ISPRS COMMISSION IV

PRESIDENT			Secretary
	Shailesh Nayak Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Space Application Centre Ahmedabad 380015 India Tel: + 91-79-26914141 Fax: + 91-79-26915825 Email: director@incois.gov.in		Subhan Khan Pathan Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Space Applications Centre Ahmedabad 380 015 India Tel: + 91 79 2691 4034 Fax: + 91 79 2691 26767309 Email: subhan_kp@sac.isro.org

TERMS OF REFERENCE

• Development, access and management of spatio-temporal databases
• Spatial data infrastructures
• Image-based geo-spatial databases
• Data libraries, data clearinghouses, data warehouses, distributed archives and access to remote data sources, including metadata and digital data standards
• Web based access, retrieval and dissemination of spatial data, including web-based location-based services
• Integration of spatial information systems and image analysis for database-driven change detection, data capture and updating
• Dynamic spatial information systems, spatial data revision and versioning
• Interfacing 3D models with facility management systems
• Database generation for digital topographic and thematic mapping (including Ortho-images and digital terrain models)
• Digital landscape modelling and visualization, and large scale urban models
• Global environmental databases and mapping
• Extraterrestrial mapping and spatial information systems
• Analysis of systems and their components for automated and semi-automated digital mapping and geo-information systems
• Analysis of industry needs and design of systems for production and update of Geo-information

WORKING GROUPS