The document discusses how GIS can help address challenges facing the world such as population growth, resource shortages, and climate change. It argues that GIS provides a framework for understanding the earth through geographic knowledge, analysis, and visualization. GIS tools allow for collaboration and integration across domains to support better decision making in areas like natural resource management, transportation, and land use planning. The document outlines how GIS is being applied worldwide and proposes establishing standards, prioritizing data collection, and training to implement an effective GIS system at the state level.

1. GIS enabled State
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2. Our World Is Facing Many Challenges
• Growing Population 2050
• Social Conflicts
• Global Warming Land Cover
• Resource Shortages
• Loss of Biodiversity 2002
• Security
Population
Density
We Need
• Greater Knowledge & Awareness
• Comprehensive Planning
• Efficiency & Sustainability
• Conservation of Nature
• Collaborative Action

3. The World Needs an Approach That Changes
How We See Things … and How We Act
Our Understanding
Deciding
Patterns
Designing
Significance Managing
Relationships
Consequences Our Behavior
Implications
Nature Human Helping
Protecting Restoring
Developing
Regulating
And the Way We Do Things

4. The Geographic Approach
A Framework for Understanding and Managing Our Earth
Geographic Knowledge
Creating
Measuring
Organizing Holistic
Analyzing Comprehensive
Modeling
Systematic
Analytic
Visual
Applying
Planning
Designing
Deciding
Managing
Acting
Integrating Geography Into How We Behave
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5. Geography as a Platform Will Open Our World
• Enabling Technology
• Embracing the New Patterns
• A Culture of Collaboration and Sharing
. . . Maps Help Us Integrate and Apply Our Knowledge
. . . And Maps Tell Stories about Everything

6. GIS Applies the Geographic Approach
Providing Tools, Methods, and Workflows That Support Collaboration
& Action
Storing
Measuring Analyzing Work Flow
Visualizing
Integration
Acting
Spatial Analysis
Collaboration • Better Decisions
• Greater Efficiency
(Money/Time/Resources)
• More Effective
Communication
. . . Improving the Way We Do Things
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7. GIS Is Changing Everything…
How We Reason About the World . . .
• Patterns
• Processes
• Relationships
• Implications
How We Abstract Our World . . .
• Data & Data Models Spatially Integrated
Thinking
• Models
• Workflows
• Maps & Globes How We Organize & Communicate . . .
• Metadata • Collaboration
• Place Based Approaches
• Integrated Teams
GIS
Digital Geographic
Knowledge
Shared Geographic
Knowledge
…..Understanding Precedes Action

8. GIS Is Being Used to Build Information Systems
Supporting Many Workflows and Application Domains
Cadastral Information
System
Cartographic
Information System
Image
Information
System
Information Systems for
• Natural Resources
• Land Use Planning
• Transportation Logistics
Business • Land Management
Analysis System • Business Analysis
Facility Management • Geospatial Intelligence
System • Defense
• Visualization
• Scientific Analysis
• Public Safety
• Imagery
• Cartography
• Asset Management

9. …And Proving Valuable In Decision Making
Extensively Used in Many Integrated Applications
Social Security Conservation
Employment Land Records
Defense/Security
Natural Congestion
Business Efficiency
Resources Agriculture
Water
Pollution
Land Use Climate Change Disaster Management
Biodiversity
Human Health
Population Development
Education
Energy
Logistics
Urban Planning
Energy/Power
National Security
Environment Infrastructure
Improving Planning, Management and Decision Making . . .
……Role of State Government becomes Important here

10. GIS is Being Applied Around the World
Across Many Disciplines, Professions and Organizations
Network Analysis
Resource
Inventories Spatial Measurement
Land Incident Mapping
Management
Watershed
Site Selection Analysis
+ Corridor Selection
+
Engineering Design Logistics
Transportation
Routing
Modeling
Demographic Analysis
Resource
Facility
Exploration
Management
Topographic Analysis Spread & Geoprocess
Diffusion Modeling
Becoming an Instrument of Evolution . . .

11. Addressing Common Aspects of Business Behavior
Asset Planning & Field Operational Constituent
Management Analysis Mobility Awareness Engagement
A Complete Integrated System
Collect, Organize, Transform Data Get Information Disseminate Get Feedback and
& Exchange Data Into Actionable Into and Out of Information Where Make Informed
Information the Field and When it is Decisions
Needed

12. Key Consideration
Converged
solution for Interoperable Standards Database
different with National
decision bodies SDI
Integrated
interoperable Standardization
and converged
solution
STATE GIS Security
Integration Protocols
with state
agencies
Sharable Accessible
GIS by
resources Citizens
Accessibility
Accessible
by state
agencies

13. Typical GIS System Architecture for State Implementation

14. Road Map for GIS enabled State
 E-Governance Projects should be Geo-enabled
 Set standards and framework
 Emphasis on Applications developed centrally, deployed over
central application servers
 Prioritize data collection and creations
 Use as federated model for effective sharing and usage of
data
 Focus on Training and Capacity Building on a continuous
basis.