 Sushant, it may be better in the future to start streaming. I think it's live, sir. I'm saying it live. Sushant, please check its live. Sir, it's live, sir. It's live. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry about the delay. We were waiting for the YouTube to start streaming, although we were waiting from five minutes before three o'clock onwards. My name is Karan Mughalia. I'm a professor at IIT Bombay. I'm the principal investigator of the project Farsi, free and open source software for education. It's a project funded at IIT Bombay by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. And the objective of this project proposal of this project is to promote open source software in academia mainly and also to some extent industry. And one of the things that we focus on is to provide massive training to students across the country. We are working mainly with college students, but we are in a position to train school students also. But what is more important is we train them to such an extent that the students are able to contribute. So that is something unique about this. We have a large number of students contributing to the content developed by the Farsi team content and the program developed by the Farsi team. All of them are available free of cost at Farsi.in, F-O-S-S-E-I-N, Farsi.in. And as a part of this student training and contribution, we have been doing three activities, hackathon. In hackathon, we completed a hackathon, Sylab, Toolbox hackathon. Then we have Synfig Studio based 2D animation hackathon. That is also, in fact, it is ending tomorrow. But the third one and the most important one for which we have assembled here is the mapathon, which we are doing. We are delighted that we could join hands with ISRO. We could also join hands with the AACTE team. To do this, to bring to all of you the map, the data that our amazing organization, our space organization, ISRO has collected and made available for free access to everybody. So that is that amazing data that the participants are going to access. And I am happy to say that more than 3,000 teams have registered so far. The registration is open till 18th. And so we expect some more teams to join. And then we expect about, at present, about 3,000 teams and 5,000 participants are there. But we expect this number to be a lot higher. And we are really happy that the honorable prime minister has endorsed this mapathon. I am sure that we can all get together and do something very useful. So I am not going to spend too much time. I would like to introduce, I would like to introduce Mr. Shantanu Bhatwadekar. He is the director, death observation and DMS program of his EDPO, ISRO headquarters. So after he talks for a few minutes, then we will have Professor Pandan Chinaswamy of IIT Bombay. He leads the GIS effort at IIT Bombay. So he is going to give an overview of this mapathon itself and then a brief introduction to QGIS. And then we will have the ISRO team led by Shri Shishkanth Charman and Shri Rulraj and Shri Nilai Nishant to cover various types of data available. Then we will have Q&A session, questions and answers. I am sorry we are not able to accommodate all the participants in this, in this, well actually we have this Google Meet thing through which we are addressing but then all the participants are joining through YouTube. We will be monitoring the YouTube and then answering those questions. But we look forward to your participation and we are likely to have another inaugural, a formal one little later. We are hoping to get our honorable minister to address all of you. That may happen sometime in the near future. But today's event is something that we want to get started with so that all of you who have already registered can roll up your sleeves and get started. So with that brief introduction I would like to invite Mr. Shantanu Watwatekar of ISRO. Go to you sir. Good afternoon everyone and greetings from ISRO. Am I audible? Yes sir. Well at the outset I take this opportunity to congratulate all the participants who are joining this hallmark event Mepethon using Indian remote sensing data sets and open source solutions. I thank AICT and in particular IIT Bombay, Professor Kanan for giving us this opportunity and also collaborating with ISRO for this mammoth event. Well as you may know that Indian Earth observation capability basically comprises of a fleet of satellites providing valuable services for resource monitoring, infrastructure planning, cartography, large scale mapping, disaster monitoring, meteorology, oceanography and so on. And these satellites contribute immensely to the big geospatial data sphere by providing rich voluminous data. And these data sets are utilized to unearth valuable insights, information extraction and planning and decision making. Over the years of course ISRO has operationalized many national level, state level and region specific level operational applications basically to address the national imperatives as well as the fundamental priorities of the government. There are many examples like food security in terms of agricultural crop inventory. We provide the advanced forecast before the harvest, how much production will be there in the country in terms of food grains and also in terms of horticultural crops. Then we contribute to water security through water resource information system and providing the groundwater prospect information for the country. Similarly forest working plants, inventory and monitoring of glacial lakes, contributing to climate and there are many more applications including of course the energy sector which is very vibrant now. Also ISRO has deployed several geoportals, many of which you may be aware about the Bhuvan, Mosdak, Vedas and any SDR specifically dedicated to the