Day 1 :
- GIS | GIS in Mapping | GIS in Disaster Management
Session Introduction
Xinhang Shen
CEO & President, NAC Geographic Products inc. Canada
Title: Streamline GIS and location applications
Time : 09:50-10:50
Biography:
Xinhang Shen has graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (BEng in Naval Architecture & MSci in Mechanics) in China and Royal Institute of Technology (Technical Licentiate in Computational Fluid Mechanics) in Sweden and worked in a few organizations including University of Toronto. In 1995, he has developed Natural Area Coding System and founded NAC Geographic Products Inc., since then, he has been running the company, developing various software and web applications and providing consulting and geo-services for more than 20 years. Recently, he has been working on theoretical physics and produced a paper to disprove the special theory of relativity.
Abstract:
GIS as a powerful tool has gained a significant popularity recently as big data are gathered and analyzed spatially. Efficiently retrieving data and map for any specific area is getting more attention as people are losing patience quickly. Current methods defining the bounding rectangle of an area of interest with four real numbers are hurting the user as these numbers are long to input, difficult to remember and communicate and nearly impossible to digest. A new scheme to solve the problem is proposed which can use one short unified code to specify any bounding rectangular area or any location in the world. This new approach will not only improve the efficiency in typing, but more significantly streamline the representations of all areas and locations in the world for all GIS and location applications from urban planning, resources management, environment protection, worldwide postal/courier services, navigation, and emergency services for all people speaking different languages. Even more significant change is that human beings are entering a new era of using accurate spacetime obtained from their spacetime watches/smartphones for their daily activities. Thanks to GPS and the easy-to-remember, easy-to-communicate and easy-to-digest representation of the area and location, a revolution with more impact than the introduction of accurate time-keeping watches in the industrial revolution.
Yongwei Sheng
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Title: Developing high-resolution global lake GIS database from landsat Images
Time : 11:20-12:20
Biography:
Yongwei Sheng has completed his PhD in 2000 from University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Professor at Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and is currently serving in NASA Landsat Science Team and NASA SWOT Mission Science Team.
Abstract:
This presentation uses lake mapping to showcase turning remote sensing data into GIS products at global scales. Lakes are important water resources and play a crucial role in the global water cycle, but are sensitive to climate change and human activities. Mapping dynamics of global lakes is rather challenging due to their high abundance and low accessibility. With its broad spatial coverage and monitoring capability, satellite remote sensing is the only feasible approach to inventory global lake dynamics but requires thousands of high-resolution satellite images, automated mapping algorithms and more importantly tedious yet essential quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures. In our USGS- and NASA-funded projects, millions of lakes have been mapped from thousands of Landsat images acquired at lake-stable seasons and have gone through intensive QA/QC procedures. A set of highly replicable automated lake mapping tools have been developed to tackle various situations across the entire Earth. These mapping tools treat individual lakes as objects, and produce each lake as a GIS polygon. Commission and omission errors in lake mapping need to be identified and mitigated through intensive QA/QC processes. However, QA/QC of such a huge quantity of lakes is a great challenge. We have developed an automated QA tool and a semi-automated QC tool in a GIS environment to reduce the workload for manpower. The circa 2000 high-resolution systematically-generated global lake GIS database with adequate QA/QC will be released shortly. The circa 2015 database is being produced using Landsat 8 images.
Jeffrey P Harrison
University of North Florida, USA
Title: GIS and wireless technology: The positive impact on healthcare quality
Biography:
Jeffrey P Harrison is a Chair of the Department of Public Health at the University of North Florida. He has received his PhD in Health Services Research from VCU, MBA from William and Mary and his MHA from the Medical College of Virginia. He is a Professor in Health Administration and teaches Strategic Planning. He has 25 years’ experience in health care and is an international speaker on a wide range of topics. He has published extensively in the areas of Strategic Planning, change management and healthcare technology. He has authored 39 professional articles and three book chapters. In 2015, he has completed the second edition of his book: “Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare” published by Health Administration Press. He is a certified Healthcare Executive and a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was selected as one of the “Top 100 Health Administration Professors”, in 2013.
