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Join CSI : India’s Largest Society of IT Professionals COVER STORY Emerging Patterns of Geographical Information Science 9 Membership Form inside TECHNICAL TRENDS UAV: The Current Trend in the SECURITY CORNER Aerial Imaging 21 Remote Sensors and RESEARCH FRONT Information Security 29 Semi-supervised and Crowdsourcing Approach for Situation Awareness during ARTICLE www.csi-india.org Disaster Events 23 Brain Tumor Segmentation 31 CSI Nihilent eGovernance Awards 2016 AWARD WINNERS State Category Awards Department, Govt. of Maharashtra Award of Excellence : State of Rajasthan, State of HYDCOP (Empowering frontline Police Officers), Telangana Hyderabad Police Commissionerate, Govt. of Telangana Award of Recognition : State of Odisha –Progressive Smart Energy Infrastructure and Revenue Administration State, State of Nagaland – NE States System (SEITRA), Bihar State Power Holding Company Sustenance Category Awards Ltd, Govt. of Bihar i-Budget- Integrated Budget Application, Finance Award of Appreciation : Department, Govt. of West Bengal Integrated Odisha Treasury Management System e-District, Haryana, Department of Electronics and (iOTMS), Department of Finance, Govt. of Odisha Information technology, Govt. of Haryana Electronic Payment and Application System of Scholarships (ePASS), Govt. of Andhra Pradesh Award of Appreciation: Haryana- Social Security Pension Schemes through Project Category Awards – Govt. of India Projects DBT, Social Justice and Empowerment Department, Award of Excellence : Govt. of Haryana Court Case Management System, Central Electricity “SAKSHAM” The e-Scholarship, Department of IT Regulatory Commission, New Delhi & Electronics and NIC UP State Unit, Govt. of Uttar SUGAM – an eGovernance Solution, Central Drug Pradesh Research and Standards Organization, New Delhi & Rani Lakshmi Bai Mahila Samman Khosh Portal, CDAC, Noida Department of Women Welfare and NIC UP State Unit, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh Award of Appreciation : One Stop Clearance System @Invest Punjab, Department Mobile Services Gateway, Ministry of Electronic and of Investment Promotion, Govt. of Punjab Information Technology, New Delhi & CDAC, Mumbai Intelligent Transport System, Bengaluru Metropolitan e-Project Appraisal and Continuing Enhancements, Transport Corporation, Govt. of Karnataka National Highways Infrastructure & Development iBhugoal- Roads, Rural Works Department, Govt. of Corporation Ltd, Ministry of Road Transport and Bihar Highways, New Delhi • Coverstory Core Treasury System (EKOSH), Department of Finance, InamPro, National Highways Infrastructure & Govt. of Uttarakhand • Technical Trends Development Corporation Ltd, Ministry of Road Award of Recognition : • Reserach Front Transport & Highways, New Delhi Electronic Project Proposal Management System, Skill Young India Portal for Skilling Sikkim & North East, • Articles Science & Engineering Research Board, Department of Department of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, • Innovations in IT Science & Technology, New Delhi & CDAC, Noida Govt. of Sikkim GIS based Planning and Monitoring System for the • Security Corner Project Category Awards – From States Gram panchayats, Panchayat and Rural Development • Practioner Workbench Award of Excellence: Department, Govt. of West Bengal eRevenue, Office of the Collector, North Goa, Govt. of • brain Teaser IT initiatives in MP State Election Commission- A paradigm shift, Election Commission, Bhopal, Madhya Goa • Chapter Reports Pradesh Performance Measurement System, State Crime • Student branch reports Citizen Friendly Services Transport, Road Transport Records Bureau, Govt. of Rajasthan Authority, Govt. of Telangana, Vidhan Sabha Prashnottar Pranali, Vidhan Sabha e-GRAS integrated with e-Stamping, Finance Secretariat, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh Department, Govt. of Haryana Jan Dhan PDS, Consumer Affairs, Food & Civil Supplies VarnijYakar Automation System, Department of Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh Commercial Taxes, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh & NIC UP Citizen Centric Services under the Portal e-Cooperatives, State Unit Department of Cooperation, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh Village Profile and Taluka Planning Atlas, General e-Agriculture Scheme Monitoring Information System, Administration Department, Govt. of Gujarat Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Bihar “AAPURTI” – Uttar Pradesh Public Distribution System, AMMA Land Records Online Mutation for Title transfer, Food and Civil Supplies Department, Govt. of Uttar Department of Survey & Settlements, Govt. of Tamil Pradesh& NIC UP State Unit Nadu SARAL (Systematic Administrative Reforms for Electronic Benefit Transfer Portal, Finance Department, Achieving Learning by Students), School Education Govt. of Kerala
www.csi-india.org 2 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 CSI COMMUNICATIONS VOLUME NO. 40 • ISSUE NO. 9 • DECEMBER 2016 Contents Chief Editor PROF. A. K. NAYAK Cover Story Emerging Patterns of Geographical Information Science 9 Editor Narayan Panigrahi PROF. VIPIN TYAGI Open Source Geospatial Technology for Developing Web Enabled Park GIS 12 Arati Paul, Debasish Chakraborty and Dibyendu Dutta
Published by Remote Sensing Data an aid for Smart Cities 14 MR. SANJAY MOHAPATRA Jaya Saxena Municipal Taxation and Q-GIS 16 For Computer Society of India K. P. Chaudhari and S. N. Kakarwal Role of GIS in Travel & Tourism Digital Guide Development 18 Rikita D. Patel Design, Print and Dispatch by GP OFFSET PVT. LTD. Technical Trends UAV: The Current Trend in the Aerial Imaging 21 Koshy George and Vishnukumar S. Research Front Semi-supervised and Crowdsourcing Approach for Situation Awareness during 23 Disaster Events Neha Pandey and S Natarajan Security Corner Remote Sensors and Information Security 29 V. Rajendran Articles Brain Tumor Segmentation 31 Rupal R. Agravat and Mehul S. Raval A Study on Open Source Software in Health Care System 36 Shikha Agrawal and Jitendra Agrawal
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3 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 Know Your CSI Editorial Executive Committee (2016-17/18)
President Dr. Anirban Basu Dear Fellow CSI Members, [email protected] Since time man has always tried to reach greater heights, to observe various phenomena Vice-President on the earth surface, e.g. to decide habitat places, farming. This inquisitiveness to get a Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra [email protected] bird’s eye view prompted man to take photographs of earth from elevated platforms. So, the initial photographs of earth were captured from elevated platforms on the surface of the Hon. Secretary Prof. A. K. Nayak earth. Then the platform moved to balloons and now satellites are used to take photographs. [email protected] Remote sensing and Geographic information systems (GIS) is a combination of computer- Hon. Treasurer based information systems and geographical systems to enable acquisition, analysis, and Mr. R. K. Vyas modelling of static and dynamic environmental information in digital form. [email protected] Keeping in mind the importance of Remote Sensing and GIS in today’s context, Nomination Committee the publication committee of Computer Society of India, selected the theme of CSI (2016-2017) Communications (The Knowledge Digest for IT Community) December 2016 issue as “Remote Sensing and GIS”. Mr. Ved Parkash Goel In this issue, Cover Story contains first article “Emerging Patterns of Geographical Dr. Santosh Kumar Yadav Information Science” by N. Panigrahi that discusses the emergence of GISc and its allied Mr. Sushant Rath scientific principles. Next cover story “Open Source Geospatial Technology for Developing Web Enabled Park GIS” by A. Paul, D. Chakraborty and D. Dutta provides the concept of web enabled Park GIS with an example of Kolkata city developed using FOSSGIS. Next J. Regional Vice-Presidents Saxena describes the importance of remote sensing data in development of smart cities in Region-I transforming their managements to a more efficient level in cover story “Remote Sensing Mr. Shiv Kumar Data an aid for Smart Cities”. Next “Municipal Taxation and Q-GIS” by K. P. Chaudhari and S. [email protected] N. Kakarwal provides an application of GIS in municipal taxation system. Cover story “Role Region-II of GIS in Travel & Tourism Digital Guide Development” by R. D. Patel explains the role of GIS Mr. Devaprasanna Sinha in the development of digital guide based on GIS. [email protected] Region-III Technical Trends contains “UAV: The Current Trend in the Aerial Imaging” by K. George Prof. Vipin Tyagi and Vishnukumar S. that presents development and growth in the field of UAVs and UAV [email protected] imaging. Region-IV In Research Front, we have included “Semi-supervised and Crowdsourcing Approach Mr. Hari Shankar Mishra [email protected] for Situation Awareness during Disaster Events” by N. Pandey and S Natarajan that has proposed a prototype solution to provide situation awareness during and post disaster event • Coverstory Region-V Mr. Raju L. Kanchibhotla using semi-supervised machine learning technique and creating interactive openstreet • Technical Trends [email protected] maps for crowdsourcing the user data providing threat and relief information. • Reserach Front Region-VI Security Corner contains “Remote Sensors and Information Security” by V. Rajendran Dr. Shirish S. Sane that describes various aspects of information security required while using remote sensors. • Articles [email protected] In Article category, the first article “Brain Tumor Segmentation- Towards a better life” • Innovations in IT Region-VII Dr. K. Govinda by R. R. Agravat and M. S. Raval gives various basic segmentation techniques followed • Security Corner [email protected] by atlas and probabilistic methods, deformable methods and machine learning methods. • Practioner Workbench Next article “A Study on Open Source Software in Health Care System” by S. Agrawal and J. Agrawal has provided an overview of various open source software used in health care Division Chairpersons • brain Teaser systems. • Chapter Reports Division-I : Hardware Prof. M. N. Hoda This issue also contains Crossword, CSI activity reports from chapters, student • Student branch reports [email protected] branches and Calendar of events. Division-II : Software We have tried our best to follow election code of conduct in this issue. I am thankful to Prof. P. Kalyanaraman [email protected] Chair-Publication Committee and entire ExecCom for their continuous support in bringing this issue successfully. Division-III : Applications Mr. Ravikiran Mankikar On behalf of publication committee, I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all authors [email protected] and reviewers for their contributions and support to this issue. Division-IV : Communications I hope this issue will be successful in providing useful information related to Remote Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra [email protected] Sensing and GIS to our readers. The next issue of CSI Communications will be on the theme “Applications of IT”. We invite the contributions from CSI members on various applications Division-V : Education and Research Dr. Suresh C. Satapathy of IT. [email protected] Finally, we look forward to receive the feedback, contribution, criticism, suggestions from our esteemed members and readers at [email protected]. Publications Committee Chairman With kind regards, Prof. A. K. Saini Editor [email protected]
www.csi-india.org 4 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 President’s Message 01 December 2016
Greetings! The month of November has been eventful for CSI and for me. I attended ICANN 57 in Hyderabad on November 5 and attended the inauguration function. ICANN 57 was inaugurated by Hon’ble Minister Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad in presence of several dignitaries. I had the opportunity to meet senior officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEIT) of the Government of India and other office members of ICANN and discuss possibility of association with CSI. The SEARCC International Schools Software Competition 2016 (ISSC 2016) was held from November 4-6 at Bangalore. Prizes were given on November 6. Teams from Australia, Taiwan and India participated and there was close contest among the teams. Like every year, SIG-eGov has been busy in selecting the best projects in e-governance the CSI Nihilent e-Governance awards. The “Finalists Presentations” were held on November 11-12, 2016 at IIIT, Hyderabad and there were a number of presentations from different states. The awards will be given during CSI 2016 function in Coimbatore. The International Conference on ICT in Business, Industry, and Government (ICTBIG) was organized by Computer Society of India (CSI), ACM, and IEEE at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore during November 18-19, 2016. I was present in the inaugural function on Nov 18 and delivered my address. CSI Ranchi Chapter organized the 5th International Conference on Automation and Information Technology in Iron and Steel Making on November 26-27, 2016 and I was invited to take part in the inaugural session. A number of experts from different parts of the world shared their expertise. CSI-IEEE Education Awards is in the last stage of finalization and the winner will be announced soon. The award will be presented during CSI 2016 at Coimbatore. Our application for becoming REP of Project Management Institute (PMI) has been sent for vetting by PMI office in Singapore. We hope to know their decision soon. Becoming an REP will be extremely beneficial to CSI as the Chapters can conduct PMP trainings. This will help the Chapters as well as our Members. We are in the process of finalizing a MOU with IBM for conducting trainings in advanced areas for the student community. The resource persons for conducting seminars and trainings in CSI Student Branches have been selected and the list compiled. The CSI Student Branches can invite them to deliver talks and conduct workshops in their college. We are all waiting to participate in the Annual Convention CSI 2016 to held during December 8-10 at Coimbatore. There are a number of interesting speakers during the conference and a variety of seminars, meetings etc.. We hope to see our members in Coimbatore.
