Future of Geospatial Market at Middle East / GCC Countries? Lets talk about it!

Thanks dear Mohamed for your nice answer and useful links :)

Dear  .. Maryam Adel SAHARKHIZ,

Your very important question needs a long answer. But Refering to some links on Internet .. there are some good ideas and many industries using Geospatial Engineering.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospatial_analysis

2- http://geospatialworld.net/Regions/index.aspx?nType=Middle_East

3- http://www.atkinsglobal.com/en-GB/middle-east

And with some Forums, Conferences, and Enents ..

1- http://geospatialworld.net/Event/index.aspx

2- http://10times.com/geospatial-oil-gas-middle-east

3- http://www.geospatialmedia.net/conference.htm

For me, the best idea is focusing on Future Construction Cities, Intelligence, National Security, and Military.

Thanks ;

I believe there are huge potential areas for future geo-spatial market in the middle east:

1. Local Government
   • Public works/infrastructure management (roads, water, sewer, etc.)
   • Planning and environmental management
   • Property records and appraisal
2. Real Estate and Marketing
   • Retail site selection, site evaluation
3. Public safety and defense
   • Crime analysis, fire prevention, emergency management, military/defense
4. Natural resource exploration/extraction
   • Petroleum, minerals, quarrying
5. Transportation
   • route planning, transportation planning/modeling
6. Health Management (Health Systems, Health Centers, Research)
7. Public health and epidemiology
8. The Geospatial Industry
   • Data development, application development, programming

GIS market IN MIDDLE EAST AND GCC has grown considerably during the past few years and is expected to grow at  in the next five years, .The Asia-Pacific is the biggest market for GIS, followed by Europe and GCC, 

GCC is the fastest growing market of GIS that is mainly due to rising investment .

The scope of GIS in GCC is very high as the areas like NSDI and Addressing projects is still not implemented in many of the countries. These are the two areas where the scope of GIS is too high