BHOPAL | April 26, 2017: Bhuvan web portal will be going to provide high resolution 3-D maps of the major cities for better policing. Several suggestions and recommendations came out after the brainstorming session conducted in a state meet on use of space technology in governance and development on Monday.
The police department is facing various challenges like general safety, anti-terror, organised crime, communal disharmony, crime against vulnerable groups, especially women and children, senior citizens, traffic control and management, disaster management and emergency services, rescue and mobility assistance.
Currently space technology is used in GIS-enabled system for Dial-100, CCTV network and disaster command, response and monitoring system.
The department in the meeting demanded support from ISRO on space technology like providing very high resolution satellite images by linking with Bhuvan state node on intranet for high resolution satellite images for planning of police operations, whenever they needed. 3-D mapping of major cities, prediction of flood inundation areas based on CARTOSAT Digital Elevation Model and 3D modelling, surveillance and mapping of vulnerable areas using microsatellite, drones and capacity building of police force, home guard, SDERF for specialised use of geo-informatics were demanded.
The forest department also shared its challenges in the meeting, like biotic pressure on forests such as grazing, illicit felling, encroachment on forest land for agriculture, poaching of wild animals.
Presently the department is using space technology and getting satellite images and GIS for forest cover and density mapping, carbon stock and change detection.
The forest department has asked support from ISRO like the need of high resolution LISS IV satellite imagery on monthly basis by linking through Bhuvan state node with free download of archive images, open source software for processing this data, sharing of locally created data among the departments, capacity building through tailor-made courses suited for different levels of forest officials at IIRS.
Revenue department also wants assistance from ISRO whereas presently the department is using the facilities since 1974-1984. The aerial photos were used for update of cadastral maps. Very high resolution satellite imagery is being used for preparation of land database in rural areas. The Differential Global Positioning System technique is used for geo-referencing of high resolution satellite data – useful in the survey and resurvey of cadastral maps, acreage and production estimates of crops for revenue collection, delineation of encroachment on government land.
Support has been sought from ISRO on space technology to provide very high resolution satellite data of habitat area, rural settlement area mapping, updation of land use and land cover information of cadastral maps for natural resource management and land use planning, improved web-based application for providing land records based e-services to common citizens.
The mining department is facing challenges like monitoring of illegal mining and transportation. Presently the department is using GPS-based monitoring of mines and illegal mining.
The department has demanded support from ISRO on space technology to provide near real time very high resolution satellite data for monitoring of illegal mining areas and their surroundings, monitoring sand mining at Narmada and capacity building for using space technology on regular basis.
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