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Abstract
Remote Sensing and GIS for Natural Resources Management in Karnataka, India: A New Perspective
Track: Application Development
Author(s): HONNE HUSKUR, THIRUMURUGAN PONNUSAMY
Management of natural resources need accurate and reliable assessment of existing resources and complex modelling tools to understand and visualize environmental inter-relationships. Management of natural resources involves an integration of social expectations and ecological capabilities and minimizing the differences between resource demand and availability. While the advancements in remote sensing has provided inputs, geographic information system (GIS) tools have advanced to breakdown the spatial complexities between various natural and man-made phenomena and Earth's resources.
The real world can be categorized into several layers like natural resources data demographic data, agro-economic data, socio-economic data and infrastructure facilities and services. Integration of this diverse information within a framework involves bringing together from a variety of sources, requires an effective matching of similar entities and demands information consistency across the database sets. GIS brings in a synergy between various disciplines like conventional datasets, computerized databases and applications, computer science, graphical processing, statistics, cartography, photogrammetry, remote sensing etc. GIS with number of tools offers an integrated analysis and transforms the data into the required information for planners and decision makers. Remote Sensing forms a primary input base for GIS, thereby providing an accurate and latest backdrop of the actual situation on the ground relating natural resources. The advent of high-resolution satellite images, along with Global Positioning System (GPS), will enable the generation of detailed cartographic database with digital terrain models leading to engineering solutions to complex problems involved in micro-level development. This paper briefly describes some of the innovative GIS applications carried out for the State of Karnataka, India. It includes watershed planning and prioritization, parcel based land resources information system, tank information system, canal alignment, command area studies, crop acreage & production estimation, industrial zoning atlas and coastal regulation zone mapping.
HONNE HUSKUR
Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center (KSRSAC) - Government of Karnataka
honnegowdah@yahoo.com
KSRSAC, ##8, MSB III Block, Ground Floor, KSCMFL Building, Cunningham Road, Bangalore
Bangalore , AS 560 052
INDIA
Phone: +91-80-2389974
Fax: +91-80-2386528
E-mail: honnegowdah@yahoo.com
THIRUMURUGAN PONNUSAMY
Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Center (KSRSAC) - Government of Karnataka
murugan_gis@hotmail.com
KSRSAC, #8, MSB III Block, Ground Floor, KSCMFL Building, Cunningham Road, Bangalore
Bangalore , Karnataka 560 052
INDIA
Phone: +91-80-2389950
Fax: +91-80-2386528
E-mail: murugan_gis@hotmail.com