Btw, I will be appearing on Rajya Sabha TV tomorrow at 1pm with MoES Secy for a panel discussion on this new policy. So do send in more comments tonight/tomorrow morning, AND listen in on that discussion.
On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 10:14:16 PM UTC+5:30 Sharad Lele wrote: > I agree with you, Ujaval. Getting 5.6m data in the public domain will be a > big boost. > > But I am curious to know from others what their experience has been with > the quality of this 5.6m (IRS P6) data. For instance, I found the spectral > quality to be rather poor: it boasts of being 10-bit but all the data are > clustered in a 7-bit space. So we had to go back to coarser Landsat-8 > because it gave better spectral quality (not just more bands). > > On the rest of the policy: I am wondering why they say nothing about > drones, about UAV-based LIDAR, and so on, which are really the cutting-edge > these days, are they not? > > Sharad > > On Friday, November 27, 2020 at 8:13:01 PM UTC+5:30 > uja...@spatialthoughts.com wrote: > >> Hi Sharad, >> >> Thanks for sharing. From the perspective of sharing ISRO's own data, the >> policy says >> >> " In the interest of promoting research, innovation, societal >> applications and value addition, DOS shall make IRS satellite data having >> GSD of 5 meter and coarser, easily accessible on ‘free and open’ basis. " >> >> I think this is really good. As the best open remote sensing >> multispectral data currently is Sentinel-2 (10m), ISRO sharing LISS4 (5.6m) >> data puts them ahead of USGS and ESA. Of course, the concern would be the >> implementation and how fast they can make that data available. My comment >> here would that they adopt a true open data license for this data, like >> Government Open Data License. >> >> [image: Logo] <https://spatialthoughts.com/> >> Ujaval Gandhi >> Spatial Thoughts >> mobile: +91-8095684687 <+91%2080956%2084687> >> email: uja...@spatialthoughts.com >> [image: LinkedIn icon] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/spatialthoughts/> >> [image: >> Twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/spatialthoughts> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 7:33 PM Thejesh GN <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: >> >>> Thank you for sharing. We should send out comments as community. >>> Thej >>> -- >>> Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >>> http://thejeshgn.com >>> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 19:30, Sharad Lele (शरच्चंद्र लेले) < >>> shara...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Please read and comment. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/spacers_policy_ngp_2020_draft.pdf >>>> >>>> Sharad >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 datameet+u...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/e9221cdf-1e29-9f26-cd5a-1b031ba51761%40gmail.com >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> 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 datameet+u...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAABnYsWm7xuY33vkAP0nu8qDRBibSwFx-pEGKCESe5Nuu9Bn6g%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAABnYsWm7xuY33vkAP0nu8qDRBibSwFx-pEGKCESe5Nuu9Bn6g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/4a13ca14-cc3a-4b2f-8f7e-771ef543f4e7n%40googlegroups.com.
