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How will interoperability and geospatial information integrate in future?
Interopeability is important not just for national solutions but regional and local as well, for arriving at a common operating picture. There is need for multiple data types like raster, terraine, IR, radar etc. All this data is also required for military and security solutions. So interoperability is absolutely critical and will be a key issue in the future. From the military and national security point of view, interoperability can be seen in various levels, e.g., when India needs to help the earthquake hit victims in Pakistan, India needs data only for some certain themes and this can be managed by dispatch systems which will control and release only specific types of information packets e.g. Locn where relief material can be dropped or the safest route to a particular location.
Similar issues also arise within a country, where a considerable number of local issues handled by the local government need not be known by the national government. What this really means is - availability of just the right type and right amount of information and through all this maintaining data integrity.
Your view on the maturity of the Indian infrastructure sector with respect to geospatial technology.
India has the best technologists in the world and they have understood the need for proper geospatial infrastructure. In conferences like Map India, one sees the understanding of requirements that the technologists have. They are doing the proper ground work today to have a stable GI infrastructure for tomorrow. I feel India has a very mature and high technology approach towards GI infrastructure. In my own country we have separate islands of GIS. We donot have a map for the whole country other than the military. These are very significant problems which I feel the Indian society will be able to deal with as you build your GI infrastructure.
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