Survey of India to Deploy 300 Drones for Mapping the Country
India’s oldest scientific department, the Survey of India (SoI) — historically tasked with mapping the country — will for the first time rely on drones to map the country.
Key Features
- Other than unprecedented detail, a consequence of the mapping will be creating high resolution maps of land in villages facilitating the digitisation of land titles in villages.
- Currently the best SoI maps have a resolution of 1:250000, meaning a 1 cm on the map represents 2500 cm on the ground. The maps being prepared, with the project will be of 1:500 resolution, meaning 1 cm will represent 500 ....
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