northeastern region of India. These portals are basically delivering the remote sensing products, application and services and they reach out to user community. And these portals also provide wealth of data including the time series, satellite information, various thematic layers which ISRO has been generating over the years with the help of user community. ISRO places very great importance basically to partner with the academia and to work closely with the academia and the student community for developing innovative solutions and ensuring the best of the solutions for the problem. And I think in this regard this mapathon which is a joint effort of IIT Bombay, ISRO and AICT, it will provide a platform to join hands in leveraging the potential of the Earth observation data from the fleet of Indian satellites, couple them with advanced technology open source solutions and provide a lot of tools which requires now the automation basically to address the timely delivery of many of the services. So you will come to know in the later part of today's talks that we have identified the 10 problem statements for the user community and particularly the students where we expect that they really utilize the potential of your data and also use their innovative skills and their technological skills to provide the problems, whatever you are given, they provide the best solutions for them. Some of them of course you know we have selected the problem statements like you have the land use, land cover change, as you know the land use is the basic planning unit for any planning, any developmental planning in the country basically you need a land use map. So how you really automate them, how you really find out the change how it has happened in the land use over the years. Similarly how you automatically generate the flood maps because where are the disaster strikes, our idea basically will deliver the information maybe within an hour. So how automatically you derive the flood layer from the satellite imagery. Similarly how you address the locus problem which you have seen quite recently we have the problem of air quality, particularly the residue burning in the northern area and the pollution in Delhi. There are many challenging tasks but the idea overall idea is that you have a lot of information available from the satellites. We do also have the operational techniques but how really we automate these techniques so that you know you run a particular algorithm or run a particular model and you get the output at the fastest time so that you know the information reaches the needy at the earliest. So I urge all the participants to make best use of these data sets which are available you will come to know how these data sets will be provided to you from the ISRO geoportals and couple them with your innovative skills and bring out the solutions of course keeping the sustainable development goals in the view. So I will not take much time because you have many interesting talks to be covered and particularly Professor Penan will be talking about the QGIS and the mapathon and also about the FOSI which you will be really utilizing those tools for developing the solutions. So I sincerely thank all the participants and wish that they really come out with good skills and it is quite possible that once these skills are demonstrated it is quite possible that many of those skills you would like to utilize and automate on our geoportals in ISRO. So thank you very much. Thank you sir for the wonderful speech. So going by schedule we will start with the first session which is introduction to this mapathon and what are the questions we have to answer how to answer this and what are the tools we give through this mapathon for you to use and resources. So with that I will share my presentation and participants put your questions on the YouTube channel we will answer it and sometimes the experts can also answer it through the Google Meet. So save your questions through the Q&A session but also we will take questions now and then in the YouTube. Thank you. So with that please share my screen. Is my screen visible? Yes sir. For some reason it is not allowing me to... Is my screen my presentation visible? Your presentation is not visible but the Google Meet screen is visible. Still bad. I mean... Is it visible now? Let me pull out the second monitor. Is it visible now? Is my presentation visible? Yes sir. Thank you. So one welcome to all the participants. Good afternoon. It's good to see that a lot of participants are already joining YouTube. So what we will discuss now is how and what is this mapathon about. On the content side what is a mapathon in general and this is a very unique and specific mapathon. We will go into the details of how it is specific. Why and what is the need for right now a mapathon in India because there is a lot of hackathons. So what is this need especially with mapping and QGIS. The specifics about IITB so AICT mapathon there are a lot of questions on the website. So we will go through a little bit of that. What are the benefits involved in the mapathon? What we are expected to do and one point which was very good for us is that it is open to all Indians. So we see a lot of participation from school level to college level and also at government agencies level. So there is no age or gap between what education you have to have for this mapathon which is very good. So the benefits for mappers. So we know that the maps are made for India and specific benefits does the map or get like other than building the QGIS and other tools and knowing about ISRO data. Specifics about GIS would be given an introduction and the FOSSI spoken tutorial resources that you have for QGIS. Please note that there are multiple open source softwares but we specify