At the second day of the ISG ISRS Symposium 2023, plethora of speakers discussed and presented their ideas to augment capabilities of geospatial technology and help in advancing the nation. The symposium, held at Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, gathered speakers and audience from industry, government, students, and users.
While discussing the growing role of geospatial in governance, NESAC director Dr. SP Agarwal explained his organization’s work and tools developed to protect electoral process and aid in better governance practices in the north-east region of India.
He further explained how geospatial governance models can be expanded to other parts of the country for making efficient decisions
Dr. Sameer Saran, DGM, Regional Remote Sensing Centre-North, explained the impact of geospatial technology in governance. He said, “Geospatial technology is game changer and plays a vital role in governance. It provides access to services and benefits at doorsteps with complete transparency.”
He further said that geospatial database is the backbone for any and every decision now as it provides value, timeliness, and informed decision making.
Emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, Cloud, and Big Data are turning into main components for geospatial technologies, he exclaimed.
Many other themes such as Emergency and Disaster Management, Geoinformatics for Renewable Energy and Rural Urban Infrastructure, Spatial Economics and Sustainability, HPC and Machine Learning were discussed simultaneously at the university.
Titiksha Bhatia, Software engineer at IIT Kanpur, a major user of geospatial technologies discussed about Comparative Analysis of Ground Filtering Methods for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds. When asked about the requirement from government and industry’s side, she said “with the 3D road detection and navigation method, we expect government to make data more open and accessible to make better cities and smart city.”
She also explained about her road detection method, “Road detection is a difficult task given the noise (objects other than road) are almost always present. It is necessary to filter this noise out. Right now the project is at the stage where we are filtering out the ground points from the rest of the above ground points and extracting the road and then further working on the navigation in 3D setup.”
Another perspective was discussed by professor Anjana Vyas, Ph.d, about the assessment of learning pedagogy in geospatial technology and spatial information science education. She explained the importance of geospatial knowledge at the colleges and universities.
She brought forth five parameters of planning, development, process, and product and developed a formula for distributing weightage to them accordingly for a geospatial course.
With various other technical presentations and programs, the second day at ISG ISRS Symposium 2023 brought forth deep-dive sessions and thought-provoking discussions.
