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With the theme Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Planet Earth, Map WorldForum was envisioned as a platform dedicated to raising the profile and expanding thehorizons of geospatial industry. The four day conference from 10-13 February, 2009turned out to be a phenomenal success where there was an active and dynamic participationof over1700members (1220 registered and 560 exhibition visitors) of GIScommunity from over 40 countries. The four day-long geospatial extravaganza was wellrepresented by professionals from different user segments belonging to a wide spectrumof geospatial applications including utilities, land administration,petroleum and mining,rural, e-governance to name a few. The participants included the stakeholders ingeospatial industry around the world comprising of scientists, trainers, technologydevelopers, application and solution providers, users and professionals and mediaagencies andabove all, students, thefuture of the domain. Theforum offered a unique in-depth learningenvironmenton different aspectsof geospatial technology. Thisyear therewas a large vendor exhibition unveiled providing participants an opportunity to keepthemselvesabreastof latestproductsbeingshowcased.

Inaugural session

Dr. M P Narayanan, Chairperson, GIS Development, welcomed the gathering andhighlighted the significance of the global platform that Map World Forum provides tousers, developers,expertsof geospatial technologiesand enablespeople from allwalks of

lifeto havea ringsideview of latesthappenings in thegeospatialarena.

The patron of the Conference, Union Minister for Science & Technology and EarthSciences, Kapil Sibal said that the Government would soon launch a service in 3-Dformat in six metros in the country beginning with the twin cities of Hyderabad andSecunderabad. Stating that the economic meltdown has not affected the geospatialindustry, theUnion Minister said there wereseveral applicationsfor thegeospatial datainthe public service domain, from land administration to police. He also spoke on how theCentre had made changes in the Map Policy in 2005 and the launch of India Geo portal.Several states where such a portal will be launchedshortly, are also planningto have theirownGeospatialDataAgencies, Sibal said.

In hisguest address K K Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, Rolta India reiteratedthe industry's commitment to further the cause of development of geospatial

technologies. He highlighted the relevance of applications of the technology insustainable development right from the days of the Cholera epidemic in London in 1884to the present day dialogue on global warming. He expressed the hope that geospatialtechnologies will continue to bring important solutions to citizens in the form of a rangeof services which arerelevant to thesociety, fromdisastermanagement tohealth services.

Hon'ble Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari inaugurated theConference. Bouquet was presented by Dr. V Jayaraman, Director, National RemoteSensing Centre, India. Honble Vice-President noted that the instruments for accessinggeospatial information have become much simpler. "Let me acknowledge that I wasimpressed with the vision of the Forum of aiming beyond speeches and discussions tofind practical ways to improve people's lives," Vice-President Ansari said. The Vice-President expressed hisopinionthatthe useof technologyis only anenabler. Theuses thattechnology couldbe putto areguided by thepolitical, social andeconomic context of thetime. "Today everyone can access them through freely available services of Google,Microsoft and other companies. The instruments for accessing geospatial informationhavealso become simpler, and therefore more user-friendly" Vice-President Ansari said.He, however, also cautioned that such technology may have an implication for thenationalsecurity. "The terrorists who attacked Mumbai used Global PositioningSystemsand Google Earth maps to identify their targets and the terrain. The only constructiveoption lies in better regulation of geospatial data and of relevant stake-holders. A finebalance is needed to allow geospatial technologies to flourish without compromising onnationalsecurity concerns,"Vice-PresidentAnsari said.

The Minister for Major Industries, Andhra Pradesh Government Geetha Reddy was alsopresent on theoccassion.

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The special highlight of the inaugural session was the award of excellence conferred onseven selected personalities/organizations drawn from mapping agencies, professionalsocieties, companies, individuals and programmes for their outstanding contributiontowardsdevelopment andgrowth of geographic informationtools,products, applicationsthat in turn helped in making geographic information a public commodity. The awardswere conferred on:

uDr. Jane Goodall, Founder, JaneGoodall Institute andUN Messangerof Peace

and Prof. C K Prahalad, Paul & Ruth McCracken Distinguised UniversityProfessor of Strategy Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University ofMichigan for theirpersonal achievements

uKamal K. Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, Rolta India with LifetimeAchievement Award for his outstanding contribution to the global geospatialindustries with hisvision,expertiseandleadership .

uMicrosoft Virtual Earth for its outstanding service/contribution towardsPopularizingGeospatial Contentto CommonMan Worldwide

uInstitute of Photogrammetry, University of Hannover for its outstandingservice/contribution towards Building Geospatial Capacities and KnowledgeNetwork

uOpen Geospatial Consortium in the category of Professional Societies for itsoutstanding services/contributionto geospatial communityworldwide

uLandInformation New Zealand in thecategory ofNationalMappingAgency

Voteof thanks waspresented by Maj. Gen. (Dr.) R Siva Kumar, Chief Executive Officer,NSDI, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. The Exhibition,which ran parallel to theConference was inaugurated by Hon'bleVice-President of IndiaMohammadHamidAnsariafterthe inaugural session.