Abstract:
In the United States, the use of GIS and Wireless technology are proving essential to improving healthcare quality. These technologies are providing the system infrastructure necessary to support future innovations in healthcare. GIS and Wireless technology provide an indispensable service to healthcare delivery. Data shows that the need for these systems is growing to meet technological and workload demands. Additionally, GIS and Wireless technology provides the system infrastructure necessary to support clinical healthcare information systems such as the Electronic Health Record. At the policy level, there is growing use of GIS technology to ensure the appropriate allocation of scarce healthcare resources across geographic areas to best meet patient’s needs. This includes hospital infrastructure, emergency medical services and disaster medical response. The use of GIS mapping will replace the fragmented, overwhelmed system we have today with a coordinated, regionalized healthcare system capable of delivering lifesaving healthcare treatment. The use of Wireless technology allows providers to adapt to the changing healthcare environment by reducing medical errors and increasing time for patient interaction. Advancements such as wireless capsule endoscopy provide innovative solutions to patient treatment. Additionally, RFID systems for patient tracking and the allocation of high value medical equipment improve the quality and value of healthcare services. The benefits of a wireless infrastructure are significant. However, leadership must consider the financial cost and problems associate with implementing wireless technology. From a strategic planning perspective, healthcare leadership should foster an environment of innovation as they try to redesign the future process for healthcare delivery.
Debra A Harrison
Mayo College of Medicine, USA
Title: GIS and wireless technology: The positive impact on healthcare quality
Biography:
Debra A. Harrison, DNP, RN, NEA-BC is an Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Mayo College of Medicine and Chief Nursing Officer Emeritus of the Mayo Clinic in Florida. She obtained her Bachelors & Master's Degrees in Nursing from Winona State University in Minnesota and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of North Florida. She has board certification as Nursing Executive, Advanced. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) on an FDA approved study and funded grant titled “A Pilot Study: Evaluating the Safety and Feasibility of Using autologous Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells (ASCs) on Adults with Stage III or IV Pressure Ulcers”. The Mayo Clinic Florida includes a 304 bed teaching hospital and a large outpatient practice. As Chair of the Department of Nursing, Deb supervised 1,400 RN’s, LPN’s and other personnel who work in both the hospital and outpatient setting. She has done numerous presentations related to clinical and management topics at regional and national conferences and in Santiago, Chile at the International Congress of Nursing. She has been the recipient of the Great 100 Nurses of NE Florida and of the Great 100 Nurses of Florida.
Abstract:
In the United States, the use of GIS and Wireless technology are proving essential to improving healthcare quality. These technologies are providing the system infrastructure necessary to support future innovations in healthcare. GIS and Wireless technology provide an indispensable service to healthcare delivery. Data shows that the need for these systems is growing to meet technological and workload demands. Additionally, GIS and Wireless technology provides the system infrastructure necessary to support clinical healthcare information systems such as the Electronic Health Record. At the policy level, there is growing use of GIS technology to ensure the appropriate allocation of scarce healthcare resources across geographic areas to best meet patient’s needs. This includes hospital infrastructure, emergency medical services and disaster medical response. The use of GIS mapping will replace the fragmented, overwhelmed system we have today with a coordinated, regionalized healthcare system capable of delivering lifesaving healthcare treatment. The use of Wireless technology allows providers to adapt to the changing healthcare environment by reducing medical errors and increasing time for patient interaction. Advancements such as wireless capsule endoscopy provide innovative solutions to patient treatment. Additionally, RFID systems for patient tracking and the allocation of high value medical equipment improve the quality and value of healthcare services. The benefits of a wireless infrastructure are significant. However, leadership must consider the financial cost and problems associate with implementing wireless technology. From a strategic planning perspective, healthcare leadership should foster an environment of innovation as they try to redesign the future process for healthcare delivery.
Craig E. Colten
Louisiana State University, USA
Title: New orleans: Historic city with a poor memory
Time : 14:10-14:50
Biography:
Craig E Colten earned his PhD from Syracuse University in 1984. He began his career working for the State of Illinois documenting historical hazardous waste sites and moved to the private sector to participate in litigation-support research for a number of years. In 2000, he joined the Geography faculty at Louisiana State University. He wrote the award winning book, “Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature” and recently published “Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance”.
