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reaucrats, CEOS, scientists,professionals, academiciansand students – all are gather-ing in the city to be a part of thegeospatial caravan, GeospatialGeospatialGeospatialGeospatialGeospatialWWWWWorld Forld Forld Forld Forld Forum 2011orum 2011orum 2011orum 2011orum 2011, that ishelping the geospatial indus-try define its ‘dimensions anddirections’ for the future.Geospatial World Forum2011 will be formally inaugu-rated today but the stage wasset two days back at the ‘NMOIndustry Exchange Forum.’

With 30 National MappingOrganisations (NMOs) from allover the world, industry repre-sentatives, professionals andacademia participating at themeet, the Forum presented aglimpse of what the main eventwould offer.

The offerings for the es-teemed guests include sympo-sia, seminars, forums, roundtables, technology tracks,technical sessions, panel dis-cussions, exhibition, an awardsnight, lunch, dinner, receptionand much more. World’s lead-

ing speakers on geospatialtechnologies from industry,government agencies, userorganisations and academiawill all assemble here to dis-cuss, debate, share and ex-change views on different sub-jects. New alliances will beformed, new ideas germinated,new talent discovered – all atthis forum that promises to bea medium of convergence ofvarious stakeholders of theglobal geospatial communityand its integration with endusers of geospatial informa-tion. Activities during the Fo-

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rum include a range of ses-sions, from technology to policyto user-oriented themes atglobal level. The event is ex-pected to ignite discussions onthe potential of geospatialtechnologies in societal devel-opment. While it will offer tech-nologists a peep into what thefuture holds for decision mak-ers and users in terms of us-age and applications of tech-nology, it will provide a platformfor users to present theirexpectations and demands toscientists and technologists.

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Kapil SibalHon'ble Minister

Ministry of Science & Technology and EarthSciences, Ministry of Communication & IT

and Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment

Government of India

With the global economicdownturn now a thing of thepast, capital spending oninformation technology isrebounding vigorously. Thegeospatial market has con-tributed to mitigating theeffects of global recessionand is now all set tostrengthen its presence inthe economic turnaroundprocess. The geospatial in-dustry is at an exciting stageof its development. Thetechnology itself is ever in-creasing - ever expanding,finding new areas of appli-cations and new markets forexploitation. Its reach is sowide that no area of our ac-tivity is now untouched fromit

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Today’s eminent personalities

“Geospatial World Forum provides a unique and innovative platform to define di-mensions and give directions to the geospatial industry. The conference facilitatesmeaningful discussion and dialogue among various stakeholders of the geospatialindustry. It also offers an in-depth learning environment on different aspects ofgeospatial technology,” said Sanjay Kumar, CEO, GIS Development. Indeed it does.How often does one witness policymakers, eminent industry leaders and acade-micians share a common dais? The next four days will see just that - prominentIndian ministers like Union Minister Kapil Sibal; N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Chief Min-ister, Andhra Pradesh, India; Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Gujarat, India - shar-ing the stage with CEOS, top executives of companies, academicians, researchersand geospatial experts. And that’s not all! The audience will have one more reasonto celebrate. Prof. Dr. F. J. Radermacher of Ulm University in Germany, a world-renowned expert on the issues of globalisation, innovation, overpopulation andglobal sustainable development, is the guest speaker of the event and will deliverhis talk on Day One. While the first day is relatively calm, day two and three aremarked by a flurry of activities. Leading companies from all over the worldspecialising in geospatial technology, will be displaying their products and ser-vices during the event. Geospatial World Forum 2011 also has several firsts to itscredit like the Geospatial Users Forum. This is also the first time that the event isbeing organised with the name ‘Geospatial World Forum’. The earlier versions ofthe event were called ‘Map World Forum.’ "Renaming our successful conference‘Map World Forum’ to ‘Geospatial World Forum’ has been done keeping in mindthe larger interest of this industry and project the term 'geospatial' which is moreappropriate, encompassing and widely accepted to represent our community,” saysSanjay Kumar. With 400 speakers, 60 thematic sessions, representation from 85companies and 76 countries, and more than 2,000 professionals from across theworld, it is time to tune yourself for days of learning and unlearning, discussionsand deliberations, gaining an insight into the world of technology, checking outthe latest offerings and hearing the leaders speak. It’s time to swing and swirlwith the best. Have an informative and successful journey at Geospatial WorldForum 2011!