QGIS you can use still any open source software but we specify QGIS because that is what we have prepared for FOSSI and spoken tutorials and ways forward what is coming up after the mapathon. We will start with that. So what is this mapathon? In general a mapathon is just making maps bringing a lot of people together and they will actually work on a similar theme or a theme that is new and novel they will look at but how is this mapathon different is that they make maps and they also build a capacity of people to make maps there are two aspects in mapathon one is you make maps you understand the data and the second part is that you actually build a capacity and an army of people that can make maps why do you need maps because maps have been used across every discipline now if you look at ranging from humanities and science to even geography geology everything now use maps and there are a lot of softwares to use maps and that is where the mapathon here we specify that you will be using an open source I will come to a part why we specify open source so that it is more clear and in a mapathon there is two parts as I said you make maps and that is a software that you use and the data you understand the data so there is lots of data that is being generated which can be mapped we will go through the steps in what differentiates data from a mapping data and lot of time it is expensive so making a map and getting these data is expensive that is why this mapathon specifically we say open source so that you can use what is freely available for everyone this is what has made a very unique combination IITB is one of the leading education centers in India and ISRO is a leading space agency across the globe and the only one the most important one for India and AICD as everyone knows is very important for education system here we are bringing together all these partners IITB also is the technical partner because they would like to see what can be done with these databases that we create so it brings together a beautiful combination of these three key players so here we use QGIS as a software an open source software plus the ISRO dataset there is lots and lots of data available online different satellites and sources but our own ISRO dataset we need to use so there is a reason because we need to promote our own dataset which has tremendous potential and that is where this mapathon is very unique and we are making maps for India so that India maps can be used by others in any field relevant to their specific research interest or question and they can use it for example if you make a roadmap you may not use a roadmap for a place in Mumbai but someone who has access to the map and they need to use it and that is what we are trying to promote here in open archiving the maps so let's look at the need for maps especially in India need for local maps maps local maps when I say local maps it is made at a specific small scale or higher resolution at a very small area that covers a very small area those maps are still missing and because these maps take so much money to make and an investment of time and human capacity it is very very difficult so we still need a lot of local maps that can help and it could be related to anything like bird migratory pollution water drought as the speakers were saying before need to access the data a lot of times you don't get access to the data it could be observed data you don't get access to it there is a lot of blockades so what we do is we bring them together in a mapping environment because ISRO data it is a data that is taken for a different purpose it's an image or something and we try to include it into our problem statement so that is where the need for access is taken care of this need for a data update so most of the data you see on paper format that I am showing here on my screen on the top right is a paper map most of these are still dated to the British era so we don't have an updated map so this is the time when a local map can be updated by local people because you know the area better if you select that you are from you would have more information than us so that is where we are bringing all this information together need for local capacity it's not only that we want to get the data and map it but also you should map it so that you will get the capacity like suddenly if your district collector wants maps they should not be going out to a consultancy which charges a lot but can get students and anyone who has participated in this map at all to make the maps lot of consultants charge very very high amount for these kind of maps so here we are building a local capacity so that you can make these maps so on the bottom what you see is lot of self done maps and maps that can range from India scale to a very road scale very very small scale and also some research analysis the contour maps you see on the third is contour maps and what does this lead to is a self-reliance our own moto we have at Manit Bharat Bharat right so we can build this together like making maps and lot of data the partners very interesting partners as I said we are all leaders in our own field IITB ISRO and AICT and with this I would like to go and get into the website for a second to see to explain what is in the website resources so that those who are interested can actually get the data from it because there is lot of questions we are getting but all this information are shared in your website so let me open the website for a second so when you open the is my website coming in the screen no sir it's a presentation which is still on this area stop sharing okay yeah my presentation should be there right is my presentation there no sir now nothing is shared oops okay share yeah so the partners you see on the top are all the