Conference Proceedings: National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)

Dr K Kasturirangan, Chairman, ISRO/Secretary, Space and Dr V Ramamurthy, Secretary, DST have been the visionary and guiding forces for the NSDI Task Force and we thank them for giving us this challenging task and also for the constant guidance.

The Task Force on NSDI would like to gratefully acknowledge the encouragement and support of a number of Government agencies, private sector agencies, NGOs and Academia experts – with whom the NSDI Task Force had detailed consultations in finalizing the NSDI Strategy and Action Plan.

The Task Force would like to place on record its deep sense of appreciation and gratitude to ISRO for leading the effort of conceptualizing, shaping and authoring the Strategy document and also for publishing the document.

The Task Force has referred to a wide variety of literature and materials on spatial data infrastructures – specially the strategy adopted by USA, Australia, Europe, the ISO documents and the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Cookbook. Many other articles by renowned national and international experts have formed the reference materials.

The Task Force has also taken the liberty to refer to a large number of GIS project reports and documents produced by various agencies in India. These GIS reports have provided the Task Force a visualization of the GIS activities that have been taken up in India.

Though the Task Force would have liked to acknowledge all these efforts, it has had to limit this at this juncture with the schedule of opening up the Strategy document to debate in mind. Hopefully, the next version would include References, Bibliography and a List of Acronyms.

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