HYDERABAD: "With Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh having contributed a great deal to IT revolution, we now need to think of a geospatial revolution. Geospatial is a technology that permeates into all fields and helps them to work more profitably," said M Shashidhar Reddy, vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority.
Speaking at the valedictory session of the 'World Geospatial Forum 2011', Shashidhar Reddy said that 58.6 percent landmass of the country is vulnerable to earthquakes while 40 million hectares of land is vulnerable to floods and another 5700 kms of coastline is vulnerable to cyclones. The climate change also adds another dimension to the vulnerability."Apart from the natural and man-made disasters, one of the biggest challenges that lies ahead of us is the swelling urban population. This is an area where the use of geospatial technology can be of immense help," Reddy said. While the Survey of India is planning to have a 1: 10,000 mapping of urban areas in the next ten years to tackle urban flooding, NDMA is striving to map 1: 2,000 and 1: 1,000 in GIS platform in the next five years.Referring to the announcement by the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi about the setting up of the country's first Geospatial Technology Park, he assured the stakeholders of the geospatial industry that more such parks will be set up elsewhere in the country.source :Geospatial world
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