Download complete magazine (8.42 MB) In this issue: Editorial Articles by Dr.Satyaprakash Saurabh Mishra Dr. Duane F. Marble Dr. Cyndi Gaudet,Dr.Annulis Heather Dr Gary Hunter Shaik Kareem Basha Viewpoint Loh Sook Yee Interview by Bob Morris, Brad Skelton, Kaushik Chakraborty Ray O'Connor Conference Report In case of problem in viewing this newsletter Click Here To Unsubscribe the e-version of GIS Development The Global Geospatial Magazine send an email to Unsubscribe The Global Geospatial Magazine Ezine Mail comments to : info@GISdevelopment.net Editorial Geospatial industry & its human resource Over the last 4-5 decades we have had the evolution of specialized programmes for various industry disciplines, which permeated across many of the growing economies. Maneesh Prasad Managing Editor & Chief Operating Officer maneesh.prasad@gisdevelopment.net Get the full editorial | Get the PDF (69.1 KB) Article Chasing the Mirage Human Resources in the Geospatial Industry Last year during same time, I had written an article (GIS Education: Training, Placement and Prospect, GIS Development Asia Pacific, March 2007, vol. 11, issue 3) on the status of students who undergo training at various educational and training institutions and how do they perceive the industry, before they join and what are the realities... Dr. Satyaprakash satya@GISdevelopment.net Get the full article | Get the PDF (1.52 MB) Article Careers at Indian GIS Industry A Disarrayed Saga At a point where there is a complexity in the matter of "GIS as a career", one should not forget that GIS still remains a dependable and effective tool to offer solutions to issues and problems that India as a developing nation faces... Saurabh Mishra saurabh.mishra@GISdevelopment.net Get the full article | Get the PDF (2.37 MB) Article Building a More Effective Geospatial Workforce and User Community Those in the geospatial workforce whose main concern is with primary spatial data acquisition can reduce the utility of these data by not understanding the way that the resulting spatial data is to be used... Dr. Duane F. Marble The Ohio State University & Oregon State University,U.S.A. geographer@oregonfast.net Get the full article | Get the PDF (743 KB) Article Developing the Geospatial Workforce Human capital is the social networks developed over the years through relationships between co-workers, colleagues and customers... Dr. Cyndi Gaudet, Dr. Annulis Heather cyndi.gaudet@usm.edu,heather.annulis@usm.edu Get the full article | Get the PDF (1.70 MB) Article Geomatics as a Career in Australia In Australia we tend to use the term 'geomatics' to refer to the range of disciplines traditionally associated with collecting, manipulating, analysing and presenting spatial information... Dr Gary Hunter Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia garyh@unimelb.edu.au Get the full article | Get the PDF (438 KB) Article Human Resources in Geospatial Industry There has been a paradigm shift in the kind of human resources requirements in the geospatial industry... Shaik Kareem Basha basha_qa@yahoo.com Get the full article | Get the PDF (1.30 MB) Viewpoint ‘I enjoy my work because of diversity it offers’ I learnt that professionals who are in the geospatial science industry are generally down-to-earth people with a passion for the outdoors and gadgets... Ms Loh Sook Yee Surveyor SLA loh_sook_yee@sla.gov.sg Get the full article | Get the PDF (118 KB) Interview We are commited to interoperability Bob Morris, Brad Skelton, Kaushik Chakraborty Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (LGGI) Get the full article | Get the PDF (76.6 KB) Interview We machine the face of the Earth Ray O'Connor President and CEO, Topcon Positioning Systems / USA Get the full article | Get the PDF (1.11 MB) Conference Report Map India 2008 11th Annual Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial Information, Technology and Applications. India, February 6 - 8, 2008 Get the full article | Get the PDF (2.47 MB) © GIS Development. All rights reserved.