Kapil Sibal’s Message (From Page 1)

The world today is a world of fast-paced changes. Technologies that were un-thinkable a few years ago are coming into being. We are living in the era of scienceand the pace of communication is mind boggling. Geospatial sector will have tocontinue to strive to change and become better and more useful to its users. Per-haps the most salient feature of this industry is that it helps other industries realisetheir goals efficiently and effectively and helps them remain competitive. That maybe the reason its existence will never be threatened. It is heartening to note thatthe pace of this technological change has been significant in India. The inconceiv-able has become the reality in India with geospatial being assimilated into plan-ning, managing and monitoring of natural resources, utilities, infrastructure, ag-riculture etc. Geospatial has a big role to play in the development sector in makingour developmental planning more efficient and its implementation more effective.Long term policy, cost effective technology and user confidence are the vital fac-tors which if addressed would provide a major fillip to the geospatial movement inIndia. ‘GIS is the power of today and the future’ and therefore there is a need totake proactive steps to advance geospatial technologies in a bigger way. Opportu-nities are tremendous and we shall leave no stone unturned in revolutionising ourindustry using geospatial. It’s time for the “GEOSPATIAL REVOLUTION.”

Emeritus Prof. FraserTaylorChairman, UN International SteeringCommittee forGlobal Mapping (ISCGM)

Dr. K KasturiranganMember, Planning CommissionGovernment of India

Ola RollénPresident & Chief Executive OfficerHexagon AB, Sweden

Dr. F J RadermacherDirector, Research Institute for AppliedKnowledgeProcessing/n (FAW/n), Germany

Jeff JonasDistinguished Engineer and ChiefScientist Entity IBM, USA

Jill SmithChief Executive OfficerDigitalGlobeUnited States

Rajesh C MathurVice ChairmanNIIT GIS, India

Dr. B V R Mohan ReddyChairman and Managing Director,Infotech Enterprises, India

Matthew O'ConnellCEO, President and Director, GeoEyeUnited States

Steven HaganVice PresidentDevelopment of Server Technologies,Oracle, United States

Dr. Shailesh NayakSecretaryMinistry of Earth SciencesGovernment of India

Atul TayalJoint Managing DirectorRolta India Limited

Dr. R Siva KumarChief Executive OfficerNational Spatial Data InfrastructureGovernment of India

Kanwar ChadhaCMO, Member BODCSR and Founder, SiRFTechnology, United States

Lt Gen N B SinghVSMDirector General of InformationSystem (DGIS)Directorate General of InformationSystem, India

Bryn A FosburghSector President-Engineering &Construction Emerging MarketsTrimble, United States

Dr. Vanessa Lawrence CBDirector General & Chief ExecutiveOrdnance Survey, UK

Brian L BullockChairman, Intermap Technologies,United States

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Kapil SibalHon'ble MinisterMinistry of Science & Technology and EarthSciences, Ministry of Communication & IT andMinistry of Human Resource DevelopmentGovernment of India

Chief Guest

Shri Narendra ModiChief MinisterGujarat

AWARDS NIGHT



NMO – INDUSTRY EXCHANGE FORUM

PARTNERS IN GROWTH

As a pre-conference programmeof Geospatial World Forum, GISDevelopment organised a two-

day discussion forum for the heads ofnational mapping organizations (NMOs)from different countries and industryrepresentatives from across the globe.This exclusive two-day programme wasaimed to encourage delegates to delib-erate upon concerns, issues, opportu-nities and challenges of each stake-holder of this domain to find out somecommon grounds and strategies in or-der to help each other achieve their ob-jectives and contribute to the overallgrowth of geospatial industry.

