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Geospatial data is vital for national development owing to its utility in various domains such as environmental planning, disaster management, infrastructure development, natural resource management, urban planning and many more. In this context, initiatives such as building a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) or even a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure become important as they establish a national/global data inventory, thereby, streamlining mechanisms for data availability and delivery to the users and domain experts. Enormous efforts and resources are being chanellised towards the establishment of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) all over the world. This will help to facilitate easy data acquisition and sharing, leading to information standardisation and cost reduction. This seminar will, therefore, focus on the status of SDI activities among the various local and national level organizations in various nations.
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Dr. R. Siva Kumar
Chief Executive Officer
NSDI
India |  |
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Abbas Rajabifard
President
GSDI
Australia |
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Ravi Saxena
IAS, Additional Chief Secretary
Department of
Science & Technology
India
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Kaushik Dutta
GISP, IT Program Manager
Maryland Transportation Authority
Division of Information Technology (DoIT)
United States |
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Dr Derek Clarke
Chief Director
Surveys & Mapping, Dept. of
Rural Development
& Land Reforms, South Africa |
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Charles D. Regan
Jr. Vice President & MD
National Geographic Maps
United States
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Arnulf Christl
President
OSGeo
United States |  |
Peter ter Haar
Director of Products
Ordnance Survey
Great Britain
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Malay Adhikari
Research Scholar
Nalsar University of Law
India |  |
Dr. Khalid A. Rahman Al-Haidan
Director - GIS Directorate
CIO
Kingdom of Bahrain |
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Savitur Prasad
Secretary, Department of Information Technology
Government of NCT of Delhi
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Maj. Gen. Girish Kumar
Project Director, DSSDI Project
Survey
of India
India |
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Denis Poliquin
Manager of Coordination and Outreach
Mapping
Information Branch
Natural Resources Canada
Canada |
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