major partners that are contributing to this webinar and the home tab about problem statement are all in the home page so that you can easily access we have a special FAQ section where you can see what questions have been already answered let me start with that and you could see that you can post your question to the forum you can actually go to a forum and ask people the questions and some of our students are ready to help you okay you will have to first register to get into the forum and post your question and the students will be happy to help you and these are some other FAQs we always populate it so when we started the map on event it was five questions now it's nine so slowly if your questions are coming relevant we will add it to here so that everyone can access to it so coming back to the home okay so in the home page you see the important dates if you go through the dates it is very because we close it at the midnight so if I say 18th we close registration by midnight it will close and once your registration is over you will be getting a submission link with a submission number so please wait for that and I will give you a slide on when you should contact us if you don't get the information the results will be on Janeth so if you click the registration statistics you can see an updated map where the registrations have become total registrations right now stand at 8am in the morning at 3068 which means 3068 teams were registered in the morning and total participants are 40881 if you look at the spread it's a beautiful spread that we cover all the regions including Andaman, Lakshadik we are still waiting for but the other thing we look at is if you look at the participants themselves you see that some range from even homeschool which means a student which doesn't have access to school or homeschool even they are participating and right from there to the top universities and colleges in the country are participating all the IITs have registered and NITs and even government agencies we also have medical school and law school so that's how this data can be useful for any discipline so you can look at some details about the mapathon a very short and very brief introduction what is the mapathon that we covered it is about making maps but not just any maps whatever you are going to make would be accessible to the general public so it is kind of helping to create databases the eligibility to participate is all Indian nationals there are a lot of questions on this you have to be an Indian national to participate and then the flowchart is very simple you register you learn or use any open source software example QGIS we have given enough time for registration and making the maps so that you could even learn the software it is quite easy and self-learnable I learnt it myself so if I could do it I think most of you can do it with the resources available right now you could look at create maps with boundaries so also the boundaries and data we are giving and then you submit it when certificates and prices the benefits is we will be building a capacity of space applications and also recognition for the ISRO data making us an Atman-Nirbar in Global GIS Hub you will also be able to think about these problems because you are making these maps so all these 10 statements will be covered by ISRO in a very detailed manner after me you will also have the resources most of the resources will be discussed today by our own ISRO partners and which links you can get this is a very important link so for example all these databases would come in different spatial resolution but if you want your own district or own state you can come here and click this link if you click this link it will open a FTP site or a storage site where you could download the shape file to know what these extensions are you would need to take the tutorial so those who know GIS know which of these files represent the GIS format so you can just click it and you can see here that I have boundaries at the India scale that is the entire India boundary the district boundary and state boundaries so we have three levels of boundaries available for you please use this data because the other data sometimes you get from online may be different and we are putting a disclaimer this is only for research purposes so please don't use this as you know the definite definite boundaries it is for research and problem solving the tutorials as I said you could go to this link and you would be taken to QGIS tutorials that we have made and it is always available for public and it is also available in different languages we are also operating it in English Hindi Malayalam Tamil and other languages are coming I will get into what is QGIS from FOSI and SD later in the thing then we have our partners and those if you would like to share this poster click on the poster and a good poster comes up you can easily share this with other students and participants okay so this is all with the web page and if any questions please get back to us on this mapathon at fosi.in you can also go to the forums and place your questions okay so let me now share my presentation again okay is my presentation visible yes sir thank you so participation we are very very happy to be honest we didn't expect so many regions to be covered as soon like within a week all major regions are now covered most of the districts are being picked across all schools when I say across all schools I noted in the registration we have ranging from private schools public schools government schools all the schools are present so we have all the that is the beauty of this open source it is free for all and the software is free for all so everyone can use it it is across ages I've seen school students college students and even working