Abstract:
New Orleans is a city with a rich history that provides the foundation for its tourist attractions and its economy. It is also a city that has endured repeated destruction due to river floods and hurricanes and rebounded after each. One of the core principles of urban resilience is preserving the memory of lessons learned in the course of past events. This paper traces the erosion of social memory of key elements of urban development in the wake of a series of dramatic hurricanes. The purpose is to draw attention on the loss of urgency between tragic events and to foster more deliberate attempts to bolster the retention of lessons learned and to perpetuate social memory.
N.S Nethengwe
N.S Nethengwe, University of Venda, South Africa.
Title: Detecting Seriphium Plumosum spatial distribution dominancy using some of abiotic variables in Msukaligwa Local Municipality, Mpumalanga
Time : 14:50-15:20
Biography:
N S Nethengwe is currently the Deputy Dean and HOD of Environmental Sciences University of Venda, South Africa, His research interests includes applications of PGIS/GIS/RS in flood risk, gully extraction, modeling soil erosion and cross-border trade & green economy. He is registered as a Professional Natural Scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions.
Abstract:
The spread of Seriphium Plumosum is a significant environmental predicament which is aggressive to South African grasslands. Detecting Seriphium Plumosum spatial distribution dominancy using abiotic variables is crucial towards the management of its population and it assists researchers, farmers and governments to understand the species’ spatial distribution. Areas which are currently affected by Seriphium Plumosum were mapped using GIS and remote sensing techniques. A reconnaissance survey was employed to gather accurate point locational information about the Seriphium Plumosum. GPS coordinates were collected and used as a location reference to digitize areas affected by Seriphium Plumosum. Remote sensing was applied during the process of image interpretation. Unsupervised classification results and land cover maps were used as field work guide tools. Potential survey areas were selected by masking out the land cover from a land cover database such as plantation, towns, mines and cultivated land that are less likely to be affected by Seriphium Plumosum. Soil texture, soil depth, mean annual rainfall, land cover, slope and aspect raster data were used in this study. The ArcGIS spatial analyst tool was used to reclassify the data. It was detected that Seriphium Plumosum prefers deep to very deep soil with loam clay texture, loams and sandy loams. However, although, Seriphium Plumosum prefers these variables it should not be considered that Seriphium Plumosum cannot be distributed to other variables because it was also found in other variables but at a lower rate. This study also found that Seriphium Plumosum prefers areas that are classified as cultivated land. Similarly, it was documented as well that Seriphium plumosum flourishes well in the disturbed areas or abandoned land.
Arfanara Najnin
Curtin University, Australia
Title: Spatio-temporal modeling of traffic congestion triggered by incidents
Time : 15:20-15:40
Biography:
Arfanara Najnin has completed her MSc from University of Muenster, Germany in 2014 and New University of Lisbon, Portugal under the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship funded by European Commission. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in Department of Spatial Sciences at Curtin University, WA, Australia supervised by Dr. Cecilia Xia. She has three and half years of work experience in the field of research and consultancy.
Abstract:
Traffic congestion has become a substantial issue in major urban spaces, which has significant adverse environmental, social and economic impacts to the modern civilization. Traffic congestion triggered by incidents is predominantly challenging because of its haphazard occurrence in different places at a certain period that exploits the functional influences of the congestion on communal and financial events. In Australia’s main cities, around 50% of traffic congestions are caused by various traffic incidents such as vehicle crashes, breakdowns, road works, lane blockages, extreme weather events, etc., where the same condition has been seen in many other cities of the developed nation. As a recent improvement to transport safety and efficiency, the mitigation of vulnerability to road and traffic congestion caused by traffic incidences is becoming a major task to make sure sustainable breathing space in cities for near future. Among the various types of incidences, vehicle crashes are a significant factor all over the world. The spatial and temporal pattern of traffic congestion triggered by vehicle crashes seem to be an under examined field of study. This research aims to discover the connection between traffic congestion and vehicle crashes by using a spatial temporal modeling approach. The fundamental concept of shockwave theory will be used in this study to model spatial temporal scenarios which is one of the best approaches for traffic modeling. This research will also attempt to provide some intervention strategies to mitigate vulnerability to traffic congestion in response to vehicle crashes, as a contribution to future urban transport management and planning.
