GSDI - 7 Proceedings

GSDI 7 Bangalor, India

January 30- February 6, 2004

Theme: Spatial Data Infrastructures for a Sustainable Future

February 3, 2004

08:30-09:00         INAUGRATION OF SPATIL WORLD EXPO-2004

(Hotel Grand Ashok Exhibition Ground)

09:00-10:30         GSDI-7 KEYMOTE TALKS (Banquet Hall)

G Madhaven Nair, ISRO

Technologies, Applications and Policies for SDI <96> A Future Perspective

Jack Dangermond, ESRI

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure for a Sustainable World

Mark Reichardt, OGC

OGC and the GSDI in 2004 <96> Building Together

Preetha Pulsani, Intergraph

Enabling inter-operable Spatial Data Infrastructures for sustainable development

10:30-11:00         Tea/Coffee

11:00-13:00         GSDI-7 Plenary: International SDI Initiatives (Banquet Hall)

Peter Holland, PCGIAP

The role of PCGIAP in contributing to sustainable development in the Asia and Pacific region

Mario Alberto Reyes lbarra, PCIDEA

PCIDEA<92>s current activities in the Americas

Timothy W. Foreman, Guo Huadong, Hiromichi Fukui, Digital Earth

Progress with Digital Earth Global Infrastructure

Fraser Taylor, ISCGM

New Development in the Global Map: An operational GSDI for Sustainable Development

Milan Konecny, ICA

ICA Support in sustainable development process

Basant Raj Shrestha and Birendra Bajracharya, Nepal

Regional Spatial data Infrastructures (RSDI) for Sustainable Mountain Development in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region

13:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:30         GSDI-7 Plenary: National SDI Programmes (Banquet Hall)

John R. Busby, Australia

Australian Spatial Data Infrastructures

Gabor Remetey-Fulopp, Hungary

Cadastral GIS in Europe

Jordi Guimet, Spain

Four rules to set up a basic SDI. The experience of the (local) SDI of Catalonia region.

Munkund Rao, R. Sivakumar and A. R. Dasgupta, India

The Indian National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) <96> Vision Ahead

15:30-16:00         Tea/ Coffee

16:00-18:00         GSDI-7 Plenary: National SDI Programmes (Banquet Hall)

Francisco A. Hansen, Mexico

Progress report on the spatial data infrastructure of Mexico (IDEMEX)

Heinz Brueggemann, Germany

The GDI NRW as a component of the German, European and Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Alvaro Medina, Fernando Estenssoro & Alvaro Monett <96> Chile

Chilean experience in building the national land information system

Tatiana Delgado, Cuba

Reference Model of Cuban SDI

Ivan DeLoatch, Alan R. Stevens <96> United States

US Federal Geographic Data Committee Initiatives: Geospatial One-Stop and Implementation Teams

Nama Raj Budhathoki and Raja Ram Chhatkuli <96> Nepal

Building Geographic Information Infrastructure at National Level: Nepalese Experience

Alessandro Annoni et al, Italy

Towards a European Spatial data Infrastructure: the INSPIRE Initiative

Kate Trinka Lance, United States

Spatial Data Infrastructure in Africa: spotting the elephant behind the trees

Andrew Trigg, UK

Digital National fremework of Greak Britain

18:30-19:30        Cultural Programme (Hotel Taj West End)

20:00                     onwards

Reception hosted by ESRI (Hotel Taj West End)

February 4, 2004

09:00-10:30         GSDI-7 PLENARY-1: Societal Relevance of SDI <96> The Vision Ahead (Banquet Hall)

Chair: R. R. Navalgund, India

Coordinator/Rapporteur: Vandana Sharma, India

R. R. Navalgund, NRSA, India

Role of Spatial Data Infrastructure in Sustainable Development: Indian Perspective

N. Vijayaditya, NIC, India

GIS for E-Governance

Wang Chunfeng (Yang Kai), SBSM, China

The Role of NSDI in the Development of China

Robert O. Neil, CCRS, Canada

The Future <96> can you see and SDI?

