Mid-Conference Workshops: 27 April 2010

17.00 - 20:00 Workshop A: Strategies for Effective Collection and Analysis of Satellite and Other Imagery Sources

(inclusive of 30 minutes break)

Rationale:

Asia-Pacific governments are increasingly using spatial data in their day-to-day activities with the aim to improve government services to their citizens. With the rise in urbanisation and the increased population clustering within cities, there is the need for enhanced planning by all departments of national governments, viz. urban planning, environment, utilities, disaster management among others. Geographic information systems is one solution for governments to collect better data from not just satellite sources, but other sources of imagery as well. This workshop presents the latest capabilities and technologies in imagery sources and will use the real life example of the use of Landsat data to manage land, agriculture and emergency disaster management from Thailand.

Discussion points:

• Understanding the latest technologies and capabilities in imagery sources
• Looking at the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to enhance data compression
• Discussing the use of satellite imagery in different applications of utility and agriculture
• Utilising Landsat for disaster management: Case Study of the use e-Flood Map, which consists of reports, pre- and post- satellite images such as LANDSAT, SPOT, RADARSAT, ALOS

About your Workshop Leader:

Dr. Surachai Ratanasermpong
Deputy Director
GEO-INFORMATICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, THAILAND

Dr. Ratanasermpong was the Director of the Geo- Informatics Center till 2003, before assuming his current position as Deputy Director in GISTDA - Thailand’s national space agency. GISTDA is responsible for all space related activities of the Government of Thailand and is under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand. A specialist in geo informatics (GIS, GPS and RS), Dr. Ratanasermpong has also done extensive work on GIS applications for forest cover and land use mapping.

Post-Conference Workshops: 28 April 2010

08.30 - 11:30 Workshop B: How to Develop a SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) for Efficient Data Management and Interoperability

(inclusive of 30 minutes break)

Rationale:

The world is increasingly being driven by rapid changes in information technology. As governments realise the potential of these technological advancements, there is an increased investment communications technology including spatial datasets like maps and imagery. However, the challenge to integrate and manage all this data into a single platform remains. This workshop will look at the challenges of developing a national Spatial Data Infrastructure, which would aim to be a national resource for spatial data for access by government, private sector and common citizens. With a case study of India’s National SDI, the workshop aims to address the challenges in the integration and sharing of spatial data and will offer solutions and strategies to overcome them.

Discussion points:

• Understanding the challenges of varying data formats and data collection over large landmasses
• Considering the importance of an SDI for the move towards enterprise government
• Looking at some recent developments in metadata and integration into the data warehouse
• Developing strategies for enhancing data sharing and integration under one common platform

About your Workshop Leader:

Dr. Siva Kumar
Chief Executive Officer, National Spatial Data Infrastructure
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INDIA

Dr. Kumar has made an outstanding contribution for the growth and use of geospatial technologies, not just in India but also internationally. He is currently the Head of the Natural Resources Data Management Systems (NRDMS) and CEO of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) of the Department of Science & Technology, India. He was instrumental in the modernisation of military survey and the technology upgrade, capacity building as well as establishing the Defence Institute for Geospatial Information and Training (DIGIT) Army Digital Mapping Centre and the NSDI.

12.00 - 15:00 Workshop C: Designing Spatially Enabled eGovernment without a GIS

(inclusive of 30 minutes break)

Rationale:

Current web-based GIS are insufficient to support application rich eGovernment due to the limitation of HTML. To overcome this limitation, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) approach will be introduced.

Discussion points:

• Challenges in developing spatially enabled eGovernment using web-based GIS approach
• Introducing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) approach and technology
• Looking at real world examples of RIAbased applications
• Going through a step-by-step guide on how to design spatially enabled eGovernment application using RIA technology
• Beyond technology: Data visualisation and interfaces design

About your Workshop Leader:

Dr. Kam Tin Seong
Practice Associate Professor, School of Information Systems
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE

Dr. Kam has more than twenty years of experience in both the geospatial industry as well as the academia. His teaching and research interests are in GIS for Business, location intelligence and spatial optimisation, Internet Mapping and GIS services, geo-business data mining, and Spatial OLAP. Dr. Kam is active in consulting work and has consulted for the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Asia Development Bank, Japan- Indonesia Forum (JIF), Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Land Transport Authority (LTA), Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), National Environmental Agency (NEA), Citibank, Standard Charted Bank and National Healthcare.