Standards and Technologies for Spatial Data Infrastructure

January 24 & 25, 2011

NOTE: All the presentations can be accessed here.

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The workshop aimed at introducing standards and methodologies for building large geospatial applications, specifically spatial data infrastructures for cataloguing, searching, and accessing geospatial data. The main areas which were focused are as follows:
Data modelling, OGC reference models, developing application schemas
Metadata, temporal and topological data
3D modelling
Advanced GML and related OGC standards
Catalogue services, search and interoperability
Web processing standards and implementations
SDI frameworks
Spatial database technologies

Faculty / Speakers

Dr. David Burggraf, Vice President, Galdos Systems Inc.
Prof. Alexander Zipf, Geographisches Institut Heidelberg , Germany
Prof. N. L. Sarda, Dept. Of Computer Science, IIT Bombay , India
Dr. Jayant Sharma, Oracle , USA
Steven R. Hagan, Vice President, Engineering Development. Server Technologies, Oracle
Dr. K.S. Rajan, Professor, International Institute of Information technology, Hyderabad
Dr. Aniruddha Roy, Strategic Business Group (GIS) at Navayuga, New Delhi, India
Dr. P. S. Acharya, Director, NRDMS

Participants

The participants in the workshop represented various organizations like the NATMO, NSDI, KSREC, SAC, NGI, APSRAC, DST etc.

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