Mobile app to aid Clean Ganga Mission
Published on by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
This mobile app will provide a platform for crowd sourcing to monitor pollution in river Ganga and enable decision makers to prioritise interventions.
Bhuvan Ganga portal is an exclusive web portal deployed in ISRO Bhuvan’s geoportal with all geospatial layers related to river Ganga. It will be used as a tool to support decision making and planning for the Clean Ganga Mission. Bhuvan Mobile App is a user-friendly android based application to enable public to collect and report information on various pollution sources that affects the water quality of river Ganga.
This mobile app will provide a platform for crowd sourcing to monitor pollution in river Ganga and enable decision makers to prioritise interventions. The first version of the app is available for download in the Bhuvan Ganga web portal (http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/ganga), the statement added. The statement also said that the objective of the MoU is to utilise the geospatial and crowd-sourcing technologies for pollution monitoring in river Ganga.
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/gangaMedia
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