Setting the pace of the forum, SanjayKumar, CEO, GIS Development ob-served that the geospatial industry is

growing rapidly and the major stake-holders in this industry are NMOs andthe industry. This programme facilitatesexchange between these two so theycan put their act together and work outa growth path. Prof. Ian Dowman, Edi-tor – Europe, GIS Development addedthat it is important to understand whatNMOs want and how the industry canserve those requirements. In his key-note address, Kevin Pomfret, ExecutiveDirector, Center for Spatial Law andPolicy, USA, deliberated upon the im-portance of spatial law and industry. Heopined that as spatial data becomesmore common and relationships be-come more complex, as applications forspatial data become more complex, thelegal risks become more complex andthe risks become greater. He identified

privacy, data ownership, national secu-rity data quality/liability as issues to beaddressed in the context of spatial law.He illustrated that with social network-ing applications like Google Steet Viewand Facebook and use of location databy law enforcement, location privacy is-sues are receiving a great deal of at-tention. Factors like cultural differenceswith respect to privacy also impact abil-ity to share data. Stressing on why it isimportant to educate lawyers on spa-tial technology, he said that lawyersshould know what to put into licensingagreements. In his opening address,Maj. Gen. (Dr.) R. Siva Kumar, CEO,NSDI, and NRDMS, India, remarked thatNMOs are unable to match growing de-mand of geospatial due to conservativeapproach and that new strategies and

models are a challenge the NMOs face.He also stressed on the need to look athow private sector can work with NMOs.

Challenges identified by him includedissues related to data accuracy/integ-rity/cost, a level playing field for bothgovernment and non-government play-ers and development of good position-ing infrastructure. Challenges on thetechnical side include metadata gen-eration and digitisation of archivesespecially presatellite data. Fundingfor mapping programmes is also achallenge according to Dr. Siva Kumarwho informed the audience about aUN forum on geographic informationmanagement. He also asserted theneed of customer-focussed servicesby NMOs.

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Mapping initiatives in individual countries in variousregions were discussed

over several sessions, starting withAsia Pacific region that was chairedby Prof. Fraser Taylor, President,ISCGM. S. Subba Rao, Surveyor Gen-eral, Survey of India, shed light on thelong history of the Survey of India (SOI)and remarked that along with legacy,a mindset that makes data sharing achallenge has also been carried for-ward, however efforts are on to over-come it. He highlighted several initia-tives of SOI; these include 1:00,000mapping of the country which has tobe completed in three years’ time, In-dian coastal zone management anda coal mines project. He identifiedlack of manpower as a challenge andinformed that SOI is going for partici-pation with other state agencies toaddress this.

Initiatives by Nepal were discussedby Raja Ram Chhatkuli, Director Gen-eral, Survey Department who ob-served that Nepal is a beautiful coun-try but difficult to map, with its moun-tain terrain. He highlighted the activi-

ties of Survey Department as NMO in-cluding regulating, monitoring and co-ordinating mapping activities in thecountry, activities of the Department asnational cadaster organisation includ-ing cadastral surveying activities anddevelopment of land information sys-tem and the role of the Department atNSDI. He remarked that national map-ping in Nepal is undergoing technologi-cal transformation and this presentsboth risks and opportunities. SMWFernando, Surveyor General, SurveyDepartment of Sri Lanka provided in-stances of ancient mapping and tradi-tional cartography in the country wheresystematic mapping initiatives had be-gun in mid 18th century. Fernando in-formed about the One inch to One mileMap Series and also informed the au-dience that the entire country has beenmapped at 1:50,000 and mapping thecountry at 1:10,000 scale has been ini-tiated. He presented information aboutdigital mapping products offered bySurvey Department and shared that ef-forts are on to improve accuracy usingALOS – PRISM data at 2.5 metre reso-lution.

