Monday, 6 November

09:00-10:30
11:00-12:30
Court Yard

Plenary Workshop 1 – A Spatial Technology Infrastructure Vision and its Practical Implementation

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12:30-14:00
Los Naranjos

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30,
16:00 - 17:30
Court Yard

Plenary Workshop 2 – GIS: The Spatial Information Platform for Reducing Poverty

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18:00-20:00
Court Yard

Inauguration Ceremony

Welcome and Opening, Colonel Luis A. Alegría Matta, Director, Military Geographic Institute of Chile (IGM) and President, GSDI9 Conference

• National Authority
• Welcome Address, Professor Harlan J. Onsrud, President, GSDI Association, Critical Issues in the Alleviation of Poverty and the Relevance of Geographic Tools and Data
  

  Welcome Reception, Sponsor: Intergraph, Los Naranjos
  

Tuesday, 7 November

08:30 -
Museum Entrance

09:00-10:30
Court Yard

Plenary Session 1- GSDI-9 Keynote Talks on Spatial Information: Tool for Reducing Poverty
Moderators: Col. Luis A. Alegría Matta (Chile), Prof. Harlan J. Onsrud (USA)

PS 1.1 Geo-Information - A Critical Tool for Development Planning and Management Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard, Director, Transportation and Urban Development Department (TUDDR), World Bank
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PS 1.2 SDI: A Framework for Poverty Reduction, Dr. Carmelle Terborgh, Manager, Global Affairs, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
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PS 1.3 The Role of Geospatial Technology and Standards in Reducing Poverty and Enabling Sustainable Development, Peter Batty, Chief Technology Officer, Intergraph Corporation
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PS 1.4 Access to Earth Observations, Ivan DeLoatch, Director, US Federal Geographic Data Committee
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PS 1.5 SNIT: The Spatial Data Infrastructure of Chile
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10:30-11:00

11:00-12:30
Room 1

TS 1 – Spatial Data Infrastructure Policy Issues
Moderators: Ivan B Deloatch

TS 1.1 SDI Dynamics; Bas Kok (The Netherlands)
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TS 1.2 INSPIRE: An Innovative Approach to the Development of Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe; Max Craglia, Alessandro Annoni (Italy)
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TS 1.3 Lineamientos de Politica de Informacion Geografica: Consolidatcion de la Infraestructura Colombiana de Datos Espaciales- ICDE; Ivan Dario (Colombia)
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TS 1.4 A Successful Policy Approach in Service Provision by the Dutch Cadastre; Dorine Burmanje or Peter Laarakker (The Netherlands)
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11:00-12:30
Room 2

TS 2 - Earth Sciences Congress: Movilización de capacidades para realzar los valores ambientales y sociales. Moderators: Cart. Alejandra Coll Escanilla

TS 2.1 –Generación de escenarios y recursos virtuales en ciudades fragmentadas; César Castellano, Mercedes Ferrer, Nixon Molina, Tomás Pérez (Venezuela)
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TS 2.2 –Los valores ambientales que se promueven en la educación formal chilena: una aproximación desde la geografía; Paloma Miranda Arredondo, (Chile)
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TS 2.3 –“Sistemas de información territorial para comunas pobres;
Heriberto Pinto (Chile)
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TS 3 - Local Spatial Data Infrastructure
Moderators: Jean Parcher, USGS (USA)

TS 3.1 The Applications of Geospatial Information Technology in Land Management: A Case Study of Lagos, Nigeria; Albert Osei (USA), Edmund Merem (USA), Yaw Twumasi (USA)
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TS 3.2 Experiences in Establishing Local SDIs-Cape Town Case Study; Dr. Solomon Bhunu (South Africa)
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TS 3.3 Transferencia de tecnología para la creación de una IDE en la admnistración local de un país en desarrollo: experiencia entre la Universidad Nacional de Loja (Ecuador) y la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (España); Fabian Reyes Bueno (Ecuador); Miguel Cordero Souto (España), Aníbal González González (Ecuador), Rafael Crecente Maseda (España)
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TS 4 – Enabling SDI Access
Moderators: Michael Gould, Universitat Jaume I (Spain)

