Table of contents

• Introduction
• Conference Date
• Important Dates
• Registration, Flights, Accommodation and other Information
• Conference Centre
• PacGISRS 2007
• Host Organising Committee
• Final Conference Schedule
• Sponsors

Introduction

Since the first Pacific GIS&RS Conference in 1999, this annual event has attracted a lot of participants from as far as the Americas to the sunny islands most of us call home. Each year the range of GIS&RS technologies presented cover an array of applications including the management of resources of the small island Pacific nations. Shallow water bathymetry derived from satellite imagery, forest function maps to identify areas for to be protected, areas identified for developments in flood zones are some of the applications where the development of GIS&RS in the region have been applied in various sectors. As with previous conferences, there are no fees levied for those wishing to attend. Donations however are graciously accepted. This years theme is Spatial Solutions for Pacific Island Countries - GIS&RS users.

Conference Date

Dec 2-5th 2008.

Important Dates

31st October	Deadline for Presentation Titles
2nd November	Deadline for Abstracts

Registration, Flights, Accommodation and other Information

Please see PacGISRS2008Registration

Conference Centre

USP Lower Campus, Faculty of Islands and Oceans, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

PacGISRS 2007

See last year PacGISRS2007.

• Conference Report 2007

Host Organising Committee

Name	Role	Organisation	Contact
Jone Cavu	Conference Committee	FLIS	jcavu@lands.gov.fj
Atelini Boletakarakadavu	Conference Committee	FLIS	abole@lands.gov.fj
Lorosio Raikivi	Conference Committee	FLIS	lraikivi@lands.gov.fj
Joe Wakolo	Conference Committee	Forestry	josuawakolo@yahoo.com.au
Etika Naitini	Conference Committee	FEA	EtikaN@fea.com.fj
Timoci Bavadra	Conference Committee	FEA	timoci.bavadra@fea.com.fj
Silika Tuivanuavou	Conference Committee	NLTB	stuivanuavou@nltb.com.fj
Conway Pene	Conference Committee	USP	pene_c@usp.ac.fj
Wolf Forstreuter	Conference Committee	SOPAC	wforstreuter@yahoo.co.uk
Emily Artack	Conference Committee	SOPAC	eartack@yahoo.com
Rashmi Rita	Conference Committee	SOPAC	rrita@lands.gov.fj
Elizabeth Lomani Whippy	Conference Committee	SOPAC	lizlomani@yahoo.com
Joy Papao	Conference Committee	SOPAC	joy@sopac.org
Edwin Liava'a	Conference Committee	SOPAC	edwin@sopac.org

