Chordia Tech sets up new division on GIS

PUNE: Chordia Technologies has established a division called Geoscan Digital, which specializes in the collection, interpretation, management and visualization of geo-information. This seeks to promote the extensive and effective utilization of such data in order to support resource management and policy development.

Geoscan Digital has the expertise and requisite hardware plus software to use multi-spectral remote sensing data and the ground information on a common GIS platform. Geo-information is spatially referenced information about the earth's surface or subsurface features is a basic requirement in a variety of applications such as urban planning, watershed and environmental management, forestry, mining and exploration, etc.

Experts and planners in these fields are relying increasingly on the multi-temporal spatial data acquired from remotely sensed images. This data can be effectively manipulated by geographical information systems (GIS) enabling visualization, analysis and modeling.

The division offers map digitization and data conversion, digital image processing and cartography, thematic mapping for different applications, integration and analysis of multi-source spatial data on a GIS platform, training in GIS, turnkey consultancy in setting up user-friendly and user-defined GIS platforms and spatial data- base.

Some of their recent projects include the Sugar Work, which involved sugarcane acreage mapping in 1:5000 scale using multi-date, multi-scale, multi-spectral remote sensing data. The company also did a project for Hughes Telecom India Ltd. This involved the creation of the land base data of Mumbai and Pune on a 1:1000 scale with 38 primary layers.

Geoscan Digital provides the geographical layers as well as a number of attributed data collected in extensive field surveys. The client uses the data on Smallworld GIS. For TELCO, the project involved forming the land database of the PCMC area on 1:500 scale with 4 primary layers.

The dataset was posted on Map/Info format and used for the creation of vehicle tracking software. A project was recently completed for BAIF. This included three projects in the field of watershed planning (in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka) covering 10,000-hectares each. It contained the analysis of hydrology and soils as well as impact assessment.