With a view to improve urban planning and assist the administration through the use of modern technology, Haryana Government has decided to conduct detailed digital mapping of all cities in the State.
An official spokesman of Haryana Government said that the State Government has decided to use the experience gained through the ‘Udaan’ pilot project, carried out in tehsil Sohna of district Gurgaon, for detailed digital mapping of all cities in Haryana.
The spokesman said that the project had generated detailed information which was proving useful in tackling many critical issues related to urban planning.
He said that under the project, images with resolution of 5 centimetres have been acquired using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), popularly known as ‘drone’. This type of detailed mapping is not possible through the available remote sensing satellites and is a major step forward in harnessing technology for development, he added.
The spokesman said that the State Government is also developing a geo-portal under the Haryana Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) project in collaboration with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to make available geo-spatial data to all the line departments for their planning needs.
It would access the spatial data from all departments and organisations and put it in the form of inter-operable layers for access by all the users. The geo-portal would provide the latest authentic spatial data for the planning needs of various user departments, he added.