GSDI 4 Cape Town, South Africa
13-15 March, 2000
Theme: Engaging Emerging Economies
Conference Program
March 13, 2000
9:00 - 12:30 Registration – President Hotel
10:30 – 12:30 Meeting of GSDI Steering Committee
12:30 – 14:00 Opening Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Opening Session
Session Chair: Mr. Derek Clarke, Chief Director, Surveys and Mapping, Dept of
Land Affairs, South Africa
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
14:00 – 14:15 Opening Ceremonies
Ms. Thoko Didiza, Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs, South Africa
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
14:15 – 14:30 Welcome and Preliminary Remarks by Chair, GSDI Steering Committee
Peter Holland, General Manager, Australian Surveying & Land Information Group,
Australia
14:30 – 15:00 Panel Session – Reports from GSDI Working Groups
Operations
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Communication and Awareness
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Legal and Economic
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Technical
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
15:00 – 15:30 Report on the Scoping study in the Business Case for SDI Development
15:00 – 16:00 Afternoon Refreshment Break
16:00 – 17:30 Keynote Session 1
Session Chair – Mr. Santiago Borrero-Mutis, Director General, Geographic Institute
Augustin Codazzi, Columbia
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Keynote Presentation – Global Survey of National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Activities 200 – Update and Status Report
Prof Harlan Onsrud, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine,
aine, USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
16:45 – 17:30 Theme Speaker – “Engaging Emerging Economics” – an African Perspective
Jacob Gyamfi-Aidoo, The EIS Program, Program on Environment Information System
in Sub-Saharan Africa
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
17:30 - 19:15 Break Before Dinner
19:15 Conference Dinner – Castle of Good Hope
Guest Speaker – Jack Pelicci, Vice President ORACLE
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
March 14, 2000
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1a – “Technical Strategies and Considerations”
Session Chair – Dr. Bob O’Neil, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Doug Nebert, GSDI Technical Working Group
SDI Cookbook
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Cliff Kottman, Open GIS Consortium
The impact of Open GIS upon GSDI Goals
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Roy Gronmo, SINTEF Telecom and Informatics frameworks for GIS
DISGIS: An Interoperability
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1b – “Global Visions”
Session Chair – Prof Ian Masser, Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Science
(ITC)
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Minoru Akiyama, Secretary General, ISCGM, Geographical Survey Institute
Implementation of Global Mapping Project for Global Environment
Klaus Barwinski, Surveying & Mapping Agency Northrhine Westfalia
Step by Step Towards a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
Dr. W. Senus, NIMA
Global Mapping – The Shuttle Radar Terrain Mapper
[abstract] [slides] [paper
(zip)]
10:00 – 11:00 Morning Refreshment Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2a – “Case Studies and Progress Reports I”
Session Chair – Dr. Ken Bullock, Department of Information Technology and Management,
NSW, Australia
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Santiago Borrero-Mutis, Geographic Institute Agustin Codazzi, Columbia
Formation of a Permanent Committee on GIS for the Americas
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Cristina Gouveia, CNIG Portugal
The Portuguese SDI and its Contribution for the GSDI
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Ravi Gupta, Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions
Development of NSDI: Opportunities and Challenges for India
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Alessandro Annoni, European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Space Application
Institute, Agriculture and Regional Information System Unit
The project GI&GIS a key action of the EC Joint Research Centre to support the
creation of a European Geographic Information Infrastructure
Space Application Institute Agriculture and Regional Information System Unit
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
March 14, 2000
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2b – “Directions, Policies and institutional Issue I”
Session Chair – Mr. John Moeller, Federal Geographic Data Committee, USA
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Uta When de Montalvo, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex,
UK
Access to spatial data – What of organizations to share it?
Lisa Ting, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
Spatial data infrastructures and good governance Frameworks for land administration
reform to support sustainable development.
