AGI Awards 2024 Recognize Exemplary Work across Major Sectors
February 20, 2024 (Tuesday), New Delhi: On the sidelines of the India Geospatial Leadership Summit 2024, the Association of Geospatial Industries, India, announced the AGI Awards on February 20, 2024. The awards were conferred by Shri Hitesh Kumar S. Makwana, IAS, Surveyor General, and Shri Pramod Kaushik, President, AGI, for exemplary work done for Digital Transformation, Agriculture, Governance & Development Planning, Water Resources, Modernizing State Governance, Urban Management, Land Administration, and Regional Collaboration. The award’s objective was to felicitate and encourage the use and adoption of innovative geospatial technologies for projects with tangible social and economic outcomes.
AGI India received 31 nominations from central and state government agencies, the Geospatial private sector, and academia under various categories covering different fields and perspectives. These nominations were evaluated based on the size of the project, innovative use of Geospatial Technologies, impact, and outcomes. The nominations were assessed by a distinguished and independent jury comprising Dr. V. K. Dadhwal, Indira Gandhi Chair Professor of Environmental Science, NIAS & Former Director, NRSC, and Shri Devendra Pandey, IFS (Retd), Former Director General, Forest Survey of India.
On the occasion, Mr. Pramod Kaushik, President of the Association of Geospatial Industries, said, “I congratulate all the winners of the AGI Awards 2024, exemplary user and industry organizations across diverse sectors, for their outstanding contributions to advancing geospatial technology adoption and utilization in India. From optimizing agricultural practices to ensuring efficient urban management, from strengthening governance frameworks to enhancing transparency in land governance, Geospatial technologies are steering holistic national development in India, and the AGI Awards 2024 recognize and felicitate these achievements. Looking ahead, India’s outlook for the Geospatial industry is incredibly promising. The recently launched National Geospatial Policy is a guiding light, fostering an environment conducive to innovation and collaboration. With continued policy support, industry growth, and increased awareness, we can harness the power of Geospatial technologies to address critical challenges, unlock new opportunities, and propel India towards a brighter, more sustainable future.”
Here are the award categories and list of winners:
Excellence in Digital Transformation – Himachal Pradesh GDC, Survey of India
Land identification has been done using High-Resolution Ortho rectified Image (ORI) & LIDAR DEM. Land parcel dimensions and shapes were preserved as depicted, followed by integrating the parcels with the National Geodetic Framework or CORS established by the Survey of India. This preservation is achieved through the innovative approach subsequently termed the “Best-Fit” method by the Survey of India, which involves overlaying these old revenue maps onto orthorectified imagery of the pertinent geographical area. Hexagon’s Leica GS04 plus and Esri’s ArcMap were used for the project.
Excellence in Agriculture – Farmonaut Technologies
Farmonaut leveraged geospatial technology innovatively for Satellite-Based Crop Health Monitoring in real-time, providing actionable insights for farmers on irrigation, fertilization, and pest control. Farmonaut’s solution has been extended to benefit farmers in 14+ countries, contributing to improved agricultural practices on a global scale. The solution uses geospatial technology for precision agriculture, optimizing resource utilization by providing accurate information on soil conditions, moisture levels, and crop performance at a spatial level.
Excellence in Governance & Development Planning – Ministry of Panchayati Raj
SVAMITVA Scheme of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj is a Central Sector Scheme that has significantly contributed to the empowerment of rural communities in India. By leveraging cutting-edge drone surveys and GIS mapping technology, the scheme ensures accurate demarcation of land parcels, thereby mitigating disputes and providing individuals with property records of rights (i.e., SVAMITVA Property Cards), thereby facilitating monetization of properties, enabling bank loans and comprehensive village-level planning. Drone surveys, GIS, and Cloud-based ORI generation using Esri tools were used in the project.
Excellence in Water Resources – National Mission for Clean Ganga
PRAYAG (Platform for Real-time Analysis of Yamuna And Ganga and their tributaries) serves as a Real-Time Monitoring Centre for strategic planning and oversight of projects, river water quality, and more. The platform utilizes online dashboards, including the Ganga Tarang Portal, the PMT Tool Dashboard, and the Ganga Districts Performance Monitoring System and live feeds from the CCTV cameras at various STPs and the construction sites. Esri and Hexagon products were used in the project development.
Excellence in Modernizing State Governance – Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Centre
The Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Center (MRSAC), Nagpur, designed an integrated information system – MahaBHUMI GeoPortal – to acquire satellite data and provide as services the value-added processed satellite image data, under a common base of coordinate and projection system. The GeoPortal is a central repository of departmental data & assets in GIS sector-specific requirements and Decision Support System (DSS). It offers Web services of various databases for consumption by various departments in their applications. Esri’s ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, Dashboards and Geoportal were used in the project.
Excellence in Urban Management – Municipal Corporation of Delhi
The MCD GIS citizen portal is a step towards better governance taken by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to allow the citizens of Delhi to avail of various services through an easy-to-use interface along with geo-referential data. The project uses Esri Enterprise GIS products to create a planning tool and updated information for departmental officers to design projects/ schemes that help deliver hassle-free, transparent, and efficient services to its citizens. The system relies on creating data interoperability in siloed data sets, thereby creating long-term savings on cost and one reliable truth.
Excellence in Land Administration – Directorate of Land Records, Govt of Haryana
The Haryana Large-Scale Mapping project involves mapping over 44212 sq. km. of the state, including Rural, Abadi Deh, and Urban areas. The mapping will provide the Government of Haryana with a precise demarcation of land, thereby helping determine the location of each parcel of land, detect alterations, and identify encroachments made anywhere on Government lands, including those belonging to any local body, board, or corporations, hence promoting ease of living vis-à-vis land and property.
Excellence in Regional Collaboration – NESAC
The North Eastern Spatial Data Repository (NESDR) was created as a regional node with linkages to all respective state nodes of the NER. Developed on Scanpoint Geomatic Limited’s IGiS-MDMS (Metadata management system), it stores, manages, publishes, registers, and securely distributes Geospatial data by adopting a service-oriented architecture defined by NESAC. OGC-compliant web services are exploited to establish this data repository, with a data catalog populated with various geospatial datasets of NER covering land, water, and soil resources, biodiversity, utility maps, infrastructure, socio-economic data, planning inputs, and disaster management support inputs.
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