Reda Amer
Tulane University, USA
Title: Remote sensing approach to evaluate sediment diversions on the lower Mississippi River
Time : 16:00-16:30
Biography:
Reda Amer has a PhD in Geophysics/Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS from Saint Louis University, USA. Currently, he is working as a Professor of Practice of Remote Sensing and GIS at Tulane University, in New Orleans, LA. His research focuses on the applications of remote sensing and GIS to the mineral exploration, evaluation of groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid lands, water quality, land use and land cover change, and other environmental studies. His research has been presented to the scientific community through publications and international conference presentations.
Abstract:
This study presented a modified Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) for mapping the percentage of wetland loss and gain in the lower Mississippi river within Cubit’s Gap Subdelta (CGSD). The Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) images were used to derive highly accurate land/water boundary maps at the 30 m resolution. The NDWI calculated from (blue - SWIR)/(blue + SWIR), where SWIR is the shorter wavelength region was able to determine the water/land boundaries, and separate mixed water pixels better than the previously published NDWI. The overall accuracies of the ETM+ and OLI classified maps were above 90% confidence level, and Kappa statistics are well above 0.9. The classification accuracy reflects how well the water, non-water and mixed-water classes were identified from the newly developed NDWI. The GIS spatial analysis revealed that there were about 84 km of land gain and 38.1 km of land loss within in the CGSD between 2000 and 2015. Land gain occurred predominantly in the western section of the CGSD where sediment was imported either from Mississippi River crevasses or from dredging. Land loss typically occurred in the eastern part of CGSD with greater wave exposure. Areas with land loss generally correlate to high values of average loss of ignition, water content and salinity, where areas of land gain generally correlate with high shear strength and bulk density. This study suggests that diversions will be most successful if they have high sediment inputs.
Olga Viedma
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Title: Feedbacks between fire and landscape using remote sensing and GIS
Time : 16:30-17:00
Biography:
Olga Viedma has graduated in Geography, specializing in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She has completed her PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of Alcala, Spain in 1999. She belongs to the group of Fire Ecology and Global Change of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). Her main research is focused on landscape ecology and forest fires which has resulted in several papers related to the development of standard methodologies for mapping fires from satellite images, analysis of spatio-temporal patterns of forest fires, post-fire effects and spatio-temporal modeling of historical land use-land cover changes-related to fire hazard.
Abstract:
During last decades, fire activity has been changing in several countries bordering the Mediterranean basin. Changes in socio-economic factors that affect landscapes and ignitions may have played a role. In this work, we will show different methods to assess fire activity, the role of the various drivers on fire activity and the main fire effects on the landscape by means of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies. We will focus on the main methods to reconstruct the spatio-temporal patterns of fire regime from time series of Landsat images, including main pre-processing and fire mapping techniques. Later, we will assess how land use-land cover (LULC) changes have increased fire-hazard, as well as how the role of environmental and socioeconomic factors have changed over time, focusing on promising statistical approaches. We will show how to model fire activity in a spatially and temporally explicit way, assessing the role of landscape features and socio-economic factors on daily fire frequency. Finally, we will assess the fire effects on landscapes modeling fire severity (from Landsat images) from several factors as the pre-fire stand structure, directional topography and burning conditions. We conclude with an example of modeling post-fire species richness one year after a fire (from QuickBird imagery) using multiscale, spatially explicit predictive models.
Shyla Liebscher
Project Coordinator, Houston Parks Board, USA
Title: Sustainable and innovative open-space/greenways development with GIS
Biography:
As Project Coordinator, Shyla focuses on daily GIS activities related to project mapping and data administration at the Houston Parks Board. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Biology from the University Of Houston- Clear Lake and has earned technical certifications of GIS Technician and Analyst from Lonestar College. She holds a professional certification with GISCI Institute for meeting the requirements to be considered a GISP. She has over nine years of experience in the Geographic Information Science field with a strong background in database development, analysis and mapping.
