GSDI 5 Cartagena De Indias, Colombia
21-24 March, 2001
Theme: Sustainable Development-GSDI for Improved Decision- Making
Conference Program
May 21, 2001
9:30-17:00 Registration Desk Working Hours Hotel Las Americas
9:30-12:30 GSDI Steering Committee Meeting (Part 1)
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12:30-14:00 GSDI Steering Committee Members Lunch
14:00-15:30 PC IDEA Meeting (Part 1)
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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 PC IDEA Meeting (Part 2)
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20:00-22:00 GSDI/PC IDEA Steering Committee Members Dinner
May 22, 2001
9:00-10:30 Opening Session
Santiago Borrero, Chair GSDI 5 Organizing Committee
Derek Clarke, Chair GSDI Steering Committee
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Opening Address Exc. Andrés Pastrana-Arango, President Republic of Colombia
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10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 1
“Global Information Initiatives for Better Decision-Making” Moderator:
Claude Luzet, Executive Director EUROGEOGRAPHICS
11:00-11:30 Keynote Speaker. John A. Kelmelis, Chief Scientist for Geography U.S. Geological
Survey,
“Decision Support Systems for Sustainability: Beyond the State of the Art.”
11:30-11:45 Alice Chow, Cartographic Section, United Nations – UN,
“The Works of UNGIWG and
the New UN Database”
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11:45-12:00 Dave Coleman, Chairman “Digital Earth” 2001 Conference
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12:00-12:15 Yoshihisa Hoshino, Deputy Director General, Geographical Survey Institute of
Japan,
“Status of Global Mapping Project”
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12:15-12:30 Peter Holland, Chair GDIN Conference 2001,
“Report on GDIN 2001 Conference”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Session 2 (Panel) “SDI for Improved Decision-Making: The View from the World
Regions”
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14:00-14:15 Moderator: Joachim Waechter, President, German Umbrella Organization for Geoinformation
DDGI.
Invited Panellists:
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14:00-14:15 Yang Kai, President, Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia & The
Pacific PCGIAP
14:15-14:30 Guadalupe López. Vice Chair, Permanent Committee of Spatial Data Infrastructure
for the Americas - PC IDEA
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14:30-14:45 Ian Masser, President, European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information-EUROGI
Towards a strategy for geographic information in Europe
14:45-15:00 Liz Gavin, Region Outreach for PC Africa
Building SDI in Africa: A South African Expereince
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15:00-15:15 Mosaad Ibrahim, Region Outreach for Middle East
The Future of the Egyptian Survey Authority in the
Evolution of the National
Geospatial Data Infrastructure: Its vision, achievements and lessons learned
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:30 Session 3 “GSDI Operation and Technical Report”
Moderator: Derek Clarke, Chair GSDI Steering Committee
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15:45-16:00 John Moeller, GSDI Permanent Secretariat
16:00-16:15 Doug Nebert, Technical WG Chair “The GSDI Cookbook”
16:15-16:30 Harlan Onsrud, Legal and Economic Affairs WG
A Template for Reporting National Legal and Economic
Issues Affecting Spatial Data Infrastructure Developments
16:30-17:30 Session 4(parallel sessions) Session 4a “SDI Policy Aspects”
Moderator: Dave Coleman, University of New Brunswick, Canada
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16:30-16:45 Claude Luzet, Executive Director Eurogeographics.
“Evolution of the CERCO+MEGRIN
Project”
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16:45-17:00 Klaus Barwinski, Director of the Surveying and Mapping Agency of Northrihine-
Westfalia.
“The International Approach of SDI in Northrhine- Westfalia”
17:00-17:15 Mary-Ellen Feeney, University of Melbourne,
“SDI Frameworks to Support Decision
aking for Sustainable Development”
17:15-17:30 Yola Georgiadou, Associate Professor and Head of the Geoinformatics & Spatial
Data Acquisition Division of the International Institute of Aerospace Survey and
Earth Sciences (ITC),
“Capacity Building Aspects for a Geospatial Data Infrastructure
(GDI)”
Session 4b “United Nations: SDI/GIS Applications”
Moderator: Alice Chow, Cartographic Section, United Nations - UN
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Jean-Yves Bouchardy, Head UNHCR GIMU, “Using GIST Toold in Crises the UNGCR Experience”
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Enrique Castillo, FAO, “Land Resources Information Systems for SIRTPLAN”
17:15-17:30 Lorant Czaran, Project Manager UNEPnet, UN Environment Programme, GRID.