With best wishes,
Dr. Anirban Basu President, CSI
Dr. Anirban Basu, Bangalore, [email protected]
5 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 Vice President’s Desk
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Warm Greetings ! We are on the edge of completing one more year in the journey of >>> Computer Society of India ( CSI ). We as a team strived for the growth of the society with the motivation from valuable members of CSI across the nation. Many developmental activities had been initiated and implemented in this year with the extreme support from all the chapters, SB’s and IM’s. On behalf of the Computer Society of India, it gives me great pleasure in welcoming you to the 51st Annual convention of CSI being held at Coimbatore on the theme “Digitial Connectivity - Social Impact” which is in line with the Government of India’s vision to empower our society through Technology. The convention is being hosted by the Coimbatore Chapter for the First time. The Organising team has worked very hard to line up an exceptional series of sessions and activities for the delegates. The elaborate program has been designed to cover various verticals of the domain. A galaxy of renowned practitioners from top notch corporates including IBM (USA), GE, Microsoft, HCL, Deloitte, TCS, Adobe, Amazon etc. will be providing enriching talks. The technical sessions will have an equal measure of enlightening talks by academicians from some of the best institutions including IITs (Bombay, Hyderabad, Kharagpur), IMSc-Chennai and IISc. The Pre-convention tutorial content has been selected with relevance to current changes happening in the domain and promises to foster deliberations for betterment. We again thank our esteemed members by giving us this opportunity to serve the society at various levels. We once again request all the members to recollect the developments undertaken this year under the leadership of our Hon. President. We as a team promise all the members that the same level of commitment and studious efforts will be delivered towards the society’s growth in the coming years as well.
• Coverstory I whole heartedly request all the stakeholders of this esteemed organization to contribute in whatever way possible to promote the society and its activities. • Technical Trends Welcome to Coimbatore. Welcome to CSI-2016. • Reserach Front Advance Season’s Greetings with all good wishes for the New Year!! • Articles For feedback & suggestions please write to - [email protected]. • Innovations in IT • Security Corner With regards • Practioner Workbench
• brain Teaser Sanjay Mohapatra • Chapter Reports Vice President, CSI • Student branch reports Appeal to all CSI Members All members of CSI are requested to update their personal details such as mobile number, latest email address, address for communication and other details in the CSI membership database, if there is any change. This will help CSI to serve its members better. The change request must be supported by valid supporting proof for the change requested. The members must provide the following details along with the request: 1. Member’s Name through email to CSI HQ with copy to concerned RVP for 2. Membership No. necessary correction / change in details at : [email protected] 3. Old Communication Address with registered email-id The following documents would be accepted for change (with CSI) and Mobile no. request: 4. New Communication Address with email-id and Mobile Voter ID Card / Aadhaar Card / Passport / Bank (Nationalised) no. Pass Book with photo / Credit Card with Photo / Driving Please send the request with any one of the following Licence document/s duly signed by the member for updating Prof. A. K. Nayak database at CSI HQ either by registered post at CSI HQ OR Hony. Secretary
www.csi-india.org 6 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 CSI Annual Conventions : Some Snapshots
Devaprasanna Sinha Fellow, Computer Society of India and RVP-II, CSI Formerly, Director, Cad Cam Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata
CSI 2016, Annual Convention of CSI Annual Conventions are always in 1976 at Hyderabad. It was held in Computer Society of India, is in the great events of CSI, truly mirroring the Institution of Engineers and Academic offing. Being an pro-active ardent aims and objectives of the Society with Staff College of India. I read a paper worker in varied levels of Computer its today’s redefined mission and future on Approximation Theory in front of Society of India (CSI), in general and the vision. The Society thrives to encompass a mike - no overhead or powerpoint Kolkata Chapter, in particular, I stand to almost all activities related to this presentation. CSI-78 was held at be an witness to many events during the discipline. Even in these days of speedy Calcutta. Many of us remember that last four decades of Computer Society of and pervading internet, a person wishes the Regional Computer Centre was India. I still advocate for CSI, in different to meet in person and exchanges his established in 1976 in Calcutta with fora for the spread of computer literacy thoughts and ideas, possibly to know Burroughs 6738 System to provide the and by applications at all levels, from him; accordingly, Annual Conventions high-end computing facility, primarily to time to time, and have observed the role have become more than rituals. We educational and research institutions, of CSI through their chapters, divisions have had more than fifty conventions to governments and commercial and the like. The present write-up may and the happenings are the sources organisations. Remote connections with be taken as a sequel to what I wrote for the big depository of history. This Mecon, Ranchi (Mr R K Sandhir who earlier in the CSI Communications. year it is held in Coimbatore, another later became the Chairman of Ranchi I often say and sometimes, harp on southern city. One should mention and Chapter was there at that time) was the what the seniors belonging to the remember as well that out of the first launched and shown to CSI delegates society and in the profession for many six Conventions of CSI, as many as four at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. Since years should write, from time to time, were held in the southern cities. It is then, I attended all CSI Conventions in through these Communications, not an accepted fact that IT applications in Kolkata and some, outside Kolkata. only to show and prove the impact of different areas, rather computerization, This year the 51st Annual societies like ours on the development in the beginning, had a kick-start in the convention will be held in Coimbatore, of computer sciences and technology southern areas in India, particularly in another major city in Tamil Nadu, and also information technology Tamil Nadu. from December 8-10, 2016 with the in different parts of India, through The history also tells us that the first focal theme DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY – different ages and phases, but also computer was installed at ISI. Kolkata SOCIAL IMPACT. Coimbatore Chapter to present an anthology/collection of in 1953-54. Indeed, the first second- was formed as early in 1984-85 (the thoughts prevailing during the years. generation indigenous computer 26th Chapter at that time). It has There are few books and some writings ISIJU was built and commissioned at organised from time to time, many available here and there on this score. Jadavpur University in April 1966 (the programmes – the first programme Substantially a number of persons first first-genertion indigenous TIFRAC possibly in September, 1984, a two- worked in various establishments and in TIFR, Bombay). Thereafter Kolkata day programme on Computers in their contributions hardly afford to be missed the bus for reasons known to Business. Dr. A Shanmugasundaram, overlooked, rather to be documented many. Bengaluru is now regarded is the Chairman of the Chapter, inaugurated with great esteem. It is true that we, de facto computer capital of the country the programme. As many as 22 senior though advising at different levels of on different scores. Yet, one finds a lot and middle level executives from systems and at different levels, hardly of computer cities and these days smart different organisations attended the tend to preserve or archive our works cities are coming up. programme. It is interesting to mention through the history, unlike the western While we talk about the history here, may be as part of nostalgia, world. We talk about our posterity and its preparation, one must take demonstration of accounts receivable and legacy with pride, but hardly into account its very important package was demonstrated on a DCM sometimes back up with authentic component, the personalia, apart from computer. With the events like Intra- data. We talk more about the history organisations, topics, events, ambience, college Symposium in 2006, Workshop of other disciplines, but not concerned etc. A separate mammoth exercise has in Cloud Computing Tools in 2014, these with the history of this ever changing become imperative now to prepare this activities in the Coimbatore Chapter and emerging discipline. Some of our list with their works. Researchers and continue unabated. We look forward to stalwarts are no more. Possibly, they educators may celebrate the centenary listening to the distinguished speakers have left the huge tasks of writing the or even bicentenary of yesteryears from both academic institutions and same to the fairly young generations scientists who are considered the industries on diverse topics with greater who, in turn, should write and create pioneers of this discipline; yet, they participation of delegates across the the history through oral history and ought to engage themselves who country. can provide a shape to form a part of have excelled in this discipline and There is no denying the fact the curricula in the subsequent years, contributed effectively to evolve and live the contents and formats of Annual without belittling them as part of today’s digital era. Conventions should change with its quizzes and entertainments only. I first attended the CSI Convention changing coverage and emphasis. In
7 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 the first Annual Convention held in have been formed particularly in the National Development (10, CSI-75, ISI, Calcutta from December 15-17, southern states/regions and students Madras), Computers for Advancement 1965, 21 papers were presented in four are participating in the Conventions of Rural Society (20, CSI-85, Delhi), technical sessions. There was a panel not just as volunteers, but also coming IT Key to Progress (25, the Silver discussion, chairman being Professor in a big way with paper presentations, Jubilee Convention CSI-90, Kolkata), P V S Rao, TIFR, Bombay with recorder publications, contests, awards. information Technology: Challenges & being Lt. Col. Balasubramanian, One can write pages after pages Opportunities ( 30, CSI-95, Hyderabad), from DRDL, Hyderabad. I find now in attempts to compile the writings ICT for National Development (40, CSI- more than five hundred papers were of all the focal themes in CSI Annual 2005, Hyderabad), Digital Life (50, the received ARTICLEfor presentation in the last Conventions. This will, as written earlier, Golden Jubilee Convention CSI-2015, Annual Convention in New Delhi, out of be the source of history and will provide New Delhi). which a substantial numbers of papers through the years, how computers One should not miss attending were read in the convention in various and IT with its various techniques and the CSI Conventions, particularly the sessions. In the Annual Convention applications have changed the Indian younger generations to understand of 1990,performance Exhibition andof computers, are providing and many scenario.applications. 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CSI Headquarter : About the Authors: Samruddhi Venture Park, Unit No. 3, • Coverstory 2 are friends. 4th Floor, MIDC, Andheri (E), Mr. K.V.N. Rajesh [CSI-N1236945] is HeadMumbai-400093, of the Department Maharashtra, and Senior India Assistant Professor in Department of • Technical Trends 3 is company. information technology at Vignan’s InstitutePhone of :Information 91-22-29261700 Technology, Visakhapatnam since 2005. His research • Reserach Front interests include Business Intelligence,Fax Location : 91-22-28302133 Intelligence and Big Data and he has published papers in the more than 3respective makes areas.a society. He can beThe reached atEmail [email protected]. : [email protected] • Articles arrangement of these elements makes the letter ‘C’ connoting ‘Computer CSI Education Directorate : CSI Registered Office : • Innovations in IT Mr. K.V.N. Ramesh is currently working as Project Manager at Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam. He has 15 years Society of India’. CIT Campus, 4th Cross Road, Taramani, 302, Archana Arcade, 10-3-190, • Security Corner of experience in IT industry with expertiseChennai-600 in the area 113, of Tamilnadu,Data Warehousing India and BusinessSt. Johns Intelligence. Road, He has the space insideworked the onletter UNIX, ‘C’ Oracle, connotes Sybase, BusinessPhone Objects, : 91-44-22541102 OBIEE and Tableau during these years.Secunderabad-500025, He can be reached • Practioner Workbench an arrow - theat feeding-in [email protected]. of information Fax : 91-44-22541103 : 91-44-22542874 Telengana, India • brain Teaser or receiving information from a computer. 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Emerging Patterns of Geographical Information Science Narayan Panigrahi Scientist-’G’, Group Head GIS, Center for AI and Robotics, C V Raman Nagar, Bangalore
Geographic Information Science (GISc) is a nascent field of applied science which is emerging as a collaborative field of many different traditional sciences. This has wide applications in many domains because of its collaborative nature. Various other disciplines of science and engineering are finding it as a platform to impart education. Therefore the interdisciplinary nature of GISc is pushing the boundary of many pedagogical subjects reinventing the principles and theories. The scientific principles of GISc and its growth have provided a potential scientific learning platform from educational prospective of GIS. This paper discusses the emergence of GISc and its allied scientific principles.