Guest Addresses

Environmentalist Dr. Jane Goodall and renowned management expert Prof. C KPrahalad delivered theguest addressat theforum.

Dr. Goodall, the primatologist and a tireless campaigner for both world peace and

environmental protection devoted her presentation to the relationship between herconservation work and information technology, especially spatial technology. As theclosest living primate to Homo Sapiens, her work is based on the premise that anunderstanding of chimps would lead to improved understanding of mankind itself. Therelationship with geography began some 14 yearsago, when Dr. Goodall began to realisethe threat posed by deforestation of the regions around Gomb to the livesof her chimps.Dr. Lilian Pintea, who directs the conservation science program at Jane GoodallInstitute, says GIS is a natural fit to the needs of a conservation group, although he notedthatit is important forGISpeople to understand problems fromthe conservationists' pointof view. Dr. Goodall believes that there's reason forhope because there's stillgreat powerin children seeing nature with their own eyes and the indomitable human spirit to tacklelargeprojects andnotgiveupuntil wesee results.

Prof.C K Prahalad graced the occasion and spokeat lengthabout technology and how it

is viewed by common people. He said, during the last decade the arcane field ofgeospatial mapping technology has become accessible to ordinary people. Google Mapand Microsoft Planet have changed the way we look at the world today. He cited theexample of Mumbai terrorists attack where Indian commando units and the people atlarge watching CNN or Google news and maps had access to instant geographicalanalysis of the problem. Visual techniques were an integral part of the total episode. Heexplored how managers can utilize mapping technology to dramatically improve thequality of their operations. Prof. Prahlad had some words of wisdom for the geospatialindustry to redeem itself in the times of recession. He elaborated that the live and let liveprincipleneeds tobe adheredto nowmore thanany other time.Thegrab-gobblestrategieswillresultin 'zero sumgain' forthe geospatial industry.

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Plenary Sessions

In total there were four plenary sessions. The first Plenary session GeospatialTechnologies and Sustainable Development was chaired by Dr. V Jayaraman,Director, National Remote Sensing Centre. The speakers for the session were fromMinistry of Earth Sciences, DigitalGlobe,PCIGeomaticsand ESRIIndia.

Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, called for an integrated andmulti-disciplinary approach to tackle the problems arising out of climate change. Thechanges in atmospheric concentration of green house gases and aerosols, in solarradiation and land surface properties have altered the energy balance of the climate

system of the earth. During the last thirty years, host of satellites have provided veryusefuldataon manyof theparameters responsiblefor the change. It isnecessary toevolvea measurement strategyto improveaccuracyandscientificcontentfor future satellites.

Jill Smith, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalGlobe, offered insights into how she willconduct her company in the near future. She wants her company to proactively collectimagery of regions of the world where climate change or other problems might be ofinterest to the global geospatial community. Smith described her vision as a "sustainablelens" and, providing a twist on her own company's name to infer a broader meaning, a"digital globe" of information that utilizes a constellation of satellites with "appropriateandre-usable data."

Dr. Robert Moses, President, PCI Geomatics, expressed his belief that one day a web

service will be used to queryand analyze forchange detection in a region using notonlyatime-series of remotely-sensed imagery but advanced classification algorithms toautomatically map and highlight the affected areas. The democratization of data willherald a plethora of information tosupport the status of Gaia.In thenextdecade therewillbe three profound changes in our industry: The plethora of earth-observing sensors; therise of the web; and new, powerful processing algorithms that processes the manydimensionsof thisdata,"he said.

Rajesh C Mathur, President, ESRIIndia, stressed on the factthat fostering thegrowth ofnational and global food supplies is necessary for eliminating hunger and reducingpoverty. In future, agricultural growth must come primarily from rising biological yieldsrather thanfrom expanding cultivated areas or intensifying agriculturethrough irrigation,because fertile land and water are becoming increasingly scarce. Whether implementing

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organic farming methods, finding the most profitable and healthy places to plant newcrops,or allotting farmland forpreservation to secure future foodproduction,GIS has thecapabilities toaidindiscoveringand establishingsustainable agriculturepractices.

