Map India 2003: Seminar on NSDI

Keynote Session 09:30 – 11:00 hrs
Chairperson	Dr. Prithvish Nag Surveyor General of India, Survey of India
Speakers	Bob Samborski Executive Director, GITA International, USA Amitabha Pande Joint Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India Wal Mayr Director of Product Management, MapInfo Australia Pty Ltd. R Chandrasekhar Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of India
11:00 – 11:30 hrs Tea Break
Technical Session: NSDI - I 11:30 – 13:00 hrs
Chairperson	Brig (Dr) R Siva Kumar Head - NSDI and NRDMS, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Speakers	Prof Strobl Josef Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria Mukund Rao Deputy Director, EOS, Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore R K Goyal Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad Vandana Sharma Director Technical, National Informatics Centre, Delhi Girish Kumar Deputy Surveyor General, Survey of India
13:00 – 14:00 hrs Lunch Break
Technical Session: NSDI - II 14:00 – 16:00 hrs
Chairperson	Mukund Rao Deputy Director, EOS, Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore

Speakers	Digital Cartographic standards for 1:50,000 Geologic map: Some Important Considerations Asit Saha, Dhruva Ganguly, S R Sengupta, Basab Mukhopadhyay, Niladri Hazra Analysis for Quality Control in Database Input for making GIS M D Joshi, R Sivakumar The role of Satellite derived maps in National Spatial Data Infrastructure PVSP Prasada Raju Sujata Ghosh, J Saibaba Standardised Toponymic Informations for Cartographic and other Products: An Application of GPS Hari Shanker Gupta
16:00 – 16:30 hrs Tea Break