professionals from government agencies participating sectors as I said there's law school medical and discipline disciplines are also participating across agencies we have been very fortunate to get many government and private agencies even consulting agencies have participated a homeschool that was very very happy for me to see that homeschool student is participating and it creates a leveling thing so everyone is put on the same scale because you're using an open source data and also an open source mapping platform so the participation is very good so it is going to be a tough competition so this is what I updated a couple of days ago and you could see the beautiful presentation yeah so what are the benefits it makes an overall scale I'm saying it makes India and Atman Bharat Bharat and creates a self sustainability space applications has been targeted here because one side you collect this data but you also need to apply this data and that is when you associate with a problem statement and you start applying it in a very detailed fashion and it also create makes pathways to make India the global GIS hub and an enabler platform for collaborative problem solving once you understand this problem you will get noticed that it is not a one-discipline or one-man solution you will have to bring in a lot of team and a collaborative problem solving environment that is what this will help you all of you would be recognized for your work all submissions will get a certification and prizes for the top best best submissions the commission of capacity I will stress on this because once you've made these maps and submitted it will be housed in open archive systems in a very detailed fashion for example we'll have India's map and all the let's say Maharashtra all the maps Maharashtra will be put and segregated by discipline so anyone who wants these Maharashtra maps can just click Maharashtra and then click for example I need schools Covid hospitals they can click these maps and then look at it so and we will not take the credibility we will like also the credits for the work it will be given to the person who made the maps I'll show you an example so how do you make maps now I've shown you the data and ISRO would be following up with what data they have and available for free public but before that let's take a step that now you get the data how do you map it and that is where GIS comes so GIS is a computer based system a simulation or software tool which is helpful for collecting and arranging and managing your spatial data spatial data is some data which has an association with the space for example if I take a number or any record if it doesn't have a space attached to it now I'm attaching Chennai for example I know a number of population which is 20,000 now I'm attaching Chennai to it so now I know Chennai has 20,000 population whatever population this so that is the association that GIS builds so that is spatial into GIS data it also allows you to take one data set and apply different models to it for example you cannot just take census data and understand why or how many people have to get medicine right so you have other data and that GIS environment gives you a lot of freeway you can bring different data and make it into one data source data was information data by itself differs from information data is of little or no use I would say without transformation into information that is why we say information technology not data technology data is just numbers and things you collect information is when you convert it into something useful information is an answer to a question based on raw data and that is done by your GIS systems we transform that using GIS example population data if you just give numbers there is no meaning but if you attach it to spatial indicators or spatial data then it has a meaning so GIS not only helps you to make one data it takes all the data together and gives you a composite understanding of the problem because the problems are complex you cannot just have one data to explain it you need a complex data structure GIS process starts like this it is very simple to map it on you have start with a defined problem you define a problem or take a problem then you understand the problem and understand the GIS criteria what maps to make how to make that is your flow chart then you go to build a data set import data set here is where ISRO has the data set ready for you and you can also bring your data for example ISRO can give you the land use land cover data and you can put specifically where the Angan bodies are present where the schools are present that is your data you can build it into it and that is where GIS helps then you can do some analysis GIS analysis for example I can say how far is the distance between the school and the hospital and that distance can be calculated in GIS then the output you can take them output as a map and that map it will lead you to make a decision on the problem you had a problem you come through it and let's say as I said I need to know what is the distance between the school and the Angan and the hospital because if suddenly happens I need to get the children to the hospital and these are the criteria I build I get the data and I come to a decision what is the distance but I don't stop there I can even continue to refine the problem and go through the cycle again so this is what GIS helps you so now we have looked at the software what you could use and what are the data that comes in so a lot of data is stations survey, field, register data they look like this you collect data from the field your PCA analysis from the villages your census data are numbers and tables you can collect data from IMD's weather stations everything is online you can also look at newspapers and