Posted on 01/12/2005 6:59:18 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
The Government on Wednesday asked software giant Microsoft to put its vast collection of satellite images, remote sensing data and other information about the country's terrain in digital form. "As the project progresses, citizens of India can actually get a bird's eye view of the country," said P Anandan, head of Microsoft Research India, the company's research center opened at Bangalore, also on Wednesday.
The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding for research collaboration. The first project under the memorandum will be a geographic information system to make high technology information available to the public in an easily understandable form, Anandan said in a statement.
"Comprehensive digitisation of India's terrain can support relief planning and monitoring in the wake of natural disasters," he said.
Indian authorities were criticized in the aftermath of the December tsunami waves that killed more than 10,000 along its southeastern coast, for not being part of an international coalition to monitor tsunami threats.
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