ORSAC to Set up Regional Geodetic Centre
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Space Application Centre (ORSAC) will sign an MoU with IIT, Kanpur to set up a regional Geodetic Centre in the field of GNSS based Geodesy, Plate Tectonic Movement monitoring, Geoinformatics. It would be the first of its kind in Eastern India. ORSAC will also sign another MoU with ISRO’s Regional Remote Sensing [...]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Space Application Centre (ORSAC) will sign an MoU with IIT, Kanpur to set up a regional Geodetic Centre in the field of GNSS based Geodesy, Plate Tectonic Movement monitoring, Geoinformatics.
It would be the first of its kind in Eastern India.
ORSAC will also sign another MoU with ISRO’s Regional Remote Sensing Centre-East, Kolkata for collaborative works on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, informed CEO of ORSAC Prafulla Kumar Mallick.
Addressing the 43rd Governing Body Meeting of ORSAC, he said that the ORSAC has made the way for space based Surveillance and Imagery Based Remote Sensing data in the sectors like forest, agriculture, mining, irrigation, land records, water resources, urban property assessment and natural resources.
Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra urged various departments to make use of the data generated by ORSAC for project monitoring and more accuracy in delivery of services.
He also directed ORSAC to emphasize more on citizen centric applications focusing on identifying formation of Islands, Shoreline dynamics, capacity of sand quarry, expansion of periurban areas, Town Development Mapping.
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