Nguyen Tuan Hung, Director General,Department of Surveys and Mapping,Vietnam shared information about sur-veying and mapping initiatives in hiscountry where geospatial implementa-tion is in initial stages. These pertain tobuilding spatial database, spatial datamanagement, providing surveying andmapping information to users, geodeticdata, national network of co-ordinatecontrol points, national network of lev-eling control points, topographic mapsof different scales and severalgeospatial projects. Issues pertaining tonational mapping in New Zealand werediscussed by Geoff Howard, Chief To-pographer, Land Information NewZealand. Issues to be addressed accord-ing to Geoff are use of positioning tech-nology with non-authoritative data, ad-dressing and measuring impact of gov-ernment decision to ensure that agen-cies can respond appropriately, co-or-dination of government agencies acrossdepartments, need for spatialenablement to be relevant to popularissues of the day and need to ensurebuilding capacities in order to stay rel-evant. As a way forward, Geoff informedthat New Zealand will leverage its inno-vation, build sustainable capability andprovide easy access to dependable in-formation through responsiveprogrammes, engaged communitiesand closer collaboration across all sec-tors.

Dr. Asep Karsidi, Head, BAKOSURTANAL(National Coordinating Agency for Sur-veying and Mapping), Indonesia, dis-

cussed the role of Indonesia SDI insupporting the geospatial industry inIndonesia. The challenges highlightedby him included completion and up-dating of data and funding of data aswell as low R&D spend on geospatialin national budget which is less than1 percent of all research activities. Thebusiness model proposed by him in-cluded increasing private sector’s rolein geospatial industry and shifting thegovernment’s role from “rowing” to“steering” Dr. Asep also stressed onthe need for standardised base mapcompletion for the entire country, in-tegration of data among players andgovernment law and regulation to fa-cilitate sustainability of Ina – SDIimplementation for supportinggeospatial industry in order to supportthe development of geospatial indus-try business in Indonesia. Industryperspective to the session was offeredby Kaushik Chakraborty, Vice Presi-dent Asia Pacific, Erdas who observedthat the number one driver in mappingis change and the company has to ad-dress how to enable its customers tomanage change.

He observed that NMOs are drivingthe geospatial information value chainand in large scale mapping applica-tions, the company has to ensure thatits infrastructure gets it done quickly.Sharing the solutions offered by thecompany for NMOs to meet their pro-duction objectives, Kaushik high-lighted the benefits of digital mappingfor NMOs.



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The session on national mappinginitiatives in Africa, chaired byProf. William Cartwright, got

under way with Aida Opoku-Mensah,Director ICT & S&T Division UNEconomic Commission for Africainforming the audience about herprogrammatic area “Harnessinginformation for development” thatconsiders geoinformation as “develop-ment information” and assists mem-ber states to develop geospatialsciences and technology resources forpriority regional initiatives and aims tomake Africa more spatially enabled.Aida highlighted poor mappingcoverage, lack of consistency in dataproduction, absence of documentationon data building, retention of humancapacities and financial mappingconstraints as some of the keychallenges and stressed on the needfor technology savvy politicians forAfrica.

Dr. Hussein Farah, Director General,Regional Centre for Mapping ofResources and Development (RCMRD)highlighted the role of the organisationmapping in East and Southern Africaregion. Some of the current initiativesundertaken by RCMRD includemodernisation of geodetic network,

NSDI, land management informationsystem, topographic digitisation, landreforms policies and automation oftopographic and cadastral surveys.The challenges identified by himinclude coverage, maintenance andaccessibility of data and the reasonsfor these challenges are outdatedproduction networks, funding, institu-tional framework and human resourcecapacity.

