Universiti Putra Malaysia
Being a broad based University with 13 different Faculties and 6 Research Institutes, UPM has developed GIS and spatial information expertise in several areas. GIS and spatial education is relevant in several faculties such as Engineering, Science, Agriculture, Forestry, Landscape, Ecology and is increasing interest now from the faculty of Medical and Health Science. Formal courses are offered at the Faculty of Engineering at the Bachelors, Masters and PhD levels. An interesting aspect is that courses can be shared across the university.

UPM which is the sole university with agricultural focus, has developed spatial applications for the agricultural sector, particularly on precision farming, image analysis for quality control of plantation products, management of agriculture and fisheries using Remote Sensing. Towards this end, the UPM management had approved the setting up of the Spatial and Numerical Modeling Laboratory in 2002 as a specially focused group to lead in this area of research. Recently, UPM has acquired L-band receiving station and is now receiving NOAA AVHRR and GMS data daily from its station based at the Laboratory of Spatial and Numerical Modeling, ITMA. Current areas of spatial research are Oil Spill Management, Fish Forecasting, Forest Fire Fighting modeling, Optimal School Siting, GPS-Inertial Mapping Integration. There are a host of applications being constantly researched and developed at UPM: Oil Spill Detection and Management System, Fish Forecasting, Precision Faming, Oil Palm Plantation Management from Space, Cell Phone Signal Strength Mapping, Forest Fire Modeling, Crime Mapping, GIS for Disease Mapping.