Subjected to change

Final Conference Schedule

Slot ID	Time	Type Slot	Title	Presenters
DAY 1
1_1_1	10:00-10:15	Key Note	European Union	Wiepke Van der Goot
1_1_2	10:15-10:30	Key Note	SOPAC	Cristelle Pratt
1_1_3	10:30-10:45	Key Note	SPC	Dr.Jimmie Rodgers
1_1_4	10:45-11:00	Key Note	Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources	Maria Matavewa
1_1_5	11:00-11:45		++++++++++ LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ++++++++++
1_2_1	11:45-12:00	Org. Statement	PICISOC	Les Allinson
1_2_2	12:00-12:15	Org. Statement	PPA	Gordon Chang
1_2_3	12:15-12:30	Org. Statement	USP	Conway Pene
1_2_4	12:30-12:45	Org. Statement	Telecom	Savenaca Tabilai
1_2_5	12:45-13:00	Org. Statement	FLIS	Rashmi Rita
1_2_6	13:00-14:30		++++++++++ LUNCH ++++++++++
1_3_1	14:30-14:50	Org. Statement	GIS in National ICT Policy	Siaosi Sovaleni
1_3_2	14:50-15:30	Org. Statement	GIS update of the Election Office	Viliame Vuiyanuca
1_3_3	15:30-15:50	Org. Statement	Overlay Analysis in Raster Data Environment for Water Catchment Monitoring, Example Solomon Islands	Wolf Forstreuter
1_3_3	15:50-16:05		++++++++++ COFFEE BREAK ++++++++++
1_4_1	16:05-16:25	Technical Pres	Applying GIS in community based climate change risk assessments	Reboama Samuel
1_4_2	16:25-16:45	Technical Pres	Digital Elevation Model of Beaches Using RTK GPS, Example Majuro, Marshall Islands	Wolf Forstreuter
1_4_3	16:45-17:05	Technical Pres	The Asia Pacific Natural Hazards Information Network (APNHIN)	Todd Bosse
1_5_1	18:00-20:00	Social Event	++++++++++ CONFERENCE OPENING COCKTAIL at the Bistro, Lower Campus ++++++++++
DAY 2
2_1_1	9:00-9:20	Technical Pres	Airborne Imagery and LiDAR Mapping	Karl Engstrom
2_1_2	9:20-9:40	Technical Pres	Utilisation of TerraSAR-X Image Data for Mapping of Coast Line and Extend of Flooding	Wolf Forstreuter
2_1_3	9:40-10:00	Technical Pres	Management and Aeronautical Chart Production Using GIS of Tonga's Domestric Airspace Data	Laura Payne
2_1_4	10:00-10:20	Technical Pres	Marine Protected Area Prioritization	Paul Anderson
2_1_5	10:20-10:50		++++++++++ COFFEE BREAK ++++++++++
2_2_1	10:50-11:10	Technical Pres	Enterprise GIS	David Swann
2_2_2	11:10-11:30	Technical Pres	Decision support system for goeinformatics mapping renewable energy resources in the Philippines	Carlos Miniano Pascual
2_2_3	11:30-11:50	Technical Pres	Urban Sprawl Impact Analysis and Modeling using GIS: A Study of NOIDA City, India	Madan Mohan
2_2_4	11:50-12:10	Technical Pres	GIS in Land Resource Economics for Land Owning Units	Nasi Racaca
2_2_5	12:10-14:00		++++++++++ LUNCH ++++++++++
2_3_1	14:00-14:20	Technical Pres	Shallow Water Bathymetry ultilizing satellite images	Etuate Cocker
2_3_2	14:20-14:40	Technical Pres	Creation of Forest GIS Layer per FAO Forest Resource Assessment Specification Using Satellite Imager	Halalilika 'Etika
2_3_3	14:40-15:00	Technical Pres	Lae Hazard Mapping	Asigau Tau
2_3_4	15:00-15:20	Technical Pres	National Agriculture Census 2009	Kasaqa Tora
2_3_5	15:20-15:40		++++++++++ COFFEE BREAK ++++++++++
2_4_1	15:40-16:00	Technical Pres	Turning Data into Information by publishing it on the Internet	Ken Mathers
2_4_2	16:00-16:20	Technical Pres	Geo-referenced population data	Phil Bright
2_4_3	16:20-16:40	Technical Pres	Database Design and System Integration	Edwin Liava'a
2_5_1	17:00-20:00	Social Event	++++++++++YAGONA NIGHT at the Seafood Village, Lower Campus ++++++++++
DAY 3
3_1_1	9:00-9:20	Technical Pres	GIS in Telecom Fiji Limited	Nacanieli Senibaravi
3_1_2	9:20-9:40	Technical Pres	Water Assets Enterprise GIS development using a modular approach - The PNG Water Board Experience	Mary Pati & Nepthaly Serebut