Xavier Lopez, Oracle, United States

Technological Foundations of GSDI: Real-time, Mission Critical, Location Services <96> Anytime, Anyplace

Ian Williamson, Australia

Building SDI<92>s <96> The challenges ahead

10:30-11:00         Tea/Coffee

11:00-13:00         GSDI-7 Focal Theme Plenary: SDI for a Sustainable Future (Banquet Hall)

S. N. Das, India

National Data Base for Watershed Development

Timothy W. Foresman, USA

3D Geobrowsers and the Digital Earth Vision

Julie Binder Maitra, United States

Applying ISO/TC 211 Standards in the Development of Data Content Standards

S. A. Sharma, P. L. Shukla, T. P. Singh <96> India

Development and implementation of spatial infrastructure services in Gujarat

K. M. Jagadeesh, A. Ramanathan <96> India

Spatial data requirements for enterprise applications

C. R. Bannur, M. K. Munshi & Sanjay Singh <96> India

Value added services for National Spatial Data Infrastructure

13:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:30         GSDI-7 Focal Theme Plenary: SDI for a Sustainable Future (Banquet Hall)

D. J. Bartlett, R. A. Longhorn and M. C. Garriga <96> Ireland

Marine and Coastal data infrastructures: the missing piece in the SDI puzzle?

Olaf Noelle, Germany

SDIs: supporting a Sustainable Agriculture <96> An European Point of View

Jim Farley, Jeffrey Xie, USA

Managing Very Large GeoRaster Databases with Oracle 10g

Sanjay K. Srivastava, S. Bandyopadhyay, V. S. Hegde and V. Jayaraman <96> India

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Disaggregated Poverty Mapping: A Conceptual Framework

Rajesh C. Mathur, India

SDI Business Opportunities in India

15:30-16:00         Tea/Coffee

16:00-18:00         GSDI-7 Focal Theme Plenary: SDI for a Sustainable Future (Banquet Hall)

J. K. Rawat and Alok Saxena <96> India]

Dissemination of Spatial Information on Forest Resources

David Maguire, United States

The emergence of geoportals and their role in Spatial Data Infrastructures

Harlan Onsrud, United States

The Global Public Commons and Marketplace in Geographic Data A Conceptual Model for Meeting the Needs of Both the Government and Commercial Sectors

Peter Holland, Australia

The contribution of Geoscience Australia to national sustainability and the SDI

Bart Hoogenbart, The Netherlands

Open Standards and Interoperability: From Conception to Realization

Doub Nebert, United States

Technical Baseline for Accessing a Virtual Global SDI

18:30-19:30         Evening Talk by Prof U R Rao, Chairman, PRL Council

20:00                     onwards

Conference Dinner (Hotel Grand Ashok)

February 5, 2004

09:00-10:30         GSDI-7 PLENARY-4: Economic, Financial and Legal Issues of SDI (Banquet Hall)

Chair: Bas Kok, The Netherlands

Coordinator: Harlan Onsrud, USA

Bas Kok, The Netherlands

Developments of data policy and legal aspects in Europe

Amitabha Pandey, India

TBD

K R Sridhara Murthi, India

Establishing spatial data infrastructures <96> some legal perspectives

Peter Weiss, USA

Borders in cyberspace: Conflicting public sector information policies and their economic impacts

S K Das, India

Decision-makers Needs <96> The spatial data perspective

10:30-11:00         Tea/Coffee

11:00-13:00         GSDI-7 TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA (IN PARALLEL):

TS2: SDI Technologies (Banquet Hall)

Dimos Pantazis, Dimitris Stakthakis, Li Yingcheng, Tongying Guo, Kostas Karatzalos, Haralambos Karathanassis <96> Greece.

Research of the possibility for accuracy improvement of Topographic maps 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 Using high Resolution Satellite Images

Rodrigo Barriga <96> Chile

Construction of a Geospatial Data Base and Integration with the Chilean National Geospatial Infrastructure Project

Abbas Rajabifard and Ian Williamson <96> Australia

SDI Development and Capacity Building

Ingo Simonis and Andreas Wytzisk <96> Germany

Knowledge Bases in Spatial Data Infrastructures <96> A new Level of Decision Support

Joep Crompvoets, The Netherlands

Worldwide impact assessment of spatial data clearinghouses to society

Jorge Rocha <96> Portugal

ISO 19115 based Metadata Cataloguing tool for the Portuguese SDI

TS3: SDI Legal and Policy Issues (Convention Hall)

Karen D Kline, United States

A Quantitative Analysis of Global Scale Data Set Users

W T de Vries, The Netherlands

Towards new methodologies of measuring cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of GDI<92>S

Anjana Vyas, India

Can RS and GIS be a Policy Instrument for Urban Development Authority

Alan R Stevens, Keith Thackrey, Kate Lance <96> United States

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI): finding and providing tools to facilitate capacity building

