Planned Activities

• July 2009: take part in GSDI 11, the Netherland
• September 2009: Special session in ISDE6 in China
• November 2009: 1st WG Workshop in India
• March 2010: Joint International Workshop, Israel
• 2010: Technical sessions in TC IV Symposium, U.S.A
• 2011: 2nd WG Workshop in China
• 2012: Technical sessions in Congress, Australia

Activities have been done

• Organized the Joint International Workshop of ISPRS WG IV/1, VIII/1 and IV/3 on ′Geospatial Data Cyber Infrastructure and Real-time Services with special emphasis on Disaster Management′during November 25-27, 2009 at INCOIS, Hyderabad, India.

  There were 88 participants from 4 countries presented in the Workshop.  And 10 invited / lead talks were given by eminent scientists Totally 54 technical papers have been received out of which 32 papers were orally presented. Among the papers two were author/co-authored by  Mr. E. Pattabhi Rama Rao with title  'Web based Argo Data Services' and  'A Web-GIS Interface for an Integrated Insitu Ocean-Data and Information System' respectively。

  Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Secretary of Ministry of Earth Sciences of India lighted the lamp in the Opening ceremony and delivered the keynote address. Mr. M. Shashidhar Reddy, Member of Disaster Management Authority of India inaugurated  the Workshop. Dr. S.S.C. Shenoi, Director of INCOIS and Mr. D.S. Jain, Chairman of SRS-Hyderabad Chapter delivered the Opening Remarks

  Geospatial data applications were discussed with special emphasis on disaster Management. A few examples are high resolution satellite data for drought monitoring in Iran, coastal flood hazard zonation map for Eastern India and forest fire mapping in western parts of India etc. Different web based services which provide geospatial data and information were presented. For example web based Argo data services, web based interface for in-situ ocean data and information, Interactive web services for Tsunami Early Warning System.

  The Workshop papers will be further reviewed and selected papers will be published as proceeding in ISPRS format.  The presentations of the speakers have been uploaded at  http://www.incois.gov.in/Incois/isprs_presentations.jsp

  
  Dr. Shailesh Nayak, President, ISRS andSecretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Gdelivering the keynote address

  
  Mr. E. Pattabhi Rama Rao, Co-Chair, ISPRS WG-IV/1 proposing vote of thanks

  
  Delegates of the Workshop
  
  Technical Sessions

• Michael P. Finn organized two special sessions on “Open Source Solutions for Geographic Information Science and Systems" at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)/ MAPPS (Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors) Conference in San Antonio, TX in November，2009.
• E.Pattabhi Rama Rao, Co-chair of ISPRS WG IV/1, visited National Geomatics Center of China and provided a lecture on ′Ocean Information Service in India′, 8 May 2009, Beijing, China.
  
   

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• ISPRS WG IV/1 assisted in the instruction of a workshop organized by WG IV/2 and WG II/2 on ′GIS Updating from Imagery and Collateral Data Sources′ and conducted at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on 10 March, 2009.
• Michael P. Finn participant the ASPRS Workshop on "Updating GIS from Imagery and Collateral Data Sources” organized by ISPRS WG IV/2 and was a co-instructor (March 2009).
• Presentation entitled “Rapid Raster Projection Transformation and Web Service Using High-performance Computing Technology” by Qingfeng (Gene) Guan, Michael P. Finn, E. Lynn Usery, and David M. Mattli was given at a Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Sponsored Session at the AAG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV by Dr. Guan in March.
• ISPRS WG IV/1 provided a lecture on ′Web-based geographic information services ′in the training Course on SDI, organized by PCGIAP, 4-10 January 2009, Hainan, China. The training workshop aimed to contribute to capacity building, NSDI Development and mutual exchange and cooperation of national mapping agencies of PCGIAP member countries. Sixteen participants from the national mapping agencies of eleven countries in the Asia and Pacific region attended the workshop. Lecture CDs were distributed during the training course. Technical discussion on SDI was carried out between Dr. Jiang and the participants.
   
  

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