Second day of the Conference started with the plenary session on GeospatialTechnology Development and Trends with speakers from Tele Atlas, Rolta India,Leica Geosystems and ESRI. The session was chaired by Shankar Aggarwal, JointSecretary,Departmentof InformationTechnology, India

Mark Steele, Chief Operating Officer, TeleAtlas Asia Pacific talked about Tele Atlas'data collection capability and vision. The only way user demand for data currency andaccuracycanpossibly be met isby getting the usersthemselves to update their ownmaps.Steele said that Tele Atlas wants to be about enhancing the journey, and providing thethrill of discovery, andmuch less about just getting youwhere you want to go. Oneof thenextsteps in thisprocessis thepersonalizationof information and locationpreferences sothatthedevicecanhelpconnectonewithplacesthatonewillenjoy.

Preetha Pulusani, Director, Rolta India, started her talk by questioning why geospatialtechnology is still considered expensive, stating that it's because the value proposition isnot always clear to decision makers. To get beyond this perception, geospatial mustbecome more of a strategic part of operations,and Pulusanifeels that the route is throughgeospatial fusion. The idea of fusion takes advantage of all past development work that

have stoodup multiple databases and customized solutions,providing a conduit foreachof these disparate systemsto talkwith eachother.

Martin Nix, Senior Vice President of Mining andAgriculture, Leica Geosystems, spokeabout increase in efficiency of mining that reduce the inputs of fuel, fertilizer and waterfor less of footprints on our planet. The application of geospatial technology towardsustainability goals becomes quite practical in the resource extraction sector. Positioningtechnology, coupled with communications, is moving towards machine control andlocation-awaremachinery thatdramatically increases safetyand improves efficiency.

"Geographic Information System technology is now entering into a new and rapidlyexpanding era of increased accessibility, applicability, transparency, andmeaningfulness" said Lawrie E Jordan, Director - Imaging Division, ESRI. "This

evolution is transformational and global in scope, with broad implications for the social,economic, and environmental fabrics which connect us." The new GIS computingenvironment is a services-oriented, open architecture that delivers global Geography-on-Demand in near real time. Efficiency and return on investment (ROI) aresignificantly enhanced by task-at hand workflows and industry-specific projecttemplates.The foundation andoverarchingstrength of this newapproach is a GIS-centriccoredata model.

Geospatial for Public Sector was the theme of the third plenary session chaired by BasKok, President of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure.The session was represented by thespeakers from Tata Consultancy Services Limited, International Institute for Geo-Information ScienceandEarth Observation(ITC)andBISAG.

Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Vice President & Head, Government Industry Solutions Unit

(ISU) Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India talked about the hybrid technologies forsustaining planet earth. Citing an example of tsunami early warning system that isimplemented using the best out of embedded, IT and geospatial technologies for raisingalerts against tsunami and coastal hazards he stressed on the fact that hybrid technologysolutions havea valuablepotentialto helpgovernment delivergoodgovernances.Similars-governance systems with converged ideas from different technology areas will helpsustainthe life & environment andhence sustainingplanet earth.

Prof Martien Molenaar, Rector, International Institute for Geo-Information Scienceand Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands talked on why cross border education forcapacity building is important. The regional phenomenon taking placehasan affect at aglobal scale. The uneven development of economy results in migration fromdeveloping

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nation to developed nations. The population growth in China will have an affect on thefood market in the coming years. In order to handle these global issues need is for acommunity of decision makers who have common understanding of these processes andthe education system should be such to provide a common understanding. This can bedone throughcooperativeinstitution with joint programmehe said.

Arup Dasgupta, Distinguished Professor of Bhaskaracharya Institute for SpaceApplications and Geoinformatics and Honorary Managing Editor of GIS Development

presented the case study of the state government of Gujarat in the sector of health,education, crime and accidents and how the government has implemented successfullygeospatial technology to aid the decision making process and address the issues ofconflicting demands at different levels and by different players and struck a balance forarrivingat judicious decisions, achieving an overalldevelopment of theState.

The last plenary session of the conference chaired by Chandrasekhar Nori, ManagingDirector, Infotech Geospatial India talked on Geospatial for SustainableInfrastructure Development. Speakers from Trimble Navigation, CH2M Hill andAirportsAuthority of India shared thestage in thesession.

Vice President of Trimble Navigation, Bryn Fosburgh, told the conference that the casefor including these technologies in new projects in the construction industry is socompelling that 30 per cent of new sites now insist on their use. However, machine

guidance is of little value unless the position of the machine can be mapped against othersignificant objects. It is also of little value unless the information can be transferred, inreal time, to people or business processes for which that position is important. Fosburghsaid one of the best ways to ensure the use of the technology was for government tomandateit.

Stanley Trim, VicePresident, CH2M Hill, said that the integration of machineguidanceinto processing systems was driving efficiency in mines all over the world, and washaving a major impact on the cost of farming. 'It is no longer a technology it's a tool forthe boardroom,' he said. Some of these applications can be extremely simple. They mayinvolve managing thearrival and departure of trucks at a mine, such that they neverhaveto wait for ore. Others are much more sophisticated, such as using sensors to make judgments about the quality of the ore as it is mined. This information can becommunicated to computer-aided design software in the head office, which in turn canadjust theposition of theexcavationequipment.

