Technical Sessions
Geology & Mining
GIS Industry in India: Opportunities & Challenges
GIS Technology Trends
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Health Services
Indian Geographic Data
Internet GIS in India
Internet GIS Products
Land Information System
Natural Disaster Management
Natural Resource Management
Transportation
Urban Development
Water Resource Management

Geology & Mining

• A GIS Approach to Statistical Modeling for Mineral Deposits in the Singhbhum Copper Belt, Bihar India Using Geological and Geophysical Parameters
  A.K . Ray & B. Mukherji, Geological Survey of India
  
  
• Integration of Remote Sensing and other Geophysical Data in Identification and Mapping of Regional Tectonic Elements in The Aravalli Mountain Range, Rajasthan, Northwest India
  Pramod. K. Verma, School of Studies in Geology, Vikram University, Ujjain.
  
  
• Multi-criteria analysis in GIS environment for Natural Resource Development-A Case Study on Gold Exploration
  Nihar R. Sahoo, P.Jothimani and G. K. Tripathy, Tata Infotech Ltd, SEEPZ, Mumbai.
  
  
• Estimation of the Drift and Deformations of the Indian Plate using GPS Repeat Measurements
  M. N. Kulkarni¹ and H. V. Save², ¹ Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.T., Bombay. , ²Department of Civil Engineering, I.I.T., Bombay, E-mail: save6uc@yahoo.com Tata Infotech Ltd, SEEPZ, Mumbai.

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Natural Disaster Management

• Disaster Management
  D.P.Rao, Director, National Remote Sensing Agency.
  
  
• Emergency Response Management System for Hyderabad City
  Maheep Singh Thapar¹Kunapo Joshpar², student of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Planning CEPT, Ahmedabad. ² Senior Systems Executive in ESRI India
  
  
• Land based information system for drought analysis
  R. Nagarajan & Subrata Mahapatra, Center of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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Natural Resource Management

• Multisource Data Fusion Results of Fused Optical and SAR data for Irrigated Rice Areas Identification
  Worawattanamateekul J., Canisius X. J. F., Samarakoon L., Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
  
  
• Impact of Economic Reforms on Indian Agricultural Sector : Application of Geomatics Technology to Reduce Marginalisation and Vulnerability of Small Farmers in India
  Madaswamy Moni, Senior Technical Director, Agricultural Informatics Division, NIC, New Delhi .
  
  
• Forest Working Plan in New Millennium
  A. K. Raha, IFS, Conservator of Forests, Working Plan & GIS, West Bengal
  
  

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Transportation

• Transportation Modeling and GIS
  Bharat Salhotra, Joint Director, LRDSS, Ministry of Railway, New Delhi.
  
  
• Building a Transport GIS in Manipur
  Keith R Johnson, Independent Transport & GIS Consultant.
  
  
• Optimal Route Analysis Using GIS
  D. Thirumalaivasan¹ Prof. V. Guruswamy², ¹Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University. , ²Honorary Director, Centre for GIS Applications, Anna University.
  
  
• GIS Datatbase for Chennai City Roads and Strategies for Improvement
  S.Yoagentharan¹ M.R.Jayakumar², ¹GIS Analyst (Trainee), IIC Technologies Pvt. ltd., Hyderabad. , ²M.E (Urban Engg.), Anna University.

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Urban Development

• Subsurface Map of Delhi
  Y. Pandey and R. Dharmaraju, Scientists, Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India.
  
  
• Analysis of Intra-District Disparities for Dehradun District using GIS Technique
  R.D.Gupta, P.K. Garg and Manoj Arora, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee Roorkee, India.
  
  
• GIS as front end for District Administration & Property Management
  V. N. Shukla, Satyajit Rath, Electronics Research & Development Centre of India (Ministry of Information Technology), India.
  
  
• Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System For Land Use / Land Cover Mapping And Change Detection in the Rural Urban Fringe Area of Enschede City, The Netherlands
  R. K. Nigam, Division of Urban Survey , Planning and Management Department of Land Resource & Urban Sciences International Institute For Aerospace Survey And Earth Sciences (ITC) Enschede, The Netherlands.
  
  

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Land Information System

• Land Information System (LIS)
  Chandrasekhar Nori, Managing Director, Specks Systems, Hyderabad.
  
  
• VISION LIS 2000 A Total Technology Solution for Land Records Computerisation Issues and Approach
  Dr. T. Raja Rao and P. Raj Shekhar, Computer Vision Laboratories (India) Private Limited 2nd Floor, 4 Motilal Nehru Nagar Begumpet Main Road, Hyderabad, INDIA.
  
