1. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI-India)
Dr K R Murali Mohan, Ph.D
Director/Scientist-F
Department of Science & Technology
Ministry of Science & Technology
New Delhi

2. What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)?
“It is an INFRASTRUCTURE that provides a basis for spatial data discovery, evaluation and application for Macro & micro level planners, implementers, users and providers within all levels of government, the commercial sector, the non-profit sector, academia and by citizens in general.”
--The SDI Cookbook

3. Who needs access to coordinated geographic information?
Land Records Adjudication
Disaster Management
Transportation Management
Water, gas & electric planning
Public Protection
Defense
Natural Resource Management
Telecommunications Infrastructure
Economic Development
Civic Entrepreneurs
Local Bodies

4. Components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
Policies & Institutional Arrangements (governance, data privacy & security, data sharing, cost recovery)
People (training, professional development, cooperation, outreach)
Data (digital base map, thematic, statistical, place names)
Technology (hardware, software, networks, databases, technical implementation plans)

5. Why to build an SDI?
Build data once and use it many times for many applications
Integrate distributed providers of data: Cooperative governance
“Location-based management”
Share costs of data creation and maintenance
Support sustainable economic, social, and environmental development

6. Best practices
Treat data as strategic, capital assets and public goods
Collaborate and Coordinate
Align roles, responsibilities and resources for data stewardship
Organize Effective and Efficient Production and Stewardship of Data
Pool and Leverage Investments
Steward means to oversee, take care of, foster, supervision, management

7. The outcomes of an NSDI
The participant members (contributors and users) are known and can interact
Core and specialized map and data services are easily discoverable and accessible
Decision-makers and analysts have ready access to the right geo-information for input to analytical and visual models – indicators, models, trends, patterns

8. Creating the motivation
Development of an SDI should be a voluntary and have long-term vision
Government roles may require both incentives and directives
Commercial and non-commercial participants should find SDI appealing as a market
The correct solution for NSDI must be defined by the community

9. Metadata Standards Framework GEOdata
Partnerships extend our capabilities
Partnerships
Discovery
Access
Processing
Services
Framework
Metadata
GEOdata
Standards

10. Roles of standards bodies
OpenGIS
Consortium
Software interfaces
(Implementation
Specifications)
Endorsed practices and specifications
NSDI
Other
NSDIs
ISO TC 211
Foundations for
implementation.
(Abstract standards)
National
Standards
Content standards,
Authority for data

11. SDI Applications Earthquakes Floods Landslides Cloud Bursts Tsunami
Avalanche
etc
Pollution
Water Quality
Ground water depletion
Vector borne Diseases
Hunger, Poverty and malnutrition
Crime
Sex ratio

12. Govt. of India Role in SDI development
Advanced Internet infrastructure design, establishing the backbone
IT Expertise
GOI has understood the importance of SDI and implementation

13. Collaborations & Partners
Survey of India
MOEF
Department of Space
India Meteorological Dept
Geological Survey of India
CWC, CGWB
Forest Survey of India
MoES, MoUD, MoRD, MoLR, NIC, Census of India
NBSSLUP
NATMO, CPCB
MoD
NCAER
MHA
NDMA

14. NSDI Clearinghouse
Supports uniform, distributed search through a single user interface to all domestic metadata collections to find data and maps
A free advertising mechanism to provide world access to your holdings under the principle of “truth-in-labeling”
Search for spatial data through fields and full- text in the metadata and categorical browsing
Links through to full data access and online web mapping services, where available

15. NSDI-India Management Structure
NSDI-Steering Committee
NSDI-Executive Committee
NSDI-Nodal Agencies & Nodal Officers
Sectoral Committees
NSDI-India Secretariat
CEO and officers

16. NSDI-India Standards Framework
OGC
BIS
Meta Data Standards, content standards developed and working on unified data model etc

17. Security (authorisation and Authentication)
Service Framework
WMS
WFS
WMTS
WCS
Security (authorisation and Authentication)

18. Legal Framework
Value Addition
IPR
Patents
Non-repudiation
Accuracies
Ownership

19. Policy Framework
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP)
VIGIL
State SDI’s

20. Training and capacity building
Outreach
Training and capacity building
NIGTR, Center for Excellences (IIT’s)
Training for Asia Pacific countries
Open mind approach to share the experiences and hand holding

21. Future directions-Convergence:GeoICT
A basic building block for E-Government
Shall focus on the use and re-use of data and services between government (G2G) and the citizen (G2C)
Involves all sectors (Central, state, local government, academia, commercial)

22. Dept. of Science & Technology NRDMS & NSDI
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