 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'll 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 for 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. So warm welcome to all the participants. Good afternoon. It's good to see that a lot of participants are already joining YouTube. So what we'll 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'll go into the details of how it is specific. Why and what is the need for right now a mapathon in India? Because there's a lot of hackathons. So what is this need, especially with mapping and QGIS? The specifics about IETB, so AICT mapathon, there are a lot of questions on the website. So we will go through a little bit of that. Steps 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's 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, but what specific benefits does the mapper 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 FOSI 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 in QGIS because that is what we've prepared for FOSI and spoken tutorials. And ways forward, what is coming up after the mapathon? We'll 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 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'll 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's a lot and 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 a 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. IETB 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're bringing together all these partners. ITB 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 and open source software plus the ISRO dataset. There's 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, they can use it. And that is what we're trying to promote here in open archiving the maps. So let's look at the need for maps on, 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. Okay, 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's 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'm 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're 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, you know? 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 mapathon to make the maps. A lot of consultants charge very, very high amount for these kinds of maps. So here we're building a local capacity so that you can make these maps. So on the bottom, what you see is a 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 motto we have at Manit Bharat Bharat, right? So we can build this together like making maps and a lot of data. The partners, very interesting partners, as I said, we're all leaders in our own field, IITB, ISRO, and AICT. And with this, I would like to get into the website for a second to explain what is in the website resources so that those who are interested can actually get the data from it because there's a lot of questions we're getting, but all this information are shared in your website. So let me open the website for a second. 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'll 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 of the FAQs. We always populate it. So when we started the Mapathon 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'd see the important dates. Please 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'll give you a slide on when you should contact us if you don't get the information. The results will be on Janth. So if you click the registration statistics, you can see an updated map of where the registrations have become. Total registrations right now stand at 8 a.m. in the morning at 3,068, which means 3,068 teams were registered in the morning. And total participants are 4,0881. If you look at the spread, it's a beautiful spread that we cover all the regions, including Andaman, Lakshadik we're 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 homeschooling, which means a student which doesn't have access to school or homeschooled, even they are participating. And right from there to the top in 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're 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 flow chart 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 learned 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 prizes. The benefits is we will be building a capacity of space applications and also recognition for the ISRO data, making us an admin member 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 or sometimes you get from online may be different. And we're putting a disclaimer. This is only for research purposes. So please don't use this as 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 a public and it is also available in different languages. We're also operating it in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and other languages are coming. I'll get into what is QGIS from FOSC and SD later in the thing. Then we have our partners. And those, if you'd 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 webpage. And if any questions, please get back to us on this mapathon at fosc.in. You can also go to the forums and place your questions. So let me now share my presentation again. So, participants, 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've noted in the registration, we have a 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 home school that was very, very happy for me to see that a home school student is participating and it creates a leveling playing field. 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. It makes India and Atman Manir Barbarath 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 the problem statement and you start applying it in a very detailed fashion. It also 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 the 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 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 in 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 it is. 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. 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. For example, population data. If you just give numbers, there's no meaning, but if you attach it to spatial indicators or spatial data, then it has a meaning. 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's very simple to map it on. You have to 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 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 that 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. Okay, so now we've looked at a software, what you could use and what are the data that comes in, okay? So a lot of data is stations, survey, field, registered data. They look like this. You collect data from the field, your PCA analysis from the villages, your census data or numbers and tables, okay? You can collect data from IMDs, weather stations, everything is online. You can also look at newspapers and collect how much locus. So what you're seeing is a locus insect taking up a field and also big data. So data comes in different formats and the 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've looked at why you need GIS as a software tool and the data that can support to it. You can start with observed data and also join your remote sensing data. And these are some of the satellites, very beautiful satellites from ISRO that you could use. Okay, so why open source? Again, proprietary software is very, very expensive. So we promote softwares that is free and open to everyone and India is slowly moving into that sector. I started learning, you know, proprietary software in my PhD because there was not much open software but now that is being built so that everyone can use and it's very expensive based software. So we are promoting the use of open software. And one of them, 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 applications, stable is very, very important. OV of QGIS specifically, 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 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. You'll see the forum. Time is available. I'll 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 other work. It looks like this. If you start QGIS, you get an open blank page. I like to have it always with India maps. 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 detailedly explained in tutorials and you can also use our own spoken tutorials for it. The newest version is 3.16. I'm 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 you, if you have good computing knowledge and you would like to build the tools like a 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's called plugins. It will give you like what it exactly does. So it generates a matrix. So you can enable this tool and then bring it in. So unlike proprietary software, it's 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. You 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 U.S. Geological Survey and also housed by Texas A&M, which is a good university in the U.S. And now they've 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 our own team of Fawcée and Spoken Tutorials helps. Go to QGIS.Fawcée.in. You'll see this beautiful page of resources, how to get to tutorials and forum, especially questions, how we answer questions. We also give fellowships for very talented students to conduct the 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 Fawcée QGIS website. What is Fawcée? Fawcée is the project that Professor Kannan Mukherjee leads and it is for free open source software for education. And the website is Fawcée.in. If you go there, it shows you that it promotes the use of open software for education. There's 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 nine to 10 and QGIS is part of it. From the Fawcée, you can go to Spoken Tutorial website and what does the Spoken Tutorial have is a tutorial of all these softwares that I've mentioned. There's 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're 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, Madhyalam, 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'll 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've 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 could see how it can lead to a big data framework. Big data is with large volumes of data. 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-riff spatial and temporal resolution. So it is very big data and you take it, you process it using QGIS and you could 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. So all 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 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're 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 may 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. No one's 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, free open database for all of you to use these maps because it is hard work you're putting and we want you to get recognized. I'll come in the later part of today's webinar on the submission part and I'll show you clearly how you get promoted for your work. It will be hosted with unique names and users. So your name would 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'll 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. As I said, your police station might be the map. During 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're making maps. The next part is hackathon. It is much bigger, much more complex but it's very exciting that you'll be working with big computers. What you see right here is a supercomputer in IED and that's what at level you'll be working with when you happen with hackathon. I would like to stop, I think, right on time and I still have three, two minutes. So let me open the Fawzi website, okay? So, yes. So here's how the QGIS Fawzi website looks like. You can come down and read about Quantum GIS. If you click here, you can look at other Fawzi 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 Fawzi is also here. And we have already had, 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, okay? So you have all these resources that you could use. I'll 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 Fawzi works directly, okay? 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, okay? You don't need always a high bandwidth. You can also download them, but let's look at one video. I'm just clicking this video and it opens like this, okay? So if I click it, you'll hear a live audio. Yes. 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's multiple tutorials they're working on. So please keep visiting this website and looking at different tools that we create. And sometimes QGIS can be helpfully used with R and other things. So it's not only one software, there's multiple softwares we can use. With this, I'll just stop for question and answers. Any questions from the team? I'll look at the YouTube if there's any questions. That needs clarification answers. Okay, so we're on time. With this, I would like to stop my presentation part and I'll open it to the next presenter. Let me give you a small intro. And okay. So next part would be done by Mr. Sashikan Sharma who's the group director Vedas Research Group. And he'll be talking about the problem statements and the expectation from the participants. Thank you.