KSRSAC

Introduction
The Karnataka State Remote Sensing and Applications Centre is an organization established by the
Government of Karnataka in the year 1989 and designated as a nodal agency for implementation of
remote sensing and GIS programmes in the state.
The Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Centre (KSRSAC) is an autonomous organization
under the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Government of Karnataka.
The purpose of introducing this measure was to monitor the natural resources, environment and urban
areas using GIS, remote sensing and GPS tools. They acquire and maintain a library of spatial database
for the state of Karnataka, provide training to officers of line departments. They organize workshops,
seminars and symposiums to spread awareness among the locals, involved with the dissemination of
satellite based remote sensing information.
KSRSAC has contributed immensely to the development of Karnataka State and surging ahead after
successfully completing a wide array of remote sensing and GIS based projects such as Planning and
Evaluation of Watersheds, Delineation and Codification of Watersheds, Natural Resources Census, Crop
Acreage and Production Estimation, Wasteland and Wetland Mapping, Vegetative Cover and Change
Detection, Environmental Impact Assessment, Groundwater Prospecting, Command Area Assessment,
Coastal Zone Studies, Urban Mapping, Urban and Regional Planning.
 Hierarchy
•The Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Centre (KSRSAC) is an autonomous organization under the
Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Government of Karnataka.
• The Chief Secretary to the Government of Karnataka is the President of the Governing Body of the Centre.
•The Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner, Secretary to Government, Department of
Personnel and Administrative Reforms, act as Vice Presidents.
•The Director, KSRSAC is the Member Secretary.
•The activities of KSRSAC are guided and monitored by the Executive Committee, which is Chaired by the Principal
Secretary to the Government, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms.
• The Principal Secretaries and subject experts are members of the Executive Committee with the Director, KSRSAC
as the Member Secretary.
About
• The Head Office of KSRSAC is located in a space of about 16000 sq. ft. at Doora
Samvedi Bhavana in GKVK Campus.
• The regional centre of KSRSAC at Kalaburagi with a built up area of about 5600 sq. ft.
built by the Hyderabad Karnataka Development Board was inaugurated in
September 2009 by the honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka.
• KSRSAC is the only organization to have obtained the clearance from Ministry of
Defense to undertake large scale urban mapping using stereo pair of aerial
photographs as well as satellite imageries.
Vision
•Supporting: Good governance, sustainable development, citizen
empowerment
•Offering: GIS decision support service for the government, private
enterprise and citizens.
•Maintaining: A state wide, standardised, seamless and most
current GIS asset of Karnataka.
•Positioning: Karnataka is the forefront of use of GIS technology
and application.
IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE OF GIS
•GIS can power and support open-governance methods by involving citizens, opening
up information in easy-to-understand map formats and also assist to bring in
accountability and responsibility of public and governance activities
•GIS can be a major differentiator for decision-making at all levels of state governance
– be it in government, in enterprises or by citizens; be it state-level, district/panchayat
or local-body levels or be it for long-term planning or for immediate decisions/actions
•GIS is not just about images and maps, but must include a whole host of spatial data
representation of geo-tagged developmental data tables - all of which comprises the
“integrated” GIS-content for the state.
•It must be recognized that in just producing best satellite images or best topographic
maps or best forest maps etc is just half the problem addressed for a GIS Decision
Support.
•New sets of GIS-Ready data that becomes possible with advances in GIS technology –
say, maps on 1:10k scale or larger; re-surveyed land ownership data; terrain data on
3D; underground assets GIS data in cities; crowd sourced data and so on must also
get assured to the GIS USER and continuously improve the GIS Decision Support
services over time.
NEED FOR KARNATAKA-GIS
The State has identified twelve key areas of transformation as part of “Karnataka Vision-2020. The main
goals of the Vision-2020 are:
•Increasing rural incomes through greater viability of agriculture and allied activities
•Focusing on job-oriented growth through concomitant skill development of the workforce
•Developing the State as a vibrant knowledge society
•Improving access and availability of quality healthcare for all
•Achieving a sustainable and orderly process of industrialization and urbanization
•Enhancing opportunities and empower women across economic, social and political spheres
•Bridging the gap between socially backward and vulnerable groups and rest of the people
•Improving energy availability and develop infrastructure to boost productive potential of economy
•Preserving and promoting Karnataka’s rich heritage
Elements
There are six major elements of the K-GIS :
•K-GIS Infrastructure: A state-level computing and networking infrastructure for hosting/serving the K-
GIS Asset and serving KGIS Applications.
•K-GIS Asset: A seamless, State-wide GIS-Ready dataset which is standardized and updated and
configured to meet the GIS data and application needs of government, citizens and enterprises,
•K-GIS DSS Applications: A suite of GIS applications for decision- and work processes of different
departments. GIS applications for public services and citizens and also hosting/publishing enterprise
GIS solutions.
•K-GIS Portal: A single gateway access to K-GIS Asset and K-GIS DSS Applications - with specialized
Metadata service, GIS Applications service, data ingest service, data sharing service, publishing services
etc.
•K-GIS Capacity building: A sustained effort for training and orientation of users/professionals from
government and enterprise in GIS and for positioning an integrated program of education and research
in GIS.
IMPLEMENTATION OF K-GIS
There are many ways of implementing K-GIS , few of them are given below:
•Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST)

