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The Indian Bureau of Mines, Ministry of Mines has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Department of Space for monitoring of mining activity through satellite imagery.
This initiative is part of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India drive.
Under the MoU, NRSC will demonstrate the use of high resolution satellite imagery in the monitoring of mining activity/changes over a period of time and over selected group of mines at two locations of Indian Bureau of Mines on a pilot basis.
This includes checking and validation of the consistency of Different Geo Positioning System (DGPS) points collected as part of lease boundary survey programme of selected group of mines.
The project has been named Sudoor Drishti.
Bhuvan-based services will be used for the monitoring of mining activities and development of mobile app for field data collection to verify the ground realities with respect to the approved proposals of mines in Odhisa and Karnataka.
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