V K Yadava, Executive Director (ATM),AirportsAuthority of India talked at large on the No Objection Certificate Application System (NOCAS), a web based applicationimplemented by Airports Authority of India in order to automate the steps involved inobtaining a No Objection Certificate(NOC)forheightclearance.

Panel Discussion

Thelastsession ofsecondday ofthe conferencewasa paneldiscussionon Public PrivatePartnership (PPP): Challenges and Opportunities by the eminent leaders of thegeospatial community. The panel was moderated by Pallava Bagla, Science Editor,

NDTV, India. The panelists for the session were Dr. Vanessa Lawrence, ChiefExecutive Officer,OrdnanceSurvey, United Kingdom whowaspresentwith us viaa pre-recorded video address; K R Sridhara Murthi, Executive Director,Antrix Corporation,India; Dr. Prithvish Nag, Director, National Atlas and ThematicMappingOrganisation,India, Dr. Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of CSDMS and MarkReichardt, President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA. Some of the keyissues deliberated upon by the panel were how PPP is a two way process and both theprivate and public sector need to make equal contributions and investments for betterresults. Lack of supportive policy environment was one of the major deterrents to theindustry reaching its true growth potentials, making them over-cautious for activeparticipation.One trend that wasnoted was that, thoughmany PPPinitiatives have takenplace in the past as pilot projects many of them have not yet been completed. Thediscussionsprovedto bestimulatingforboth governmentandindustry representatives.

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Three symposia, six seminars, four forums, one summit, and three industry tracks byRolta, Geoeye and ESRI were conducted in parallel on the last two days of theconference.

Symposia

There were three symposia on the subjects of Geospatial for e-Governance, Geospatial

forPetroleumand Miningand Geospatial forRural Development.

Geospatialfor e-Governance

With an aim to bring forth the development of GIS within the government processes andthegap areas that areneeded tobe takenintoaccount, the symposium targeted to put forthidentified GIS-enabled best practices from different regions of the world. Thesymposium conducted in partnership with National Institute of Smart Government(NISG) was chaired by J Satyanarayan, Former Chief Executive Officer, NISG. In hiswelcome address he stressed on the fact that spatial information in e-governance planneeds to be given the status of Mission Mode Project which will result in efficientresourceallocationand recognitionby all.

Ashis Sanyal, Scientist 'G'-HOD, Department of Information Technology talked about

integrating GIS into e-governance outcomes. Sharon Cottrell (General Manager, LandInformation New Zealand), Dr Muhammad R Bualhamam (Deputy Director General,Ras Al Khaimah Municipality, UAE), K Dakshina Murthy (Project Manager, Centre forGood Governance) and Hemant Kumar (Fellow, Karnataka State Council for Science &Technology) presented the initiatives of good governance by their respectiveorganisations.

Dr. Robert Barr, OBE, Chairman, Manchester Geomatics explored the issues of datainfrastructure fromcommercial, academic andlocal governmentperspectives. He arguedthat, to succeed, a spatial data infrastructure must satisfy four criteria: it must bedemonstrably in thepublic interest; it must concentrateon data which should be collectedonce and used many times; it must be sustainably financed and there should be aneffective, thoughlightweight mechanism of governance.

D Vasudevan, Consultants, Yamuna Action Plan II highlighted how technologies can bevery effectively utilized to provide better citizen service through Citizen FacilitationCentres that provide all citizen services through single window approach andstrengthening theurban local bodies.

KhalidA HameedAl Hammadi, Chief GIS Division, Central Informatics Organization(UAE) explained the salient features of a Web GIS Application developed for theMinistry ofHealth in theKingdomofBahrain.P V Rajashekhar, Director, Survey of Indiaexplained the Nirmala Nagara, a municipal e-governance project, initiated by the UrbanDevelopment Departmentof Governmentof Karnataka.

Geospatial forPetroleumand Mining

The Oil & Mining industry has been influenced by geospatial technology in one form orother. Be itsurveyingatthe time ofgeological exploration or remote sensingat the time ofsite selection and pipeline routing or GIS for efficient distribution and emergencyresponse, the geospatial technology is rapidly gainingprominence in the sector. Keepingthis in view, symposium on Petroleum & Mining was conducted in partnership withGeospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) on the usage of geospatialtechnologiesand applications in the different sections of Petroleum and Mining industry.The symposium was chairedby Robert M Samborski, Executive Director, GITA. In thewelcome address, Mr. Samborski discussed about interdependencies and dependenciesof gas & oil companies for identifying and classifying critical infrastructure, developingresponse plans and addressing issues of security & protection. He also discussed howinfrastructures are geospatially interdependent and how a local environmental event cancreate state changes inallof them.