Dr. Derek Clarke, Chief Director –Surveys and Mapping, Department ofRural Development and Land Reform,South Africa informed about the newprogramme on land use and landcover mapping. He identified severalchallenges in surveying and mapping,including conflict between politicalagenda of rural development andmandate of NMOs, budgetary cutshampering achieving user-demandedtargets, recruitment of skilled profes-sionals and technical staff, making uplost ground with SASDI (South AfricaSDI), ground truthing / local knowledgewith budget and staff limitation, userawareness and product distribution.

Initiatives in Ethiopia were sharedby Sultan Mohammed, DirectorGeneral, Ethiopian Mapping Agency.Sultan informed about the recentlyestablished primary GCPs (48 hourGPS observation). In surveying, theongoing / planned initiatives includedensification of existing geodeticnetwork while in mapping, the initia-tives include analogue to digitalconversion of existing maps, updatingof 1:50,000 scale maps, 1:100,000scale land use / land cover mappingusing satellite imagery, 1:25,000 and

1:10,000 scale topographic andorthophoto mapping of the country viaaerial photo and ground survey andpreparing the 3rd edition of nationalAtlas of Ethiopia.

APC Njepuome, Surveyor General,Office of the Surveyor General of theFederation, Nigeria, observed that withNigeria under military rule for 30years out of 50 years of its existence,surveying and mapping for the countrywere completely neglected. Howeverinitiatives are on in this direction.Njepuome informed about establish-ment of GNSS stations and that about70 percent of all topographic mapshave been updated. He stressed on theneed to convince political machinery toincrease budgetary allocation for

mapping which is one of the biggestchallenges. Dean Angelides,Corporate Director – InternationalOperations, Esri, presented his viewson enabling shared geographicknowledge. Talking about rapidadvancement in GIS technology, heobserved that GIS is changing the waywe think, collaborate, communicateand work. According to him, manyforces, including computing andnetworks, measurement, GIS software,geographic science and open datapolicies are converging to enable apervasive geospatial platform.Dean opined that GIS is creating acomplete platform for SDI and nationalgovernment GIS’s are already beingdeveloped.


Towardsgeospatialintegration

The session on National Mapping Initiatives in Middle Eastand North Africa was chaired

by Mark Reichardt, President & CEO,Open Geospatial Consortium. NahlaSeddik Mohamed Saleh, Director –GIS Department, Central Agency forPublic Mobilisation and Statistics(CAPMAS), Egypt highlighted the roleof GIS department in Egypt’s nationalmapping. GIS has been used in cen-sus, population atlas, Ministry andHealth, education initiatives and de-velopment of unsafe areas.

Prof. Abdullah Elsadig Ali, Sur-veyor General, Sudan National Sur-vey Authority, Sudan informed the au-dience about a rehabilitationprogramme for digital mapping forthe largest country in the African con-tinent. Accomplished surveyingprojects during 2008-10 includeSudan map, White Nile & NorthKordofan State Border demarcation,Bor mapping project, Al-Jazeerastate project, Abyei mapping projectand Akobo mapping project. KhanMohammed Afroz of Ministry of Mu-nicipal and Rural Affairs (NOMRA),Saudi Arabia discussed the initiatives of the country towards “Geospatiallyintegrated Saudi Arabia.”

Discussing the current situation of geospatial information in Saudi Arabia,Khan observed that there has been a tremendous progression in its uptakesince its establishment. He stressed on the need to establish integratedgeospatial systems and informed that efforts are on to implement integratedGI systems to selected facets of land management by MOMRA.


AMERICAS THRIVE

Day 2 of the NationalMapping Organisation– Industry exchange

forum began with nationalmapping initiatives in Ameri-cas, chaired by Prof. OrhanAltan, President, ISPRS.Timothy Trainer, Chief –Cartographic division, USCensus Bureau, focussed onintegration of technology,demographics and socio-economic data for develop-ment.

