I think the reason why Department of Space might not be commenting much on drones or UAV for that matter is that,in India drones are mainly used for strategic purposes in order to fortify India's defences . Commercial use of drone requires registration in India which could be a bit tedious process and even when one registers they have to follow rules and regulations which if are violated comes with a penalty. Even though India does not outright ban the commercial use of drones . It still requires a person who is licenced to fly a drone. Another reason might be that operating and using a drone is not a cheap affair which means it cant be afforded by all. No doubt UAV/drones are cutting edge technology. If at all there are more relaxations to usage of drones/UAV in terms of rules and regulations, its cost etc we will definitely see a rise in data being available to public not just by data enthusiasts but also through official channels.
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 22:14, Sharad Lele <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] 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: [email protected] >> [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 <[email protected]> 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) < >>> [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>> >> 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/e9c9178a-7317-4cf0-b734-ef881a11793fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/e9c9178a-7317-4cf0-b734-ef881a11793fn%40googlegroups.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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAJVEwRH5R9sJ2WhsQ0V5js00pfnf3aAnoY%3DiYcUJy70_VqwH_g%40mail.gmail.com.