Shailesh Nayak, India

Application of Remote Sensing for implementation of coastal Zone regulations: a case study of India

Yola Georgiadou, Dr P S Roy <96> The Netherlands

Policy development and capacity building for the Indian NSDI initiative: An emerging research agenda

TS4: SDI and Sustainable Development (Chanakya Hall)

D F R Taylor <96> Canada

Global Mapping and Sustainable Development: Progress and Promise

Rajeev Jaiswal, Mukund Rao, Asis Bhattacharya, V Jayaraman <96> India

Natural Resources census for India

Hiromichi Maruyama, Otohiko Shimizu, Masayuki Shimizu, Fujimura Hidenori and Hiroshi Masaharu <96> Japan

Technical issues to be solved for further promoting Global Mapping

Emmanuel gred Nzunda <96> Tanzania

Mapping Units for Natural Resource Management: Theoretical options and practical limitations

Y Pari, M.V. Ramana Murthy, S Ramachandran, B R Subramanian <96> India

Essence of SDI for monitoring the Shore line Changes

K M Nair, A K Maji, S Srinivas, O B Reddy, P Krishnan, K S Gajbhiye <96> India

Soil Geographic Data Base of India

13:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:30         GSDI-7 PLENARY-3 SDI Education and Curricula (Banquet Hall)

Chair: Karl Harmsen, UN-CSSTEAP

Coordinator/Rapporteur: M V Bhatt, India

Menno-Jan Kraak <96> The Netherlands

Capacity building for Geoinformatics <96> an ITC Perspective

P S Roy, India

Scope of Education Development in SDI

Ian Williamson / Abbas Rajafifard, Australia

International SDI Short Course

I V Muralikrishna, India

Education and curriculum development initiatives related to spatial data infrastructures development

Karl Harmsen, U N-CSSTEAP, India

The UN Programme on Space Science & Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific

15:30-16:00         Tea/ Coffee

16:00-18:00         TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA (IN PARALLEL):

TS2: SDI Technologies (Banquet Hall)

Ronald E. Wilson, United States

The Development of a Regional Spatial Data Repository

Sujata Rawat, P.S. Roy and Sameer Saran <96> India

GML based model of Indian NSDE format for Geo-Spatial Data Interoperability

Trias Aditya & Menno-Jan Kraak <96> The Netherlands

A National Atlas Metaphor in the Access to the GDI

Francisco A Hansen <96> Mexico

A characterization of data in the context of SDIs

R K Goel, S A Shah, P D Yadav & Bharat Vaishnav <96> India

A Prototype for NSDI Domain Data Server Node

Mayumi MIZOBUCHI, Hidekazu MASAKI, Tsuneki SAKAKIBARA <96> Japan

A Study on the Development of a Modeling Method for Effective Utilizations of National Spatial Data Infrastructure

TS3: SDI Legal and Policy Issues (Convention Hall)

Chris Corbin and Bino Marchesini <96> The Netherlands

Developing a strong GI voice at the European level through improved co-ordination

R R Chhatkuli <96> Nepal

Pricing and Copyrights of data and Institutional framework for a National Geographic Information Infrastructure in Nepal

GS Kumar <96> India

Policy Issues in SDI

Peter Weiss, USA

Borders in cyberspace (Part-2): Maximizing social and economic benefit from public investment in environmental data

Olajide KUFONIYI <96> Nigeria

Geospatial Information Policy Development, at Essential Backbone for SDI Implementation in Africa

TS4: SDI and Sustainable Development (Chanakya Hall)

Vandana Sharma, S S Gahlout, Ajay Kumar, Ajay Kumar Roy & Arpita Gupta <96> India

GIS Based Emergency Planning & Response System for Gujarat State

Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof <96> Malaysia

Geographical Information System for Urban Planning in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

S K Pathan, V P Kulshrestha, D L Goyal, Subhashish Banerjee, Vijay Marathe, V K Nagar, V Katare, J G Patel and R J Bhanderi <96> India

Urban Planning with Specific Reference to Master Plan of Inodre City Using RS & GIS Techniques

Sanjay K Srivastava, B Manikiam, YVN Krishnamurthy, VS Hegde, KN Shankara <96> India

SDI for Disaster Management Support in India: A Design Perspective

Ali Mansourian <96> Abbas Rajabifard <96> Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej <96> Iran

Towards Developing SDI for Disaster Management

Subrato Ghosh, Dr Arun B Samaddar <96> India

Distributed and Interoperable GIS for planning and emergency management in Indian mines