Abstract:
The Houston Parks Board is a non-profit organization that is currently undertaking a major intiaitve called Bayou Greenways 2020 to build 80 miles of hike and bike trails and parkland along bayous throughout communities in Houston. These hike and bike trails are a valuable form of transportation for many in the underparked community, but they also provide tangible health benefits, socio-economic benefits and environmental benefits. While the organization was busy building these major infrastructure projects along Houston’s bayous, they discovered along the way that providing easy access within the organization itself and its public-facing website to locations and information about amenities of these trails and greenspaces was a necessity. Out of that necessity came the intiative to build a public mapping application. The Houston Parks Board has leveraged it’s nonprofit status to create a dynamic GIS database capable of hosting both internal and external data that ties directly back to a GIS server, which creates up-to-date information available for all uers at reduced cost, reduced speed and high integrity. Creating this public mapping application has and can continue to reduce maintenance efforts because if can inform the organization of repairs, provides a central repository for all projects, and maintains a seamless and streamlined data processes and transfers from multiple vendors. This model can be trasferred to other organizations and agencies, and the solutions provided by creating this dynamic system can do the following: • Gather real time information submitted by the actual users of the infrastructure; • Increase productivity and better time management due to less time monitoring out in the field; and • Creates a better defined experience for users because their input is taken into account.
David Lamb
Physicist, University of New England, Australia
Title: GIS alive and working: National broadband telecommunications network + farm technology = SMART farms. The Australian experience
Biography:
David is a physicist who has worked in ‘Precision Agriculture’ (PA) for over 20 years, initially on the early use of GPS, airborne video remote sensing, crop yield monitoring and electromagnetic soil surveying. He runs the University of New England’s Precision Agriculture Research Group (www.une.edu.au/parg); a multidisciplinary team of academic, research and technical staff working on industry-funded projects across rain-fed and irrigated cropping, livestock and and horticulture (including viticulture) enterprises. David leads the university’s SMART Farm project.
Abstract:
The role of internet in agriculture is fast approaching its ‘third wave’; ‘Wave 1’ was connecting people to data via www (1990’s); ‘Wave 2’ connecting people to people, viz, Facebook and Twitter (2000’s); and ‘Wave 3’ will now connect people to ‘things’ (2010-). Advances in wireless sensor networks coupled with in-situ, low-cost plant, animal and asset sensors; the so-called ‘internet of things’, means our farms and field will become sources of high quality, local yet synoptic, real-time management data. The University of New England (Australia) has transformed a 2,900 ha commercial farm into a SMART Farm (Sustainable Manageable Accessible Rural Technologies Farm). The SMART Farm (www.une.edu.au/smartfarm) showcases the latest, live GIS-enabled technologies aimed at improving productivity, environmental sustainability, safety, workflow and social/business support networks on Australian farms. With a $2 million SMART Farm Innovation Centre located in the middle of the farm, and linked to the outside world via fibre, fixed wireless and satellite national broadband network, the predominantly grazing SMART Farm is one of the largest farms of its kind, serving as an 'instrumented' research and teaching laboratory. Serving as a test-site for new technologies and farming practises, the SMART Farm is a connected GIS classroom where the community as well as students of all ages can access the latest data streaming in from a range of field, animal and machinery sensors.
Renata Coura Borges
Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia, Brazil
Title: The application of the GIS and IDW interpolator on the evaluation of environmental impacts on different matrixes and regions
Biography:
Renata Coura Borges has completed her D. Sc. at the age of 30 years from Universidade Federal Fluminense in the field Environmental Geochemistry and postdoctoral studies from Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear. She is the scholarship holder researcher of Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia. She has published more than 5 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial revisor of international papers. It has experience in the evaluation of environmental degradation and recovery of areas contaminated by heavy metals, rare earth elements and natural radionuclides. Currently working on the recovery of the city of Mariana, Minas Gerais.