I. Introduction Past fifty years have witnessed the Observations Scientific definition Mathematical Design of Implementing the emergence and growth of many fields of of Scientific of Scientific Proofs and Algorithms algorithms and applied sciences. Study of the pattern of phenomena, Principles and empirical and validating computations modeling methods and equations defining the scientific through Software, growth of these applied sciences can be of Scientific verification of the scientific principles through hardware and summarized by following activities. Phenomena scientific models principles computing firmware (a) The scientific postulates giving way Fig. 1 : Conventional Scientific Growth Pattern to scientific principles (b) The scientific principles and Therefore one can safely conclude which spurred the development of definitions are consolidated in the that the trajectory of emergence of GIS as an information system was form of mathematical principles these modern day science follows thematic cartography which deals and mathematical proofs. the pattern Science-> Technology-> with generation of application specific (c) The mathematical proofs further Systems-> Applications. maps. Thematic cartography was expressed through mathematical Unlike other applied sciences further aided by principles, computing equations and methods and contrary to the above pattern of methods and algorithms borrowed (d) These mathematical methods are scientific emergence GISc (Geographic from Geodesy, Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, Photogrammetric further used to design and develop Information Science) has trodden a etc. making it digital cartography. The computing methods or algorithms reverse path whereby the applications of GIS has surfaced first, the GIS first known use of the term GIS was by (e) The methods and algorithms systems are built using different “Roger Tomlinson”, in the year 1968, in formed the basis of scientific sub-systems and the technology of his paper “A Geographic Information computing in respective domains GIS are consolidated later. From the System for Regional Planning”. In such as Digital Signal Processing recent literature survey one can safely a way the digital cartography was (DSP), Digital Image Processing conclude that the Science of GIS is named as GIS by Tomlinson. GIS has (DIP) leading to development of emerging. This paper discusses the further imbibed different principles various systems, sub-systems and emergence of Geographical Information from the traditional techniques such applications. Science (GISc), its constituents and geodesy, statistics, cartography, remote Some of the prominent applied some of its key application domains. sensing, interpolation, geometry etc. sciences which followed the above II. Geographical Information Science The principles of cartography, geodesy, pattern of emergence are DIP (Digital (GISc) photogrammetric, mathematics are Image Processing), DSP (Digital Signal Survey of literature has suitably augmented and altered to Processing), Computing Science, RS established that first the applications model, visualize, analyze and measure (Remote Sensing), Photogrammetry, of GIS (Geographical Information spatial data thus forming Geographic Digital Cartography etc. The scientific System) has emerged from number Information Science (GIScience). growth pattern followed by these fields of operational necessities arising out The table below enlists some of the of applied science is depicted in the of usage of digital maps in military prime scientific principles which are block diagram (Fig-1) and civil applications. The motif force part of GISc and are borrowed from the
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sub-domains of other applied sciences. Table-1: Sub-Domains of GIS British Geographer Michael S. Applied Science / Principles / Functions Goodchild first coined Geographic No. Sub Domains Information Science in the year 1990 1 Geodesy Mathematical modeling of earth (a, b, f,, e ,x y z ), [1]. The first definition of GISc is “The 0 , 0, 0 discipline that studies data structures mean radius modeling of sea surface, MSL (Mean Sea and computational techniques to Level) capture, represent process and analyze 2 Cartography Digital map composition, Thematic map generation, geographic information”. Application specific map generation, modeling Therefore an all inclusive definition of spatial data, maps projection, coordinates of GISc can be a conglomeration of transformation. scientific principles from Geodesy, 3 Remote Sensing Acquisition and processing of remotely sensor images cartography, photogrammetric, through sensors mounted on satellite, UAS, UAV. remote sensing, image processing, Classification of RS Digital Images. computational geography, and 4 Photogrammetric Image registration, scale based measurements. bathymetry for visualization, analysis, Removal of geometric and radiometric errors. modeling and measurements of spatio- temporal data. The collaborative nature 5 Mathematics Spatial statistical principles, Spatial Interpolations, of GISc is depicted in the diagram (Fig- krigging 2). 6 Digital Image Segmentation, edge detection denoising / noise Yet another definition of GISc can Processing removal, image enhancement techniques, object be a field of information science dealing recognition techniques, classification of image. Image with modeling, analysis, visualization, interpolation computing and measurement of spatial data [2]. Another alternate definition of GISC Cartography is the basic field of research dealing Remote Geodesy with geographic concepts and their use Sensing in the context of GIS. GI Science also • Coverstory examines the impact of GIS on individual • Technical Trends and the influence of society on GIS. • Reserach Front GIS being an interdisciplinary field of applied technologies is adopting Photogram Digital Image • Articles many concepts from different domains GISc metric Processing • Innovations in IT and sub-domains [3]. Therefore a collaborative definition of GISc can be • Security Corner “Geographical Information Science or • Practioner Workbench Spatial Information Science or Science • brain Teaser governing spatio-temporal phenomenon is an interdisciplinary field of sciences Geography Mathematics • Chapter Reports dealing with modeling, simulation, • Student branch reports visualization, analysis, computation Bathymetry and measurement of spatio-temporal objects and phenomena”. III. Applications of GISc Fig. 2 : GIScience as an interdisciplinary field of research GISc finds its applications in design and development of systems useful in and system [6]. This is described understand the scientific principles and many domains [4][5]. The prominent through a collaborative diagram consolidate the principle with practical applications of GISc are in operation depicted in Fig.3 assignment. Easy availability of spatial planning, disaster management, Land IV. Conclusion data complimenting these theoretical Use and Land Cover (LULC) analysis, Of late GISc and GIS are emerging methods for experimentations has infrastructure planning and facility emerged GISc as one of the leading management in cities, map based as a prominent academic curriculum academic curriculum. Now as days facility, navigation etc. The application taught in number of educational of GIS is ever emerging in different institutions and in different departments. GISc is taught in mainstream computer domains. The collaborative nature GISc has sufficient theoretical methods science, resource engineering, civil of GISc is the guiding factor for its and algorithms which can be taught engineering and other departments of emergence as a field of applied science with practical examples to students to educational institutes worldwide. www.csi-india.org 10 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 COVER STORY
References [1] Goodchild, Michael F, “Twenty years of Disaster progress: GIScience in 2010”, Journal of Scientific Spatial Information Science, 2010. visualization Management Navigation in & Modeling of [2] Panigrahi, N., “Geographic Information land /Air/Sea sea space & Science”, University Press, Hyderabad, Terrain India, 2009. [3] Panigrahi, N., “Computations in Geographic Information Systems”, CRC Press, US, 2014. Location Geographic Survey & [4] Cowen, D. J. GIS versus CAD versus based Service Information map Making DBMS: What are the differences? LBS System Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 54: 1551–4.1988. [5] Goodchild, M. F. Geographical information science. International Geographical Military and civil Journal of Geographical Information Engineering operation planning, Systems 6:31–45.1992 & Remote resource planning LU & LC [6] Longley, Paul A., Michael F. Goodchild, Engineering & natural resource infrastructure planning David J. Maguire and David W. Rhind /city planning (eds.). Geographical Information Systems. vol 1, vol 2. 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons. 1999. Fig. 3 : Application Domains of of GISc
About the Author: Dr. Narayan Panigrahi [CSI-l1503035] Scientist-’G’, is currently working as Group Head, GIS, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) laboratory in Bangalore, India. He is the recipient of Governor’s gold medal and best graduate of Berhampur University, Odisha in the year 1987. He has authored 35 research papers, four patents and four books in the field of Geographical Information Science and System. The books entitled “Geographical Information Science” and “Computations in GIS” are some of his note worthy academic work used in the academic curriculum worldwide. His research interest includes GI Science and System, Digital Image Processing and design and development of robust computational methods in Spatio-Temporal data visualization and analysis. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Open Source Geospatial Technology for Developing Web Enabled Park GIS
Arati Paul, Debasish Chakraborty and Dibyendu Dutta Regional Remote Sensing Centre-East, NRSC, ISRO, Kolkata
1. Introduction WebGIS disseminates and shares parks available around the city. Hence Initially the park locations and geospatial data through Internet a system is required to provide easy boundary are collected using GPS for visualizing natural resource and access of park information viz. location, which are converted into spatial layers. ancillary data of an area of interest accessibility, facilities etc. The web Subsequently ground photographs (AOI). In order to make a cost effective enabled Park GIS for Kolkata city is along with name, address of the park implementation, operation and developed using FOSSGIS successfully are integrated with spatial layers and maintenance of geospatial data over and presented in this article as a case stored in PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. the web, a cheaper yet feature rich study. These data are shared over the Internet alternative to commercial software 2. Development of Park GIS using in OGC-WMS standard using GeoServer. is required which can be fulfilled by FOSS Consequently the GIS application is existing free and open source software The web enabled Park GIS uses developed using Open Layer, HTML, (FOSS) for geographic information spatial and aspatial data of Kolkata PHP and Java scripts. systems (FOSSGIS) and FOSS for city Parks. The spatial data includes 3. Application Interface web development. Many FOSSGIS are geo-referenced vector layers (viz. An interactive user friendly available which can be used to acquire, park location, park boundary, borough interface is developed for visualising modify, store, visualize, and analyze boundary, satellite image) and aspatial and accessing park information over • Coverstory spatial data in web environment and data includes park wise information like the web. The major components of the they are largely grouped into following name of the park, street name, ward interface is categorised into viewer, • Technical Trends categories: (i) Geospatial data server number, borough number and pin code. query and tools as shown in Fig. 1. • Reserach Front for sharing spatial data (viz. UMN Ground photographs of parks are used The viewer enables to display and MapServer, GeoServer, and MapGuide), • Articles in this application for visualisation of overlay the satellite image and maps. It (ii) mapping libraries (viz. OpenLayers facilities. The Bhuvan Web Map Service facilitates to display the parklocations • Innovations in IT and Google Maps™) for visualizing (WMS) is used for displaying satellite along with its name,address and geo- • Security Corner spatial datasets, (iii) spatial analysis images of the study area (Bhuvan, 2016). tagged ground photo graph as shown in for geoprocessing (GeoServer WPS, • Practioner Workbench 52_North WPS, PyWPS), (iv) database • brain Teaser (viz. PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MySQL and SQL Lite) to store large non-spatial • Chapter Reports datasets with several features and • Student branch reports provide an efficient mechanism to store, query, analyze and update these data (2,3,5) and (v) Web development Programming language (viz. PHP, Java). The availability of FOSSGIS makes the WebGIS application more affordable and acceptable to the user community. In recent years FOSSGIS have been successfully used in developing applications for sharing and managing natural resources (4,5,6). Parks play an important role in the urban landscape since they promote public health, arts, culture, tourism and economy. To get the benefit of parks and green spaces, city dwellers Fig. 1 : Park location map of Kolkata city need information about different www.csi-india.org 12 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 COVER STORY
