Bhoosampada
Encyclopedia
Bhoosampada is an Information portal of Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO). It was dedicated to the nation on 28 January 2009 by Chairman ISRO at National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad. Mapping of land use
/land cover
(LULC) on 1:250,000 scale has been envisaged under Natural Resource Census (NRC) project of National Natural Resource Management System (NNRMS) using multi-temporal Resourcesat-1 AWiFS data on annual basis from 2004 onward. The major objective of this project was to make a rapid assessment of the national LULC with the emphasis on the cropped area in the different cropping seasons.
The purpose of this portal is to disseminate the information derived from IRS series of satellites to user organizations, scientific societies, non- government agencies in general and public at large. BHOOSAMPADA web portal provides the annual Land use/ Land Cover (LULC) assessment at national, state and district level. The seasonal water body and snow cover distributions can also be visualized. The web portal provides spatial variability
of the crop, water and snow within and across the year. These information are vital for planning natural resource management, climate change
, agriculture, large scale deforestation
, drought and flood damage to crops.
The portal provides various online GIS
utilities to its users (without having any specific GIS s/w installed at client’s machine) like map visualization up to original mapping scale, LULC statistics generation at national, state and district level (based on user defined selection), online linking of socioeconomic data, basic and user defined queries, GIS analysis, online map compositions, multi-temporal spatial visualization etc.
The portal is made available to its users through official website of National Remote Sensing Centre at http://www.nrsc.gov.in. The user can also visit the BHOOSAMPADA web portal through http://applications.nrsc.gov.in (URL changed).
Indian Space Research Organisation
The Indian Space Research Organisation is an independent Indian governmental agency established in 1969 for the research and development of vehicles and activities for the exploration of space within and outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Headquartered in Bangalore...
(ISRO). It was dedicated to the nation on 28 January 2009 by Chairman ISRO at National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad. Mapping of land use
Land use
Land use is the human use of land. Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. It has also been defined as "the arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover...
/land cover
Land Cover
Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth. Land covers include grass, asphalt, trees, bare ground, water, etc. There are two primary methods for capturing information on land cover: field survey and analysis of remotely sensed imagery....
(LULC) on 1:250,000 scale has been envisaged under Natural Resource Census (NRC) project of National Natural Resource Management System (NNRMS) using multi-temporal Resourcesat-1 AWiFS data on annual basis from 2004 onward. The major objective of this project was to make a rapid assessment of the national LULC with the emphasis on the cropped area in the different cropping seasons.
The purpose of this portal is to disseminate the information derived from IRS series of satellites to user organizations, scientific societies, non- government agencies in general and public at large. BHOOSAMPADA web portal provides the annual Land use/ Land Cover (LULC) assessment at national, state and district level. The seasonal water body and snow cover distributions can also be visualized. The web portal provides spatial variability
Spatial variability
Spatial variability occurs when a quantity that is measured at different spatial locations exhibits values that differ across the locations. Spatial variability can be assessed using spatial descriptive statistics such as the range.- References :...
of the crop, water and snow within and across the year. These information are vital for planning natural resource management, climate change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
, agriculture, large scale deforestation
Deforestation
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use....
, drought and flood damage to crops.
The portal provides various online GIS
Geographic Information System
A geographic information system, geographical information science, or geospatial information studies is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographically referenced data...
utilities to its users (without having any specific GIS s/w installed at client’s machine) like map visualization up to original mapping scale, LULC statistics generation at national, state and district level (based on user defined selection), online linking of socioeconomic data, basic and user defined queries, GIS analysis, online map compositions, multi-temporal spatial visualization etc.
The portal is made available to its users through official website of National Remote Sensing Centre at http://www.nrsc.gov.in. The user can also visit the BHOOSAMPADA web portal through http://applications.nrsc.gov.in (URL changed).
Uses
The Bhoosampada Services can be utilized for:- Spatial and temporal seamless database on LULC facilitates land use planning and management.
- Spatial database on agriculture
- Facilitates monitoring and assessment of NSA under rainfed and irrigated conditions in conjunction with climate, socioeconomics and other factors.
- Provides baseline and facilitates monitoring fallows.
- Identify potential agriculture lands and changes.
- Rapid monitoring
- Dynamic land covers like surface water, forest, waste lands etc.
- Primary database
- Enables planning and developmental activities, regional EIAs, global environmental issues like land use change, climate change, biodiversity, land surface atmosphere interactions, productivity and carbon sequestration, inter/intra annual seasonal water spread etc.