{"id":31521,"date":"2025-03-28T04:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31521"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:07:50","slug":"bhaskaracharya-national-institute-for-space-applications-geo-informatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bhaskaracharya-national-institute-for-space-applications-geo-informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications &#038; Geo-informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India recently signed an agreement with the Bhaskaracharya National Institute of Space Application and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) to leverage advanced technologies in geographic information systems and remote sensing.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>autonomous scientific society<\/strong> registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, <strong>under the Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology<\/strong> (MeitY), Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location: Gandhinagar, Gujara<\/strong>t<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: To undertake <strong>technology development <\/strong>&amp; management, <strong>research &amp; development<\/strong>, facilitate national and international cooperation, <strong>capacity buildin<\/strong>g, and support technology transfer &amp; entrepreneurship development in the <strong>area of geospatial technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BISAG-N has<strong> three main domain areas<\/strong>: <strong>satellite communication, geo-informatics and geo-spatial technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BISAG-N provides specialized services and solutions in <strong>implementing map-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BISAG-N undertakes all services for the entire process of implementing an enterprise level GIS system.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>These services include <strong>GIS database design<\/strong> and development, <strong>map creation<\/strong>\/updation and finishing, <strong>data migration\/<\/strong>conversion and format translation, software development and customization, systems integration, and technical consulting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>BISAG-N also <strong>provides complete GIS solutions<\/strong>, which bundle hardware and software with GIS systems development services.<\/li>\n<li>BISAG-N offers comprehensive GIS\/Photogrammetric solutions over large geographical areas.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These include solutions and services in the areas of mapping, cartography, imaging, photogrammetry, and utility\/environment resource management. BISAG-N provides solutions based on Remote Sensing, using multispectral data, for specific applications like agricultural crop monitoring, watershed management, forest fire mapping, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The Institute <strong>works in close coordination with GoI Ministries and State Government <\/strong>departments\/agencies and has thus<strong> emerged as a National level agency to use satellite communication and Space &amp; Geo-spatial technologies for the planning<\/strong> and <strong>development activities<\/strong> in various sectors of the Government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Under which ministry does BISAG-N operate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology (MeitY)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Where is the headquarters of BISAG-N located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Gandhinagar, Gujarat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What are the three main domain areas of BISAG-N?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Satellite Communication, Geo-informatics, and Geo-spatial Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/pti-stories\/national\/cag-bisag-n-sign-pact-to-leverage-technologies-in-remote-sensing-125032601120_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics  is an autonomous scientific society registered under the Societies Registration Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}