AICTE hosts Online Mapathon to promote indigenous satellite imagery for resource mapping

NEW DELHI: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in association with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and FOSSE (Free Open Source Software in Education) is hosting an 'Online Mapathon' event to promote the use of Indian satellite imagery for developing resource maps in the country.

The online event has been inaugurated on 07th Dec 2020 by Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri, Director of IITB and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Principal Investigator, FOSSEE IITB.

Interested candidates can register on www.iitb-isro-aicte-mapathon.fossee.in between December 7 and 18. Completed maps have to be submitted between Dec 14 and Dec 31. The results will be announced from January 4 to 10.

Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of the AICTE, said that there is a need for popularizing Indian databases developed by ISRO, especially at this time when India is moving in a direction of being self-reliant.

These maps are expected to have crucial applications in climate change adaptation, education, logistics, natural resources management, disaster management, health, geography, forest management, socio-economic factors and local administration.

This event is coordinated by the FOSSEE project, funded by the Ministry of Education, Govt. Of India. The FOSSEE project was started to promote the use of open source software.

“The developed maps will be hosted on open source archives (such as FOSSEE and RuDRA at IITB), so that anyone can access them for community applications. This Mapathon can aid in building local capacities for mapping and generating data that can address larger goals.” said Prof. Pennan Chinnasamy of IITB, who specializes in GIS applications.

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