  
• Generalization of Cadastral Map based on Graphics Matching
  Xiaoyong CHEN, Jie DU, Takashi DOIHARA*, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4 Klong Luang, THAILAND, *Asia Air Survey Co., LTD. JAPAN
  
  
• Land Record Information Management System (LRIMS) - A Conceptual Framework
  Asima Mishra, Deb Jyoti Pal, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, India.
  
  

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Water Resource Management

• AVSWAT- A Spatial Decision Support System for Land and Water Management and its application for Watershed management in Bankura district of West Bengal
  Debapriya Dutta, NRDMS Division, Department of Science and Technology, Technology Bhavan New Delh, India.
  
  
• Spatial Modelling Approach to Water Pollution Monitoring in the Sugar Belt of Maharashtra Along The Krishna River
  G. K. Tripathy and P. Jothimani, Tata Infotech Ltd., SEEPZ, Mumbai,, India.
  
  
• Case study on artificial recharge using Remote Sensing and GIS
  Dr. M. Ramalingam, Scientist, Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University, Chennai, India.
  
  
• An Unbiased Sampling Framework for Ground Data Collection in Digital Image Classification
  Ranjith Premalal De Silva and *J.C. Taylor, Dayawansa N.D.K., Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, SRI LANKA. * Cranfield University, Silsoe, Bedford MK45 4DT England.
  
  
• Towards Better Water Management Through GIS/Other Strategies
  V. R. Desai, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, India. Assistant Professor, Water Resources Section Civil Engineering Department Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
  
  

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Internet GIS Products

• The Future of Internet GIS - An Opportunity all the way
  Ajit Jere, Autodesk India Pvt. Ltd., 206, Raheja Plaza, 17, Commissariat Road, Bangalore, India.
  
  
• Mapping on the Web Using MapInfo Products
  C. L. Hogan, MapInfo Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
  
  
• Delivering Spatial Solutions on the Web - An Insight
  Shourya Shukla, RMSI, NOIDA, India.

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

• Surveying in the Sub-Continent with Global Positioning System
  Mr.Shanmugam Ganehkumar, Dr. Lal Samarakoon, Dr. Kiyoshi Honda, Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
  
  
• Global Positioning System and Its Applications In Civil & Strategic Areas
  Jatinder Kumar, Dr.Govind, Sri. K.B.Narayanan, Ministry of information Technology, India.
  
  
• Global GPS Programmes and India's Contribution: An Overview
  Madhav N. Kulkarni, Civil Engineering Department, I. I. T. Bombay, India.

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GIS Technology Trends

• Natural Language Processing to Query a Geographic Information System (India) Knowledge-base
  Mukesh Kumar Rohil, Information Systems Group, Faculty Division - I, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
  
  
• Sharing of GIS data encoded in .DGN (Design) files
  Achintya Pal, Regional Computer Centre, Calcutta. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, P-32, Transport Depot Road, Calcutta, India.
  
  
• Open Geospatial Datastore Interface (OGDI): A Geospatial Data Infrastructure Solution
  Gilles Clément and Christian Larouche, Global Geomatics Inc. 1600, St.Martin Blvd. East, Tower A, Suite 650, Laval, Quebec, Canada.

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Internet GIS in India

• gis.unleashed@andhrapradesh.gov " Andhra Pradesh Development Monitoring System
  Praveen Sreepuram, Regency InfoTech 7-1-59/6, Dharam Karan Road Ameerpet, Hyderabad, India.
  
  
• Jaipur-GIS: A cyber tool for decentralized planning & Landownership management
  Rohit K Singh and Akhilesh Tiwari, Department of Information Technology, Jaipur, India.
  
  
• Election '99: A GIS Based Real Time Application Over NICNET
  Dr.Vandana Sharma, S.P.Karthikeyan, R.Sainath & Jagadeesh Bhangari, RS & GISD, National Informatics Centre, MIT, New Delhi, India.
  
  

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Health Services

• Locational Analysis of Public and Private Health Services in Rohtak and Bhiwani Districts, (India), 1981 to 1996
  Naresh Kumar, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
  
  
• Child Info - a Database on Women and Children for Information Storage, Retreival & Use using GIS Tools
  L. N. Balaji, Chief Strategic Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Section, UNICEF, New Delhi, India.
  
  

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