Odisha govt asks depts to provide data to OSRAC

The state government today asked all its departments to use data being provided by the Odisha Space Application Center (ORSAC) in project monitoring and service delivery system.
The direction in this regard was issued by Chief Secretary A P padhi while reviewing activities of the ORSAC here.
He said the ORSAC had made the way for space based surveillance and monitoring through generation of remote sensing geo-coordinated data in the sectors like forest, agriculture, mining, land records, water resources, urban property assessment and natural resources.
Padhi also directed the ORSAC to complete remote sensing based property tax assessment of Bhubaneswar and Puri municipal areas within three months.

ORSAC CEO Sandeep Tripathy said during 2016-17 ORSAC bagged two prestigious awards from International Forums. These were Geo-Spatial Excellence Award-2016 and Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awrad-2016.
During previous years ORSAC successfully developed the GPS tracking system of mineral carrying vehicles. As of now, 3,700 trucks are under its direct surveillance from the point of loading to the destination.

Similarly, the Center developed remote sensing and GIS technology data base on actual irrigated area and cultivated area. The Center has showed the way for web based remote sensing crop cutting experiment in the year 2017, Tripathy said adding that the ORSAC also prepared natural resource data base of the entire state up to village level, he said.

In the current year, monitoring of houses constructed under the Rural Housing Scheme through remote sensing technology has been assigned to the ORSAC.
The geo-tagged plot based data along with satellite image information would be used for surveillance of the construction status of houses by the beneficiaries and sanctioning of phase wise amount by concerned authorities in the state.
Other successful space technology applications developed by the Center include DGPS (Global Data Processing System) survey of mines and coal blocks of Odisha, high-tech methodology for land survey, survey of forest land proposed for diversion, GIS (geographic information system) based monitoring of afforestation and plantations, soil moisture and vegetation monitoring in 256 watershed clusters, ground water mapping at large scale, road data base of 8310 km of newly declared other district roads, district wise Kharif rice acreage estimation and production forecast for the entire state, he said.

It also coordinated horticulture assessment, GRAMSAT and EDUSAT project, identification of land for land bank, DGPS survey of minor minerals among others, urban vacant land bank data and others.
Presently, among other projects, the Center is developing the GIS data base under the project "Geospatial Technology for Rural and Urban Development".
Under the project, land use pattern along with information about infrastructure and public assets with plot details will be developed for 314 blocks of the state.
Chief Secretary Padhi directed the ORSAC to complete the project by the end of the current financial year and host it in public domain. ORSAC has also taken up the cadastral based GIS data base generation for CDP preparation in 59 towns.