hydrological Applications: Integrating geospatial processing services with Google Maps TS 43.2 - Open Standards Based Research Platform for Map Schematization TS 43.3 - Thesauri Design to Improve Access to Cartographic Heritage in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures TS 43.4 -Towards Semantic Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Framework for Sustainable Development |
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TS 44 Defense and Homeland Security TS 44.1 - Successful Response Starts with a Map - Improving Geospatial Support for Disaster Management: A Report of a Study by the United States National Research Council and Relevance to GSDI Interoperability TS 44.2 Military Engineer Corps of Labour at the Chilean Army and its Contribution to National Development TS 44.3 US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Perspective: Geospatial Standards Supporting the US Department of Defense and Opportunities for Regional Partnerships TS 44.4 Geospatial Interoperability: A Demonstration of Interoperability for Homeland Security and Defense |
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Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 Room 1 (lower level) |
TS 46 National SDI Initiatives - Africa TS 46.1 - Field-testing SDI in East Africa TS 46.2 - The SDI that is Need Driven: The SDI in the South African Context TS 46.3 - Spatial Data Sharing for Sustainable Development in Landlocked Countries: The Case of Lesotho TS 46.4 - Maneuvering Technical and Institutional Challenges for a National Spatial Data Infrastructure in Uganda TS 46.5 - National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (NGDI): An Enabler for Social-Economic Improvement in Nigeria TS 46.6 - Lack of Geospatial Data Copyright Protection And Liability: Can Malawi Really Afford This? |
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TS 47 Capacity Building TS 47.1 - Geo Spatial Data Infrastructure Capacity Building Requirements of National Mapping Agencies (NMAs) in Developing Countries TS 47.2 - Spatial Data Infrastructures as an Education Resource in Secondary Education in Spain and Argentina TS 47.3 - Defining SDIs in Scientific Research TS 47.4 - Enhancing Uses of Spatial Data
through Building Online Learning and Research Environment, Meixia
Deng, Liping Di (USA) TS 47.5 - Geospatial Training and Education towards a Successful National Spatial Data Infrastructure TS 47.6 - GIS Training Experience in the Caribbean |
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TS 48 Application of SDI for Disaster Management and Considerations for Island Nations TS 48.1 - Modeling Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics to Assess Sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago TS 48.2 - The Role of Spatial Data Infrastructure in the Management of Land Degradation in Small Tropical Caribbean Islands TS 48.3 - The Implementation of Transforming Technologies in the Caribbean: A Review for a Regional Center TS 48.4 - Spatial Database under the INSPIRE Directive for Environmental Planning in Faial Island, Azores |
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TS 50 Roundtable Session - GSDI Association Open Brainstorming Session Organizer: Harlan Onsrud |
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Coffee |
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Closing Plenary
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Conference Summary and Conclusions Appreciation Awards Reports of GSDI Association Committees, Conference Sessions and Rountables GSDI 11 Presentation Onward: Closing Address |
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