attribute information. References [1] Bhuvan, 2016, from: www.bhuvan.nrsc. gov.in [2] Blodgett, D., Booth, N., Kunicki, T., Walker, J., Lucido, J. ( 2012) Description of the US Geological Survey Geo Data Portal Data Integration Framework. Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing IEEE J. 5 (6): 1687-1691. [3] Cau, P., Manca, S., Soru, C., Muroni, D., Gorgan, D., Bacu, V., Giuliani, G. (2013) An interoperable, GIS-oriented, information and support system for water resources management. Int. J. Adv. Comput. Sci. Appl. 3 (3): 75-82. http:// dx.doi.org/10.14569/ SpecialIssue.2013.030309. [4] Paul A., Chowdary V. M., Chakraborty D., Dutta D., Sharma J. R., 2014, “Customization of freeware GIS software Fig. 2: Park location overlaid on satellite image along with name address and ground photo for management of natural resources data for developmental planning - A Fig. 2. and infrastructure development at the case study”, International Journal of The tools viz. zoom in, zoom out, cost of open and green areas of the Open Information Technologies, 2(4): 25- zoom to full extent, selective zoom, city. Thus to conserve the green area 29, ISSN: 2307-8162. re-centre tool and pan are provided there is a need to keep aninventory of [5] Sarup J. and Shukla V., 2012, “Web- Based solution for Mapping Application for navigation. The measurement green parks along with itslocation and using Open-Source Software Server”, tools aredevelopedfor measuring the area extent. The presented application International Journal of Informatics and distanceand areain the map. The print not only disseminates the green park Communication Technology, 11 (2):91-99. map tool is included to print the map. information over web but also helps in [6] Singh P.S., Chutia D. andSudhakar S., The display tool made available in the preserving the same. 2012, “Development of a Web Based GIS Application for Spatial Natural interface to switch the current display Acknowledgement Resources Information System Using of the viewer to map/ satellite image/ Authors acknowledge Centre for hybrid (map overlaid on image) mode. Effective Open Source Software and Contemporary Communication for Standards”, Journal of Geographic The “query” enables user to providing park location data along with Information System, 4: 261-266. visualize the parks available in a PIN code area / ward / borough. The application also provides facility to About the Authors: search a park by name and locate itin the map as shown in Fig. 2. Ms. Arati Paul [CSI-l1503410] is working as Scientist in Regional 4. Conclusion Remote Sensing Centre- East, NRSC, ISRO. Her area of work The Park GIS stores and shares includes remote sensing, GIS, image processing and data analytics. spatial and aspatial information in an She can be reached at [email protected]. integrated manner and disseminate the information over the web in customized Dr. D. Chakraborty [CSI-I1502984] is currently working as Scientist form for searching and visualizing parks in KMC area of Kolkata city. The and System Manager of Regional Remote Sensing Centre- East, FOSSGIS are used for developing the NRSC, ISRO, Kolkata. His research interests include remote application and users only requires sensing satellite image processing and GIS. He can be reached at Internet connection to use it. Hence the [email protected]. proposed approach may be considered as a low cost web enabled GIS solution. As a growing metropolitan city, Kolkata Dr. D. Dutta is currently working as General Manager of Regional confronts substantial overpopulation Remote Sensing Centre-East, NRSC, ISRO, Kolkata. He can be that increases the demand of logistics reached at [email protected].
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Remote Sensing Data an aid for Smart Cities
Jaya Saxena Scientist E, National Remote Sensing Centre, Balanagar, Hyderabad. Email: [email protected]
Cities are complex systems from cyberspace are cleaned to reduce 25 cm–1.5 m; while satellite sensors composed of numerous interacting errors and noise, to improve the data such as GeoEye and Worldview-2 components that evolve over multiple quality. The RS data are the earth are capable of providing (sub 0.5 m) spatio-temporal scales. They cover observing data continuously obtaining high spatial, spectral and temporal hardly 3% of the Earth’s surface yet from space-borne and airborne resolution imagery e.g. WorldView-2 consume about 75% of the world’s sensors, as well as some other data is able to collect imagery for nearly resources. Thus it becomes obvious acquisition measurements. With the 1 million square km every day with a that cities are the key element for exponential growth of data amount revisit frequency of 1.1 days at 1.1 m climate change and consumption and increasing degree of diversity and resolution. of resources. Since their growth complexity, the remotely sensed data In order to effectively use can hardly be avoided, one must be are regarded as Big Data. At a global visualization, remote sensing data able to cope with its consequences. level satellite observation network are aggregated from diverse sources It is essential that harmony exists techniques are deployed to seek shorter in a huge volume, and imported to a among the spatial, social, economical re-visit cycle and larger coverage in model which allows decision-making in and environmental aspects of a city compensation for the limitations of a minutes rather than weeks or months. and between their inhabitants. This single sensor. Currently, more than 200 This is a big challenge for peta-byte harmony hinges on 3 key pillars: earth on-orbit satellite sensors are capturing level of data inputs and remote sensing environment, economic development multi-spatial, multi-temporal RS data data should deal with challenges of and social equity. These pillars are from multisensors. These continual large data visualization as well as balanced through sustainability and global observing data are capable of interactive exploration of data for an • Coverstory gave rise to the concept of smart city. covering the global atmosphere, land improved understanding. Further, the Cities can only be smart if there are surface as well as oceans. NASAs Earth current task scheduling strategies • Technical Trends intelligence functions available to Observing System Data and Information [8, 9] seeking load balancing among • Reserach Front integrate and synthesize data from System (EOSDIS) [4, 5] have successfully computational resources seldom takes various sources for the purpose of managed a growing archived RS data the data availability into account. The • Articles improving efficiency, sustainability and which exceeds 7.5 petabytes. During the optimized scheduling for bunch of • Innovations in IT quality of life. Designing, modeling year 2012, EOSDIS system has already tasks is a critical issue for achieving • Security Corner and planning for smart cities on a distributed more than 4.5 million higher performance. The intensive platform requires actual, accurate and gigabytes of data [6]. Considering the irregular data access patterns for • Practioner Workbench complete data where all constrains are velocity of data, the RS data archives parallel I/O programming of remote • brain Teaser controlled in an integrated manner. of EOSDIS are undergoing a growth sensing applications on hierarchical No single data source is sufficient to of 4 terabytes daily. The increasing of cluster-based system only adds to the • Chapter Reports satisfy the information needs required remote sensing data also brings in challenges. However, remote sensing • Student branch reports to map, monitor, model, and ultimately the rapid growth of the metadata. For techniques have been successfully manage the interaction within platform. EOSDIS system, the amount of data used for different applications, such With some challenges remote sensing records in the metadata database as agriculture applications (e.g., technology always had played a would probably outstrip 129 millions food security monitoring, pasture significant role when it comes to reality- and also dramatically increasing at a monitoring), oceanic applications (e.g., based data acquisition and processing. rate of more than 60 thousand every ship detection, oil spill detection), Remote sensing (RS) is generally single day [6]. Current airborne and urban planning, urban monitoring, defined as the technology of measuring satellite remote sensing sensors have human settlements (both urban and the characteristics of an object or significantly advanced, since the first rural), food security monitoring, water surface form a distance [1, 2]. Remote recorded air photograph was acquired quality monitoring, energy assessment, sensing data are acquired from from a hot air balloon over the city population of disease, ecosystem satellites, airplanes or other sensing of Paris in 1858. However, today the assessment, global warming, global devices while the other forms of data airborne hyperspectral sensors such as change, global forest resources are retrieved from cyberspace. RS data CASI 1500 [7] provide a 650 nm spectral assessment, ancient site discovery are preprocessed by geometric and range between 365 and 1,050 nm, 288 (archaeology), and so on. Combined with radiometric correction, georeferencing, programmable spectral samples (<3.5 human activities and data from social noise removal, etc. [3], and the data nm FWHM), and a spatial resolution of network platforms, remote sensing www.csi-india.org 14 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 COVER STORY