collect how much locus locus insect taking up a field and also big data so data comes in different formats and sizes you can take any data you want these are observed physical primary data you can bring that into a remote sensing environment you can combine that with remote sensing environment using GIS so now we have looked at why you need GIS as a software tool and the data that can support to it start with observed data and also join your remote sensing data and these are some of the very beautiful satellites from ISRO that you could use so why open source again proprietary software is very very expensive so we promote software that is free and open to everyone and India is slowly moving into that sector I started learning proprietary software in my PhD because there was not much open software but now that is being built so that everyone can use it is very expensive base software so we are promoting the use of open software and one of them is QGIS you can go to this site and you can find how to download and what are the different options to download always download the stable version don't go for the newer version the newer version is always they test it they keep testing and updating it always go for the stable version because for your application stable is very very important so we have GIS QGIS specifically quantum it's called quantum GIS was started early 2002 by Gary Sherman and it is under public license so anyone can use it it is very versatile unlike proprietary software it can run on any operating system and it has a very live and vibrant GIS community QGIS community what do you mean a community is they co-develop this platform and if any question comes they can answer it for you they can make modules for you like we are making tutorials that we are part of this community and by participating in this mapathon you become a global community of QGIS because now you know how to use QGIS you can also go to this forum and answer questions the forum is also given in this link let's go to the top link and look see the forum I will come back in the Q&A session for that then not only we India but many many countries are using QGIS it is used in the US national security agency it is used by Swiss agencies and New Zealand government agencies for their mapping work and the work it looks like this if you start QGIS you get an open blank page I like to have it always in the India map so I have an India map what you see on the left is all the data that you collect and put for the mapping on the top you have tools that you could use and there are many many tools that you can bring in QGIS and on the right panel there are different options that you can choose for processing your data like calculations and stuff all of this has been very detailed explained in tutorials and you can also use our own spoken tutorials for it the newest version is 3.16 I am always using 2.18 because I have very good knowledge about the tools but you can use the newest version 3.16 Hanover is being released now it also gives you plugins so if you have good computing knowledge and you would like to build the tools like startup of tools you can build the tools and give it to QGIS they will host it for you so each tool if you click it is called plugins it will give you what it exactly does so it generates a matrix so you can enable this tool and then bring it in so unlike proprietary software only some tools you can use which are built by the company but here even a community built tool you can access any tool you can access that is built by the community and given in QGIS and this is how it looks like we go to the plugins and you can see all these maps you can also bring Google, OpenLayers, Bing Roads everything you can bring in QGIS it is very powerful not only that you can also do some good analysis research analysis models so what is a hydrological model developed by US Geological Survey and also housed by Texas A&M which is a good university in the US and now they have combined it in QGIS platform initially it was for the proprietary software now you can use this software so everyone is going into this so now given an introduction how do you learn and that is where your own team of FOSI and Spoken Tutorials helps go to QGIS.FOSI.IN you will see this beautiful page of resources how to get to tutorials and forum specially questions how we answer questions we also give fellowships for very talented students to conduct QGIS research on campus in IIT Bombay so we are hoping that will happen again after covid situation and all these details you can get in the FOSI QGIS website what is FOSI? FOSI is the project that professor Kannan McGillian leads and it is for free open source software for education and the website is FOSI.IN if you go there it shows you that it promotes the use of open software for education there is lots and lots of open software and we focus on some software with the resources which means we give Spoken Tutorials and also manuals on how to use it right now the projects range from 9 to 10 and QGIS is part of it from the FOSI you can go to Spoken Tutorial website and what does Spoken Tutorial have is a tutorial of all these software that I have mentioned there is many many software projects if you click all courses all the courses will come and in different languages we don't want to limit it to a particular language or a region so there are many many languages in India and we are trying our best to make these Spoken Tutorials very very informative video tutorials and in different languages because we should not have a language barrier I'll show you quickly how it looks like the website you can go to QGIS in the search projects and QGIS is one project and you can see that already we have different languages English we have the most 