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B Akala, Former Chairman, CMPDI, Coal India in his Guest address discussed about theusage and advantage of GIS applications in mining and petroleum industry, the currentstatus in the industry and the various applications. He also stressed upon using the newandstate-of-art technologiesin industryfor better management of day to dayfunctions.Avery interesting issue discussed by V D Rajagopal, Director, Department of Mines andGeology, in hiskeynoteaddresspertaining to thecompensation to resourcebearingstatesrelated to Petroleum & Natural Gas. He pointed out various other issues related to stategovernment for the need of infrastructure and socio-economic development of local

peoplefromoil & gasexploitation. He suggested oilproducing companies to share profits(in terms of gas) to resource state for the upliftment of society like standard schooling,womenemployment, technical education, etc.

The other keynote speeches were from ONGC and GAIL India. Further there were 3technical sessionsfocusingon Exploration& Production,Distribution andRehabilitation& Resettlement. There were 10 technical papers presenters from petroleum & miningindustry which gave an insight of the various applications based case studies to theaudience.

Geospatial forRural Development

The key point of 'people-centric technology' that emerged out of the deliberations during

the first two days of the forum continued to figure at the Symposium on Geospatial forRural Development. The symposium delved into how GIScanaid in improving the livesof those at the grass roots. The affiliate partner of thesymposium was National Institute of Rural Development(NIRD). The chairperson of the symposium, B K Sinha,Director General , National Inst i tute of RuralDevelopment, India, during his welcome addressemphasisedhow rural development tops the agenda of theIndian government. He informed that Rs 76,000 crores isthe budget allocated to the sector. He highlighted the issueof landadministration and informed thata Government ofIndia's committee on land records has recommendedusage of Geospatial technologies for all the land surveysto be carried out. These include GIS, GPS and Cartosat

data.

The second speaker, Dr V S Hegde from ISRO, made presentation on Village ResourcesCentre (VRCs), an innovative geospatial-technology based programme that to a largeextent has empowered the rural societies. The programme has components as Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine, Development Communication, E-Governance andEmergency Communication Infrastructure. Dr Hegde while mentioning that rural Indiamakes 10% of the global population, strongly put across the idea of 'social inclusion'through his presentation. He informed that large scale operationalization of spaceapplications would be backed by future satellite launches that include updations ofOceansat, Resourcesat and Cartosat.

An interesting presentation on usage of remote sensing for crop yield estimationforecasting was made by Dr. Dalip Singh (Ministry of Agriculture) and Dr. M

Chakraborty, SpaceApplicationsCentre,Ahmedabad. The programme knownas FASAL(Forecasting if Agricultural output using Space, Agrometeorology, and Land basedobservations), has succeeded in addressing the key concerns of the rural occupation i.e.agriculture.

Theissue of participatoryGIS came up to theforum when a presentation on 'MappingtheNeighbourhood' project of GIS Development was made by Suman Arya. It showed howmaps created by local rural community helped themselves as well as the policy makers tounderstand the problems of water, sewage and deforestation. The symposium furtherwitnessed presentations made on various aspects of rural development as Rural Health,Rural Informatics & Rural SDI and Agriculture, Land Use Planning and Land Reformsandended witha panel discussionon 'GIS on Micro-Planning'.

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Forums

Editors Forum with the theme The Role of Media inBuilding Public Geospatial Knowledge Network waschaired by Prof. Arup Dasgupta, Managing Editor(honorary),GIS Development.In hisopeningremarks, ProfDasgupta pointed out that the scope of the industry is

increasing by the day and it is important to educate andinformboththeuninitiatedand thenewly initiated about thetechnology/industry. And that is only possible by proactiveparticipationof themedia.

Jon Fairall, Managing Editor, ASM, Australia, raised the question as to where exactlypeople who use the application fit in the industry. He opined that if a publication builds abusiness model to cater to the people enlightened by Google Earth, it will be out ofbusiness in no time.Voicing similarsentiments, JoeFrancica, Editor-in-Chief, DirectionsMagazine, said his portal will continue to educate the professional community and leavethe rest to popularpress.Matt Ball, Editor-America/AsiaPacific,Vector 1 Media, felt thatthegeospatial media is notpresentinganalyses andadded that we need to cut through thetechnology and show the public minus technical jargon as to how they can use thetechnology. DurkHaarsma, Publisher, GIMInternational, opined thatmedia should play

an enablingrole.Analysing thedominance of online publicationsover print publications,Nitin K Tripathi, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geoinformatics, said thoughthere are several advantages of online publications overprint publications, print holds aneternalcharm andconvenienceof reading.