techniques have become much more the officials to make right decisions of assessing the accuracy of powerful tool to significantly improve and provide appropriate re-deployment classifications of remotely sensed data. the effectiveness of production and instructions as and when required in Remote Sensing of Environment, 37(1) operation for human welfare. RS data the fleet management. pp.35–36, 1991. [2] F. F. Sabins. Remote Sensing: Principles had provided the capacity to accomplish Conclusion: and Interpretation. Waveland Pr Inc; 3 targets which were hard or impossible Remote Sensing provides extremely edition (April 2007). to achieve in traditional ways. For useful tools for environmental and [3] P. M. Mather and M. Koch, Computer instance, a hidden relic site can be natural resources management. It Processing of Remotely-Sensed found by high resolution remote sensing is widely recognized as supporting Images: An Introduction, 4th ed. Wiley, data in a dense forest without modern January 2011. tool for the planning, monitoring, [4] R. Pfister and Wichmann K. New infrastructure, which is an incredible and management of the appropriate barrier for field archaeologists to paradigm for search and order utilization of resources at the country, in eos-13dis. In Geoscience and penetrate. In our country under Phase-I regional and global levels. Various Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. of National Urban Information System initiatives are being taken by the Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE (NUIS), 1:10000 scale urban geospatial Government of India to convert 100+ International Conference on, volume 3, database from Cartosat-1 along with cities into smart cities in phased pages 1208–1210 vol.3, 2000. LISS-IV data has been generated for 152 manner. The real challenge before the [5] M. Esfandiari, H. Ramapriyan, J. towns and hosted on Bhuvan[10]. On Behnke, and E. Sofinowski. Evolution Government is to build inclusive smart of the earth observing system (eos) behalf of MoUD, Bhuvan-NUIS: urban cities for all its residents, irrespective geospatial governance application data and information system (eosdis). of whether they are rich or poor. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing has been developed for master plan RS technologies along with social Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE preparation. Further Atal Mission for networking contribute significantly International Conference on, pp. 309– Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation to the spatial intelligence of modern 312, July 2006. (AMRUT) is underway consisting around smart cities and play an indispensable [6] Hampapuram Ramapriyan, Jennifer 500 Cities (with population > 1.0 Lakh) role in the development of future Brennan, and Jeanne Behnke. covering the GIS based master plan, Managing big data: NASA tackles smart cities. The demand for real-time complex data challenges, 2013. Earth water supply systems, sewerage and processing, on-demand processing seepage, storm water drainage, urban Imaging Journal, http://eijournal.com/ as well as the in-transit processing print/articles/managing-big-data. transport, green space and parks, of standard remote sensing data [7] ITRES. CASI-1500 Hyperspectral reforms management & support, products, though poses few challenges. Imager; Available online: http://www. capacity building. An example of the However, the modern remote sensing itres.com/products/imagers/ AMRUTH mission reforms where technology brings advantages to [8] Hesham El-Rewini, Theodore G Lewis, building rooftops with area of more the smart city in many dimensions and Hesham H Ali. Task scheduling than 500 sq.m for potential solar in parallel and distributed systems. covering transportation and mobility, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994. power were identified for the Rajkot risk management, urban planning, city by using 2D Building rooftops from [9] Behrooz A. Shirazi, Krishna M. Kavi, noise mapping and solar energy. With and Ali R. Hurson, editors. Scheduling Cartosat-1 Stereo data[10]. Parallelly the help of RS technologies, few cities and Load Balancing in Parallel and the prevalence of economical GPS have already succeeded in transforming Distributed Systems. IEEE Computer enabled smart phone devices makes their managements to a more efficient Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, it possible to implement individual/ level. We are also very hopeful that 1995. vehicle tracking functionalities, and in India this may bring much needed [10] K. Venu Gopal Rao, Geo-spatial integrating with near real time data applications – smart cities, in UIM 2016 transformation and finally improve the Technical Proceedings, session 3.4, transfer and data management at quality of life for all the citizens. server side provides maximum benefits available at http://nrsc.gov.in/sites/all/ pdf/UIM-2016%20Indian%20Smart%20 in terms of visualization, monitoring References: [1] Russell G. Congalton. A review cities_Venu%20Gopal_4.pdf). and management. This would enable
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Municipal Taxation and Q-GIS
K. P. Chaudhari S. N. Kakarwal Asst. Professor, IT Dept., Marathwada Institute of Professor in Dept. of CS and Engg., Technology, Aurangabad P.E.S. College of Engineering, Aurangabad
Introduction to QGIS don’t want to pay taxes unless they have Urban Affairs (NIUA). QGIS is an abbreviated form of no other options. By using QGIS various plug-ins for Quantum Geographical Information Property tax is difficult to evade and mapping, it cover an entire area and System. QGIS is an open source software can lead to serious disciplinary actions provide unique identification number for geographical information system. by the government. The government’s to each properties. By using QGIS we QGIS allows users to create user inability to manage and analyse the tax can take a picture of an area to map friendly maps with many layers using payment issues is the main reason why a location and take a survey on it i.e. different projection techniques. QGIS is there are so many drawbacks in the which is part of government property, used to handle spatial data (data related system. The common causes of error part of private property etc. to any geographical locations is called include cost and accuracy of valuation We can use QGIS to find out the as geo-spatial data). QGIS application in property management and political building, number of floors in building allows data storage, management and difficulty in enforcement of disciplinary and other details. analysis of geo-spatial data. It allows measures. In developing countries like Plugins us to access various plug-ins, it support India, the property tax collection has Plug-ins are the application which shape-files and utilizes personal geo to face numerous problems. There are provide the interface for creating data while working on any project. many reasons because of which success geospatial data. The heterogeneous data from various rate is very poor. Local government’s There many plug-ins in QGIS like: sources is supported by QGIS using shear negligence towards difficult 1. Core plug-ins web services. QGIS developers invest administrative challenges like valuation of properties and implementation of • Coverstory their personal time and money so that 2. External plug-ins the users can experience free version law-bound retrieval of tax is mainly • Technical Trends 3. Experimental plug-ins of QGIS and also release updates responsible for the low yield from • Reserach Front periodically. Using QGIS, data from property tax. 1. Core Plug-Ins • Articles many sources like satellite, census - Implementation of QGIS in Municipal These are the inbuilt plug-in which survey data, aerial photographs etc. can tax collection are present in QGIS at the time of • Innovations in IT be accessed on one map. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar installation if we have to use it, we just • Security Corner The Municipal Taxation System Palika (BBMP) is recognized by the need to enable them. World E-Governments Organisation • Practioner Workbench Property tax is a compulsory 2. External Plug-Ins amount; a land owner must pay to the of Cities and Local Governments These plug-ins are needed to • brain Teaser (WeGO) for their award winning work local government or the municipal installed by user whenever they want on GIS-based property identification • Chapter Reports corporation for the area of land in his to use. There are different QGIS plug-in number system (PID). The municipal possession. Citizens of India have which help in municipality taxation. • Student branch reports corporations all over India are perusing to pay taxes for the properties they the idea of using GIS technologies for 3. Open Layer Plugins own periodically to the municipal various e-governance applications; the Open layer plug-ins contains the corporation. In India, the municipal award for BBMP is a mile stone work Maps, Google map is used to capture the corporation of a particular area which describes the use technology to different geospatial data or the maps in analyses and implements the property achieve error-free tax collections. satellite or a physical view. Open layers tax annually or semi annually. The Similar to the Bangalore plug-ins are mostly installed in Q-GIS. tax to be paid is based on the area of Mahanagar Palika Kanpur Municipal Advantages to Local Buddies construction, property size, building etc. Corporation (KMC) was struggling with Using QGIS in municipal taxation Problems of Municipal Corporation in many problems like poorly assessed helps to find the accuracy in taxation. tax collection properties, lack of proper mechanism The accuracy of location determine it It is a huge problem for the to take legal actions against tax value and various properties. Q-GIS municipal corporation to collect tax, it defaulters. The issues were sorted out helps in analysing the properties for is really difficult to collect the authentic when KMC resorted to GIS mapping of betterment in tax collection. The local tax for different properties. Tax payers all the properties in Kanpur. It helped citizens can identify the type of buildings hide their actual (illegal) property to get in developing an accurate database, for example, the floor of building, rid of tax payment. Tax payers of India according to the National Institute of government building under construction www.csi-india.org 16 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 COVER STORY
etc. Citizen are categorised with the To legalize the unauthorized needs to do without actually having to help of a unique identification number in properties by bringing them into interface with the existing functionalities which their whole information is saved tax net. confined to the desktop version of QGIS. in database. So this leads to accuracy Q-Field is an Open Source android To downsize the property tax using of data. application. It allows us to capture data proper evaluation techniques. The system has exponentially directly from the field and management increased the collection of property To bring transparency in property of data is fully compatible with QGIS. based tax revenues by three times as tax levy and collection. Q-Field allows to work on QGIS compared to the existing system. projects from any remote location How Remote Mobile Application Can Objectives of using GIS for Municipal while maintaining QGIS’s functionality. Help : tax collection QField is based on QGIS. It is not just By using remote application we can The use of GIS system for Municipal an imitation of QGIS but it uses some of access the database from any remote Tax collection is proposed by keeping in the QGIS libraries to give a user friendly location. There are mobile applications, mind following objectives – experience. The rendering engine is where we allow the users to create, To digitize the revenue department exactly the same as in QGIS desktop. for efficient tax management. edit, visualise, analysis and publish the The project will therefore look exactly geospatial information. User can use the same on mobile device as it does To automate the property tax the mobile application for accessing on computer. If some functionality is collection and information system this information from server. using GIS approach. already available as a configuration The use of QGIS on the field may not option in a QGIS system, there is no To improvise the documentation be the same as on a desktop application. need to re-invent special plug-ins for of properties owned by citizens, The screen is smaller, the input devices the mobile application. If a project is increase the tax fulfilment rates are different and the tasks are different. already configured for the desktop, it and allow the officials to make A remote Mobile application aims to should just run on mobile as well. informed and planned decisions. help the user to perform the tasks he
About the Authors
Mr. K. P. Chaudhari [CSI-I1147734] is presently Dr. S. N. Kakarwal [CSI-F8000602] is presently working with Marathwada Institute of Technol- working as Professor in Department of CS ogy, Aurangabad as Assistant Professor in In- and Engg., P.E.S. College of Engineering, formation Technology department. His area of Aurangabad, MS-India. Her research interest is Image Processing, Text mining, Com- interests include Image Processing, Pattern puter Network and Software Testing. Recognition. She can be reached at kiran_ [email protected].
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Role of GIS in Travel & Tourism Digital Guide Development
Rikita D. Patel Asst. Professor, Anand Institute of Information Science, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad.
