Exhibitor Profile

Avineon has been a leading provider in Geospatial, Engineering, IT solutions, 3D/Photogrammetry and Content management solutions and services. Avineon has offices in United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, India and United Arab Emirates. Avineon has over 25 years of experience in providing end-to-end Geospatial and IT solutions to its customers. It specializes in Consulting, Application Development, Enterprise Systems Integration and Geospatial Data management. Avineon has successfully implemented high quality Geo-portal solutions, Enterprise GIS, development of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), data generation, data migration, conflation, improvement and maintenance projects across the globe.

Bayanat Geographical Consulting provides numerous survey and GIS services to its clients all over the Sultanate of Oman. The GIS services rendered by BGC allow for the accurate survey data, visualization of geographic data, analysis of spatial relationships, and efficient data management. The GIS data conversions allow data from different sources to be merged in one common format, which allows for easy access, analysis and utilization. The vast expertise and experience allows BGC to integrate GIS, CAD and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) services, by using high accuracy survey tools, high-end GIS Mapping and GIS data conversions software. BGC provides GIS services with an all-inclusive solution for spatial data management to government and industrial organizations through GIS remote sensing services. BGC's complex GIS Mapping Services and GIS Remote Sensing services include capturing, storing, integrating, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data related to positions on the Earth's surface. BGC uses updated technology, research and innovation that are implemented by highly experienced and qualified staff to create maps. BGC's team of engineers, geo-scientists, planners have developed GIS products and systems, integrated with GPS, GIS, and CAD. The services can be used for system design and architecture, management and maintenance, map production and analysis (specialized for GIS mapping agencies also), database design and development, user training and support, and 3d modelling and visualization for GIS mapping products and GIS remote sensing products.

Dawood Engineering Consultancy (DEC) officially opened its doors in 2003, prior to this (1998) it was known as John Snellgrove & Dawood Engineering Consultancy. Following 10 years of managed growth and expansion DEC offers start to finish services with the ability to combine expertise in the Architectural, Electrical Engineering and Geomatics disciplines.

• GIS field survey & data collection
• Geospatial database creation, conversion and migration
• GIS application design, development and implementation (Web & Desktop)
• Data migration (CAD to GIS Conversion)
• GIS analysis, study & solution definition
• Aerial photo/ Satellite image interpretation

• Various other kinds of Surveying
  • Underground utilities detection survey with GPR
  • Aerial photography using UAV& Mapping
  • Digital Elevation Model using 3D laser scanning
• Electrical Engineering
• Urban planning
• Architecture and Civil Engineering

DEC offers complete 3D and Geospatial solutions for broad range of applications. Our strength is the knowledge in 3D technology and the expertise in the 3D market, especially in Oman. We focus on offering solutions and support that enable customers to accelerate their product quality and

Deimos Imaging, a subsidiary of UrtheCast Corp. (Canada), is a Spanish company that, with a diverse suite of sensors in space, is helping usher in a new era of Earth Observation (EO). Our current sensor suite — Deimos-1, Deimos-2, Iris, and Theia — offers Multi Spectral (MS) imagery and 4k full-color videos at multiple resolutions, ranging from 75 cm to 22m per pixel, to address diverse and complex requirements, marking only the first stage in our mission to democratize EO. With a 24/7 commercial service, Deimos Imaging is one of the world leading satellite imagery providers. It also processes and distributes imagery data and value-added products on behalf of the PanGeo Alliance, a network of eight satellite operators with a combined 15 medium- and high-resolution EO sensors. UrtheCast is also developing and expects to launch two EO satellite constellations: the world's first fully-integrated constellation of sixteen multispectral optical and SAR satellites, called OptiSAR™, and an eight-satellite constellation designed to capture high-quality, medium-resolution optical imagery of the Earth’s entire landmass (excluding Antarctica) every day, called UrtheDaily™. These constellations are expected to revolutionize the monitoring of our planet with medium- and high-resolution, high-coverage and high-revisit imagery in all weather conditions.

Falcon Eye Drones (FEDS) is a well-known leader in drone-related solutions and services in UAE, Middle-East, and Africa region. We are the first business in the MEA Region to provide drone imagery, inspections and surveillance, with latest drones technology. We are driven by our passion for Drones and the use of new and advanced technologies. We believe in what we do and we pride ourselves on our integrity. We are at the forefront of technological advancements in our field, committed to providing more cost-effective and safe solutions than traditional methods.

Fugro is the world's leading, independent provider of geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions. We accumulate geo-intelligence by acquiring and analysing data on topography and the subsurface, soil composition, meteorological and environmental conditions, and by providing related advice. Our people, resources and technology inspect and monitor the condition and performance of critical infrastructure. We use innovative scanning, monitoring, analytics and data management techniques to assess and report on structural integrity and regulatory compliance, and to identify vulnerabilities before they pose a risk.

