DST NGP-NSDI Seminar
Day 1, 08 December 2021
Time (Hrs) | Session |
1000 – 1130 |
Geospatial Policy and DST Guidelines on Geospatial Data Chairman: Dr. P.Nag, Chairman, EC-NGP Welcome Address & Overview of the Indian Policy Scenario Shri PS Acharya, Head – NGP – NSDI, DST Geospatial Policy Sunil Kumar, Joint Secretary, DST Remote Sensing Policy Umamaheswaran R, Scientific Secretary, ISRO Drone Policy Amber Dubey, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation Evolving India Geospatial Ecosystem and 2nd UNWGIC Dr. Debapriya Dutta, Head, SEED & State S&T Program ; Associate Head, NGP |
1130 – 1200 |
Geospatial Science and Technology
Chair: Dr. Debapriya Dutta, Head, SEED & State S&T Program ; Associate Head, NGP Geospatial science and its future growth Prof. Onkar Dikshit, IIT- Kanpur |
1200 – 1300 |
Tea/ Coffee Break & Visit to Posters |
1300 – 1400 |
Lunch |
1400 – 1500 |
Geospatial Science and Technology
Chair: Dr. Debapriya Dutta, Head, SEED & State S&T Program ; Associate Head, NGP Satellite Observations and Modelling of GRACE Data: A step towards achieve Self-reliant India Dr. V M Tiwari, Director, NGRI Hyderabad Geospatial science& technology looking beyond RS & GIS Dr. VK Dadhwal, Former Director IIST, Thrivendram Geospatial technology development and its future Dr. Sudhir Kumar, IIT- Patna |
1500 – 1530 | Tea/ Coffee Break & Visit to Exhibition |
1530 – 1700 |
Geospatial Solutions and Capacity Building
Chairman: Dr. Bhoop Singh, Former Head, NRDMS Modelling Interdependent Healthcare Critical Infrastructure During Extreme Events: A step towards addressing the SDGs Prof. Surya Durba, IIT-Bombay Developing societal resilience against natural disasters, through science Dr. Vikram Vishal, IIT-Bombay Spatial Disaster Risk Reduction (SDRR) for Ocean Hazards Prof. P. Shanmugam, IIT- Madras Air Quality Data Monitoring & Prediction: A step towards SDGs Dr. Pravesh Biyani, IIIT-Delhi Evolving National Geospatial Capacity Building: Important Step towards realization of the SDG Prof. Shamita Kumar, Bharatiya Vidyapeeth, Pune |
Day 2, 09 December 2021
Session on “Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)”Time (Hrs) | Topic |
0900 – 1000 |
Overview and Current Status of NSDI P. S. Acharya, NSDI |
1000 – 1100 |
National Data Registry and Cloud Based Geo-platform
R. N. Nanda, NSDI |
1100 – 1130 |
Tea |
1130 – 1200 |
State SDI Initiative – “Data” to “Application” Services P. K. Parida, Odisha Space Application Centre (ORSAC), Bhubaneswar |
1200 – 1230 |
Value Addition to Statistical Data by Integration with Geospatial Data P. S. Meena, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI), GoI |
1230 – 1300 |
NSDI and State SDIs – Strategies for the Future S. Rajagopalan, IIIT Bengaluru |
1300 – 1330 |
Conclusion and Recommendations Open Discussion with all stakeholders |