Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics

National Spatial Data Infrastructure of Pakistan(NSDIP) Presented By: Rashid Javed Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is a framework of spatial data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way.

In Pakistan, activities related to Geographic Information (GI) are in progress now a days which includes, Food and Agriculture,, Education, Land Management, Public Health, Environment Protection Disaster Response such as flooding and earthquakes, as well as etc . At present, other government bodies are participating to develop their database and linking those with NSDI portal.

http://pakistanwetlands.org/reports/2_Database.pdf www.gsdi.orggsdiconfgsdi12papers8.pdf

The Institutional Framework: Soil Survey of Pakistan(SOP)(Topographic maps and geodetic control) Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) Geological survey of Pakistan (Geological maps) Soil survey of Pakistan (Land use and soil map) Forest Management (Vegetation) Suparco (Space and Upper Atmospheric Commission) world wide fund for nature WWF (Forest Mapping) National Highway Department (Transportation network)

Technical Framework: 56% private sector while 60% public sector organizations are producing data on various standards. Communication network. Tools in local languageStake holder Support

Data Framework :

Meta data standard is ISO 19115.Data type used : XML, WFS and ESRI formats are common.

Finally NSDI:

Data is readily available.Technical solutions.Economic benefits.No more funds for SDI.Awareness among people.

Supervisor: Dr. H.Lehmkühler