Introduction techniques for frameworks designing worried with maps and topical data Travel & Tourism is one of the and data science to gather, upgrade, than different ventures. Maps of travel largest and fastest growing sector manage, display, question, and break courses and general data about the across the globe. This particular down, cartographic travel information. regions to visit are utilized as a part of sector holds cardinal accent in the The main objects are those data selecting the goal, arranging travel and Indian economy imparting a few and information that are identified settlement and so forth. financial advantages. Employment with tourism geographic data and It is suitable to state that utilizing opportunities, assets and adopted information, for example, transportation, Internet and other most recent exchange, development or amplification settlement, amusement, shopping, innovations for managing gathering, of added industries such as agriculture, social attributes and components. The making, breaking down or controlling construction, handicrafts etc. are some main objective is to give opportune, the cartographic information and of the economic advantages furnished exact and advantageous services to maps have been consolidated together through the tourism industry. meet the diverse needs of different in a framework known as GIS. This Travel & Tourism (T&T) with people. is a superior apparatus in managing Geographic Information System Geographic Information System tremendous area particular spatial (GIS) are two terms having common (GIS) comes into situation when we and non spatial information, and properties and that is the potential discuss the maps and its utilization. subsequently, simple to sort out and benefit of the combo any country across As GIS are designed to work with mechanize the information that can • Coverstory the world can have in the sustainable spatial type of data it becomes easy to encourage organizers, authorities • Technical Trends development of T & T industry. GIS is collect, store, analyze, manipulate and and overall population in arranging, • Reserach Front widely used technology in the T & T represent the geographic data. Power advancement and advertising of tourism planning, development, and decision of GIS lies in spatial data coordination, movement. • Articles making now a days. No matter how big spatial examination and spatial Initial move towards the • Innovations in IT or small the geographic regions of the correspondence have the potential development of digital guide for T & T nation GIS is applicable at everywhere for creating significant new bits of is to automate the tourism business • Security Corner and bring lot many benefits with its knowledge on new data. It organizes in India. Second important step is to • Practioner Workbench applications. and controlling spatial data by using, develop a user friendly guide system for • brain Teaser The Concept and Significance of both a database management system foreign tourist as well as for local tourist. Geographic Information System in T (DBMS) and a robotized cartographic As T & T is a huge sector comprises • Chapter Reports & T framework for judiciously connecting many interrelated components, the GIS • Student branch reports Integrating GIS with Travel & map elements to property information. can be categorized into two parts: The Tourism makes fined actionable GIS and its helpfulness in different Management & Tourist. decisions that are based on real world territories and applications are notable The management user is data. The 21st century is the era of at this point. Tourism is one such zone responsible for overall development information technology and most of where GIS is being utilized to further of the GIS which includes analysis, the work is done via smart devices like bolster its administrations. planning, Development, Testing, computers, laptops, mobile phones, Role of GIS in T & T Development Marketing, etc. On the other side, tourist etc. As a result, people are having Spatial data refers to the is the user of this system who can use it some leisure time from their work and location related information on the for searching the location while on tour they want to utilize this time by visiting earth’s surface, which is normally or to find out specific type of place like different places around the world. They communicated in the form of coordinate nearby restaurants, hotels, airports, are in continues search of places where system or in the form of degrees of etc. Following is a figure showing the they can spend quality times with their latitude and longitude. GIS categorization: belongings. And the complete solution Travel & Tourism is worried with Development of Travel & Tourism is the combination of T & T with GIS. going amongst close and inaccessible Information Digital Guide According to geographic database places and maps are a vital guide for Tourism industry includes for tourism, GIS utilizes the hypothesis area of these spots, hence it is more numerous organizations that are www.csi-india.org 18 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 COVER STORY
tourist needs two types of data. Spatial GIS in Travel & Tourism data & Non - Spatial Data Spatial Data: Spatial data includes the data which is in the form of latitude & longitude, data in the form of co- ordinate system. Non - Spatial Data: This includes The Management Tourist information regarding geographic history of tourist attractions of the city, services and facilities were acquired Analysis from various resources such as tourism Searching Geographic related websites and from other relevant agencies departments. Region while on tour Planning Basic GIS Components: The necessary components Development involved in the development of digital Finding specific type of guide are: Client, Web Server, Map place (Eg. restaurants, Server, and Data Server. Testing hotels, airports, etc.) Client: This is a Web interface with HTML and structures a basic customer of digital guide. As this sort of interface Marketing has exceptionally restricted client intelligence, accordingly it is impractical Fig 1. : GIS Categorization in Travel & Tourism for the clients to communicate with the spatial questions and maps. Keeping straightforwardly or in a roundabout the travelers looking for more than only in mind the goal to overcome from this way required in giving administrations a portrayal, run of the mill visit guides issue and give the client an interface to the voyagers. Tourism is viewed as demonstrate unsuitable. Tourism to communicate with the spatial one of the biggest financial assets to industry now uses the web innovation information. a nation’s income. It is a wellspring of broadly to distribute website pages Web Server & Application Server: outside money for creating nations as it loaded with data about the travel, visit Web server and application server includes portability of sightseers to and and cordiality administrations. Items constitutes the second segment of the starting with one place then onto the and administrations are being offered digital guide. A Web server is likewise next. online straightforwardly to the clients called as the HTTP server. The HTTP Tourism has various tangible by both tourism providers and tourism server is in charge of answering to and intangible components as an offices. the solicitations from the customers. administration industry. Major tangible Travel & Tourism Information The Web server can answer in a few components incorporate transportation, Digital Guide proves to be useful by approaches to the customer by sending convenience and different segments of giving an interface from where the client the current HTML records or the guide hospitality. Real immaterial components can specifically choose or inquiry the images; or by passing solicitations to identify with the reason or inspiration data they require from or to the guide. and conjuring different projects that for turning into a traveler, for example, Individuals can indicate their ranges of can procedure the request. Application rest, relaxation, chance to meet new intrigue and after that take a gander at server gets demands from the Web individuals and experience different the data depicted in a guide. Else they server. At the point when the Web server societies, or essentially to accomplish can likewise tap on the intuitive useful gets a demand that should be prepared something else and enterprise. For guide and get the trait data about the by some other program, it passes the going amongst close and distant spots, purposes of enthusiasm from the guide solicitations to the Application Server maps are required as imperative devices database. which thus hunt down the separate for giving exact areas. Following are the needed components relevant application program e.g. Over the years, tourism has been for digital guide for T & T: delineate and afterward passes on the upheld by travel-books and visit guides. 1. Data demand to process it. The application Commonly, such aides incorporate maps 2. Other GIS Components server goes about as an extension or that are stamped in order to connect 3. GIS software development Tool connector between the Web server and portrayal of spots with their separate the guide server. areas. For a normal visitor, such aides Data: absolutely fill their need. Then again, for Development of digital guide for
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but rather not quite the same as the Client Client Client standard programming advancement ventures. Yet at the same time, there are similarities in the improvement procedure in surveying client necessities, Web Server & Application framework prerequisites and different parts of advancement. There are various Server systems of programming improvement. The prototyping model is one of those and gives input from the client amid improvement prepare as opposed to Mapping Server toward the end. This empowers the engineer to approve prerequisites and determinations before usage of the framework which ought to spare the GIS assets of the venture in the event that Information Server the outcome is undesirable. Along these Database lines, prototyping lifecycle prepare model is taken after to build up the Fig 2. : Components of T & T Digital Guide online GIS application The way to build up a fruitful Information Server: and so forth. Results from the guide tourism digital guide is to accurately An information server is in charge server are both of the two structures characterize client necessities. It is the of keeping up the spatial and in addition - highlight information sent to the most essential and most vital part in any non-spatial information in a social customer for control by the client or study on building up a GIS instrument, or nonsocial database structures. a straightforward guide picture in a as every venture is exceptional and The information server reacts to the realistic organization. holds an alternate perspective of the framework being created. To build an solicitations sent through the SQL by GIS software development Tool: a customer or the guide server for the electronic GIS application, important • Coverstory MapInfo company’s windows segments that take an interest in the required information, and along these programming improvement toolbox • Technical Trends lines additionally called as a SQL server. model are customer and server. A MapXtreme 2005 permits .NET- customer can be any program which • Reserach Front GIS Database: experienced designers to make is utilized by a client to cooperate with • Articles This is the essential component intense area upgraded desktop and the application. A server comprises of a used to store data regarding geographic customer/server applications. In • Innovations in IT web server, interface program, web GIS locations. It stores the data in form support of Microsoft’s .NET Framework programming and database, which has • Security Corner latitude, longitude or in coordinate for Windows, MapXtreme mirrors a the information and gives information system. It is having the additional solitary question display for creating or • Practioner Workbench conveyance benefit through demand functionalities like querying, searching, amplifying mapping applications for the and reaction procedure to the customer. • brain Teaser editing, etc. desktop, conventional customer/server situations or the Web. MapXtreme is Conclusion • Chapter Reports Mapping Server: This article is an endevour to study This is a noteworthy workhorse an application advancement device • Student branch reports for information representation and the role of GIS in the development segment that satisfies spatial questions, of digital guide based on GIS. This conducts spatial investigation, and mapping for better business choices, administration of benefits and incorporated online data framework creates and conveys maps to the can help the travelers from far goals customer in light of the client’s demand. operations all the more viably. GIS based digital guide to investigate city visitor exercises Delineate plays out the GIS capacities and choose their visit in a fitting way or administrations, for example, development comprises of parts, for example, information advancement, by performing on-line GIS inquiries, inquiry sifting, information extraction, examination and all the solution related geocoding, spatial examination, outline, information association and application improvement that are not comparative to geographic question. About the Author
Ms. Rikita D. Patel [CSI-F8000710] is currently working as Asst. Professor in Anand Institute of Information Science, Anand, afiliated To: Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Koshy George and Vishnukumar S. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum
Introduction images in color were transmitted to short duration is tremendous. With the From Alexander the Great through the ground stations in real time for advancement in control engineering, Napoleon to Hitler, the way rulers and quick viewing and analysis. Moreover, hardware and software development, conquerors saw their spoils of war has satellites provided a wider coverage the things that were in the hands of an advanced a great deal. Where rulers when compared to aerial images which elite few is now commercially available till the nineteenth century conquered led to its quicker and wider adaptation to the common man. This has helped in could not see their vast empire first in the field of remote sensing. Remote increased growth and innovation in this hand, the situation changed with the sensing using satellites has gained field. advent of the twentieth century; thanks a lot of prominence in the recent past to the emergence of aerial photography. owing to the need to study the earth Aerial imagery has been able to and various phenomena that occur on provide information about an area first the surface of the earth. This helped in hand without having to wait for long identifying and monitoring the various tenures which was the case prior to the changes that occur on the earth’s nineteenth century. surface. According to Prof. Paul R. Baumann [1], the term remote sensing was coined out of the existing term aerial photography. Remote sensing can be considered as the concept of gathering information about a remote area without actually being present at that area to gather the required Fig. 2 : A pictorial representation of the information. In remote sensing, the remote sensing using satellites sensors used for gathering information (Image courtesy of Crisp center for Remote do not have direct contact with the imaging, sensing and processing) object or area. Aerial photography did Fig. 3 : Illustration of the first recorded What is the significance of remote just that. For understanding an area, aerial photograph from a balloon (Image sensing in today’s world? courtesy of oneonta.edu) camera mounted on aircrafts were The application of remote sensing used to gather information which were The latest trend in aerial is numerous. It is now considered then used at the ground station to photography is the use of Unmanned as an area of choice in the fields of understand or gather information about Aerial Vehicles, also known as UAVs, archeology, environment monitoring, the area. which are now being considered as the surveillance etc. The applications keep first choice for use in the field of remote expanding owing to the identification of sensing. Its versatile usage is mainly new areas that are now seeing potential credited to the availability of technology in use of remote sensing technology. to all. UAVs, once seen as part of the The cost effective approach followed by military domain is now available in the its quick deployment over the area of civilian domain and has gained wide interest without much effort increases recognition on its vast usage options. its significance in today’s world. Be it The history of UAVs dates back to being used for disaster assessment or World War 1. Just like the aerial imaging monitoring or crop growth monitoring history, the first UAVs were made using or change in the geography of a region, balloons [2] and has come a long way Fig. 1 : “Pin-pointing.” U.S. School of remote sensing provides the means since. In India, the use of UAVs have photography, Langley Field, Virginia. to understand and act on scenarios (Photo Courtesy of U.S. Airforce) not been limited only to the military quickly and more effectively. domain, though extensively used by the Remote sensing has expanded with UAVs for remote sensing? Why? armed forces in insurgency operations the emergence of satellites. From the Aerial Photography has grown and surveillance[3][4]. The use of UAVs era where black and white analog aerial a long way; from a risky yet humble for drought monitoring has gained images were first filmed, washed and beginning using balloons, to the latest prominence of late. The Maharashtra processed to finally generate a depiction technology involving drones, the way Government in 2015[5] utilized UAVs of the area, with the satellite era, digital aerial imaging has evolved in such a to understand crop loss in drought