“The UNEPnet Applications Project”
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20:00-22:00 Welcoming Cocktail
May 23, 2001
8:30 – 9:30 GSDI Steering Committee Meeting (Part 2)
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9:00 – 11:00 Session 5 “GSDI and the Industry” (Part 1)
Moderator: Henry Tom, ISO TC/211
Presentations from speakers representing the Industry
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9:00 – 9:40 Keynote Speaker: Jack Dangermond, President ESRI,
“Accessing a World of Information:
the Geographic Network”
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9:40 – 10:00 Preetha R. Pulusani, Executive Vice President INTERGRAPH,
“An Evolution fro,
Geospatial Technology to Useful Global Solutions”
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10:00 – 10:20 Martin Nix, Chief Business Development Officer of LEICA Geosystems,
“Rapid Accurate
GIS Updates with Improved Links to Survey Systems”
10:20 – 10:40 Saniago Forteza, MBA Vice-president Marketing, KODAK Global Imaging, Inc.,
“KODAK CITIPIX Program: Case Study on Private Sector Contribution to GSDI.”
10:40 – 11:00 Yves Bechacq, Vice-president of Sales & Marketing and Quality Director, SPOT
IMAGE France,
“Towards a World-Wide Frame for Automatic Production of Orthoimages”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Session 6 “GSDI and the Information Economy”
Moderator: Klaus Barwiniski, Director of the Surveying and Mapping Agency of
Northrhine-Westflia
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11:30 – 11:45 Joachim Waechter, President, German Umbrella Organization for Geoinformation
– DDGI.
“The Importance of Global Geoinformation for the Information Society”
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11:45 – 12:00 Bob O’Neil, Director of the GeoAccess Division in CCRS, Canadian Geospatial Data
Infrastructure – CGDI,
“Impact of CGDI on the Evolution o Geomatics Activities in
Canada”Alice
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12:00 – 12:15 Nick Land, Director of Market Development, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.
“The Economic Contribution of Ordnance Survey GB”
12:15 – 12:30 Guillermo Rodríguez, Advisor, National Planning Department of Colombia Office
– DNP,
“Role of Geographic Information in the Economy of Colombia”
12:30 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Session 7 (Parallel sessions) Session 7a “GSDI Building the Infrastructure”
Moderator: Doug Nebert, Coordinator GSDI TWG
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14:15 – 14:45 Olaf Østensen. Chairman of ISO/TC211,
“Global Geomatics Standards Supporting
Sustainable Geospatial Data Infrastructures”
14:45 – 15:00 Jaime Cadavid. President, Colombian Committee on Geodata Standards.
“Global Standards Adaption to the Development Countries”
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15:00 – 15:15 Michael Gould, External Consultant, Open GIS Consortium,
“Foundations of a Web
apping Testbed for Latin America and the Caribbean”
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15:15 – 15:30 Heli Ursin, Central Administration / International Affairs, National Land Survey,
Finland,
“Map BSR Digital Map of the Baltic Sea Region”
Session 7b “GSDI: Costs, Achievements and Vision”
Moderator: Amor Laaribi, GIS Officer, Economic and Social Council, UN
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14:15 – 14:30 Harlan Onsrud, Development of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University
of Maine.
“NSDI Survey: 2001 Report and Sharing Vision”
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14:30 – 14:45 Uta Wehn, National Land Survey Finland
“Strategies for SDI Implementation: A
Survey of National Experiences”
14:45 – 15:00 Carmelle J. Côté, ESRI,
“Investing in a SDI: Why Would a Multi-Lateral Development
Bank Finance a SDI?”
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15:00 – 15:15 Glenn Hyman / Kate Lance, CIAT.