The Developers Forumprovided theaudiencewith a goodunderstandingof thedifferentgeospatial development environments and developer support from Autodesk, ESRI,Erdas, OracleandMicrosoft.

In order to address the complex, multidisciplinary milieu it was necessary thatprofessionals from contributing disciplines come together on a common platform todiscuss issues and share their experiences. Keeping this in view, Geospatial ScienceForum was organised. Dr. Ing. Karsten Jacobsen, Academic Direcor, Institute ofPhotogrammetry and Geoinformations talked about the potential of large format digitalaerial camerasand how a veryhigh resolution satellite imagesposes competition to aerialimages. Christian Heipke, Vice President and Research EUROSDR from LeibnizUniversitat described his organisation, modus of operation, and presented the list ofcurrently running activities to illustrate its impact on the European Geoinformaticscommunity. The other speakers of the forum were from University of Minnesota,Microsoft Research India, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hewlett-Packard,Universityof Costa Ricaand FZIResearchCenterfor Information Technologies.

The Education Forum conducted in association with the Univ of Salzburg, Austria andDigital Learning had an objective to discuss the current geospatial education status,curriculum and the employability of the students. The forum was chaired by Dr M KMunshi, Proprietor, Green Associates and moderated by Dr Satyaprakash, Head, GISInstitute.

Dr. P L N Raju, Incharge Geoinformatics Division, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing(IIRS) presented the activities being carried out by IIRS in promoting the geospatialtraining through different means, including the EduSat programme. Dr. Nitin Tripathi,Professor, Remote Sensing & GIS, Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) toucheduponthe staus of thegeospatial education inThailand andthecoursesbeing offeredby theinstitute. Prof I V Murlikrishna, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Technology Universitydescribed about thegrowinggeospatial market in India andtheneed of the requirement ofmore trained geospatial manpower and what the educational institute should be doing toprovide more trained manpower. Brig K KV Khanzode, Director, Symbiosis Institute ofGeoinformatics besides presenting the offering at Symbiosis and the geospatial marketemphasised on the students involvement with the society to integrate the geospatial withthecommonman.

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Seminars

The seminars on utilities (sponsor - Infotech Enterprises), land administration (sponsor -Speck Systems), third dimension to national mapping (sponsor - DigitalGlobe), coastalzone mapping for disaster management, spatial data infrastructure (sponsor - ERDAS),urban development (sponsor- GenesysInternational) wereheld inparallel.

Location Summit2.0The market of location is moving forward in high gear and users are finding value inLocation Enabled Services. With the theme "Towards Collaborative Models" broughttogether thepioneers, industryleaders anddeveloperswhoaresettingthe direction for thefuture of locationtechnologiesandmarkets, guidingthe developmentofnewapplicationsandshaping way tomeet thechallengeof makinglocation enabledservicesubiquitous.

Overall the summit had a vision session, two keynote sessions and three tracks. At thevision session Debashish Chatterjee, CEO, Netxcell talked on the mobile marketingthrough LBS. Prakash Iyer of Trimble offered the numbers for the Field ServicesManagement (FSM) market based on an Aberdeen Research report. FSM is predicted tobe $1.7 B by 2012 with market drivers being better service; constant cost pressure;increased productivity; vehicle and driver safety. Rakesh Verma, MD, MapmyIndia andNavdeep Manaktala, Head - Contexts (Maps & Search), Nokia India talked about the

activitiescarriedon by their organizationandtheir companiesvision in future.

The two keynote session highlighted the varied applications of location at enterprise andconsumer level. The keynote speakers wereAnush Gopalan, CEO, Heterogenous Inc.; SS Sirohi, Deputy Director General VAS, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Dr. SMathripragada, CTO, Albireo Telematics; B. Martin from DigitalGlobe; AshutoshPande, Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, SiRF Technology; ArnoutDesmet, Managing Director-South and Southeast Asia, Tele Atlas Asia Pacific andGurpreet S Pall, General Manager, Live Search and MSN Technologies, India.Presentationby B. Martin illustratedon how organizations can leverage the functionalitybyaddinghigh-resolutionimageryas a baselayer tomap-basedapplicationsvia theirwebclient user interfaces. Anush Gopalan stressed on the fact that the market is now awareanddemanding for solutions that willallow asset owners and managers to 'Sense,Locate,

Communicate, and Control' remotely. Arnout Desmet examined the key factors andemerging technologies that will drive the success for location-based services andapplications. He discussed the emerging technologies that contribute to the network ofreliable sources helping to keep pace and anticipate changes in India's road systems. S SSirohi talkedon thestrategies to increase revenuefromLocationBased Services.

