Conference Power Point Presentations of Middle East 2008    Inaugural Session GeoSpatial Technology - Value and Trends (Listen to the Speech) Preetha Pulusani, Joint Managing Director, Rolta India EDM - evolution of the technology (Listen to the Speech) Roger Hoglund, Director, Trimble Germany    Plenary Session- Geospatial Technology Part 1 Fast and Cost Efficient National Mapping Programs Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery (Listen to the Speech) Dr. Marc Tremblay, VP and General Manager, Commercial Business Unit, Digital Globe, USA The Geographic Approach (Listen to the Speech) Dean Angelides, Manager, International Sales & Operations, ESRI, USA Technology Trends In Surveying & Mapping Norikazu Watanabe, Managing Director, Sokkia Singapore Pte Ltd    Plenary Session- Geospatial Technology Part 2 Making The 3D Virtual Earth Alexander Wiechert, Business Director, Vexcel Imaging, Austria Location Intelligence Comes of Age (Listen to the Speech) John O’Hara, Executive VP- International, Pitney Bowes MapInfo, UK The U.S. Space-Based PNT Current Program and Future Trends Michael Shaw, Director, U.S. National Coordination Office Interoperability to Interconnection Ron Lake, Chairman & CEO, Galdos Systems Inc. Plenary Session on Best Practices Best Practices in Geospatial Technology at Dubai Municipality Mohammed Al Zaffin, Director of the GIS Department Lidar & 3D Point Cloud Data – From Data to Decisions Richard A Vincent, Virtual Geomatics GIS Evolutions – Fleet & Logistics Research Project Karim Bouchfanj, General Manager Tele Atlas MENA, Director of Business Development Plenary Session on Geospatial Policies Geo-Spatial Information – Decision Model (Listen to the Speech) Dr Derek Clarke, Chief Director, Dept. of Land Affairs, South Africa Thinking Locally and Acting Globally: Government Information Policy Choices in Responding to the Global Geographic Data and Services Phenomena (Listen to the Speech) Professor Harlan J. Onsrud, Executive Director, GSDI Association, USA SDI and the Changing Dynamics of the Geospatial Market Mike Jackson, Director, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, UK Land Management and Spatial enabled Government (Listen to the Speech) Prof. Stig Enemark, President, International Federation of Surveyours, Denmark Regional Session on Municipal GIS GIS from the Ground Up: Development and Implementation of a GIS for Ras Al Khaimah – United Arab Emirates Mohamed R. Bualhamam, GIS Professor- UAE University, Head of RAKGIS Committee, Deputy General Manager- RAK Municipality Qatar's Nation-wide GIS - A focus on land and infrastructuremanagement applications (Listen to the Speech) Masoun Shahbandar, Head of Internet & Multimedia –Planning & Projects, Centre for GIS, Urban Planning & Development Authority, State of Qatar Implementing Land Information System in Ajman Municipality & Planning Department Mohd Hammoud GIS in E-municipal, Kingdom of Bahrain (Listen to the Speech) Venkatesa Kumar, GIS Head, Information Systems, Directorate, Bahrain ROLTA Tech Show IDS eTOD suitethe solution to maintain Terrain & Obstacle Database ICAO annex 15 Amendment 33/34 Marcello Davide Mannino, Area Manager Kitchener Enterprise GIS Case Study Kitchener Case Study Poster Session A simple method for estimating of evapotranspiration using remotely sensed data in arid regions: a case study in Yemen Mountains A. Almhab, I. Busu and K. Alromathi Uncertainties of Al Ain Geometrical Geoid Dr. Kamal Abdellatif Abdalla Sami Utilization of GIS and RTK GPS Reference Networks for Machine Automation Mustafa Al-Musawa, Dr. Ahmed El-Mowafy Road Identification from Satellite Images based on a Fuzzy Reasoning Model Jalal Amini Design and Implementation of a Moving Object Database for Truck Information Systems Yasser Ebrahimian Qajary, Ali Asghar Alesheikh Studying Noise Effect on Property Valuation Mehrdad.Koohi Kamali, Seyed.Ali. Hojjat, Mohamad.Ali. Rajabi Changing Land Uses, using Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Analyses Mehrnoosh Bakhtiarifar, Mohamadsadi Mesgari, Mohamad Karimi Developing of Vector Matching Algorithm Considering Topologic Relations Azam Moosavi, Ali Asghar Alesheikh Global Mapping of Algeria Mr. Mohamed Amine MENGOUCHI Algebraic Specifications of a Knowledge Based Approach for Cognitive Mapping in a Street Network Gharani.P, M. R. Delavar Improvement of Pavement Maintenance Activities using Geographic Information Systems in Abu Dhabi Dr. Ahmed El-Mowafy, Dr. Mostafa Abo-Hashema, Ahmed Ba-Obaid