{"id":33997,"date":"2022-12-14T03:48:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33997"},"modified":"2025-04-20T03:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:04:35","slug":"decision-support-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/decision-support-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Support System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About BHUVAN portal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About MOSDAC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About Krishi-DSS<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Department of Space signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a Krishi-Decision Support System (Krishi-DSS) using satellite data.<\/li>\n<li>This will enhance the evidence-based decision-making capability of all the stakeholders in the agriculture sector by way of integration with MOSDAC and BHUVAN (Geo-platform) and ICAR systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is BHUVAN portal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bhuvan (means earth in Sanskrit) is a <strong>Geoportal platform<\/strong> developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and was launched in <strong>2009<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is known for its association with the Government of India to enable the use of <strong>Geospatial technology.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Geospatial Technology is an emerging field of study that includes Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS).<\/li>\n<li>It enables us to acquire data that is referenced to the earth and use it for analysis, modelling, simulations and visualization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It hosts a wide range of services that cover visualization of satellite data, thematic maps, free data downloads, near real-time disaster services, apps for crowd sourcing and diverse geospatial applications.<\/li>\n<li>Bhuvan has since its inception enabled the Indian government to host public geospatial data as information layers for visualization and public consumption. g., <u>Toll Information System for National Highways Authority of India<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The information for the platform is obtained from the Government of India sources or through Crowdsourcing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/TiV5qU-poPCKBsQVyGdeeJNs7XSI6_EA08sYN4pZIeTHXGe__7v5_tVOUgq2qt-m0MOmdan4p9-adrLpLm2rzXSj6TmIMNXtR71hDYlk7XJPOZq4PgEv-9BNZ3JeVDPz5A3lV4PeZVK5f9WEqQZ_uw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: Usage of Bhuvan portal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is MOSDAC (Meteorological and Oceanographic Satellite Data Archival Centre)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a data repository for the missions of the ISRO and Government of India, dealing with meteorology, oceanography and tropical water cycles.<\/li>\n<li>Data acquired from missions is disseminated in near real time from Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad through the MOSDAC website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is a Decision Support System (DSS)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A DSS is an<strong> interactive software-based system<\/strong> used to help decision-makers compile useful information from a combination of raw data, documents and personal knowledge, <strong>to identify and solve problems and to make an optimized decision.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Krishi-Decision Support System (Krishi-DSS):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is being developed on the lines of Gati Shakti, using RISAT-1A and VEDAS of the Department of Space.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Earth Observation Satellite &#8211; 04<\/strong> (EOS-04, formerly known as RISAT-1A) is an ISRO Radar Imaging Satellite designed to provide all-weather high-quality images for applications such as Agriculture, Forestry, Soil Moisture, Hydrology and Flood mapping.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visualization of Earth Observation Data and Archival System (VEDAS) <\/strong>provides a platform (data, infrastructure and guidance) hosted by SAC for utilization of information from space-borne sensors to support the decision-making system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>RISAT-1A data will be extremely useful in developing decision support systems for agriculture, bioresources, environment, water resources and disaster management.\n<ul>\n<li>Hence, Krishi-DSS help in agriculture to collect and analyze data from a variety of sources with the ultimate goal of providing end users with insight into their critical decision-making process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What are 4 main components of DSS?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A typical Decision support systems has four components: data management, model management, knowledge management and user interface management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is Risat-1 used for?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Radar Satellite-1 (RISAT-1) is a state of the art Microwave Remote Sensing Satellite carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Payload operating in C-band (5.35 GHz), which enables imaging of the surface features during both day and night under all weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSS is a software-based system that use data analytics to solve problems and make optimized decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33997","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=33997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}