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affected areas. This was a milestone as sent back and precision o flight path is involvement of many startups and there was a shift seen from the manual maintained. UAVs are prone to issues organizations which try to innovate survey process to an automated quick like limited flight time and payload ideas to bring out better aerial images survey. Also it seen that UAVs have been capacity. This is being solved using using UAVs. The development and considered as a choice for monitoring the latest advancement in control, growth in the field of UAVs and UAV wildlife and forests [6][7]. The use of power and hardware technologies. imaging is immense and it is for us to drones to keep track of animals that Also, the assembling of UAVs and its see what different would be offered by are prone to poaching has gained maintenance has reduced significantly the UAV and UAV imaging in the future. importance due to the fact that the owing to the development in technology. References UAVs can enter or monitor places which How is aerial photography from UAVs [1] Paul R. Baumann, HISTORY OF REMOTE are inaccessible to humans. A very significant in remote sensing? SENSING, SATELLITE IMAGERY,PART important use of UAVs is monitoring The UAVs provide clear digital II, https://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/ baumanpr/geosat2/RS%20History%20 and providing data upfront during aerial images that can be analyzed II/RS-History-Part-2.html, Accessed 21 various natural calamities. UAVs were precisely owing to the use of high-end extensively used for rescue missions Oct 2016 commercially available cameras. Even [2] “Remote Piloted Aerial Vehicles”, http:// during the Uttarakand floods in 2013 though the area covered during flight www.ctie.monash.edu/hargrave/rpav_ [8]. They acted as first responders and by a UAV is less and the area captured home.html#Beginnings, Accessed 21 a device of choice to identify and locate in each image frame captured is small, Oct 2016 survivors and access the amount of the clarity of the image is higher as [3] Operation Ginger, http://www.firstpost. damage during and post the floods. the altitude of flight is usually less com/india/operation-ginger-indian- armys-surgical-strikes-in-2011-killed- Another reason for use of UAVs was that than hundred feet. The aerial images eight-pakistani-soldiers-3042386.html, it did not need any special infrastructure captured by the UAVs are mosaicked setup and went to areas which were not Accessed 21 Oct 2016 to form an orthomap or ortho-rectified [4] Drones in India, http://dronecenter. accessible to people. mosaick. This helps give a proper top- bard.edu/drones-in-india, Accessed 19 down view of the area under study. Oct 2016 The latest UAVs have been fitted with [5] Maharashtra Using Drones to Survey multiple sensors and this helps in Crop Losses in Drought-Hit Parts, understanding the area under different http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/ maharashtra-using-drones-to- conditions. This is why it is being survey-crop-losses-in-drought-hit- preferred over the traditional aerial parts-1210983, Accessed 21 Oct 2016 • Coverstory imaging techniques. The cost factor [6] Drones to monitor wildlife in 10 Indian also plays an important role in the use • Technical Trends sites, http://timesofindia.indiatimes. of UAVs over the traditional approaches. com/home/environment/flora-fauna/ Drones-to-monitor-wildlife-in-10- • Reserach Front Conclusion Indian-sites/articleshow/39539136. • Articles Traditional techniques for aerial cms, Accessed 21 Oct 2016 imaging is slowly being phased out and • Innovations in IT [7] Drones to guard India’s forests and importance to quick and more versatile wildlife, http://www.thehindu.com/ • Security Corner approach for aerial mosaicks are being news/national/drones-to-guard-indias- • Practioner Workbench considered. Hence it can be said that forests-and-wildlife/article6286830. UAVs are the next big thing in the area ece, Accessed 19 Oct 2016 • brain Teaser of remote sensing and aerial imaging. [8] Three UAVs deployed in Uttarakhand rescue operations, http://www. The cost effectiveness followed by the • Chapter Reports thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/ Fig. 4 Unmanned aerial vehicles being ease of use has enabled the decision • Student branch reports three-uavs-deployed-in-uttarakhand- used for the first time in a disaster rescue for use of UAVs to provide images of rescue-operations/article4859694.ece, operation in Uttarakhand (Image Courtesy high quality. In India, there has been Accessed 21 Oct 2016 of The Hindu Newspaper) major advancements in this field with What is the significance of using UAVs About the Authors: for remote sensing? Mr. Vishnu kumar S [CSI-01104002 ] is currently working as Assistant UAVs can travel to places which are Professor at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Mar not accessible to humans. They help Baselios College of Engineering & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram provide sufficient information using and he is the Vice Chairman of Computer Society of India, Trivandrum on-board sensors for analysis at quick Chapter. His area of interest include Digital image Processing, Super- intervals without the use of manual Resolution Image Reconstruction, and Fuzzy Techniques. He can be and tedious effort. They do not need a reached at [email protected]. separate infrastructure setup and can Mr. Koshy George is a student at Mar Baselios College of Engineering be assembled very quickly. UAVs make & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. He has more than 5 years of use of other remote sensing data like industry experience in the software development field. His area of the Global positioning System (GPS) interest include Digital image Processing and Data Analytics. data to ensure more accurate data is
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Semi-supervised and Crowdsourcing Approach for Situation Awareness during Disaster Events
Neha Pandey S Natarajan PESIT, Bangalore Professor, Information Science & Engineering, PESIT, Bangalore This article proposes a prototype solution to provide situation awareness during and post the time of a disaster event using semi-supervised machine learning technique and creating interactive open street maps for crowdsourcing the user data providing threat and relief information. The model is based on the data from chennai flood 2015.
Disaster creates a massive impact on area and on the lives of people residing in that area. Disaster preparedness and recovery are the important step that needs to be taken care of in all the places that are vulnerable to disaster. Millions of tweets are generated during a normal day. When a disaster occurs, the population residing in that place is adversely affected. When there is an emergency situation like a disaster enormous numbers of tweets are generated. These tweets can provide useful information to the general public during the disaster event. This type of information is called situation awareness information. Extraction of situation awareness information from tweets is a challenging task since the vocabulary used by the users differs as well as the writing short hand notations reduces the readability of the tweets. Generally tweets collected are not in the form of a labelled data so implementing supervised learning approach can be tedious and time consuming task. Hence, we followed a method that uses the semi-supervised machine learning approach which can be used to obtain such useful information. This approach uses basic support vector machine for initial classification. Another aspect that has to be considered after a disaster strikes is the rehabilitation activity that focuses on bringing back the state of affected people to stability. Providing information about relief operation post disaster can help speed up rehabilitation activity for the disaster affected population. This can account to extraction of relief related urls that provides information such as volunteering, donation, relief camps etc. Also, use of crowdsourcing system to obtain relief related information can help general public become aware of various locations where relief operations are carried out. This use of open street map as a base of interactive map was used to crowdsource the information.
Introduction In this era, information is one of reduce the impact of disaster can help When it comes to the technological the most valuable assets that can be the victims of disaster. Crowdsourcing help which can aid in minimizing the used for various purposes to deduce is a method of gathering information impact of a Disaster, there are various important results that can serve the from the crowd on the internet[7]. The researches done in the domain of society in different ways. In case of a authenticity of the information obtained Geographical Information System[8]. disaster calamity, information may be by crowdsourcing cannot be known as it Several applications proposed by the available in various forms from social is accessed by general public. But since, researchers have helped recent disaster networking sites, news channels, during a disaster event it is assumed mitigation process to a greater extent[1]. papers, satellite data, etc.[6]. Using such that the information generated from this One such application is Ushandi crisis information to create a system that can is relevant to the emergency situation. map. Ushahidi organizers developed a
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used [2]. This information classified relevant information from non-relevant Extraction information. To provide information Post tweets of tweets regarding vulnerable areas and relief location during and post a disaster, Twitter User Twitter.com interactive map was generated as Servers Store shown in Fig 3, which could record the user input to the map and store it in google sheet shown in Fig 4, for the purpose of crowdsourcing. Interactive Pre-processing map was created using OSM (Open Geoname of places in File System affected city of tweets Street Map). Semi-supervised Algorithm:
Geoname of places in affected city & shape file of flood Input: Tweet dataset with few labelled Interactive map for regions data Relief location Using Web Map Output: All the data labelled in the Inserting rows Service Situation Awareness dataset. Classification to google sheet Initialize train_size Interactive map for Crowd sourcing data threat location while (all rows in the dataset are not from maps in Google labelled) sheets test_size<- (1/4)*train_size Fig. 1 : Architecture of System create a document matrix
Crisis Map of Haiti earthquake struck recovery. container->container(document_ in 2010. martrix, label_column, train_size, Prototype System test_size) • Coverstory It was one of the first crowdsource Based on the research study map developed to provide aid during classifier->model • Technical Trends conducted on extraction of this relevant crisis. This was utilized by U.S Coast information from microblogs such as (container,”SVM”) • Reserach Front guards and Marines for their operations Twitter and integration of GIS data from result->classify(container, thus affirming the importance of • Articles NRSC (National Remote Sensing Centre) model) crowdsourcing during emergency. This and UNOSAT (UNITAR’s Operational • Innovations in IT system was later utilized for other Satellite Applications Programme), we append the result labels to • Security Corner disaster events after Haiti earthquake in developed a prototype application that dataset rows countries such as Chile, New Zealand, could be used by to create awareness • Practioner Workbench train_size<-train_size+test_size and Japan. Mapbox created crisis map among them during the disaster and end while • brain Teaser for Chennai floods that was used by the provide useful information to speed up public to mark all the flooded streets. • Chapter Reports the process of recovery. By crowdsourcing this information, This map provided crowdsourced Fig. 1 depicts the architecture of internet users could use this valuable • Student branch reports information regarding the inundated this system. The application used twitter information for the purpose of rescue, [3] areas . Although these areas were not data and extracted situation awareness relief and volunteering operations. verified individually but they provided information from it using the technique The interactive maps were also useful information, considering the of semi supervised machine learning. integrated with the map data recorded seriousness of the situation. Various This was because the amount of by the satellite pre, during and post other researches were carried out such data collected was too large (2 lakh the disaster so that the users of the as development of landslide detection approx.) and manual labelling of this application could view the impact of application LITMUS which was multi- data to class situation awareness and disaster and areas that required more service system combining information non-situation awareness was a tedious importance. For this the raster data [4] from direct social media . task for the process of supervised using the WMS (Web Map Service) One the similar grounds, this learning using SVM (Support Vector provided by bhuvan team, NRSC ISRO article proposes an application that machine)[5]. Hence, using semi- and vector data provided by UNOSAT integrates relevant information from supervised machine learning approach was used. Fig 5 and Fig 6 shows these all the social sources to develop an which used svm as the base for initial data on the map. For the purpose of integrated software solution to help classification and using this result to users contributing towards disaster the process of disaster mitigation and iteratively self-train the classifier was struck people a module that could
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Disaster
Fig. 2Fig. : Sample 2: Sample of Situation of Situation Awareness Awareness Tweets Tweets
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& Dev. Vol. 57 No. 5 Paper 4 September/October 2013 [4] Aibek Musaev, De Wang and Calton Pu, LITMUS: a Multi- Service Composition System for Landslide Detection, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2013 [5] Thorsten Joachims, Text Categorization with Support Vector Machines: Learning with Many Relevant Features, University at Dortmund Informatik LS-8, Baroper Str. 30144221Dortmund, Germany, April 1998
