KARNATAKA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore - 560 012

Karnataka State Spatial Data Infrastructure (KSSDI)

The KSSDI project was sanctioned by the Department of Science & Technology (DST) Government of India (GOI) and Government of Karnataka (GOK) in April 2007.

Objectives:

To develop a web based Geo Portal to acquire process, store, distribute and improve the utilization of geo spatial data (sharing of geo spatial data through internet) for planners, decision makers and public.

Data clearing house which would be a gateway of spatial data being generated by various agencies in the State.

Progress:

The complete Karnataka Geo Portal is developed using the ERDAS Apollo Software, an OGC compliant with facilities to share the vector and raster datasets through WMS, WFS and WRS web services along with the solutions and products from IBM for server hardware, storage, backup and retrieval systems, CISCO for the Networking components and Oracle for RDBMS requirements respectively. It is a centralised single window access mechanism for all spatial data acquired by various agencies of the state.

As per the requirements of the Geoportal, a state-of-the-art data centre has been established as per the specification listed in the RFP. All the required components are delivered and installed in the Council. The Council has also installed 2 MBPS Internet Lease Line connectivity from BSNL under this project. All activities towards the establishment of the Data Centre Setup have been completed. The Karnataka Geo-Portal is expected to work without any operational difficulty with the current configuration. Portal developments based on functional, non-functional and usability of the portal is in the final stage. The Council is planning to conduct stake holder conference to formulate spatial data policy for the State.

The Beta version of the Karnataka Geoportal has been released by Prof. P. Balaram, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Karnataka State Council. The KSSDI portal has passed preliminary stage of development and has been released to users during October, 2009 for portal functionality testing. The release allowed the testing of the portal to undergo usability testing with selected users who provided feedback to the project team. Identified malfunctions were rectified. The Council officially launched Karnataka GeoPortal during December, 2009 at the 9th Annual event of National Spatial Data Infrastructure by the Honorable Minister of State for Science and Technology, Government of India, Sri Prithviraj Chavan.

The project team is working on improving the usability, performance, security aspects of the portal. The project staffs are being trained to handle the data, security, updation as well as spatial data centre. The training for the project staff both at district and state level are planned and is in progress.
 

This page was updated on : 24 July 2010 10:19 AM