1. Digital Mapping & Production Modernization
Transform traditional cartographic processes into an automated, AI-assisted and 3D-enabled production system
Key Actions
- Complete digital topographic base map coverage of Pakistan at 1:10,000 scale by 2027
- Produce 3D city models of Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta using LiDAR and drone photogrammetry
- Develop digital twin models for major cities
- Introduce AI-based feature extraction from satellite and aerial imagery
- Modernize national orthophoto and DEM datasets (5-10 cm resolution)
- Digitize all analogue archives into a georeferenced, searchable digital library
2. National Geodetic & CORS Network
Establishing 200 CORS nationwide for geodetic precision
Key Actions
- Expand CORS network to 169 stations nationwide by 2030
- Upgrade National Gravity and Magnetic Networks using absolute gravimeters and magnetometers
- Develop a Pakistan Geoid Model (PGEO2028) aligned with ITRF2020
- Integrate with IGS and M3G networks for international calibration
- Provide real-time GNSS correction services to public and private users.
3. Pak-NSDI
Developing standards, metadata and a national geoportal for cross-agency data sharing
Key Actions
- Establish NSDI Secretariat (2026)
- Publish 50 standardized spatial layers in Phase-I and 50 in Phase-II
- Develop National Metadata & QA Guidelines, OGC-compliant web services (WMS/WFS) and Open Data Portal
- Implement NSDI Act and Data Sharing Policy through inter-agency agreements
- Enable sectoral data nodes (e.g for agriculture, water, urban, disaster etc)
4. IT Infrastructure & Cybersecurity
Upgrading data centers, adopting AI/ML, cloud-based geospatial services and ensuring secure data governance
Key Actions
- Replace 2010-era fiber and network hardware with 10 Gbps backbone
- Deploy high-performance computing (HPC) clusters for geospatial analytics
- Establish Geospatial Cloud Data Center with redundancy and cybersecurity
- Implement Enterprise GIS and ERP systems
- Build Disaster Recovery Site in Lahore
- Develop Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Spatial Early Warning System
- Undertake 3D emergency mapping for flood and earthquake-prone zones
- Support climate adaptation projects
- Provide geospatial support to CPEC, NDMA, SUPARCO and NHA
- Create national land use, soil and water resource maps for planning
5. Human Resource Development & Training
Establishing Pakistan Geospatial Academy and building specialized capacities in GIS, photogrammetry and AI analytics
Key Actions
- Establish Pakistan Geospatial Academy in collaboration with NUST, SUPARCO and HEC
- Implement continuous training programs in LiDAR, GIS, remote sensing, AI and OGC standards
- Revise service rules to create new cadres: Geospatial Data Scientists, GIS Analysts, Drone Operations Officers
- Encourage foreign training and exchange programs
- Introduce performance-based incentives and e-learning modules
- Facilitate private sector in development of Apps and other commercial products
6. Innovation, R&D & International Collaboration
Promoting indigenous innovation, research partnerships and local/international cooperation with geospatial departments/ agencies, space and earth observation organizations and private sector
Key Actions
- Encourage partnership with private sector for promoting R&D and innovation in Geometics
- Launch Geospatial Innovation Challenge Fund for startups
- Establish MoUs with international NMAs (Ordnance Survey, USGS, NGII, NGCC, Geoscience Australia etc)
- Participate in UN-GGIM, ISPRS and other international fora
- Develop mobile apps and web dashboards for public access to SoP data