TS 4.1 Worldwide development of national spatial data clearinghouses (2000-2005); Joep Crompvoets and Arnold Bregt (The Netherlands)
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TS 4.2 Towards User-Driven Spatial Data Infrastructures. An Approach Oriented to Sustainable Development; Tatiana Delgado Fernández (Cuba)
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TS 4.3 A Roaming-enabled SDI (rSDI):-Balancing Interests, Opportunities, investments and risks; Roland-M. Wagner (Germany)
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TS 4.4 Portal of the Americas; Doug Nebert (US)
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TS 5 – Geographic Data
Moderators: Steeve Ebener, WHO (Switzerland)

TS 5.1 Bridging data sets: a GIS response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia; Nathan Heard (USA)
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TS 5.2 Moving towards GSDI: where are we in terms of data interoperability at the global level? ; Steeve Ebener (Switzerland), Carrie Stokes, Kate Lance and Carmelle Terborgh (USA)
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TS 5.3 Consistent Georeferentiation for a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure; Hayo Hase (Germany)
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TS 5.4 Assessing Impacts of Adopting a New, Geocentric Coordinate System in Brazil; Marcelo Santos (Canada), João Bosco Azevedo (Brazil)
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TS 5.5 A Toolkit for Optimizing Cartographic Production from a Global Database; Werner Wolfer (Germany)
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TS 6 - Global Visions for Spatial Data Infrastructure Development
Moderators: Jarmo Ratia, GSDI President-Elect (Finland)

TS 6.1 From Bonn 1996 to Santiago 2006: Ten Years of GSDI, Achievements and Challenges; Santiago Borrero (Mexico)
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TS 6.2 Global Spatial Data Infrastructure – Are the Vision and Concepts Still Relevant? John Moeller (USA)
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TS 6.3 Embracing Cultural Differences in a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure: Findings and Recommendations from Atlantic Institute Think Tank 6; David Coleman (Canada), Harlan Onsrud (USA)
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12:30-14:00
Court Yard

14:00-15:30
Room 1

TS 8 – Organizational and Legal Issues
Moderators: Garfield Giff

TS 8.1 The Legal Framework for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure: Uncrossing the Wires, Katleen Janssen (Belgium)
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TS 8.2 Institutions Matter: The Impact Of Institutional Choices Relative To Access Policy and Data Quality on the Development of Geographic Information Infrastructures; Bastiaan van Loenen, Jitske de Jong (The Netherlands)
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TS 8.3 Spatial Data Sharing: A Cross Cultural Conceptual Model; El Sayed Omran, Arnold Bregt, Joep Crompvoets (The Netherlands)
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TS 8.4 Geo DRM – Towards Digital Management of Intellectual Property Rights for the SDI; Mohamed Bishr (Germany), Andreas Wytzisk (The Netherlands), Javier Morales (The Netherlands)
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14:00-15:30
Room 2

TS 9 - Local and National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Moderators: Juan Enrique Silva, INCOM (Chile)

TS 9.1 Local Government GIS in Korea: From Department to Enterprise; Byong-Nam Choe (Korea), Dong-Han Kim (Korea)
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TS 9.3 GeoDF: Towards a SDI-based PPGIS application for E-Governance, Jianfeng Zhao, David Coleman (Canada)
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TS 9.4 Developing Geospatial Infrastructure for Poverty Reduction : Lessons and challenges from Nigeria 2006 Census; Emman Funlayo Ogunbodede (Nigeria)
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TS 10 –Earth Sciences Congress: Movilización de capacidades para realzar los valores ambientales y sociales. Moderators: Cart. Alejandra Coll Escanilla

