Celebrating Geospatial Industry’s Living Legends

Geospatial World initiated the Hall of Fame Awards in 2017 on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary to Founding leaders of the industry. Since then, these awards are presented as a way of showing our appreciation to the pioneers and living legends of the industry who have made significant contributions to the geospatial ecosystem globally.

Join us to celebrate, cherish and recognize their passion, vision, knowledge and leadership!

Industry’s Living Legends

2022

Sir Martin Sweeting

Founder of Surrey
Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)

 

Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy

Founder of Cyient

 

2017

Alain De Taeye

Founder of TeleAtlas

 

Barbara J. Ryan

Secretariat Director
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

 

Charles Trimble

Founder of Trimble Inc.

 

David Schell

Founder of Open Geospatial Consortium

 

Jack Dangermond

Founder of Esri

 

Kanwar Chadha

Founder of SiRF Technology

 

KK Singh

Founder of Rolta Group

 

Prof Michael Goodchild

Founder of UCSB Center for Spatial Studies

 

Prof Shunji Murai

Founder of Asian Association of Remote Sensing

 

Walter Scott

Founder of DigitalGlobe