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News : September-October 1998
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Tele Atlas starts its operations in India
Karnataka MLAs to use GIS
ORG-MARG uses GIS to Market Comprehensive Retail Stores Information
IRS-1D completes one year of successful operation
Water Resource Management through IT
Micromine V8 launched in Orissa
Tele Atlas statrs its operation in India
Tele Atlas (a Dutch company), engaged in the production, marketing and continuos updating of geographical databases for major European regions has started its wholly owned subsidiary in India at NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh. The Indian office will be involved in digitisation of paper source materials into databases. These databases will be utilised for Car Navigation, Geographic Information Systems, Traffic and Transport as well as PC and on line applications.
Karnataka MLAs to use GIS
ORG GIS will
help the Karnataka legislature in providing computerised constituency-management
system (COMCOMS) for its MLAs. Under the Rs 2-crore project, jointly developed
by state owned KEONICS and ORG-GIS, data pertaining to development programmes
and the performance of MLAs of all the constituencies be made available in GIS.
The package will be developed in Kannada and English. The Karnataka assembly
speaker Ramesh Kumar has said that COMCOMS will be the first venture of its kind
in the entire country. Data pertaining to population, occupations, education,
local self-government bodies, land use, roads and transport, irrigation crops
and horticulture, schools, hospitals and different types of developmental
activities pertaining to each constituency would be the part of the system.
ORG-MARG uses GIS to Market Comprehensive Retail Stores Information
ORG-MARG, the premier market research company, is a pioneer in the area of providing information regarding retail store environment in India. It conducts a census of shops and other retail outlets for metropolitan cities on a regular basis. In an effort to add value to the information being provided to the Indian marketers, ORG-MARG has decided to provide not only exhaustive information regarding the retail store profile and stocking pattern, but also to pinpoint the location of the outlet. To this end, it has entered into a strategic agreement with ML Infomap Pvt. Ltd.
Under this agreement, ORG-MARG will provide exhaustive information regarding the retail stores profile and stocking pattern of major towns. The GIS software will pinpoint the location of outlets on maps. GIS will enable the marketer to plan, control and supervise a more efficient distribution system. Henceforth, all retail outlet information will be stored and organised in a computerised map environment.
ORG-MARG has been constantly upgrading its databank by conducting the Census of Retail Stores in India. Currently a census of retail outlets is on in key towns in India. Currently, twenty-three of the largest metropolitan cities are being covered – the survey being conducted over their core areas and urban outgrowths. Later, this will be increased to fifty- four cities in a phased manner.
A similar exercise had been done by RMSI, Delhi in their product CORE Map, which was only for Delhi and included the 1995 retail data collected by ORG-MARG. It used the Eicher Delhi street map, which does not have details for important commercial areas like Chandni Chowk. So the present exercise will flit in this lacunae for Delhi.
When the entire project is complete, the ORG-MARG retail census of metropolitan cities packaged in a GIS, promises to be a very powerful management tool for strategising marketing of products in India.
IRS-1D completes one year of successful operation
A year after cassandras predicted its fiery demise, India's remote sensing satellite IRS-1D is performing flawlessly and the Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) is confident that it will meet its minimum design life of three years. As the ISRO points out proudly, data from the IRS-1D is received and used not only in India but, through commercial contracts, in the United States, Germany, Dubai, Japan, Korea and Thailand, Stations to receive IRS data are being established in Saudi Arabia and Equador, Australia and some more countries in Europe and Latin American are expected to join the IRS fold. The IRS-1D was the first of the IRS-1 series to have been launched from India. Its predecessors, the IRS-1A, the 1B and 1C were put into orbit by Soviet and Russian launchers. On October 7, 1997, the IRS-1D's three cameras were switched on and they have taken more than one lakh pictures since then. The panchromatic (PAN) camera on the IRS-1C and 1D, with a resolution of 5.88 meters, provides the highest resolution imagery of any civilian remote sensing satellite. The high resolution PAN data has allowed new applications in areas such as mapping urban sprawl, infrastructure planning and large scale mapping of various kinds. Uptodate road maps of various Indian cities have been prepared using the data from the PAN cameras.
India today operates four civilian remote sensing satellites, IRS 1B, 1C and 1D as well as the IRS-P3, making IRS the largest single constellation of civilian remote sensing satellites. They are to be joined next year by IRS-P4 (Oceansat) carrying sensors for various oceanic applications, in 2000-2001 by the IRS-P5 (Cartosat), which will have a camera with a resolution of 2.5 meters for cartographic applications, and later by the IRS-P6 (Resourcesat) with better sensors for agricultural applications.
Water Resource Management through IT
The Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM), working under the Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment, has awarded a contract to HCL Infosystems Ltd. to computerise the operations of their Water project in village. HCL Infosystems has been given the mandate to design, develop and implement software that would facilitate better planning and monitoring of rural water supply schemes.
RGNDWM provides scientific and financial assistance to states and Union Territories that are responsible for providing drinking water and sanitation in rural areas. It becomes imperative for the mission to have accurate information on ground and rainwater resources. With a computerised program, the agency would be able to make better, timely decisions regarding water and sanction needs.
Micromine V8 launched in Orissa
World Geoscience Data Services India (WGDSI) launched Micromine V8 - The International Mining & Exploration Software at Bhubaneswar. "The software has been developed in response to the industry demand and can manage all aspects of mining data on a personal computer", said Mr. Pranit Bhasin, Managing Director, WGDSI at a conference here. He said that the software would find wide acceptance in the mining industries of the country as it has highly potential presence in the international mineral sector. The software can be used for green-field exploration, drilling, near-mine projects, drill hole data evaluation, grade control and ore body modeling. Its 3D capability can generate and manipulate shaded and rendered views and visualize exploration and design data accurately. Micromine Windows is a full 32-bit implementation of the leading mining exploration program proven by over 10 years use by the world's foremost mining and exploration geologists. Mr. Keith Whitehouse, Technical support Manager, Micromine Pty., Australia and Mr. Myke Jones, Marketing Manager, Micromine Pte, Indonesia gave their presentations to a galaxy of Geoscientists and mining engineers from several organizations like NALCO, IMFA, OMC, DMG, RIO TINTO ORISSA MWWG, NILACHAL ISPAT etc.
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