Tracks on Navigation, Location Based Services and Fleet Management had speakersfrom Motorola Enterprise Mobility, Persistent Systems, SiRF Technology, EI Labs,Bridgewater State College, Ghoom Solutions, Qualcomm, Vidteq, Nuance and theCentre for Development ofAdvanced Computing. Ramesh Sunderaman from MotorolaEnterprise Mobility discussed the benefits that mobility can have on the field operationsas well as the criteria involved in implementing location-aware mobile fieldapplications and technical considerations in evaluating such solutions. KrishnaVaidyanathan, CEO, EI Labs provided insight on GIS-GPS-RFID enabled integrated

workforce and fleet management solution. Vinit Kapoor, Persistants System addressedthe technical and business study of Point of Interest location based service from viewpoint of Indian market. Uma Shama from Bridgewater State College presented theapplications of emerging web mapping of real-time transit and para transit vehicles byMicrosoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps, a world wide application of transit trip planning and a real-time transitvehicle location webservicefor theblind and individualswith visual impairments. Arunima Nundy from SiRF Technology elaborated onSiRFecosystem innovations that address solutions which drive possible use-cases forlocation in India. Manjunath Bhajantri from Nuance talked about the value of speechtechnologies in navigation offerings. Sajeevan G from C-DAC presented a case onindigenous multilingual navigation software SAARATHY. Anand Virani fromQualcomm talked on how connectivity & integration can expand possibilities fornavigation.

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ASB Systems Avineon Bil Trading Private Limited

CADD Centre Dept. of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences DigitalGlobe

Elcome Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Eminent Services ERDAS

ESRI India Forest Survey of India Genesys

GEOKOSMOS Geoeye GISTDA

Groupe SCE India Gmantis Hewlett-Packard India

IIC Technologies Infotech ITC

Janak Positioning Kampsax India Pvt Ltd MapmyIndia

Menci Software Srl MiTAC Technology Corporation Min. of Information Technology, GOI

NATMO Navayuga Spatial Technologies Pvt Ltd. NR Can

NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd OmniSTAR B.V. Paragon Inst. Engrs. Pvt. Ltd.

PCI Geomatics Prime Group Reprographics India

RMSI Rolta RSI SOFTECH

Sai BPO Services (SBL) SatNav Technologies Pvt Ltd. Sierra Atlantic

SiRF Technology Inc. Sitronics SKY GROUP

South Precision Instrument Pvt. Ltd. Speck Systems Ltd. Spectra Precision-Nikon

Sokkia Singapore Pte Ltd. SuperGeo Technologies Inc. Survey of India

SGS Infotech Pvt. Ltd Tata Consultancy Services Tele Atlas Kalyani India Ltd.

Terrasolid TriCAD Trimble

WAPMERR India UNOOSA Vexcel Imaging GmbH

National Remote Sensing Centre Weston Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. China Huace

Antrix Corporation Limited

Technical and Poster Sessions

Over 90 technical papers were presented by several academicians and experts from theindustry. The theme of various technical sessions were Environmental Management,Remote Sensing, Disaster Management, Open Source and Web GIS, UrbanDevelopment, Natural Resource Management, Emerging Applications and TechnologyTrends, Surveying and Mapping, Infrastructure and Utilities, Enterprise GIS, ImageProcessingandBusinessGIS.Theawardforthebestthreepaperpresentionwentto:

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uSumit Kumar Sharma, TechnicalLead,DataWorld, India

uA. Sai Venkata Lakshmi, Scientist, Advanced Data Processing ResearchInstitute

The best poster presentation awardwas given to Shahzia Nargese, a students fromAnnaUniversity.

Industry Tracks

Industry tracks byRolta,GeoEyeand ESRIwere conducted at theConference.

Exhibition

An exhibition spreading in an area of 3000 sqmwas organised parallel to the conference.64 renowned companies took part in the exhibition. The exhibition was a learningexperience for thosewho attendedit andwas highly successful. There was a greatdegreeof enthusiasm among the exhibitors and it was found that almost all companies wererepresented by their senior executives. The award for best exhibitors were conferred toSpeck Systems,Navayuga andSokkia. TheExhibitorsatMapWorldForum were:

Ashish Sonal

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GIS Development

Geospatial Excellance Award

At a glittering ceremony during the Gala Dinner on 12th February at the Rock Heights,twenty four winners of GIS Development Geospatial Excellance Award received theirtrophies. The GIS Development Geospatial Excellence Awards are India's premier private awards that commemorate excellence in the field of geospatial technologyapplications. It has been conceived to honour the best of geospatial applications across

theglobe to encourage theadoptionand furtheringof geospatial scienceandtechnologiesby organisations allover theworld. All theaward winners and their work were presentedduring theconference.The following organisationswerefelicitated withthe award:

GIS Development had organized the first edition of Map World Forum two years ago inthe midst of what was as yet untested waters so far as the interaction among geospatialcommunity stakeholders is concerned. The enterprise proved a success laying thefoundation for another edition of the event at a scale far greater than the previous one.Since its inception,MapWorldForum hadbeenappreciated in theGIScommunityas oneof its kind event which facilitated the coming together of different stakeholders ofgeospatial sector. At this point in time, we can safely say that the expectations raised bythe maiden event has not been belied. Indeed, if anything, the second edition of MapWorldForum has touchednew heights.The veryfact thatthe conference wasinauguratedby the Honble Vice President of the Nation and personalities such as Dr. Jane Goodalland Prof. C K Prahalad addressed the event and there was the participation of apexorganizations speaks volumes about the esteem which this event has secured among thepeoplewho matterin thegeospatialworld.

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uState Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, China uReliance Communications, India

uBill & Melinda Gates Foundations, USA uMinistry of Agriculture, India

uPetroleos Mexicanos, Mexico uTrakhees CED Services, UAE

uCentral Informatics Organization, Kingdom of Bahrain uNorth Delhi Power Limited, India

uThames Water, United Kingdom uNational Informatics Centre, India

uSingapore Land Authority, Singapore uSpace Applications Centre, India

uNational Institute of Malaria Research, India uBharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, India

uIndian Space Research Organisation, India uAirports Authority of India, India

uIndian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, India uGeneral Motors India, India

uKanpur Nagar Nigam Limited, India uCorporation of Chennai, India

uGreen Belt Movement, Kenya uRITES, India

uSingapore Flyer, Singapore uDubai Municipality, UAE

uLand Information Ontario, Canada

uDepartment of Information Technology & Communication, Government of Rajasthan, India

The Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM), Malaysia Forest Survey of India, India

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Principal IndustryPartner RoltaIndia

PrincipalGovernmentPartner Ministry of Science and Technology & Earth Sciences,

GovernmentofIndia

SupportingOrganisation Indian SpaceResearchOrganisation

Corporate Partners DigitalGlobe ERDAS Speck Systems ESRI India

AssociatePartner Infotech Enterprises

Co-Sponsors Vexcel Imaging HewlettPackard CH2MHILL

Trimble GeoEye

BagSponsor ESRI India

Lanyard Sponsor Genesys International

Pen & Notepads Sponsor DataWorld

AffiliatePartners International Federation of Surveyors Geospatial

Information & Technology Association International

Society forPhotogrammetry and Remote Sensing Global

Spatial Data Infrastructure Association International

CartographyAssociation OpenGeospatialConsortium

GovernmentCo-Sponsors Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of

India Ministry of Information and Technology,

Government of India Survey of India National Spatial

Data Infrastructure Chinese Academy of Surveying &

Mapping, China Geo Informatics and Space Technology

Agency, Thailand Military Survey Department, UAE

Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Departmentof LandAffairs,GovernmentofSouthAfrica

InstitutionalPartners International Trade Centre, The Netherlands Indian

National Centrefor OceanInformation Services

MediaPartners ASM Magazine DirectionsMedia Geo Informatics GIM

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CoastalZoneMappingforDisasterManagement

Institutional Partner United Nations Office for Outer SpaceAffairs

Affiliate Partner International Society forPhotogrammetry and Remote Sensing

LandAdministration

Industry Partner Speck SystemsAffiliate Partner International Federation of Surveyor

ThirdDimension to NationalMapping

Industry Partner DigitalGlobe

SpatialDataInfrastructure

Industry Partner ERDAS

Affiliate Partner Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

UrbanDevelopment

Industry Partner Genesys International

Utilities

Industry Partner Infotech Enterprises

Geospatial for eGovernance

Institutional Partner National Institute for SmartGovernment

Co-Sponsor Ministry of Information andTechnology, Government of India

Geospatial for Petroleum & Mining Symposium

Affiliate Partner Geospatial Information & TechnologyAssociation

Co - Sponsor Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas,Government of India

Official Journal DEW Journal

Institutional Partner World Mining Congress

Supporting Organisation Association of Petroleum Geologist

Geospatial for Rural Development

Affiliate Partner National Institute for RuralDevelopment

Media Partners i4D, eHealth

Education Forum

Institutional Partner University of SalzburgMedia Partner digital Learning

Location Summit 2.0

Platinum Sponsor Partner Navteq

Industry Partner SiRF Technology

Associate Partner SatNav Technologies

Media Partners MobileIN.com Telematics UpdateMind Commerce Berg InsightDirection Magazine