16 and that is being slowly translated into different regional languages Hindi, Kannada, Madanam, Tamil and other things are coming so here you can see how do you install how do you install in Hindi, English, Kannada and also the right hand side you see if it is a basic advanced level thing so right now we are starting with the basics and intermediary we have come slowly we will get into the advanced tutorials for all the students so anyone can use this please feel free to use it what can we achieve so now we have seen that you can use all these softwares and get the data from ISRO what can we achieve we can achieve data that can help in different disciplines one example is agriculture and you can see how it can lead to a big data framework big data is with large volumes of data right and for all of your information big data means large volumes of data in large frequency and your satellite data is default big data because it comes in very very big volumes and in high spatial and temporal resolution so it is very big data you take it you process it using QGIS and you can use it in these kind of frameworks you can also use it for real time applications this is the recent Burevi cyclone that hit South India very bad and you could have seen it being tracked beautifully in ISRO's team and how and what time it would impact everything can be mapped so all this data is in remote sensing data you can bring it into a QGIS layer and then do these kind of maps so this is one other application you can see how the locust started in Africa and then moved to India right so this could be mapped and it is better to see it visually so that you can comprehend what is happening right now this map is very famous everyone sees it this is an open source website you can go there get the data and put it in the GIS environment and you could see how the hotspots are emerging so the dark blue hotspots are where the cases are more you could see Maharashtra right there and you know how the other places are coming so all this is done by mapping and mapping is by QGIS software also what does this do is in recent years normally what happens is your agency is there and policy makers government agency is there and scientists like us like we work in academics and different agencies we take a problem and we try to solve it and give it to the community so the community is on your right we take the problem we discuss it and then we give it but what we are trying to do with this kind of a setting is we bring the community science which means you give the data you also take part in the problem solving so that it is a two way process and you make these maps so for example if a district collector has a problem to understand a land use change land cover he need not come to us academics or agencies he can directly go to the people and ask them to make these maps because the data is free and no one is going to stop you from using the data or the software and that is what we are promoting the ways forward we would like to archive all these maps what do you mean by archiving is by creating a database a free open database for all of you to use these maps because it is hard work you are putting and we want you to get recognized I will come in the later part of today's webinar on the submission part and I will show you clearly how you get promoted for your work it will be hosted with unique names and users so your name will be put on the map and what it can be used for so those who want to use the map can easily contact you and say if they want to update the map then you will be the better person increasing potential for local collaborations all the problems need local people also to solve so your understanding of the maps can help improvement of maps with local admin so instead of your police station might need a map you are doing a flood as some people are saying you need evacuation plans you don't have to wait for IED or others to make these maps but you can actually make and help your local administration building capacity of mappers is the key and with applications using ISRO data and QGIS is the goal with this the biggest thing we would like to set up after this is the hackathon how do you build tools using these maps and ISRO data to make real life problem solving tools right now you are making maps the next part is hackathon it is much bigger much more complex but it is very exciting that you will be working with big computers what you see right here is the supercomputer in IED and that is what at level you will be working with when you happen with hackathon with this I would like to stop I think right on time and I still have 3-2 minutes so let me open the fossey website okay so yes so yeah here is how the QGIS fossey website looks like you can come down and read about quantum GIS if you click here you can look at other fossey projects all the projects that I have explained and built in here so then you have your resources where to download, how to download QGIS user manuals, documents all the other projects in fossey is also here and we have been lucky to have some good students that have participated and these maps were made by the students and are published in international channels so these Kerala flood maps were published by a student last time so you have all these resources that you could use I will come back to spoken tutorials where you could click QGIS you can just click here you can have a lot of projects a lot of projects that fossey works directly and let's say for example if I click R then I have English 23 lectures if I click QGIS I have 16 lectures let's click English and search it updates itself you don't need always a high bandwidth you can also download them but let's look at one video I am just clicking this video and it opens like this