Advisor to Governor, K Vijay Kumar, today inaugurated newly constructed office complex of J&K State Spatial Data Infrastructure (SSDI) in Bemina here. He also launched the beta version of the Geo-portal ‘ssdi.jk.gov.in’.
The State Spatial Data Infrastructure (J&K StateGeo-portal) has been established to create infrastructure for availability ofand access to organized spatial data and use of the infrastructure atCommunity, Local, State, Regional and at National levels. The Department ofEcology, Environment & Remote Sensing is the implementing agency of theproject in the State.
Head & CEO NSDI P S Acharya, PCCF J&K Suresh Chugh,PCCF/Director EE&RS B Siddhartha Kumar, Director Soil & WaterConservation P K Singh, Director SFRI Om Prakash, Chief Wildlife Warden SureshGupta, Additional PCCF Sarvesh Rai, MD JKSFC Vasu Yadav, CCF Kashmir S. F. A.Gillani, Secretary (Technical) K Ramesh Kumar, other senior officers of Forestand its allied wings and officers, staff of SSDI were present on the occasion.
Humayun Rashid, Scientist/Principal Investigator SSDI gave adetailed overview of the State Spatial Data Infrastructure project and itsimplementation in the state. The project is being funded by DEST, GoI and StateDepartment of Science and Technology.
The Advisor, on the occasion, also launched JK Geo-portalafter which a demonstration of SSDI Geo-portal data and functionalities wasalso made by the Scientist/Principal Investigator SSDI.
It was told that with the help of this Geo-portal, the organizationscan improve knowledge sharing, reduce duplication of efforts, direct peopletoward the best available data, and improve the overall quality of geospatialdata and information. Also, an android based mobile application “POINTGIS” hasbeen developed for data capturing.
The Advisor complimented the Department of Ecology,Environment & Remote Sensing for successfully implementing SSDI-JK projectand assured full support of the government for its sustenance.
He asked to replicate the successful SDI models beingadopted by the leading states so that the best practices can be incorporatedhere. Speaking on the occasion, Dr P S Acharya stressed on the need forcoordination among the line Departments in generating and sharing ofstandardized geospatial data. Later, theAdvisor along with other dignitaries also released a Vision Document of SSDIand GIS-based resource Atlas of Srinagar district.