Karnataka awards drone-based land parcel mapping contract to 2 geospatial orgs

The announcement was made by a drone solutions provider company Aereo on June 28. Alltera and NeoGeo have chosen Aereo as their technology partner for the project.

Aereo, in a statement, informed that the project envisages deployment of approximately 60 survey-grade post processing kinematic (PPK) drones to capture high-resolution images to generate maps with a resolution better than 5 cm per pixel.

“The fleet of drones will be mapping an approximate area of 1,75,000 acres in a single day on an average. Furthermore, the Survey Settlement and Land Records (SSLR) department will be using these ortho-rectified images (ORIs) to create digital land-parcel maps. These digital maps will play a critical role for updating land-ownership records, ground truthing and enabling infrastructure development across the state,” the statement read.

Vipul Singh, the co-founder and CEO of Aereo, added, “This is a landmark project for India and the drone industry. Large-scale mapping is the need of the hour to fast-track the digitisation of land records in urban and rural areas.”

On winning the contract, Pradeep Rathor, the MD of Allterra, said, “Our vision is to transform the way the world works using state-of-the-art GIS and survey technology. With this project, India enters a new age of geospatial data collection, processing, and implementation. This data will ramp up development across Karnataka and make governance technologically advanced and simpler.”