What is National Centre of Geo-informatics in India? What is expected out of it? What are the objectives, the key features and collaborative platform that are being proposed by the government? Have a look below. - Read more at: http://geospatialworld.net/Professional/ViewBlog.aspx?id=460

1. National Centre of Geo-Informatics
(NCoG)
What to expect from this new
organisation?

2. It is a great news that government
of India has realised the need for
a central organisation for catering
to all the data and application
needs for geoinformatics
activities.

3. Objectives of National Centre of
Geo-Informatics (NCoG)
National GIS Platform
• Provide national plaform for developing geoinformatics in the country
Applications and Solutions
• Provide geospatial applications and solutions to allgovernments - central, state and
locatl self-government
Human Resoruces
• Develop programs and capacities related to HR development
Collaboration
• Develop collaboration with similar bodies, associations from private and public sectors
Research & Development
• Take up R&D in the area of geoinformatics

4. Activities to be taken up by National
Centre of Geo-Informatics
> Develop and maintain a uniform, standardized and seamless GIS database for
entire India
> Develop and maintain seamless GIS database for entire India
> Develop a unified and standard GIS platform for data deployment and
dessimination
> Roll out GIS based governance process
> Design descesion support systems
> Develop Open APIs
> Eliminate redundant database and minimise duplication

5. Proposed uniform GIS Base Map
of India – Key Features
Uniform GIS Base Map of entire country
NCoG
Connectors for
GIS and MIS
integration
Citizen services
APIs/ APPs and
GIS Data services
Location based
analytics
platform
Data
Standardisation
Dasboards for
Location based
APIs
Mobile Apps
Online help

6. NCoG Data Sharing Mechanism
National Centre of Geo-Informatics
Topographic data Satellite Imagery Census Information
Forest
Data
Geological Mineral Data
SURVEY OF INDIA
---
Ministry of Science &
Technology
ISRO
---
Department of Space
REGISTRAR GENERAL OF
INDIA
---
Ministry of Home Affairs
FOREST SURVEY OF INDIA
---
Ministry of Environment &
Forests
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF
INDIA
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Ministry of Mines
Soil and Land Use Data Water Resources Data Other Databases State/ Govt. Depts. / Ministries
Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Water Resources Other Ministries Other organisations

7. Organisation and Funding Details
• The national centre for geo-informatics is
setup as an independent business division of
Media Lab Asia under DeitY.
• For the next three years, the project is
estimated to costRs.98.28 crores
(approximately USD 14,840,280)

8. What is role of Geoinformatics in
Digital India
VISIT: http://geosmartindia.net/Geoinformatics_Digital.html