GEOSPATIAL WORLD AWARDS CONFERED ON LEADING ORGANISATIONS

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Zaandam, The Netherlands 15th

May, 2013: Geospatial Media and Communications, the leading media agency

in Geospatial sector, today conferred its annual Geospatial World Awards to 19 organisations from the domain

and it’s end-user agencies for developing innovative geospatial tools and products; implementing conducive

policies and applying geospatial technologies for delivering efficient results in the most resource efficient

manner. The annual awards are given in three categories – Geospatial World Excellence Awards (for

applications), Geospatial World Policy Awards (for policy implementation) and Geospatial World Innovation

Awards (for technology innovation).

Over 200 award nominations were received from the call for nominations from the world over, which were

judged by a panel of expert judges including Matt Ball, Founder and Editor, Vector1 Media, USA; Robert

Samborski, Private Consultant and former CEO, GITA, USA; Geoff Zeiss, Director OGC and Former Director –

Autodesk, Canada; Prof. Arup Dasgupta, Managing Editor Geospatial World Magazine, India and Dr.

Hrishikesh Samant, Associate Prof & Head, Dept of Geology, St. Xavier's College, India.

The awards were conferred during the Awards Night and Gala Dinner function of Geospatial World Forum,

which is the largest and the most premium conference hosted by Geospatial Media in the domain. Geospatial

World Forum is being held at Beurs-World Trade Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 13-16 May, 2013.

The mega-geospatial event is being supported by over 40 sponsors and partner organisatons and is being

attended by over 1200 experts from the domain from more than 80 countries.

The award winners are:

GEOSPATIAL WORLD EXCELLENCE AWARDS

Disaster Management and Mitigation

Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency - USA and Previstar Inc. USA

Award for: Their mobile application 'Incident Resource Management System - CPS Mobile' which

helps the State of Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, to respond to any incident very

quickly by identifying the closest resource (equipment and human) and quickly request them and

deploy them via their mobile device no matter where they are.

Agriculture

Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and Sovzond Company Ltd. Russia

Award for: 'System of State Land Monitoring' which automates the Agricultural Land Atlas and The

Remote Sensing Monitoring System, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of vegetation and

soil data collection as well as the quality of the acquired data, allowing the government, enterprises

and farmers to get most credible information about agricultural lands thereby improving the

effectiveness of agricultural lands management in Russia.

Environment Protection, Monitoring and Management

Australian National Water Commission And Sinclair Knight Merz

Award for: 'National Atlas of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems' which is benefitting people

involved in agriculture, mining, CSG, shale gas and tight gas developments, along with the

government regulation of those industries including researchers thereby supporting policy-makers,

land managers and water resource managers take decisions which ensure environment protection.

Visitor Information Systems

Saudi Authority for Tourism and Antiquities, Saudi Arabia

Award for: Design, development and implementation of the 'Tourism Map – GIS Based Tourism

Information Portal' that provides a map based, dynamic and interactive information to visitors and

tourists, resulting in a informed, an enriching, experience.

Transportation Management

Land Transport Authority of Singapore

Award for: ' GIS@LTA ' initiative which has developed a Land Transport GIS Hub for the enterprise,

capable of meshing engineering design with transport planning, to improve road and construction

safety and information services to commuters and motorists, which also incorporates the 'Black

Spot Programme' that identifies accident-prone areas, which has yielded significant reduction in

traffic accidents.

Urban Planning

Norrkopings Kommun, Sweden and Agency9, Sweden

Award for: Application of 'Web-based 3D Visualisation for Project Communication and Collaboration

in Urban Planning' of Norrkopings Kommun, Sweden, thereby attracting citizens to participate in the

urban planning process.

Land Management

Shenzhen Municipal Commission of Urban Planning and Land Resources

Award for: Developing and implementing 'China's first city geo-database', with distributed large

scale spatial information integrating 3D city landscape model and VR technology to represent and

register land rights and demonstrate China's success of exploring non-western urban GIS practice

pattern.

Enterprise GIS (Land Records)

Directorate of Settlement and Land Records, Government of Goa, India

Award for: Developing and utilising 'Dharnaksh - the Land Records Portal', making Goa the first state

in India to implement a robust, reliable and people friendly land records management system which

offers the citizen certified copies of land records and rights of any cadastre parcel in the state.