16:00-18:00         Special GSDI-7 Workshop: SDI and toher Development Infrastructures <96> Level playing fields (Board Room)

19:00                     onwards

Cultural Programme and Reception (Hotel Grand Ashok)

February 6.2004

09:00-10:30         Special GSDI-7 Panel <96> <93>The India NSDI <96> Roadmap Ahead<94>

G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, India

V S Ramamurthy, Secretary, DST, India

K K Jaswal, Secretary, Information Technology, India

Prodipto Ghosh, Secretary, Environment and Forests, India

M Shankar, Secretary, Land Resources, India

C D Arha, Scretary, Mines, India

V K Duggal, Secretary, Water Resources, India

M Rafamani, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, India

10:30-11:00         Tea/Coffee

11:00-13:00         GSDI-7 TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA (IN PARALLEL):

TS2: SDI Technologies (Banquet Hall)

Jens Fitzke, Klaus Greve, Markus Mueller, Andreas Poth <96> Germany

Building SDIs with Free Software <96> the degree project

S. Raghavendran, India

GIS Interoperability: The <93>safe<94> way

Jorge Gustavo Rocha & Pedro Rangel Henriques <96> Portugal

Towards XML Web Services based clearinghouses

P Venkatachalam & B Krishna Mohan <96> India

Research Areas in Geo-spatial Science and Technologies

John Manning, Australia

The importance of homogeneous geodetic datums as the underlying basis for global spatial data

M V Bhat, India

Technological innovations in acquisition of spatial data for preparation of map and integration of map information with satellite data for development planning

TS4: SDI and Sustainable Development (Chanakya Hall)

Premnath Singh, Mukund Rao, Rajeev Jaiswal, V Raghavaswamy, S K Pathan <96> India

Need for a comprehensive Urban Information System for India

Novaline Jacob, Prasada Raju PVSP, Saibaba J <96> India

Multi-Objective Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Sustainable Land and Water Resource Development

V K Rowmuria, K Pathak, A K Bhattacharya <96> India

Planning inputs for GIS from satellite imagery for assessment and management of mining impacts on geo-environment

Pradeep K Litoria, P K Sharma, Rajinder Nagi, Sudheer, Sandeep Bahl, N Raghubabau <96> India

Siting of polluting Industries in part of North Punjab using Remote Sensing and GIS

J Krishnamurthy, S Natarajan, P Krishnaiah, K Kalyanaraman, Mukund Rao & V Jayaraman <96> India

Large Scale Mapping using high resolution satellite data

AK Sinha, D Dhar, India

Georeferenced cadastral database, design & standards-the Maharashtra state experience

TS5: SDI <96> Business Opportunities and Potentials (Convention Hall)

Cristoph Brox and Werner Kuhn <96> Germany

Demand of Financial Service Providers for GI Products and Electronic Marketplaces

Kate Lance and Yola Georgiadou <96> United States

Innovations in Funding Spatial Data Infrastructure in Developing Countries

K M Jagadeesh, Sandeep Sibal, Karthik Ramamurthy <96> India

Location Based Services_ Spatial data challenges_ Indian Perspective

CVS Prakash <96> India

IRS Images for a Spatial Data Infrastructure: A Business Perspective

Arbind Man Tuladhar <96> The Netherlands

Approach for organization restructuring toward customer orientation in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructure

V K Mahindru & Alok Upadhyaya <96> India

Large Scale Mapping for National Mapping Organizations of Europe

Gerd Buziek, Germany

CeGi living Public Private Partnership for running Spatial Data Infrastructures

13:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:30         GSDI-7 Plenary 2: Images, GSI and GPS (Banquet Hall)

Prithvish Nag, SOI India

Images, GPS and GIS for sustainable data infrastructure

Vanessa Lawrence

Raising our game for rising expectations: leading GI into the wide world

Robert Dalal, Space Imaging, United States

Ikonos & Resourcesat satellite data for National Spatial Data Infrastructure application for sustainable development

V Jayaraman, ISRO, India

Indian Earth Observation Strategy for holistic national development

Hoshino Yoshihisa, GSI, Japan

Role of national surveying and mapping organizations in the age of IT

15:30-16:00         Tea/ Coffee

16:00-18:00         GSDI-7 CLOSING/VALEDICTORY SESSION

Welcome

Report on GSDI-7

Recommendations from GSDI-7

Changeover of President, GSDI

About GSDI-8 in Egypt

Host<92>s Remarks

Vote of Thanks

Poster Sessions- GSDI-7

Rodrigo Barriga, Chile

The Basic Territorial Information Working Group, the Chilean perspective in the development of the National Geospatial Data Infrastructure.