TS 10.1 – Resolución de problemas y desarrollo de competencias ambientales en el museo nacional de historia natural de Chile: una propuesta de acción desde la biogeografía; Pablo Jaramillo, Paloma Miranda Arredondo. (Chile)
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TS 10.2 –La participación de la comunidad como factor clave en la gestión de un plan de ordenamiento territorial en un área protegida: caso de estudio Parque Nacional Puyehue X Región de Los Lagos Chile; Claudio Rosales Urrutia (Chile)
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TS 11 – Location Services and Semantics
Moderators: Carl Reed, Open Geospatial Consortium

TS 11.1 A Study Based on Moving from Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) toward Spatial Service Infrastructure (SSI); Abolqasem Sadeqi (South Korea)
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TS 11.2 Location Based Services supported by Spatial Data Infrastructures. Experiences with “MovilWeb”; Rafael Cruz Iglesias, José Luis Capote Fernández, Guillermo González Suárez, Osmani Herrera González, Liset Becerra Lugones (Cuba)
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TS 11.3 Los Servicios Web Semánticos, Una Solución a los Problemas de Interoperabilidad Semántica en Modelos Digitales de Terreno; Amparo Olaya Benavides, Jose Nelson Perez Castillo (Colombia)
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TS 11.4 Linking the Needs of the End User with the Data into the National SDI Applying Generic Geo-Queries with “Tocororo”; José Luis Capote Fernández, Rafael Cruz Iglesias, Osmani Herrera González, Guillermo González Suárez, Liset Becerra Lugones (Cuba)
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TS 12 – Geographic Data and Metadata
Moderators: Steeve Ebener, WHO (Switzerland), TBD

TS 12.1 The SALB Project, Lessons Learned Towards the Creation of a Global SDI; the Example of the Americas Steeve Ebener (Switzerland), Yaniss Guigoz (Switzerland), Alejandra Silva (Chile), Brenda Brookes and Elisa Gagliano (USA)
[abstract] [paper 1] [paper 2] [paper 3]

TS 12.2 Using Metadata to Help the Integration of Several Multi-sources of Updates; Christelle Pierkot, Abdel Kader Hameurlain, Anne Ruas, Sébastien Mustière (France)
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TS 12.3 Simplifying Geospatial Metadata Collection and Exploitation (Simplificando la colección y explotación de metadatos geoespaciales); Michael Gould, Carlos Granell Canut, Miguel Angel Esbrí, Laura Díaz, Miguel Angel Manso (Spain)
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TS 12.4 Towards a North American Profile of the ISO 19115 World Spatial Metadata Standard; Harold Moellering (USA), Jean Brodeur (Canada), David Danko (USA), Sharon Shin (USA)
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TS 13 – Global Visions for Spatial Data Infrastructure Development
Moderators: Mukund Rao, GSDI Past President (India)

TS 13.1 Underpinning Increasing Efficiency and Effectiveness of Nations through Spatial Information; Vanessa Lawrence (UK)
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TS 13.2 TS 6.4 Inclusion and Diffusion: Building SDI Bridges; Jeff Labonte (Canada)
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TS 13.3 The Global Information Commons for Science Initiative and Its Relevance to Improved Access and Use of Geospatial Data; Paul Uhlir (USA)
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TS 14 – Sponsored Projects Committee Open Meeting
Chair: Carmelle Terborgh; Co-Chair: Alan Stevens

The Sponsored Projects Committee advises the GSDI Association Board of Directors on all matters that involve the GSDI Association with regard to sponsorship of funded projects, including grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts. In addition, the Committee works to raise funds specifically for the GSDI Developing Nation Fund. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

15:30-16:00

16:00-17:30
Room 1

TS 15 - Earth Science Congress : Mecanismos de funcionamiento, modelos y respuestas a los eventos naturales. Moderators: Geog. Marcela Riveros Lagréze

TS 15.1 –Simulaciones del tsunami de 1960 utilizando diferentes terremotos de origen en el centro-sur de Chile; Marcelo Lagos, Marco Cisternas, Iván Lillo (Chile)

