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Policy Pulse Policies guide the total strategic effort of the geospatial industry. The biggest push on this front has been in the shape of open data initiatives taken by various governments. After all, what is the point of having great content if you are not going to liberate it? 68 UN-GGIM: The Way Forward Scott Pace 72 Barbara Ryan Group on Earth Observations 74 Space Policy Institute, George Washington University 75 Sue Gordon NGA, US 76 Kshemendra Paul Nigel Clifford Information Sharing Ordnance Survey, Jeffrey Harris 77 Environment, US 78 UK 79 USGIF, US 80 Tim Trainor US Census Bureau A.S. Kiran Kumar ISRO, India Product Watch Get updated on some of the most promising products and services from top companies Pages 82-90 BIM 360, Autodesk ContextCapture, Bentley Falcon 8, Topcon VZ-400i, RIEGL UltraCam v5, Microsoft AppStudio, Esri Intergraph NetWorks, Hexagon Focus 3D X 30, Faro LuciadRIA, Luciad Galaxy, Teledyne Optech PageWide XL, HP East View Nautiz X8, Algiz RT7, Algiz 10X, Handheld TerraGo Edge, TerraGo ConflateX, RMSI Pix4Dmapper, Pix4D Summit UAS, DAT/EM Systems 6 • Geospatial World • January 2016
From the editor Prof Arup Dasgupta Managing Editor, arup@geospatialmedia.net 2016 could be a year of ‘democratization’ Every time when the month of January comes around, I begin to wonder what earth-shattering geospatial events am I going to predict for the New Year in the January edition. This year, I was intrigued and then convinced by the arbitrariness of this concept of New Year after someone on Facebook had recently concluded that the concept is fallacious as it just represents the completion of one more orbit of the earth around the sun from an arbitrary starting point. It is not even a heliocentric reference point like the winter solstice; summer as those ‘down under’ will aver, which itself is an arbitrary construct. Going through various articles slated for the January 2016 edition, it dawned on me that the world in general and geospatial world in particular does not race from event to event timed by this arbitrary epoch. Rather it is a process of continuous change, of waves of evolution as it were. At intervals some technology arrives to disrupt the status quo but soon gets absorbed in the scheme of things through a process of adoption and adaptation. For example, can we mark a point in time when say, remote sensing became active? Rather, do we not see a blip that was aerial surveys, then handheld photography by astronauts, then TIROS and then several blips like ERTS, RESURS, SPOT and IRS that seem to blend into a continuum of satellites with more and more advanced features. Therefore, instead of trying to be a Geospatial Nostradamus, I shall limit myself to a few observations based on the current situation of the geospatial world around us. My first impression is that the leitmotif for 2016 seems to be ‘democratization’. This is reflected in the shift towards consumption-oriented business models. Consumers are looking for localized solutions, but are not interested in putting together solutions themselves from scratch, buying data, systems and software, coding their own applications and managing workflows. In this consumer-centric holistic approach, the data acquisition is purposed and the workflow is integrated into the hardware and software such that the consumer is able to get solutions on demand and at their location which could be at their desk or on site. This indicates that geospatial services will continue to grow in the form of integrated applications, or apps. Apps bring the real world to the digital world and thus helps the user to understand the problem and apply the right solutions to it. Chairman M P Narayanan Publisher Sanjay Kumar Managing Editor Prof. Arup Dasgupta Editor — Defence & Internal Security Lt Gen (Dr) AKS Chandele (Retd) Editor — Mining (Hon) Dr. Hrishikesh Samant Editorial Team Bhanu Rekha Anusuya Datta Ishveena Singh Amit Raj Singh Design Debjyoti Mukherjee Product & Marketing Team Harsha Vardhan Madiraju Sanskriti Shukla Vijay Kumar Singh Disclaimer Geospatial World does not necessarily subscribe to the views expressed in the publication. All views expressed in this issue are those of the contributors. Geospatial World is not responsible for any loss to anyone due to the information provided. Owner, Publisher & Printer Sanjay Kumar Printed at M. P. Printers B - 220, Phase-II, Noida - 201 301, Gautam Budh Nagar (UP) India Publication Address A - 92, Sector - 52, Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida - 201 301 India. The edition contains 92 pages including cover Geospatial World Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt. Ltd. (formerly GIS Development Pvt. Ltd.) A - 145, Sector - 63, Noida, India Tel + 91-120-4612500 Fax +91-120-4612555 / 666 Price: INR 150/US$ 15 7 • Geospatial World • January 2016
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