Geospatial services industry in India is assessed worth 3 billion US Dollars and it is taking giant steps toward further growth presently contributing 0.2 per cent to the country's GDP. A number of huge geospatial projects have been launched by the national and state governments and applications of GIS for preparing all developmental plans has been made mandatory by several state governments. Serving to the changing geospatial needs of the country, maintaining current status of the industry and its further growth very much depends on the increasing availability of competent geospatial workforce. It is estimated that by 2015 India's annual demand of skilled human resources will be about 7 to 10 thousand persons having various types and levels of geospatial competences. This offers lucrative attractions to the current professionals for enhancing their capabilities and enormous amount of opportunities to the young students to take standard education and training for making a career in geospatial sector.

The situation boosts high hopes and motivates a drive toward take-off. But it also triggers serious challenges focussed on the capacity building processes which are crucial to the professionals and students for converging geospatial careers and educational practices.

• Is India well equipped to meet the human resource requirements of this sector?
• Is India utilising full capabilities of the available geospatial workforce and finds these sufficient?
• Is India well prepared to face the challenge of procuring competent human resources?
• Are education and training institutions playing effective roles in producing fit-for-job graduates?
• Are geospatial organisations, industry and academia designing an integrated and competitive regional response to global challenges and opportunities?

To prepare the regions to answer the above, India Geospatial Forum 2015 organises exclusive capacity building initiative 'Youth Forum'focussingon giving a huge impetus to building capacity of teachers, strengthening the youth community to become successful entrepreneurs and providing students a platform for sharing their research with wider gis communities.

Orientation Session

Maj Gen R Siva Kumar

Pro Vice Chancellor (R&D), GITAM University,India

Dr. Shahnawaz

Director (S & SE Asia), UNIGIS International, Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS
University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA

Hr from Industry-Intergraph

Sumantra Naik

Youth Geospatial Professional
Bio

Dr. Hrishikesh Samant

Associate Professor and Head Departement of Geology,
St. Xavier's college

G’Appz & Models : Innovative Geospatial Apps

Ganesan, Kesav Raj

Senior Business Analyst, Executive to CEO, Geokno Abstract

Alex Praveen

Mtech Scholar, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Abstract

Gurminder Bharani, Marcia Chen

Student, Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics Abstract

Er. Alekhya Datta

Research Associate, The Energy and Resources Institute Abstract

Adrish Kumar Mullick

Research Scholar, IIT Roorkee Abstract

G ‘Projects: Research project Presentations

Akshithha,GIS Analyst, DSM soft, Monica Chandni, Sivapriya

Student Anna University Abstract

Mrinalni, Naveen

M tech Scholar Madras University Abstract

Bharathi G P Revathi N

M-Tech Scholar, Department of Geography,BDU Abstract

Siddharth Chaudhary

M.Tech Student, Indian School of Mines Abstract

G.Sriram, Kesav, Parthiban,Sivakumar

Student, Anna University Abstract

Logeswari

Student, Centre For Water Resources Abstract

Research Papers

Kiranjeet Kaur

Student, Punjab Agricultural University Abstract

Shashidhar.K

Student, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Abstract

K.P. Naveen Kumar, Rajeswari, Cecilie sobana, Athithya .s. Loganathan

Student, RCAT Abstract

Orientation session

Dr. P S Roy

Chair professor, Centre for Earth and Space Sciences, Hyderabad

Dr. Hrishikesh Samant

Editor (Honorary),Geospatial Media & Communications Pvt. Ltd

Devdatta Tengshe

Young Geospatial Professional
Bio

HR representative

from Rolta

Student Presentations

V.Sakthi Kirthi

Post Graduate Student, Centre For Water Resources Abstract

Gopi Padmanabhan

Student, MSc in GIS, University of Madras, University of Salzburg Abstract

Natasa Chowdhury, Shruti Menon

Student, Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics Abstract

M.Charu

Student, Anna University Abstract

Prashant Persai

MANIT

Poster Presentation

Florencia

Student TERI University and Padalia .H, IIRS

Lakshmi Priya, R.Indhumathi, L.Madhu Mathi

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Vasudevan

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Muthuraj, Aarthi

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Athitya S Loganathan

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Dhivya, Dhanapriya, Geetha, Ranjitha

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Guga Krishna

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Savio marx

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Sivadevi

Student Regional Centre of Anna University Tirunelveli

Farjana Birajdar

Research Scholar,Hrishikesh Samant,Associate Professor St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and Gopalan Venkataraman,Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Mathew, B. P

Assistant Professor and Samant, H. P, Associate Professor -St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

Arnold Fernandes, Mrunmayee Kamble, Clyde Antao

Research Scholar- St. Xavier’s College Mumbai