Is private, 100% Omani-owned company, founded in 2011, Located in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. With an international outlook and global ambitions to contribute and provide excellent services and products to the geospatial community in Oman and focus mainly on providing Satellite imagery from different resolutions and DEM, DSM, and enable their usage in the locational intelligence in the disaster, crisis and other event management . Geosmart Pixels is the local reseller for the satellite images Pleaides of 50 GSD, Spot 5,6 & 7 with 2.5 & 1,5 M GSD, TerraSAR-X from Airbus DS and provide the capability to users in Oman to task a group of Satellites and instantly get the images they need within hours, in addition to other services and application designed to support the security and national intelligence monitor their territories. Geosmart Pixels is also partner with Deimos to provide Satellite images of 75cm and 2.5m GSD. Geosmart Pixels has the capacity to provide a standardized Geospatial Consultancy services to geo-enable enterprise business process, Image processing, Instant Tasking, flood and risk management

The German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) is an Omani private university located in Halban. GUtech was founded in 2006 through a collaborative agreement between Omani founders and RWTH Aachen University in Germany. GUtech focuses on providing undergraduate and graduate programmes of the highest quality in accordance with the curricula and quality standards modelled on RWTH Aachen University. Currently, GUtech offers a diverse range of programmes through its 4 faculties:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Science in International Business and Service Management
• Bachelor of Science in Logistics
• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
• Bachelor of Engineering in Process Engineering
• Bachelor of Engineering Environmental Engineering
• Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning and Architectural Design
• Bachelor of Science in Applied Geoscience
• Master of Science in Petroleum Geoscience

An unprecedented achievement was realized when GUtech got all its Bachelor degree programmes internationally accredited by ACQUIN, a non-profit agency committed to supporting the enhancement of quality standards in teaching and learning in higher education worldwide. This reflects the international standards GUtech degrees are modelled on and supports the university's vision towards becoming a leading university of technology in Oman and the wider region. Most importantly, ACQUIN accreditation paves the way to GUtech students to pursue post graduate studies abroad and demonstrates the high caliber of GUtech graduates in the international job market. As of December 2016, more than 260 had successfully graduated from GUtech. Currently, more than 1600 students from 32 nationalities are enrolled in different programmes.
GUtech has grown in both size and stature over the past ten years. The University has positioned itself as a leading private university fostering highest standards in teaching, learning, and research. GUtech campus is the first Green Campus in Oman that was awarded the best corporate building in such category in 2013.
GUtech main building includes, an amphitheater, lecture halls, laboratories, a library, and sports halls among others. GUtech offers housing options to students and staff, through its 527 rooms in its three buildings. GUtech campus and residences are equipped with WI-FI. Students and faculty members enjoy different services, ranging from a variety of food outlets and sports activities.

Haya Water - a registered trademark of Oman Wastewater Services Company SAOC was established in December 2002 as a closed stock totally owned by the Government of the Sultanate of Oman, and has been awarded the concession to develop, design, implement, operate and maintain the wastewater facilities in Muscat Governorate in accordance with the Royal Decree No. 69/2005. Haya Water is steadily advancing to implement one of the largest engineering projects in the field of re-use of treated wastewater it is also looking forward to accomplish its primary objective of making Oman one of the pioneer countries around the globe. This is achieved by improving the health levels of all citizens and residents, contribute in reducing pollution caused by conventional sewage systems and preventing the spread of diseases and epidemics. In addition, Haya Water contributes in protecting groundwater sources from pollution and maintaining the water reservoir since it is a national treasure which requires our cumulative efforts to preserve it for future generations.

IIC Technologies provides geospatial solutions and services to organizations across aerospace, defense, government, infrastructure, natural resources, transportation, and utility sectors. Armed with state-of the-art geospatial technology, rich domain experience, and system integration expertise we collaborate closely with our clients, to address their unique challenges and opportunities. Operating from our offices across four continents, we deliver on the entire geospatial value chain from surveys to end-user products and software applications for decision makers.

Jal Technology company is private, 100% Omani-owned company, founded in 2008, Located in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. With an international outlook and global ambitions, the aim is to contribute and provide excellent services and products to the industries we serve. JAL Technology has technical partnership with the best International companies in the GIS and IT solutions domain worldwide and in Quality management for leadership strategies and business of excellence to offer Premium Services in GIS technology to our customers in the domain of GIS Consulting services, Mapping, Satellite Imageries, 3D Building solutions, Enterprise GIS Solutions in the Sultanate of Oman, and in the Gulf Region with close partnership with international specialized companies in these Fields. Jal Technology has established business relationship with regional and international companies who have approved experience in the geospatial services and solutions; in the Geodata management, GIS Cloud, Crowdsourcing apps, GIS Web and Mobile Apps development, satellites images processing and provisions, IT managed Services, Quality Management Services, standardizations (ISO9001, ISO27001-05). JAL has the capacity to provide a standardized Geospatial Consultancy services to geo-enable enterprise business process, has highly experienced staff, these services covers most of geospatial activities and Needs, business Process Definition, Needs Assessment and operation modeling and collaboration by location. AlSafwa Gate Training Institute is the JAL training facility newly established with the focus on the capacity building programs needed for the Geospatial community in the Sultanate. AlSafwa is working on establishing two geospatial capacity programs, the professional development program & the Certification Program.