3_1_3	9:40-10:00	Technical Pres	Mapping electricity consumption using FEA GIS and customer data	Venesh Karan
3_1_4	10:00-10:20	Technical Pres	Management of the Cash-power prepaid Meters	Robinson Wood
3_1_5	10:20-10:40		++++++++++ COFFEE BREAK ++++++++++
3_2_1	10:40-11:00	Technical Pres	Practical Use of GIS to Promote Water Self Sufficiency at the Household Level	Pisi Wolff
3_2_2	11:00-11:20	Technical Pres	TSKL GIS in Kiribati	Naibunaki Teraoi
3_2_3	11:20-11:40	Technical Pres	Using GIS for Geometric Network and Schematic Drawings for Utilities	Craig Clouet
3_2_4	12:00-14:00		++++++++++ LUNCH ++++++++++
3_3_1	14:00-14:20	Technical Pres	Habitat Mapping in Aitutaki, Cook Islands	Ashishika Sharma
3_3_2	14:20-14:40	Technical Pres	Accessing marine data for the Pacific Islands region	Paul Eastwood
3_3_3	14:40-15:00	Technical Pres	Shallow water bathymetry mapping using a physics-based remote sensing approach for validation of tsunami inundation...	S. Sagar
3_3_4	15:00-15:20	Technical Pres	Atmospheric correction using ATCOR in ERDAS	Etuate Cocker
3_3_5	15:20-15:40		++++++++++ COFFEE BREAK ++++++++++
3_4_1	15:40-16:00	Technical Pres	Achieving High Accuracy Real-Time? Results In The Pacific Islands	Troy Rigby
3_4_2	16:00-16:20	Technical Pres	Reference Image Points	Wolf Forstreuter
3_4_3	16:20-16:40	Technical Pres	Positioning technology – how to select the right solution	Martin Hewitt
3_4_4	16:40-17:00	Technical Pres	Rectifying High Resolution Image Data of Pohnpei	Elizabeth Whippy, Vilisi Tokalauvere
3_5_1	20:00-0:00	Social Event	Pub Crawl through the Bars of Downtown Suva
DAY 4
4_1_1	9:00-9:20	Technical Pres	Use of Open Layers as an OS independent installationless GIS Viewer	Franck Magron
4_1_2	9:20-9:40	Technical Pres	Hycos Utilisation of GIS	Edwin Liava'a
4_1_3	9:40-10:00	Technical Pres	Pacific Disaster Net	Jutta May
4_1_4	10:00-10:20	Technical Pres	The Asia Pacific natural Hazards Information Network
4_1_5	10:20-10:40	Introduction to QGIS	Keleni Raqisia
4_1_5	10:40-11:00		++++++++++ COFFEE BREAK ++++++++++
4_2_1	11:00-13:00		Discussion Topics
4_2_01			Digital Terrain Model for the Small Islands
4_2_02			Utility GIS and System Integration
4_2_03			Water Catchment Monitoring, Geo Hazard Mapping
4_2_04			Application and Techniques for large scale mapping
4_2_05			Shallow Water Bathymetry with Satellite images
4_2_06			Ocean Monitoring
4_2_07			Radar Application for Mapping Extent of Flooding and Coastal Change
4_2_08			Radar Application for Fishing Vessel Detection
4_2_09			Image Pre-processing for Pacific islands Users
4_2_10			Vegetation Mapping
4_2_11			GIS&RS, Database Software Development
4_2_12	13:00-14:00		++++++++++ LUNCH ++++++++++
4_3_1	14:00-14:20	Technical Pres	The Need for Centralised RS&GIS Service in the Pacific	Joy Papao
4_3_2	14:20-14:40	Technical Pres	Creating Customs Maps for Garmin GPS Units	Vilisi Tokalauvere
4_3_3	14:40-15:00	Technical Pres	Spatial Information Systems for Tackling Climate Change Applications for Reducing Transport Fuel Consumption	Turlough Guerin
4_3_4	15:00-15:20	Technical Pres	Multi Temporal Image Comparison of two Atolls in Federated States of Micronesia	Arthur Webb
4_4_1	17:00-22:00	Social Event	++++++++++ CONFERENCE DINNER at the TENNIS CLUB. Tickets $15 ++++++++++++++++++

Sponsors

• SOPAC
• FLIS
• PICISOC
• Intergraph NZ
• Trimble
• Geosystems
• NZAID
• Lukemine Enterprises
• naGIS Enterprises Fiji Ltd
• EAGLE Technology
• ESRI
• EU
• NLTB

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