Narayan Agrawal, India

National Spatial Data Infrastructures as a model for global co-operation Mission is to maximize the use of GI-Spatial Technologies for the benefit of citizens, good governance and commerce

Joep Crompvoets & Abbas Rajabifard- The Netherlands

Comparison study between European and Asia-Pacific spatial data clearinghouses

Srinivasan Santhanam, CMDA- India

Decision support system for Real Estate

R Gayatri & Mahalakshmi Narayanan <96> India

GIS <96> Free Open Source initiatives

S Swarajya Lakshmi, N Rama Kumar Acharyulu, P S Bhavanee Kumar & Dr J Sai Baba <96> India

A framework for sharing distributed geospatial data over an intranet

P M Udani & R Ghosh <96> India

Datum Conversion Procedure for Creating State levl Spatial Framework A Case study of NRIS experience

P D Yadav, S A Shah, Bharat Vaishnav & R K Goel <96> India

Ensuring Data Security to NSDI-NSDE Data Product

Bharat Vaishnav, S A Shah, P D Yadav & R K Goel <96> India

Data Conversion from NNRMS-NRIS Data to NSDI-Spatial Data Exchange Format

Vandita Srivastava, Dr Ing Yola Georgiadou, Dr P S Roy & Mr Suddhasheel Ghosh-India

Using Open GIS Software to Boost Indian NSDI: A conceptual approach

Sanjay Singh, C R Bannur & M K Munshi <96> India

Solutions for national spatial data infrastructure

Jaya Sil, India

Loss less image compression using sequential approach

M V Bhat, India

Technology transfer for use of spatial data developing planning

N Srikirishna, K Vindhya & P Satyanarayana <96> India

A Neuro-fuzzy approach to content based image retrieval

A P Das, India

Creation of Metadata for aero-geophysical surveys

Utpala Parihasarathy, P M Kumaran & V A Parihasarathy <96> India

Application of Satellite Imagery to Estimate Coconut Growing Area

D Dutta, Yola Georgiadou <96> India

A Framework for Technological and Organizational Capacity Building for Local Level Planning in India

R N Adhikari, A K Singh, V N Sharda & K K Reddy <96> India

Use of Spatial Data to know effect of water harvesting structures on sustainable ground water recharge in SAT India

Yogendra Babu Sharma <96> India

Natural resource management (A case study of District Panchmahals of Gujarat India

V Krishnamurthy and R A Duraiswami <96> India

Application of Remote Sensing tools in the delineation of saline groundwater zones in hard rock areas: A case study from Pune district

N K Kalra, India

NADI database <96> input for drought mitigation strategy in Western Rajasthan

M R Venugopal, India

Integrated river basin planning: Need for and relevance of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in the Irrigation development sector with special reference to river basin management

C M Bhatt, R K Singh, P K Litoria and P K Sharma <96> India

Use of Remotely Sensed Data and GIS Techniques for assessment of waterlogged and salt affected area Tehsil wise in Muktstar district of Punjab

R Jana, M V Khire, Reshmidevi T V <96> India

A perspective study on ground level documentation for the development of a decision support system towards drought management

R Sainath, S P Karthikeyan, Vandana Sharma, K R Sadanandan & J K Mishra <96> India

GIS based Web Services at National Informatics Centre: Road Map to Open GIS

M Vjaya Jyothi & Dr P V Radhadevi <96> India

Role of a global spatial database in value added product generation schemes

P S Subramanyam, PSB Kumar, J Saibaba <96> India

Strategies for developing Information For Natural Resources Census

B. R. M. Rao, T Ravisankar, M. A. Fyzee & Asis Bhattacharya <96> India

Soil Resources Information For Natural Resources Census

M. V. Bhat <96> India

Planning of Corridor for Power Transmission Line Using Latest Techniques

Walter T. de Vries, The Netherlands

Managing reliability of spatial data infrastructures: concepts and implications

S. A. Shah, P. D. Yadav, Bharat Vaishnav & R. K. Goel <96> India

NSDI-NSDE Data Viewer

Menno-Jan Kraak <96> The Netherlands

Progress in ITC<92>s Testbed-GeoData Infrastructure project