The Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG) was
formed by a group of professionals from government, academia, and industry with
the main objective of promoting the technology and applications of
Geomatics so that it becomes an important part of the information management
and decision making processes.
Indian
Society of Geomatics (ISG), established
in 1993, is a premier society of professionals and institutions involved in
promoting and popularising Geomatics in India. It has about 1700 Life Members, 34 Patron
Members, 2 Sustaining Members and 225 Annual & Student members as on July-2014. It has 22 very active
Regional Chapters located at Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Bhagalpur, Bhopal, Chennai,
Dehradun, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysore, Pune, Trichi, Shillong,
Jammu and Kashmir, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam and Ludhiana.
ISG regularly brings out a quarterly
newsletter (ISSN: 0972-642X) for circulation to its members. ISG has recently
published many special issues on various themes such as Agriculture, Urban Planning,
Coastal and Marine Environment, Space-based Cartography, GIS: Education and
Training in India, Water Resources, Location-based Services, Geomatics in
India: Retrospect and Prospects, Infrastructure, Mountains etc.
Taking
into account persistent demand from members, the Society has launched on
08-March-2007 a peer-reviewed journal named "Journal of Geomatics".
The journal covers all aspects of Geomatics – geodata acquisition,
pre-processing, processing, analysis and publishing. Broadly this implies inclusion
of areas like GIS, GPS, Photogrammetry, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Surveying,
Spatial Data Infrastructure and Technology including hardware, software, and
algorithms and modelling. It l endeavours to provide an international forum for
rapid publication of developments in the field - both in technology and
applications
ISG has its website http://www.isgindia.org
which contains all pertinent information about ISG and its activities. This
site is updated every three months for the benefit of its members and anyone
interested in Geoinformatics. Indian Society has also instituted two National
Geomatics Awards to be given each year: a) for original and significant
contribution, b) for innovative applications in the field of Geomatics. Each
award comprises a medal, a citation and a sum of Rs 25,000/- The guidelines for
these awards are available on ISG website. Apart from these awards, ISG has
also instituted Best Chapter of the Year & Presidents Medal for
Contribution to the Society Award for promoting the chapter activities and
encouraging chapters to conduct various regional events. A senior level award
namely “Geomatics Excellence Award” is also going to be instituted from this
year onwards.
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