TS 15.2 –Sistema de inteligencia territorial frente a emergencias y desastres de Cruz Roja chilena; Cristian Andrés Ramírez Sepúlveda (Chile)

TS 15.3 –Ciclones Tropicales y consecuencias para la ciudad de la Habana, Cuba; Enrique Rodríguez-Loeches Diez-Argüelles (Cuba)
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TS 16 – National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Moderators: Al Stevens, FGDC (USA); TBD

TS 16.1 Development of National Satellite Image Atlas: Importance in Corporate and National SDI Development and the Peripheral Countries Case; Carlos Gabriel Asato, Eugenia Mariana Wright (Argentina)
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TS 16.2 Economic, Societal, and Environmental Benefits of Spatial Information Interest Communities; Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp (Hungary), Joao Geirinhas (Portugal)
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TS 16.3 A Collective Project Based on Cooperation and Resources Sharing: The Spanish SDI Named IDEE; Antonio Rodríguez, Paloma Abad, José Ángel Alonso, Alejandra Sánchez, Luis Manuel Vilches (España)
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TS 16.4 The Role of GIS in monitoring and evaluation of Poverty and performance of Poverty Eradication and Action Plan (PEAP) policy in Uganda; Shuaib Lwasa (Uganda)
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TS 17 - Partnerships In Creating SDI Building Blocks
Moderators: Alessandro Annoni

TS 17.1 A Successful Alternative Method for Funding and Implementing National SDI: The Australian PSMA Experience; Peter Holland, Ollie Hedberg, Dan Paull, Martin Holmes (Australia)
[abstract] [paper 1] [paper 2] [paper 3] [paper 4] [paper 5] [paper 6] [paper 7] [slides]

TS 17.2 Basic Registrations for Geo Information; Jaap Besemer, Peter Laarakker, Leen Murre, Niels Zuiderveen Borgesius, Ruud Ten Kroode (The Netherlands)
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TS 17.3 Arreglos Institucionales para Implementacion de la Infrastructura Colombiana de Datos Espaciales; Dora-Inés Rey-Martínez (Colombia)
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TS 17.4 Partnerships in North-Rhein Westphalia for SDI Development and Installation; Heinz Brueggemann (Germany)
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TS 18 – Web-based Services serving Latin America
Moderators: Tatiana Delgado, GeoCuba (Cuba)

TS 18.1 The Nature Conservancy's Conservation Information System for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean; Steven Schill (USA)
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TS 18.2 The Mesoamerican and Caribbean Geospatial Network; Eric van Praag (USA), Boris Ramirez (Panama), Vincent Abreu (USA)
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TS 18.3 Implementación de un Portal de Servicios Geográficos en Línea, como Factor de Desarrollo de Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales en Colombia; Lilia-Patricia Arias (Colombia)
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TS 18.4 Atlas Nacional Interactivo de México: Geoportal para México; Antonio Hernández-Navarro, Enrique Navarro-Luevano (Mexico)
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TS 19 – Standards
Moderators: Ignacio Guerrero, Intergraph (USA); David Danko, ESRI (USA)

TS 19.1 The Requirements and a Proposal for a Compatible SDI Standards Suite; Doug Nebert (USA), Carl Reed (USA), Roland Wagner (Germany)
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TS 19.2 The Role of Standards in Spatial Data Infrastructures- The Zimbabwe Case; Gerald Chiwozva (Zimbabwe)
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TS 19.3 Experiences in the Use of an ISO19115 Profile within the Framework of the Spanish SDI; Daniela Ballari, Alejandra Sánchez Maganto, Javier Nogueras-Iso, Antonio Rodriguez Pascual, Miguel Ángel Bernabé (Spain)
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TS 19.4 Dealing with Diversity: From Data to Standards-based Domain Model; Clemens Portele (Germany)
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TS 20 - Global and Regional Organizations Panel
Moderators: Harlan Onsrud (USA), TBD

