Economic growth and national security to benefit from orbital earth observation
Major General Steve Meekin, Director of the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, Australia, believes that we are in an exciting period of rapid advancement and innovation in the geospatial field. He explained that the pervasive and captivating nature of internet mapping has meant that most people now have a better understanding of how geospatial tools can be used for almost endless scenarios and problem solving.
“Sadly, some of this innovation has been driven by the number of natural disasters in our region in recent years. But on a more positive note we are now discovering that earth observation from space can have real benefits for other Government decisions, economic growth, infrastructure planning and national security,” said Meekin.
Steve will be talking about implementing geospatial capabilities for the Australian Defence Force at Geospatial Defence & Intelligence Asia Pacific.
Technologies highlighted at GDI APAC 2011 include:
- John Teufert from NATO’s Consultation, Command and Control Agency will be presenting a network-centric approach utilising state-of-the-art GIS technology and open standards. He will look at the Recognised Environmental Picture (REP) architecture that was tested during the NATO Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) and other operational examples from NATO missions that apply to both the data exchange and data sharing protocols and data formats.
- Subba Swarna Rao from Survey of India will be highlighting the National Spatial Data Infrastructure which is an initiative by the Government of India to encapsulate various types and formats of geospatial data from a number of government and non-government organisations onto one platform for use by the citizens. He will also touch upon the challenges of survey techniques and methods for a large country with landmass like India and will refer to the acquisition of geo intelligence from such surveys.
- Dr. William Cartwright from International Cartographic Association will be speaking on a novel way of obtaining geospatial Intelligence Using Web 2.0 using mixed media, i.e. video, online server, imaged etc for GEOINT collection. He will also touch upon the Geoexploration that he has worked and conceptualised – the underlying concept behind which is to 'browse’ the interface to ‘see’ the types of elements.
“The event was very good! I have learnt a lot of knowledge with the contents that were presented.”
Yushamiza Bt Mohamad Yusof, GIS Engineer, SYSTEM CONSULTING SERVICES SDN BHD
GDI APAC will bring militaries, security agencies and industry together and will showcase the very latest technology, methodologies and the ability to network with the Geospatial community.
Dave Ashton, Former Imagery Analyst, UK AIR FORCE
Featuring the Following Experts from the APAC GEO-INT Community:
- Major General Steve Meekin, Director, DEFENCE IMAGERY AND GEOSPATIAL ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIA
- Major General Habibur Rahman Khan, Commandant, MILITARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MIST), BANGLADESH
- Brigadier General Rasuni, Deputy Director, Army Intelligence, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, INDONESIA
- Colonel Cheng Wen-Chiun, Director, Communications Development Office, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, TAIWAN
- Colonel Keith Geiger, Chief of Intelligence, US Army Pacific Command, US ARMY
- Commodore Joel Garcia, Commanding Officer, COAST GUARD AND TRAINING COMMAND, PHILIPPINES
- Lieutenant Colonel Thiran De Silva, Head of IT/GIS - CRD, Ministry of Defence, SRI LANKAN ARMY
- Group Captain Praphon Vibulsukh, Director of Geo Informatics and Space Affairs, Department of Defense Technology and Space, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, THAILAND
- Major Juna Espina, Information Systems Command Officer, ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES
- Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor General, SURVEY OF INDIA
- Dr. A Karsidi, Director, NATIONAL COORDINATING AGENCY FOR SURVEY AND MAPPING, INDONESIA
- Vu Van Chat, Director of Center for Geography Information, ARMY CARTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, VIETNAM
- Mohammed Jamil Mohammed Ali, Surveyor General, SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF BRUNEI
- Dr. Lee Yong Woong, Project Manager, AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
- Martin Rutherford*, Director, Maritime Military Geospatial Information, Navy Hydrography and METOC Branch, AUSTRALIAN NAVY
- Febrina Damaso, Assistant Director of the Information Management Department, NAMRIA, PHILIPPINES
- Dr. Koh Jin Woo, Principal Researcher, AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
- 1* Officer, Army Geospatial Branch, PAKISTAN ARMY
- Senior Representative, DEPARTMENT OF SURVEY AND MAPPING AGENCY, MALAYSIA
- Senior Representative, US RDECOM
*Confirmed, yet Subject to Final Availability
Senior International Speakers Include:
- Robert W. Burkhardt, Former Army Geospatial Information Officer, Deputy Topographer of the Army and Director, U.S. ARMY GEOSPATIAL CENTER, US ARMY
- John Teufert, NC3A Geo-Officer, Consultation, Command and Control Agency, NATO
- Carl Reed, Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer, OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM
- Dr. William Cartwright, President, INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
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Why should Militaries/ Governments attend GDI APAC?
- Learn from your peers! GDI APAC 2011 features Asia’s senior geospatial experts, including presentations from Major General Steve Meekin, Director, DEFENCE IMAGERY AND GEOSPATIAL ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIA, Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor General, SURVEY OF INDIA and Colonel Cheng Wen-Chiun, Director, Communications Development Office, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, TAIWAN.
- Understand the learning opportunities from best practice operational case studies: Hear from operational experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf of Aden from Robert W. Burkhardt, Former Army Geospatial Information Officer, Deputy Topographer of the Army and Director, U.S. ARMY GEOSPATIAL CENTER, US ARMY and Colonel Keith Geiger, Chief of Intelligence, US Army Pacific Command, US ARMY. Colonel Geiger, whose team has been heavily involved in Japan’s disaster relief operations will provide his experience and the challenges faced during a multilateral disaster relief mission.
- Adopt the lessons learnt in military intelligence in Asia: Find out the technologies offered by the different geospatial solution providers at the conference and learn from their technical briefs.
Why should Industry attend GDI APAC?
- Presence of 50+ senior military and government speakers and guests at the event: Leverage on their presence and establish contact with your potential clients in the APAC region
- Personalised involvement opportunities: Having trouble distinguishing yourself from the number of solution providers in this market space? There are a number of ways you can stand out from the crowd and distinguish yourself and your product at the conference.
- Looking for partners in this region? With regular attendance of Asian geospatial distributors and core GIS providers in the GDI APAC series of conferences, the event will provide the perfect platform for you to source your distributor and partner in Asia’s advanced and emerging markets
Attend and learn about:
- Interoperability challenges related to regional armed forces and intelligence organisations
- Use of geospatial intelligence to facilitate asset management and defence installations across large geographical areas
- Looking at latest developments in data mining and analytics for operational intelligence
- Utilising GIS to support mission planning, command and control and tactical operations
- Best practice case studies to move towards an SDI
- Geospatial applications for national security and civil defence
- How geospatial data can assist in effective anti crime operations
- Battle space management
Who should attend GDI APAC?
- J2- Intelligence
- J3- Operations
- J4- Logistics
- J5- Plans and Policy
- J6- C4ISR
- J7- Training
- Army- Air Force- Navy- Joint Command
- Civil Defence
- National security
- Customs
- Coast Guard