Abstract:
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are powerful computational tools, which allow the performance of complex analysis by integrating data from multiple sources and creating geo-referenced databases. Due to its wide range of applications, including topics such as agriculture, forestry, environment, cartography, urban registers, among others. There are at least three major ways to use GIS: as a tool for map production; as support for phenomena spatial analysis; and as a geographic database. The method of Inverse Distance Weighting interpolation (IDW) estimates the values of un sampled points by averaging the values of surrounding sampled points. This study aims to show the GIS application capacity on the environmental field through the use of IDW interpolation, the spatial distribution of lead (Pb) and nickel (Ni) in of Cunha Canal Watershed and West of Guanabara Bay-RJ, by building thematic maps for identification of the possible leach of rare earth elements on the phosphogypsum stacks in Imbituba-SC and also provide radionuclide distribution in soils maps of Fundão Island-RJ. Specific analytical techniques were used, Guanabara Bay was analyzed with the Optical Emission Spectrometry with Inductively Coupled Plasma; Imbituba and Fundão Island were analyzed with Gama Spectrometry. Using the IDW and GIS, high efficiency maps were generated to clearly inform the contamination which occurred in different evaluated areas of study in this work
Ismail Sabbah
The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait
Title: Dust and climat in Kuwait
Biography:
Ismail Sabbah has completed his PhD in 1990 from the University of New Mexico and his D.Sc in 2012 from University of Alexandria, Egypt. He is working in Remote Sensing. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute. He established the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) site in Kuwait and completed the Global Muon Detector Network (GMDN) for Space Weather predictions in 2006 by installing the first cosmic-ray muon Telescope in the Middle East.
Abstract:
We investigate the consistency between Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) retrieved by MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite and measurements collected by ground-based AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) site in Kuwait for 2007-2012. A good correlation (r = 0.7) is obtained between the two data sets. The concentration of particles with geometric mean radius ranges of 0.05–15 μm has been studied as well. Seasonal variations are clearly found in the shape and magnitude of the volume size distributions (VSDs) for PM2.5 and coarse particles. The highest concentrations of aerosol coarse particles are found during the spring. Both PM2.5 and coarse particles concentrations increase substantially during dust storms, reaching the highest values during the dust storm of 24 May 2012. The method of superposed epoch analysis is used to test the influence of the dust on meteorological parameters in 2012. Increases in wind speed together with significant reductions in visibility and diurnal temperature range (DTR) during dusty days are observed. Additionally air temperature decreases one day after dust occurrence. These effects can be due to scattering of sunlight back to space by the suspended dust particles.
Sajid Ali
Research Assistant, University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Title: Design and Implementation of a geodatabse and Web GIS
Biography:
Sajid Ali has completed his M.Sc. form Hochschule fur Technik Stuttgart, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart Germany in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics. He has worked as student research assistant at the same university under the supervesion of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Schröder. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Schröder is the dean of faculity of Geomatics, Computer Science und Mathematics and also the Programme director MSc. Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics at the Hochschule fur Technik Stuttgart, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart Germany. He is also the Honorary Doctor of Yerevan State University for Architecture and Construction, Armenia.
Abstract:
The merging of internet and Web has created many disciplines and Web GIS is one these disciplines which is effectively dealing with the geospatial data in a proficient way. Web GIS technologies have provided an easy accessing and sharing of geospatial data over the internet. However, there is a single platform for easy and multiple access of the data lacks for the European Caribbean Association (Europaische Karibische Gesselschaft - EKG) to assist their members and other research community. The technique presented in this paper deals with designing of a geodatabase using PostgreSQL/PostGIS as an object oriented relational database management system (ORDBMS) for competent dissemination and management of spatial data and Web GIS by using OpenGeo Suite for the fast sharing and distribution of the data over the internet. The characteristics of the required design for the geodatabase have been studied and a specific methodology is given for the purpose of designing the Web GIS. At the end, validation of this Web based geodatabase has been performed over two Desktop GIS software and a web map application and it is also discussed that the contribution has all the desired modules to expedite further research in the area as per the requirements.