Ideas presented on how global and regional geospatial organizations might better contribute to and apply knowledge and resources towards addressing the Worlds most pressing social problems. Three big ideas each presented by Milan Konecny (ICA), Stig Enemark (FIG), Fraser Taylor (ISCGM), Santiago Borrero (PAIGH), Peter Holland (PCGIAP), Mario Reyes (PCIDEA) and Carl Reed (OGC) followed by open discussion.
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TS 21 – Development Agencies Round Table
Moderators: Jeffrey Tschirley, FAO, and David Kaatrud, WFP

This session provides an opportunity for development agency personnel to discuss pressing data, technology and information infrastructure issues among themselves and with the professional geospatial community at large.
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18:00-20:00

Chilean Police Force Equestrian Demonstration
Buses will transport starting at 18:00

Wednesday, 8 November

08:30-
Museum Entrance

09:00-10:30
Room 1

TS 22 - Indicators for Successful Partnerships
Moderators: Arnold Bregt (NL)

TS 22.1 Return On Investment for Geospatial Information Technology; Leslie Armstrong (USA)
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TS 22.2 Making Money Flow Sideways: Cross-Federal Geospatial Investment Coordination; Kate Lance (USA), Yola Georgiadou (The Netherlands)
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TS 22.3 A Mixed Method Approach for Evaluating Spatial Data Sharing Partnerships for SDI Development; Kevin Mc. Dougall, Abbas Rajabifard, Ian Williamson (Australia)
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TS 22.4 The ECDL-ICDL-GIS (European Computer Driving License Geographic Information System) for Augmenting Digital Literacy in GIS; Mauro Salvamini (Italy)
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09:00-10:30
Room 2

TS 23 – Geographic Data Services and Techniques
Moderators: Douglas Nebert, FGDC (US)

TS 23.1 El Rol de las Bases de Datos Espaciales en una Infraestructura de Datos; Mariella Gutiérrez (Chile)
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TS 23.2 Diseñode un Estandar para la Organización, Almacenamiento e implementación de un Banco de Imágenes Satelitales; Rubén Darío Mateus Sanabria (Colombia)
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TS 23.3 Creating Atomic Small Areas for Reporting Census Data in Ireland; Stewart Fotheringham, Martin Charlton (Ireland)
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TS 23.4 Resolving Semantic Ambiguities of Geo Services in a New Method for Linking GIS and Environmental Models; Gholamreza Fallahi and Mohammad Saadi Mesgari (Iran)
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09:00-10:30
Room 3

TS 24 – National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Moderators: Jeanne Foust, ESRI (USA)

TS 24.1 A Framework for Comparing Spatial Data Infrastructures on the basis of Web Services and Metadata Management: An Australian-Swiss Case Study; Christine Najar, Abbas Rajabifard, Ian Williamson, Christine Giger (Australia)
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TS 24.2 The National Geographic Information System in Taiwan; Chang Chung-Chi, Shen Jin-Hsiang (Republic of China)
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TS 24.3 Improving Delivery of Services in Cities of the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region through Public-Private Partnerships for SDI Development; Fernando R. Echavarria, Marsha Goldberg (USA)
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TS 24.4 Nepalese NSDI framework in the context of e-government initiatives in Nepal; Dev Raj Paudyal (Nepal)
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TS 25 - Earth Sciences Congress: Movilización de capacidades para realzar los valores ambientales y sociales. Moderators: Geog. Hermann Manríquez Tirado

TS 25.1 –Experiencia con mapas táctiles a escala de detalle; Alejandra Coll Escanilla (Chile)
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TS 25.2 –Fundamentos para un sistema de estrategias de enseñanza de mapas táctiles; Teresa Barrientos Guzmán, Víctor Huentelemu Ramírez (Chile)
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TS 25.3 –  Uso de los mapas táctiles para la difusión del conocimiento histórico de América Latina; Alejandra Coll Escanilla (Chile)
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TS 25.4 –  Cartografía planimétrica y temática de las Islas Galápagos; Ing. Lino Verduga, Edgar Peñaherrera;, Augusto González, Roberto Sánchez, Basilio Toro (Ecuador)
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TS 26 – Spatially Enabled Land Administration: Joint FIG/GSDI Session
Moderators: Prof. Stig Enemark, FIG (Denmark), TBD

