It is great to have an opportunity to witness the very important moment such as the 3rd Indonesian Geo-Information Technology Exhibition (IGTE) that will be held on August 2008. Since the launching of the first exhibition I have been thinking that geospatial information is very important and the exhibition should be launched to socialize this to empower the Indonesian people. The organization of the first IGTE in 2006 and the second IGTE 2007 were successful ones and these showed that Indonesian community needs geospatial information.
Nowadays, geospatial information is becoming available and easier to obtain. Geospatial information users are growing and becoming daily dependent on geospatial information. The integration of geospatial information with demographic and socio-economic information is developing into a routine technique of making decision. Many information producers start developing applications in different sectors like health, education, regional planning, environment, etc. Geospatial Information is indeed an important tool for making decisions.
The conditions have to do with the technological developments including surveying and mapping technology and information and communication technology. Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographical Information System (GIS), High-resolution Sensors, Location-based Service (LBS) and Internet-based applications are technologies that make geospatial information available and easily accessible. The significant advantage of these technologies is their roles in providing geospatial information available and easily accessible. The significant advantage of these technologies is their roles in providing geospatial information quickly and these support the production of dynamic geospatial information. The dynamic geospatial information is the geospatial information that changes over a period of time including weather , flood, forest fire, traffic, etc.
The 3rd Indonesian Geo-Information Technology Exhibition decides on the “Integrated Portal of Dynamic Information” as its theme. This theme is so decided to address problems of disseminating of dynamic geospatial information. Compared to static geospatial information, the dissemination of the dynamic information involves huge communication and computational means for fast-sending updated information, which make the current techniques infeasible for dynamic information. Based on the success of web application in disseminating of the static geospatial information, many researchers are now conducting researchers are now conducting researches focusing on disseminating of dynamic information and the most important thing is application for making timely online decisions.
The 3rd Indonesian Geo-Information Technology Exhibition will show all the latest surveying and mapping technology and information and communication technology as well along with business discussions, leading technology presentations that will support you providing geo-services to geospatial information user community.
Jakarta, 5 Desember 2007 Indonesian National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL)