He illustrated the benefitsof using near-real time databy citing the huge financialbenefits accrued through useof near-real time data toinfluence participation in 2010

census mail. Citing the caseof annual household surveys,he asserted the power ofstatistical data and the powerof geospatial network.Prashant Shukle, DirectorGeneral – Mapping Informa-tion Branch, National Re-sources Canada identifiedchallenges faced by nationalmapping organisations andhow the organisations canrespond to those challenges.He stressed on the need formeasuring the relevance ofwork done through its impactand value, while trying to findout how to address techno-logical changes, communicatewith policy makers and find

out what is relevant to one’sown department. To addressthe challenges thatorganisations face, heasserted on the need to lookinternally and try to get avoice.

Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes,Director of Geosciences,Executive Secretary ofCONCAR, President, PC –IDEA, discussed the statusand perspectives of IBGE’s(Instituto Brasileiro deGeografia e Estatistica)geosciences production. Heinformed the audience aboutthe organisation’s online toolsand services, processing andcombination centre of the

SIRGAS-CON network, severalseamless cartographic baseprojects at various scales,status of orthorectification invarious states, and the role ofIBGE in the national SDI,INDE, including being theproducer of geospatial dataand information and being thedisseminator of proceduresfor electronic access of dataand metadata.

According to him, the futureof geospatial informationinvolves integration, withmultinational organisationsorganising forums withnational mapping agenciesand governments in order toencourage the production,

delivery, harmonisation,integration and sharing ofgeospatial information.Offering industry perspective,Peter Large, Vice President,Trimble, discussed theinterplay between technology,economics and policy andobserved that the three arealigned – but it is easy to say,hard to do. He observed thatas the ability to acquire andgenerate geospatial dataincreases exponentially, theability to extract informationfrom data becomes critical.He highlighted severalinstances where technologicalinnovations can contribute toeconomics but are limited bypolicy constraints.



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Industry initiatives

The Session on National Mapping Initiatives in Europe was Initiated byDr. Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive, Ordnance Survey who highlighted initiatives of the organisation towards en-

abling easy access to and facilitating ease of use of geographic informationalong the value chain to facilitate user help themselves. Vanessa also stressedupon the need for Ordnance Survey to remain sustainable and the initiatives ofthe organisation in this direction. Natalie Marthe Bismuth, General Manager,IGN France International, France, highlighted the activities and initiatives ofIGN, the national mapping agency of France. She highlighted IGN’s contribu-tion to the GMES, the environmental information service and informed that IGNis an active member of EuroGeographics, the European association groupingits national mapping agencies. She also highlighted the organisation’s initia-tives towards partnership with industry in fields of exports and distribution ofsatellite data and an exclusive official partnership with National Defence.

Kees de Zeeuw, Director, Kadaster International shared information on policyissues 2011, where emphasis is on focus on customers and creating value forthem, collaborating with partners, cost reduction, flexibility, quality and conti-nuity and having an international perspective. The approach required in thisprocess involves collaborationincluding strategic dialoguewith companies, use of thirdparty data, new joint cross bor-der Web services and forgingnew partnerships. Observingthat satellite and aerial indus-try is a great example of PPP,Kumar Navulur of DigitalGlobestated that in creating nation-wide databases through PPPmodel, data and processesneed to be co-located andcomputing methodologiesneed to be exploited faster.

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The two-day forum concluded with a panel discussion of session chairpersonswho aimed to identify the key takeaways from the session and key issues to beidentified. The panel observed that the government needs to complement au-thoritative data with crowdsourced data but with great care as appropriate to arespective culture, preserving and archiving data, need for NMOs partnershipamong themselves, NMOs to re-examine their business models. It was alsoobserved the technology vendors are the best sources of information regard-ing taking decisions on technology deployment. It was also observed that thereis a need for NMOs o reach out and find new audiences and show them theimportance and power of their work. It is important to talk to others in lan-guage that they understand. Finally it was stressed that there is a need to in-volve and interest children in the geospatial arena.

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