TS 26.1 Spatially Enabled Land Administration - Bridging the Gap; Stig Enemark (Denmark)
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TS 26.2 Template for Assessing Worldwide Cadastral Systems as Part of National SDI Initiatives; Dr. Abbas Rajabifard, Andrew Binns, Ian Williamson, Daniel Steudler (Australia)
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TS 26.3 National Vision for Land Parcel Databases in the United States; David Cowen (USA)
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TS 26.4 Land rights and cadastral reform in post-apartheid South Africa; Rosalie Kingwill, Ben Cousins (South Africa)
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TS 27 - Development and Poverty Alleviation
Moderators: TBD

TS 27.1 Poverty Mapping: New Advances in Spatial Data, Robert Chen (USA)
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TS 27.2 European Organisation For Geographical Information’s International Affairs
Initiative; Bruce McCormack (Ireland)
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TS 27.3 Food Security: Modelo De Indice de Balance Hidrico Para Monitoreo de la Produccion Agrícola y Reduccion de la Inseguridad Alimetaria en Centro América ; Gloria Aguilar (Guatemala), Diego Pedreros (Colombia), Jim Verdin, Gabriel Senay (USA) and Chris Funk (USA).
[abstract] [paper] [slides]

TS 27.4 Poverty and Food Security Mapping at the Country-level: Lessons Learned from Seven Case Studies; Glenn Hyman (Colombia), Suan Pheng Kam (Malaysia), Chris Legg (Nigeria), Andrew Farrow (Uganda), Dave Hodson (Mexico)
[abstract] [paper]

TS 28 – Planning Committee Open Meeting
Chair: Alan Stevens

The Conference Planning Committee of the GSDI Association is responsible for planning the regularly held GSDI Association international conference and suggesting procedures and policies to the Board for the hosting of such meetings. Those interested in these activities are welcome to attend.

10:30-11:00

11:00-12:30
Room 1

TS 29 – FRAME, Knowledge Sharing for the Natural Resource Community: Impact of Environmental Tools on Policy Decisions.

The session includes a summary of available approaches and tools for describing key environmental indicators and information on joining a global community of practice on this topic, coordinated trough activities on the FRAME website, www.frameweb.org. Moderators: Jim Tarrant and Lauren Sorkin, FRAME
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TS 29.1 Presentation of the results of a day-long FRAME working session on the impact and use of environmental analysis tools on policy making.

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TS 29.2 Presentation of the FRAME website as a tool for knowledge sharing.

TS 29.3 Open discussion with session attendees on the use of environmental trends analysis tools to influence policy

11:00-12:30
Room 2

TS 30 - Earth Sciences Congress Impactos locales y regionales del aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales. Moderators: Geog. Marcela Riveros Lagréze

TS 30.1 –Impacto regional en una zona semiárida  argentina implantando cultivos para biodiesel; Silvia Falasca y María Angélica Bernabé (Argentina)
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TS 30.2 –Uso del suelo y problemas ambientales en la subcuenca del arroyo del fuerte. Tandil. Provincia de Buenos Aires; Bernabé, María Angélica (Argentina)
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TS 30.3 –Anomalias agrometeorologicas asociadas a los eventos el niño/la niña, en las temporadas agricolas del período 1982-2006 en Talca. Region del Maule; Patricio González Colville (Chile)

11:00-12:30
Room 3

TS 31 – Regional and Institutional Spatial Data Infrastructure Issues
Moderators: Kate Lance (Netherlands); TBD

