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The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) in Hyderabad, is developing an Artificial Intelligence-driven ‘Spatial Decision Support System’ to monitor encroachment on all government lands in Greater Noida.
Officials at GNIDA said this initiative will integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) with two of ISRO’s high-resolution Cartosat-3 and Cartosat-2 series satellites to detect, analyse and report encroachments every two months.
GNIDA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) N G Ravi said the initiative will set a new benchmark for tech-enabled governance. “Leveraging ISRO’s expertise will help us move towards a more transparent and proactive system of land protection and public asset management,” he added.
“The system will support GNIDA teams with real-time alerts, GIS-based visualisation, and data-backed decision-making. As part of the memorandum of understanding that has been signed, NRSC will develop the AI model, monitor the dashboard and the alert system, and provide capacity building and technology transfer to GNIDA for long-term sustainability,” the CEO said.
Additional CEO Sumit Yadav told The Indian Express, “Earlier, there was significant delay in the reporting of illegal constructions. These were majorly reported when new structures have already come up on encroached land and it became difficult to demolish the same… But now, we will get reports from NRSC every two months.”
“We have given NRSC a map of the existing government lands. It will feed the data to the system to identify encroachments and then share the information with us,” he added.
Officials at GNIDA said the planning for the collaboration began nearly three months ago and it aligns with the emerging national approach of using space and AI technology to monitor civic assets.
Earlier, the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Monitoring and Protection Agency had collaborated with NRSC to monitor nearly 600 lakes to assess encroachments in full tank level and buffer zones of water bodies, and also carry out demolitions. The initiative was undertaken after the agency acknowledged the challenge of physically inspecting each lake in the city to determine the extent of encroachment.
Officials said that Cartosat-3 and Cartosat-2 specialise in high-resolution multispectral satellite data. “It will first cover the region of interest and the processed data will serve as the base for further analysis,” said Yadav.
“At first, we will train the AI by manually feeding information on land and village boundaries, which will lead to preparation of datasets…. Eventually, an automated system will send alerts via email and SMS to automatically notify concerned authorities of encroachments,” he added.
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