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
Gangadhar Rao, RSI

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