Very interesting Craig. Could you share details of the procedure and the license?
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Craig Dsouza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Since there was discussion around Land Use - Built up areas, people can > also see LULC maps Bhuvan makes available for India as both a Web Map > Service and in the form of the original raster. They prepare LULC maps for > India at a scale of 1:250k annually since 2004-05 and 1:50k (higher > resolution) once in every five years (2005-06, 2010-11) The 1:50k maps are > available only as a WMS (useful only for visualization), but 1:250k are > available as a raster GeoTIFF (which lends itself to analysis). You have to > go through a certain procedure and fill out an MoU and mail them a letter > explaining your intent, then follow it up with a few phone calls. > See here: http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/gis/thematic/index.php# > > I applied for the raster for the Mahanadi River Basin, (80-87E and 19-24N) > for all 10 years from 2004-05 to 2013-14, on behalf of the NGO that I work > for and they have made it available to us with a single use license (wish > it was open access, but this is still better than nothing) As per my > understanding they process each request and verify that no areas of concern > for national security are within our specified area of interest before > making it available. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nO519H0_8gI/VrQ4zn8QOEI/AAAAAAAABls/9uKV-07tXwE/s1600/LULC%2Bsnapshot.JPG> > > The classification has the following categories > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mw0ZLYNJIRo/VrQ3Mk-Is3I/AAAAAAAABlg/OylyMVrMwWs/s1600/lulc_classes.JPG> > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