Resources Management: Water

Azersu OJSC And Odakent Ltd. , Azerbaijan

Award for: Developing and utilising 'GeoSP@TIAList' for management of water and wastewater

Infrastructure of Azerbaijan thereby dramatically improving the life quality standards through better

water supply and sanitation which has also helped conserve this precious resource.

Utility Services - Water Distribution & Transmission

EPCOR Water Services Inc., Canada

Award for: Developing and integrating its spatial database with its work management database. The

solution is then used to manage and prioritise work in water distribution and transmission thereby

improving the reliability and functioning of the water utility services within the City of Edmonton.

City Planning and Land Management

Al Ain Municipality

Award for: 'Building Permits through GIS ' designed to address in real time all inquiries, designs,

extensions, revisions, or operational changes required for the issuance of building permits, thereby

drastically improving the efficiency of the entire process of planning and managing the City of Al Ain.

GEOSPATIAL WORLD POLICY AWARDS

Standards

Agentschap voor Geografische Informatie Vlaanderen (AGIV), Belgium

Award for: Establishing and adopting the 'Central Reference Address database - CRAB', an authentic

standardised geographical data source, offering sufficient quality guarantee, giving evidence of a

distinct management thereby making communication like post deliveries, emergency interventions,

administration, more efficient.

SDI

Coordinating Agency for Federal Geographical Information, Switzerland

Award for: Establishing the 'geo.admin.ch: the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation' using open

source and open standards, software in a cloud environment. This methodology has also been

successfully emulated by a number of nations thereby allowing their citizens and authorities fast

spatial data access. The geo.admin.ch has resulted in a fourfold increase in public investment and

private market related to spatial data.

Knowledge Transfer

United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and NASA (Earth Science

Division-Applied Sciences Program)

Award for: Their technology and knowledge transfer initiative - 'NASA Applied Sciences Program'

from their Earth Sciences Division where efforts to pioneer innovative methods to apply Earth

observations to support the economy, safety of life and property, and quality of life are the goal. The

Program supports global efforts at both applied research and targeted decision-support projects in

themes, such as Disasters, Water

Resources, Health & Air Quality, Ecological Forecasting, Climate, and Agriculture.

Geospatial Information Act

Indonesia Geospatial Information Agency (BIG)

Award for: Drafting the 'Geospatial Information Act' which was accepted and passed by the

President of the Republic of Indonesia as the 'Geospatial Information Law', wherein the 'right of

people, both individually and corporately, to get the appropriate geospatial information and use it

for the purposes of the public is assured', thereby setting an example for the rest of world to

emulate.

3D Standards

Kadaster, The Netherlands and Geonovum, The Netherlands

Award for: For being the harbingers in establishing and implementing a 'National Standard for 3D

Geo-information' by integrating the national 2D standard with the 3D City GML OGC standard, and

the development of a toolkit for implementing 3D standard according to ISO for country wide

implementation of 3D geo-information.

GEOSPATIAL WORLD INNOVATION AWARDS

Image Data Management and Processing

Rasdaman GmbH, Germany

Award for: 'Rasdaman - raster data manager' a high-performance Big Data Analytics engine which

supports flexible and fast ad-hoc retrieval of massive multi-dimensional raster data, leading to a

democratization of data and increased availability on all levels, this in turn allowing researchers gain

new insights, companies establish new business models, and governments improve citizen

information.

Sensors

Visual Intelligence LLP., USA

Award for: 'iOne Sensor Tool Kit Architecture', which bring on-demand sensor capabilities to better

meet current and future mission needs for wide area surveillance, multi-sensor intelligence, and high

metric accuracy using digital geo-imaging sensors that can deliver required intelligence for forestry

and agriculture, pollution, land and water management, mineralogy, and other resource planning.

Surveying

RIEGL LMS Gmbh, Austria

Award for: 'RIEGL VQ-820-GU' hydrographic Airborne laser Scanner, specifically designed for

repetitive surveying of inshore waters to evaluate reservoir sedimentation, river degradation and

also sea beds or lake beds. Its high spatial resolution, scan speed and wide field of view make it

second to none in this category of laser scanners.

On the occasion, Sanjay Kumar, CEO, Geospatial Media and Communications said, “Geospatial World is proud

to felicitate the outstanding contribution made by members of geospatial industry and its end-users for

developing and applying spatial tools and data in most innovative of ways for various purposes. Such

contribution enables the technology to grow and reach its potential. My heartiest congratulations to all award

recipients on achieving this milestone. I look forward to receiving even more contribution in terms of

nominations from developers and users of the technology for the awards next year.”

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