TS 31.1 Providing SDI Services in a Cross-Border Scenario: the SDIGER Project Use Case; F.Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Javier Nogueras-Iso, Miguel Ángel Latre, Antonio Rodriguez, Emilio López (Spain)
[abstract] [paper] [slides]

TS 31.2 Toward a Common Geospatial Infrastructure for the Circumpolar Arctic: a Canadian Contribution to IPY; Paul Jolicoeur (Canada)
[abstract] [paper] [slides]

TS 31.3 Municipalities Joining Catalonia Regional SDI: First Results, Impacts and Forecasts; Jordi Guimet (Spain)
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TS 31.4 -tbd
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11:00-12:30
Room 4

TS 32 – Basic and Applied Research Methods and Results
Moderators: Greg Yetman, CIESIN (US)

TS 32.1 Use of GIS and Agent-Based Modeling to Simulate Pastoralist Mobility in the Rangelands of East Africa; Laban MacOpiyo, Jerry Stuth, Jianjia Wu (USA)
[abstract] [paper 1] [paper 2] [paper 3] [slides]

TS 32.2 An OGC-Compliant Operational Satellite Remote Sensing Data Server for Supporting Worldwide SDI Initiatives and Applications; Liping Di (USA)
[abstract] [slides]

TS 32.3 The CGIAR-Consortium for Spatial Development: Spatial Data for Sustainable Development; Robert Zomer (Sri Lanka)
[abstract] [slides]

TS 32.4 Utilzacion de Software de Codigo Abierto Para la Publicacion’ de Catalogos Datos E Informacion Geografica en Servidores WebB; Darwin Gomez (Peru)
[abstract] [slides]

11:00-12:30
Auditorium

TS 33 – Mapping Agencies Round Table
Chairs: Nick Land, EuroGeographics (France), Vanessa Lawrence, Ordnance Survey (UK)

How can the national mapping and cartographic agencies (NMCAs) from 'developed' nations help NMCAs in 'developing' nations build sustainable NSDIs’? Various perspectives will be presented on the three biggest challenges and three highest priorities followed by open discussion.

TS 34 – Coordinated Efforts for Global Mapping
Moderators: Col. Rodrigo Barriga, IGM and Mr. Edwin Hunt, IGM (Chile)

TS 34.1 Global Mapping Project by National Mapping Organization on the Globe; Shinichi Sakabe, Hiromichi Maruyama, Junichi Kisanuki, Toru Nagayama, Hiroshi Koshimizu (Japan)
[abstract] [paper]

TS 34.2 Efforts in progress for the constitution of an NSDI in Brazil; Renata Curi de Moura Estevão, Anna Lucia Barreto de Freitas, Alex da Silva Santos, Patrícia do Amorim Vida Costa, Vania de Oliveira Nagem, (Brazil)
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TS 34.3 Participación de Cuba en el Proyecto Mapa Global; MSc. Alina del Río Marceau, MSc. Iliana Alonso Martínez, Dr. CT. Rodolfo Ríos Hernández (Cuba)
[abstract] [paper]

TS 34.4 New Directions in Applications for the Global Map; Edwin Hunt (Chile)
[abstract] [paper] [slides]

TS 35 – Institutional Issues
Moderators: David Coleman

TS 35.1 The Spatial Data Infrastructure in Cuba: State and Perspectives; Tatiana Delgado Fernandez (Cuba)
[abstract] [slides]

TS 35.2 Integracion de los SIG y Procesos Participativos en la Toma de Decisions; Lorena Patino (Canada), Andrés Bodini (Chile)
[abstract] [slides 1] [slides 2] [slides 3]

TS 35.3 Access and Use of Publicly Funded Geospatial Data in South America: Potential Impact on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development (Study Design); Raed M. Sharif, Paul F. Uhlir (USA)
[abstract] [paper] [slides]

TS 35.4 One Access Policy for High-quality Geographic Information: Results from a US-EU Comparative Study; Bastiaan van Loenen, Jaap Zevenbergen (The Netherlands)
[abstract] [paper]