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The city of Mumbai has sent out tenders to carry out underground mapping of utilities in the city. There are at least 33 utilities with networks buried underground. The work builds upon a detailed base map that was prepared by the National Informatics Centre last year. The underground survey will collect details on water, storm [...]
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working with tea growers in Assam and West Bengal to apply remote sensing and GIS for better tea yields. The project would help growers determine sites suitable for planting new crops, and would also assist with water resource mapping. Read more about the tea project via Connect India.
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India’s National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) produced satellite imagery that seems to suggest that China is building a dam on the Brahmaputra River. This evidence prompted the government to bypass the typical intergovernmental channels of flood-water data sharing and raise the level of discourse through the Ministry of External Affairs over this project on a [...]
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A retired Indian engineer is hard at work building new glaciers to combat global warming. This one-man geoengineering project involves creating earthen dams in the shady sides of mountain valleys and piping in meltwater that freezes over night. The 76-year-old engineer has built a number of these glaciers that have stored one million cubic feet [...]
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A new laboratory is being developed at the University of Madras, department of geography, to receive lectures from experts at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) on remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS). The laboratory will be made available to students in other departments, such as geology, applied geology, [...]
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Dr. K. Kasturirangan received the Making a Difference Award at this year’s ESRI/UC, after recently being elevated to the position of director of the Planning Commission for the government of India. Kasturirangan previously served as a member of Parliament in the country’s Senate, and ran the Indian National Remote Sensing Agency. Dr. Kasturirangan spoke at [...]
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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) has developed the Geo-Referenced Area Management (GRAM++) as a low-cost alternative to commercial GIS packages. The software was originally funded in 1997 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and has recently been promoted for projects by NGOs and other [...]
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There was much press this fall when India announced that they were developing their own version of Google Earth. The site that is in development is called Bhuvan, Sanskrit for Earth, and is meant to be a web portal to the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) imagery from their seven remote-sensing satellites, along with other [...]
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The Times of India reports today the the ambitious government-run project to map Delhi in 3D is on hold now due to the recession. The manpower-intensive second phase of the project that involved physical inspections of each building was supposed to begin in early December. A subsidiary of the Survey of India is responsible for [...]
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The Indian Space Research Institute (ISRO) will launch a satellite developed by Anna University students during the next flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle scheduled for March-April of this year. The micro satellite was built by students with parts and guidance from the ISRO satellite center in Bangalore. ISRO has previously launched nano satellites [...]
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