As part of Charles Darwin Universities AUSAID funded Public Service Linkages Program a GIS and Remote sensing Conference was held at Nusa Cendana University in Kupang 5-6 May.

A provincial wide conference was considered important at this time when a range of regional initiatives are being developed to support good governance through data collection, archiving and analysis. The effecting sharing of capacity and aspirations within NTT will assist in the development of a coordinated approach in the development of spatial planning.

There were over 170 participants at the conference and seventeen presentations were delivered over the two days. A wide range of spatial data applications from satellite based forest monitoring to GIS for public health apllications where discussed by leading experts from Europe the United States and Indonesia as well as local practitioners from Nusa Tenggara Timor and Timor Leste.

The proceedings from the conference will be published as a book by CDU press later in the year.