Day 1 (April 2nd)

Parallel Session

Inaugural Ceremony and Inauguration of Exhibition

9:30 AM to 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM to 11:10 AM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Yongjun Zhang, Dean of School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China

11:10 AM to 11:40 AM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Biswajeet Pradhan, Director, CAMGIS, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

11:45 AM to 12:30 PM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Mila Koeva, Assistant Professor University Twente, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC, The Netherlands at working in 3D Land Information

12:30 PM to 1:00 PM

Break

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Special Session on UAV applications in water resources Chaired by Dr. Sanjay Jain

2:00 PM to 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM

Plenary Session on Theme "UAVs for Environment"

4:15 PM to 6:15 PM

Technical Session I

Day 2 (April 3rd)

Parallel Session

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay, Senior Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, USA

9:00 AM to 10: 00 AM

Plenary Session on Regulations and Requirements

10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Technical Paper Session II

George Everest UASG Lecture by D.N. Pathak,Director Survey (Air) & Delhi GDC Survey of India

12:10 Noon to 1:00 PM

Break

11:45 AM to 12:00 Noon

Plenary Session on UAV Algorithms and Analytics

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Technical Paper Session III

Break

3:45 PM to 4:15 PM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Dheeraj Kumar, Professor Geomatics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India

4:15 PM to 5:15 PM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Ayman F. Habib, Co-Director CE-CAUSE, Purdue University, Indiana,USA

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Mozhdeh Shahbazi

6:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Day 3 (April 4th)

Parallel Session

Special Session by Dr. Kamal Jain over UAV Photogrammetry

9:00 AM to 09: 30 AM

“Raveneye Geospatial Private Limited  : An emerging start-up in Geospatial Arena”

9:30 AM to 10: 00 AM

UAV for e-Governance in India by Vishnu Chandra, Deputy Director General & Head of Group (Geo-Spatial Technology and Services Division), MeitY, Govt. of India

10: 00 AM to 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM to 11:00 AM

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Technical Paper Session IV

Special Lecture on UAVs in Architecture and Planning

12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM

Break

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Sisi Zlatanova, President ISPRS TCIV, Spatial Information Science Head GRID, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Plenary Session on UAV Application and Practices

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM to 4:15 PM

Valedictory Ceremony, Awards Distribution, Vote of Thanks

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Lance R. Brady, Chief, National UAS Project Office, US Geological Survey, USA

Rabi. N Sahoo, Principal Scientist, Division of Agricultural Physics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (IARI), India

Ram Avtar, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Anupam Anand, Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility, USA

Bryan Mark, Professor, and State Climatologist, Department of Geography & Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University, USA

László Bertalan, Assistant Lecturer at Department of Physical Geography of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Vinod Kumar, Founder & CEO, Senseacre Labs LLP

Dr. M.k. Munshi, Chair Person Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) India Forum, India

Amber Dubey, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India, India

Col (Ret) Stephen P. Luxion, Executive Director, ASSURE FAA Center of Excellence for UAS, USA

Dr. P.S. Acharya, Head & CEO, NSDI Division, Department

Mrs. Sonet Kock, Founder and Managing Director of AviComply (Pty) Ltd

Dr. Dharmendra Singh, Professor ECE & Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Dr. S.N. Omkar, Chief Research Scientist, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lab, Indian Institute of Sciences, Banglore, India

Prakash Chauhan, Director, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India

Mr. Amit Kumar Sinha, CEO Information Technology Development Agency, Uttarakhand, India

Dr. Lokesh Sinha, Director, Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment - DRDO, Chandigarh, India

Dr. Narayan Panigrahi, Group Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, DRDO, India

Mr. P.L.N. Raju, Director, North Eastern Space Application Centre- ISRO, India

Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal, Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI, India

Rajeev Kumar Vishnoi, Director (Technical), THDC India Limited, India

Shikha Jain, DRONAH, India

Ajay Khare, Professor, Deptt. of Conservation, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India

Kailasa Rao, Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada

Sanjay Kumar Jain, Scientist 'G', National Institute of Hydrology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

Raaj Ramasankaran, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Skthivel Beemaraja, Independent Consultant in the field of Hydrology, India