 It has developed district level GIS databases to support the process of Local
Level Planning at the levels of district, taluk and Gram Panchayats.
 Application domains include, for example, public health and education,
environmental analysis and mapping, transportation, water quality/quantity,
watersheds, elections, disaster planning and management, administrative
planning etc.
• Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre(KSNDMC):

 It has excellent application and infrastructure in the field of Disaster Management, including early warning
and mitigation aspects.
 KSNDMC collects weather, geological, hydrological data on real time. KSNDMC operates a Master Control
Facility, which is supported by a network of 1600 Telemetric Rain Gauges, 200 Satellite and GPRS linked
weather stations, 13 Earthquake Monitoring Stations
 KSNDMC provides early warning and weather advisory services to the community, research organizations
and the Government – even inputs are disseminated to the farming community, others concerned with
agriculture and horticulture sectors, fisherman, agencies in transport, power and energy sectors, and the
Disaster Management Authorities at the state level as well as district level in Karnataka.
 KSNDMA has also carried out hazard mapping and vulnerability studies, undertakes monitoring and impact
assessment of natural hazards and also imparts training
•PARTNER AGENCIES: GOK DEPARTMENTS
•ADVISORY ROLE OF CENTRAL AGENCIES – ISRO, SOI ETC
•INVOLVING PRIVATE SECTOR IN K-GIS
•INVOLVEMENT OF STATE ACADEMIA/NGOS IN K-GIS

These are the ways how KSRSAC is implementing the use of GIS
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Schedule is a mechanism to communicate specific tasks need to get done with
specific resource in a specific timeframe. It contains all the work needed to deliver
the project on time with a well-designed sequence of events
•Following steps are involved in preparing a schedule
•Identify and list the activity and milestones
•Determine the sequence of activities
•Estimate the time required for each activity
•Allocation of resources and budget
FUNDING PRINCIPLES FOR K-GIS
•Government of Karnataka funding for the establishment of the KGIS is a must –
especially as it is the founding responsibility of GOK to establish the basic GIS
infrastructure that helps the state, as a whole.
•At later stage, a limited business model could become viable when the basic GIS
infrastructure is established and it will be possible to attract private sector investment
for the following activities:
 Revenue from licensed-sale of K-GIS Asset and K-GIS Applications
 Building and Serving K-GIS Applications Service through B2B and B2C applications
BENEFITS OF K-GIS
https://ksrsac.in/web/sites/default/files/projects/2018-02/KGS-VISION%20DOCUMENT.pdf
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2 points for each
Eg: How GOK(govt of ka) will benefit:
a….
b….
How citizens will benefit:
a
b
Projects Competed
https://www.ksrsac.in/web/projects/completed