so if I click it you will hear a live audio and you will also have a statement of what it is so this is how we are promoting you to use a new software open source software and giving you the resources on how to use it there is multiple tutorials we are working on so please keep visiting this website and looking at different tools that we create and sometimes QGIS can be used with R and other things so it is not only one software there is multiple software we can use with this I will just stop for question and answers any questions from the team I will look at the YouTube if there is any questions is there any questions that needs clarification answers ok so we are on time with this I would like to stop on my presentation part and I will open it to the next presenter let me give you a small intro ok so next part would be done by Mr. Sashikant Sharma who is the group director Vedas research group and he is talking about the problem statements and the expectation from the participants thank you the Bia Popa Sashikant Sharma R.J. Bander is presenting ok please go ahead so I am sharing my screen is it visible my screen is visible yes sir ok fine so basically there are ten problem statements sir your audio is little bit low can you just speak up little bit more highly hello it is audible yeah it is audible ok little bit clear no ok so there are ten problems so I will go one by one and what exactly we have to do for that problem and what will be the requirement and what we will be expecting from the students or the participants ok let us take first one mapping of natural resources or a man made features so basically we have to map the natural resources like agriculture area or forest area, water bodies or man made features like built up area so any man made constructions so that kind of resources can be mapped so to map these features what will be the requirement we need remote sensing data like list 4 data or list 3 data so this type of data will be required and one has to learn how to interpret the imagery so we have to interpret the imagery and we have to abstract the information from the imagery so we have to work out ok what type of tone or texture or a color will be the reflecting means resembling the particular features so identification of the features on the imagery so it requires the skill to interpret the imagery as well as some ground knowledge also is required and after knowing all these things we have to do the automatic extraction of the features so for that computer based image processing also is required and all this type of input data will be available on the bo1 so one can take this type of problem and work out flowchart for it and one by one step can be executed and finally come out as a map thematic means it represents particular subject so come out with some particular subject to map or a thematic map so that will be the output and if you see second problem so that is change detection based on Awebs or list 3 data sets so what type of change detection any suppose say forest area what was the before then this date so two type of database we have to take and interpret both the data sets whether visually or digitally and then overlay to both the data set and come out with the change so one has to work out all the steps and flowcharts and execute it one by one and come out with the change map change map as well as change statistics then third one is LULC land use land cover change with hotspots using land use land cover maps available from the Bhuvan so we have on the Bhuvan to 50,000 scale as well as 50,000 scale data sets one can directly download this readymade data set use it and come out with change particular change wherever hotspots which dynamic changing area means some significant change should be observed so that change map one has to prepare as a output and come out with the statistic how much change is is there then fourth problem flood mapping so we observed that in India at many places flooding is happening in every monsoon season like in Bihar, Kosi river Brahmputra so at many places we observed the flood so we have to map the flood for that we have to consider pre and post season data sets so pre monsoon just you observe what will be the normal condition and then post monsoon how much area is inundated so that area will maps we have to prepare means one has to prepare and come out with the statistic how much area is gone under the inundation then state wise health care indicators maps so this type of database one has to take from the health department or that sites and then health care map indicators one can find out and prepare the health care maps so there is not much remote sensing data sets roles then sixth one is locust infestations, stubble burning low-lying area mapping, zoom cultivation so we observed that at many places there is a locust attacks and particularly in panjab you can find out stubble burning means residue crop residue to burn it for next cropping to clear this residue for next cropping season so to find out this type of area one has to take that similar images and interpret that area particularly and find out how much area is under stubble burning then low-lying area particularly where in monsoon season it goes under flooding means water gets accumulated in the low-lying area so for this type of study you can use DEM and find out slope so that you can find out low-lying area and in case of zoom cultivation particularly this type of phenomena observed in the north-east area in hilly area particularly so in the north-east area what happens every year or for a particular season people used to burn the forest area and clear some patches that agriculture purpose agriculture practices so this type of practices is happening in north-east area so for that you have to study the