Khatib & Alami (K&A) is a leading Geospatial Systems Integrator and the First Esri Platinum Partner in the Middle East and Africa. K&A started in 1959 as a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consulting company and in 1988 extended its offerings to include GIS services. K&A has over 50 years of local and regional experience covering Middle East and Africa. The company and its affiliated partnerships and companies operate in various countries including Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Bahrain, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and USA. K&A employs over 6000 engineers, technicians and administrators. Since 1984 K&A has continuously ranked among the top 100 International Design firms as published by Engineering News Record (ENR). Khatib & Alami has also obtained the ISO 9001-2008 certification for their Quality Management System and is CMMI Certified Level 3.

Vision The Ministry of Education is avid to lay on premium standards of learning environment on all measures, focusing principally on education process and its key elements such as administration and mavens and fortifying understructure facilities; in such a way it function its master role in creating a patriotic citizen devoted to his community and appreciates cooperative group work and embraces work values and able to cope with long-life learning strategies and able to live with others peacefully and incorporate in the working force in commitment and responsibility.
Mission The Ministry of Education leads the mission to prepare a generation capable of carrying the nation's economic and social development duties .A mastermind of all measures of teaching and learning and school management. It gears all facilities, curricula, evaluation systems and high quality working force to serve all pupils in various education sectors along with deployment of modern technologies proportionate to Digital Oman Community Strategy. It also works to orchestrate all efforts excreted by private sector and the community to serve education, devising the way to powerful and modern consistent modernization contiguous with civilized nations.

National Survey Authority of Sultanate of Oman has played a crucial role in designing the topographic maps and other tasks related to data, information, services and expertise. The National Survey Authority is committed to furthering geospatial technology for the nation building. It is its mission to optimize the use of geospatial information through communication, coordination and collaboration; and its vision is to take a leadership role in the provision of user focused, cost effective, and reliable, quality geospatial information for meeting sustainable national development. NSA has a full range of map production capabilities and it is willing to advise on all matters regarding topographic mapping and will endeavor to assist where possible in the provision of maps, data, information, services and expertise. NSA has recently launched strategic National level projects to improve the quality and accuracy of Geospatial Data and provide its customers with updated information both in digital and Hard copy form. These projects are the establishment of Oman National Continuous Operating Reference Stations Network (OMANCORSNET), the establishment of Oman National Geoid Model (OMANGEOID), the production of Topo50k & Topo100k Mapping, the preparation of Oman Geospatial Manual (OGM), and the production of Oman Road Atlas which was launched by NSA in October 2016.

The establishment of the National Center for Statistics and Information follows the Supreme Council for Planning. The center has a legal personality and financial and administrative independence and be based in the governorate of Muscat. With the vision to Enhancing Knowledge, NCSI's mission is to promote and support the production of all official statistics and information to the highest scientific standards, professional ethics, and international best practice to use the latest communication tools and information technology to provide and facilitate the provision of neutral information in response to the requirements of users. NCSI is also responsible to establish Oman National Spatial Data Infrastructure. Oman NSDI Vision is to build a standardized Geo-Spatial Infrastructure to facilitate the access to an organized, standardized, and up-to-date sharable geospatial information for enabling a high quality government location based services and solutions and support the Digital Oman Strategy priorities and government missions efficiently and in secure way, with the Mission to coordinate, and support government & stakeholders' collaboration for better location based decisions and services by underlying a set of policies, technologies, data, standards, protocols and specifications.

Following the ministerial decision No.200/92 pertaining the formation of NHO on 15 SEP 92, Oman has joined in October of the same year IHO. While in 1998 she satisfied and signed UNCLOSE & SOLAS and then become a member in IMO. In the light of that, the government of Oman becomes accountable of the international community for hydrographic services of the standards and criteria set by these organizations. Since then RNO took full responsibility to provide national hydrographic services and support at all levels through harnessing all the capabilities and recourses to fulfill National requirements and meet the international treaties with regard to provision of highest standards of safe navigation in the Omani waters. The tasks and roles of NHO could be surrounding up in providing highest degree of safe navigation and safety of life at sea. Such tasks are not restricted on gathering hydrographic data, issuing of printed and electronic charts and navigational publications for each maritime area and Omani waters or maintaining The national hydrographic Archive, but they, tasks & roles, also included effective supervision of the responsibilities of the national committee for the hydrographic requirements as well as providing necessary support for Oman –literati- and maritime boundary declinations operations and promote national requirements for continental shelf extension.

Ordnance Survey International helps organizations around the world develop and grow their geospatial capability and capacity by sharing the specialist skills, knowledge and expertise within Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency. By sharing the lessons learned from over 200 years of investment in people, processes and technology, Ordnance Survey International helps unlock the multi-billion-pound potential of accurate geographic information. We aim to help our international customers derive economic, societal and organizational benefit by managing accurate, maintained and authoritative geospatial information more effectively. We've developed geospatial policy with the National Survey Authority to support the Sultanate of Oman's work towards a better government, a stronger economy and empowered citizens