[abstract] [slides] [paper
(zip)]
Prof Ian Masser, Division of Urban Planning & Management for Aerospace Survey
and the Earth Sciences (ITC)
What is a spatial data infrastructure?
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3a – Directions, Policies and Institutional Issues II
Session Chair – Minoru Akiyama, Geographical Survey Institute, Japan
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Prof John Estes, Remote Sensing Unit, University of California
The Synergism of Global Map, the Importance of Relationships
Roger A. Longhorn, Former Expert in GI to EC [DG Information Society] PhD Research
Student, City Univ London
Regenal Geographc Information Policy-The case in Europe at 2000 and lessons for
GSDI
Abbas Rajabifard, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
From Local to Global SDI initiatives: A pyramid of building blocks
13:30-15:00 Session 3b-A North American Perspective on NSDIs
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Mark E. Reichardt, Session Chair- Mr. Francois Salgé, National Geographic Institute,
France, U. S. Federal Geographic Data Committee
SDI Challenges for a New Millennium – NSDI at a Crossroads: Lessons Learned and
Next Steps
Jane Patterson, Thomas Parrish and Karen Siderelis, North Carolina [various agencies]
Building Capacity to use GIS as a major information engine to manage information
and to inform the public during natural disaster situations
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Karen Siderelis, Chief Geographic Information Officer for the U.S. Geological
Survey
The role and responsibilities of the Chief Geographic Information Officer
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
15:00-15:30 Afternoon Refreshments Break
March 14, 2000
15:30-17:00 Session 4a-Case Studies and Progress Reports II
Session Chair-Mr. Andre Bassolet, The EIS Program
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Bob O’Neil, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing/Geomatics Canada
Discover, Visualize, Access
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Dr. Hans Voss, GMD- German National Research Centre for Information Technology
CommonGIS – Common Access to Geographically Referenced Data
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Yves Reginster, ETeMII Consortium
ETeMII Project
15:30-17:00 Session 4b-Technical Strategies and Considerations II
Session Chair-Mr. Jingtong Jian, National Geomatics Centre of China
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Prof. Milan Konecny, Department of Geography
The Role of GSDI in Digital Earth, Design and Development from Technology to
Interoperability
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Ilya Zaslavsky, San Diego Supercomputer Cener
XML – Based Spatial Data Mediation Infrastructure for Global Interoperability
Foster K. Mensah, Remote Sensing Applications Unit
The need to developing a standardized meta-data for spatial datasets in Ghana
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
16:00 Meetings of GSDI Steering Committee to Consider Preparation of Initial
Resolutions
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Evening
Sundowner on Table Mountain
March 15, 2000
8:30-10:30 Session 1
Session Chair: Mr. Albert Mhlanga, Surveyor General’s Departments, Swaziland
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
8:30 – 9:00 Keynote Presentation
Mr. Orlando Nino-Fluck, Senior Cartographic Officer
Development Information Services Division
United Nations Economics Commission for Africa
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
9:00-10:30 GSDI Africa Session
Andre Bassolet, Chairman of the International Advisory Committee for the EIS
Program
An Overview of SDI Activity in Africa
Camille A.J. van der Harten, SADC Regional Remote Sensing Unit Harare – Zimbabwe
Spatial Data in the SADC Region in support of Early Warning for Food Security
and National Resources Management
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Chukwudozie Ezigbalike, University of Botswana
Spatial Data Infrastructures: Is Africa Ready?
10:30-11:00 Morning Refreshment Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 Closing Session
Session Co-Chairs- Mr. Derek Clarke, Chief Directorate, Surveys and Mapping,
Department of Land Affairs, South Africa
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
Mr. Peter Holland, General Manager, Australian Surveying & Land Information Group,
Australia
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
11:00-11:30 Keynote Presentation
Mr.
Juan Mayr-Maldonado, Minister of the Environment in the Government of Columbia
Chairman, United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
[abstract] [slides] [paper]
11:30-12:30 Resolutions and Close of Conference
12:30-13:30 Lunch