“NSDI Survey in Latin America and the Caribbean:
Adoption and Implementation of NSDI”
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15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 8 (Panel)
“SDI and Decision Making: The Experience of Colombia”
Moderator: Michael Gould, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
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Invited Panelists:
Martha Rodríguez, Director Agenda for National Connectivity Presidency of the
Republic of Colombia
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Maria-Eulalia Arteta, General Director of Administrative Department for National
Statistics DANE
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Jaime Cadavid, Director of Colombian Petroleum Institute, ECOPETROL-ICP
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Pablo Leyva, General Director of Geoscientific, Mining/Environmental and Nuclear
Research Information Institute, INGEOMINAS
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Senator Juan-Martín Caicedo, Congress Territorial Planning Commission
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20:00 – 22:00 ”Cartegena Night” – City Tour and Cocktail
May 24, 2001
9:00 – 10:00 GSDI Steering Committee Meeting (Part 3)
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9:00 – 10:30 Session 9 (Parallel Sessions) Session 9A
“A Sample of SDI Applications in the
Americas”
Moderator: Guadalupe López, General Director of Geography at INEGI, México
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9:00 – 9:15 Cesar Augusto Alvardo Reyes, Vice Minister of Housing Urban Development, Ministry
of Public Works of El Salvador,
“Spatial Data Infrastructure in El Salvador
9:15 – 9:30 Javier Morales, IGAC/ITC, “On the Design of Geoinformation Provisions Systems”
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9:30-9:45 Tatiana Delgado, Computation Division Director GEOCUBA,
“Cuban Initiative for
the creation of NSDI”
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9:45 – 10:00 Ricardo Torchetti, Military Geographic Institute of Argentina,
“Geospatial Data
as Starting Point for the Information Integration to Support Decision Making”
10:00 – 10:15 Maria Oliva López, Geographic Institutes Simón Bolivar of Venezuela,
“National
Geospatial Data Venezuela
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9:00 – 10:30 Session 9b “GSDI and the Industry” Part 2
Moderator: Milan Konecny, Vice Chair, International Cartographic Association
– ICA
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9:00 – 9:15 Mostafa Madani, Chief Photogrammetrist and Project Manager, ZI/IMAGING
Importance of Digital Photogrammetry for a complete GIS
9:15 – 9:30 Juan B. Plaza, GIS Manager, AutoDesk Inc.
“Sustainable Development using Portable
Technologies”
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9:30 – 9:45 Nisso Cohen, Vice President for Latin América, SPACE IMAGING,
“Space Imaging:
Feeding the Global Spatial Data”
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9:45 – 10:00 Markus Rombach, Head of Business Development & Product Management, Aero-Sensing
RadarSystems GmbH,
“Cartographic Mapping with Aero-Sensing’s Interferometric SAR
Systems”
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10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 10 “GSDI: Business Plan” (Panel)
Moderator: François Salgé
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Panelists, delegates from:
Australia:
Peter Holland, General Manager, Australian Surveying and Land Information
Group – AUSLIG
Business Case Part 1
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Business Case Part 2
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France: Jean-Philippe Lagrange, Director for International and European Activities,
Institut Geographique National of France
Japan: Minoru Akiyama, Director Geographic Dept., Geographical Survey Institute
(GSI), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Secretary General of ISCGM
Canada: Bob O’Neil, Director of the GeoAccess Division in CCRS, Canadian Geospatial
Data Infrastructure-CGDI
United States: John Moeller, Staff Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee-
FGDC
India: Mukund Rao, Deputy Director (Technology and Systems), Earth Observations
Systems, ISRO headquarters
National Spatial Data Infrastructure - Indian Perspective
12:30-1400 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Session 11 “Role of the International Geographic Associations in Promoting SDI”
Moderator: Dietmar Grunreich, President, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy,
Germany
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14:00-14:15 Milan Konecny, Vice Chair, International Cartographic Association – ICA,
“ ICA
Statement on SDI and Cartography”
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14:15-14:30 Jerome Ives, Vice-president, International Federation of Surveyors
– FGI,
“FGI Views of GSI and NSDI”
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14:30-16:00 Session 12 “ Conference Findings and Resolutions”
Moderator: Peter Holland, Immediate past Chair, GSDI
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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Closing Session
Moderator: Derek Clarke, Chair GSDI Steering Committee
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16:30-16:50 2001-2002 GDSI incoming Chair words (tbd)
16:50-17:10 Ian Masser, President EUROGI and Dr. Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, Secretary
General, Hungarian Association for Geo- Information (HUNAGI).
“GSDI 6 Presentation”
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17:10-17:30 Closing Address Mr. Juan Mayr-Maldonado, Minister of Environment,
Colombia
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20:00-22:00 Conference Dinner
May 25, 2001
09:00-10:30 Opening and Meeting (Part 1)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Meeting (Part 2)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Meeting (Part 3) and Closing