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Remote Sensors and Information Security
V. Rajendran Advocate and Cyber Law Consultant
Man is a social animal. communication cutting across national Communication and information borders, remote access became the sharing has always been the inborn order of the day. Now there are remote virtue of man-kind. Just like sharing sensors everywhere, right from small of information, withholding of the same toys and such minor, trivial applications or concealment of the same has also upto the SCADA (Supervisory Control been part of man-kind ever. When and Data Acquisition) systems deployed concealment is a trait, deliberate in the telecom sector, Metro Rail, revealing too lies on the other side. Of late, usage of drones has rapidly Spying or infringement of information power supply and such mission critical increased. Before bothering about the or just plain data leakage too is as old applications. Hence remote sensors security concerns and the intrusion as civilization. Not surprising, even in have a very crucial role to play dealing issues on the deployment of a drone, let the centuries old epics and works of with the physical and logical access us admit the positive side of its usage. literature, we read about spying and controls. UAVs – effective usage: Already what we call these days ‘information Remote access paved the way for many states are deploying such drones espionage’. Kautilya in his much the need for newer forms of access for use by the police departments acclaimed administrative treatise control. Much of the access control in monitoring crowd behavior in “Arthashastra” speaks about spying, initiatives and security monitoring congregations of thousands, to detect treason, effective usage of spying of suspicious movement of individuals including intrusion prevention and enemies, guarding against leakage of top and such situations where the police detection are enabled through software administrative information etc. Hence it force cannot penetrate deep inside a is but natural that the governments of controls only. However, irrespective of huge crowd like Kumbh Mela. These today evince more and more interest the software deployed, some hardware drones send data (like photos or videos) and spend lots of their time, talent and devices are meant to be automatic, streaming and online constantly to the treasure to guard against data leakage destined to be remote controlled and base stations enabling the officials finding out innovative means to ensure naturally the access control for such there to monitor the crowd and be alert data security. devices too has to be software driven. to any untoward incident happening. Information Espionage: A study of In some cases, security and deployment In situations like the Chennai floods remote sensors becomes an integral of access control becomes a little tricky. last December, where vast areas were part in any discussion on data protection, Drones and Data Privacy: Now, inundated and the rescue team could not data leakage and cyber espionage. The imagine you are sitting in the top floor ascertain if anyone is trapped in any flat more we deploy remote sensors, the or any roof-top for hours, these drones open terrace of a huge multi storey more will be the cause for concern for were of immense assistance. They apartment or in the projected sit-out those who are responsible for data and were deployed, to fly in small streets th th information stored in the system. In the of your flat on 5 or 6 floor, enjoying and by-lanes, engage in surveillance of early days of computerization, data theft an evening with your contacts, and a all roof-tops and balconies, sit-outs and or unauthorised copying of information small object of around 3 or 4 cubic feet windows of multi-storey complexes and was done through a physical access weighing less than 5 kg comes flying to a constantly send the camera images and to the hardware equipment (like a stone-throwing distance from you. Any video images to the base station system. computer system, a hard-disk or uninitiated layman with some curiosity A very effective, purposeful and positive other storage device). Later thanks to will take it as experimental object usage of drones on such occasions is technology penetration in all spheres of being flown, maybe from a research profusely praised. life, data communication getting widely university nearby and tend to ignore it. Drones ready-made, are normally prevalent and information always on the Days are not far off, when such small imported. However, quite often, the move from one device to another, across basic chips in drones are imported bird-looking objects called Unmanned national frontiers too, information theft and then customized or programmed Aerial Vehicles, commonly abbreviated too was done through a network. at educational institutions (like Anna SCADA Systems : With rapid as UAVs and more popularly known as University in Chennai) to conform to the advancement in network technology and drones are used to ‘spy’ the area and specifications of the user who want to bandwidth becoming cheaper day by day collect data or pictures from places that deploy them, depending on the capacity, and just for asking, and with the use of are not easily physically accessible for technological capability etc. Hence the terrestrial and non-terrestrial means of humans. remote sensors are fitted and deployed
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according to the specifications of the operation of UAS will require approval considered a serious offence to justify particular drone, its capabilities and the from the Air Navigation Service provider, the shooting of the drone on grounds of purpose of deployment. defence, Ministry of Home Affairs, and invasion into privacy. An event organizer deploying a other security agencies, besides the The issue regulating drones has drone in an expansive conference hall, DGCA.” very wide techno-legal ramifications would like to have a smaller version The circular further adds that DGCA and it is better the government passed costing just a few lakhs with a capacity is in the process of formulating the appropriate legislations or empowered to fly a maximum of about 100 feet regulations and till they are issued, no the DGCA or such other monitoring body high at a very low speed and constantly non-government agency, organisation to come out with clear, unambiguous record or send the video footages, or individual will launch a UAS in Indian and elaborate guidelines. whereas the Border Security Force or Civil airspace. On a careful reading of Information Technology Act: From the Coast Guards would like to go in for this public notice we infer that the DGCA a legislative efforts perspective, cyber a drone which can fly a greater height is more focused on the civil air-space, security in India is mainly governed by and farther too, at a very good speed air traffic and physical security aspects the Information Technology Act 2000 and fitted with a powerful camera. of UAS, rather than on the civilian use of and its Amendment Act 2008 (unlike Interestingly, some e-commerce firms UAVs per se and their spying capabilities. in other nations which have exclusive are planning to get online orders and Detailed guidelines from the DGCA are legislations on Data Privacy, Data engage drones for delivery of the goods expected soon on the use of UAS. Communication etc like the HIPAA and in time, in small lanes and by-lanes of We hope the department focuses SOX in the US). In India, however, the metro centres with an effective ground on UAVs (drones) also in addition to IT Act does speak about ‘reasonable base-station control and monitoring. UAS and such guidelines cover the security practices’, ‘body corporate’ and Remote sensors fitted in such drones technological capabilities, nature of ‘sensitive and personal information’ often substitute the human couriers or use etc. since the issue has far more and hence if any spying is indulged delivery boys who may take longer time technological implications and legal with the help of remote sensors is to reach the place. ramifications, than the air-space or an offence under the civil offences Security concerns in Drones: And the international treaties governing described in Sec 43-A of the Act, with now the flip side on the use of drones, the airports and the air traffic. The the phrases described above. In the i.e. the serious security concerns technology part of the guidelines absence of a detailed legislation on like the spying capabilities, usage should necessarily include the level Data Privacy which is still on the cards, in critical areas, sensitive locations, of customization like the distance and as of now in India, what is enshrined • Coverstory deployment for corporate espionages camera capabilities, speed, payload in the Rules published by the Ministry • Technical Trends and other criminal activities. Imagine and the height upto which the drone of Communications and Information • Reserach Front the situation, as narrated earlier, when is capable of flying and based on all Technology on 11 April 2011 apply with a drone comes near you in an open these factors only, the permission regard to description and definition on • Articles space and you do not know how to or clearance has to be given by the ‘sensitive personal data’. Hence if a • Innovations in IT react and how to ‘protect’ your data or government departments concerned. remote sensor captures data as detailed prevent a picture being taken in case In the absence of proper and herein, it then becomes a civil offence • Security Corner you suspect spying. Already, we hear unambiguous definition of what as per the Act in India, for the purpose • Practioner Workbench stories of such usage debated upon in constitutes a UAV and an UAS, it would of ‘reasonable security practices’. the context of personal security, data be best open to the public and users (or However, the criminality of the data • brain Teaser privacy and invasion to individual’s rather the mis-users) to interpret the theft is dealt with separately as offences • Chapter Reports movement. There are instances of words in their own convenient manner in the other Sections like Sec 66 and its • Student branch reports drones flying in open spaces in the and deploy them for their individual sub sections, with clear punishments sea-shores, vast areas of beaches, purposes which of course would include for each of such criminal activity and Sec when police have ‘captured’ them and criminal activities like spying too. 65 separately dealing with tampering of taken into custody and the owners get Recently the Government of computer source documents. them released after satisfying to the India introduced a system in Delhi Cyber Crime Investigation and co- police the genuineness of their usage, International airport customs that ordination: From an investigation point ownership and deployment in that area. drones brought with the passenger of view, there is much scope in India Supervision and Control of UAVs: have to be declared, reportedly from for a reliable information sharing in the The Director General Civil Aviation the airport security perspective. Earlier cyber crimes area, among all the stake (DGCA), Govt of India vide public notice the Delhi Police too are reported to holders including the investigators, (like dated 7 Oct 2014 stated that “Unmanned have issued instructions to their force the various state police departments, Aerial System (UAS) has potential for to shoot down any drone flying above the CB-CID, CBI, RAW, IB, NTRO, ED civil applications. Its use besides being sensitive or critical locations around the etc) coming under the various Ministries a safety issue also poses security threat. airport, of course after consulting the and different states. A most awaited Due to lack of regulation, operating NSG. In fact, there are cases in the US, and welcome step in the right direction procedures…UAS poses threat for air though just a few, wherein it has been of an oversight body to ensure proper collisions and accidents…The civil decided that flying a drone itself was not information sharing and co-ordination Contd. on page 39 www.csi-india.org 30 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 ARTICLE
Brain Tumor Segmentation Towards a better life
Rupal R. Agravat Mehul S. Raval Asst. Professor, Institute of Technology, Associate Professor, School of Engg. and Applied Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad
1. Introduction Remaining part of the brain is filled with Moreover this, such segmentation Brain Tumor is developed due to Cyrebrospinal Fluid(CSF). CSF is a clear results are reproducible and consumes accumulation of abnormal tissues in fluid which surrounds brain, so rather less time. This article mainly focuses the brain. Generally normal tissues than sticking to their surrounding on various types imaging modalities, generate, grow and die, but abnormal bones, the brain float within the CSF. issues to be considered in automated/ tissues alter this cycle and grows CSF works as a stabilizer and shock semi-automated tumor segmentation uncontrollably. Primary brain tumor absorber for the brain as they float and various techniques developed by may be formed in the brain, whereas within the hollow spaces of the skull. researchers using MRI as the imaging secondary brain tumor is the result Inside the brain, small CSF-filled modality. of spread of tumor in the brain from cavities called ventricles expand under 2. Medical Imaging Techniques other part of the body. Depending on the pressure of CSF to lift and inflate a. Computed Tomography (CT): CT appearance of brain tumor tissues, the brain tissue[1,2]. is painless, non-invasive and fast it can be categorized in four different Skull, which encloses brain medical imaging technique which ways, which are ranging from Grade I to tissues, is a very rigid structure and uses X-rays and generates axial Grade IV. any abnormal growth inside such slices of body. Multiple X-rays Grade I: brain tumor is considered a restricted space is a problem. produce volumetric image using to be benign and its tissues look Therefore, if brain tumors are not cross-sectional layers to show like normal brain tissues and grow diagnosed and treated immediately, images inside the body for bones, slowly. they could seriously damage brain organs, tissues, and tumours. Grade II: brain tumor tissues look or cause death. For any brain tumor Because of limitation of X-rays, less likely to normal tissues and treatment, information about position it cannot capture objects which can be converted from benign to and size of the tumor is a key to patient are highly attenuated like objects malignant. survival. Awareness of the tumor hidden by bones. But each picture Grade III: brain tumor is considered position and especially changes about created during a CT procedure to be malignant (cancerous) and its tumor size can provide very important shows the organs, bones, and tissues look different from normal information to decide treatment regime other tissues in a thin “slice” of the brain tissues and grows faster. including surgery, radiotherapy and or body. As CT uses ionising radiation Grade IV are considered to be chemotherapy[7]. through X-rays, it may increase risk malignant and such brain tumor So, such type of brain tumors of cancer in future. tissues are most abnormal tissues can be pictured using various kind b. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and grows very quickly, and it of Medical Imaging (MR) techniques, (MRI): MRI is a non-invasive medical spreads to various parts of brain out of these, Computed Tomography imaging technique which uses and central nervous system. (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging magnetic field and radio frequency Basically, normal brain tissues (MRI) are generally used techniques for pulses to produce detailed picture can be divided in two classes: Gray diagnostic imaging of brain. Brain MRI/ of organs, soft tissues, bone, Matter (GM) and White Matter (WM). CT images are 3D images, which are ligaments, etc. Depending on the GM is mostly made up of unmyelinated analysed by experts such as doctors or strength of magnetic field and neurons and includes regions of the radiologist for diagnosis of brain tumor. radio waves, various types of MRI brain involved in muscle control and Such analysis by human experts is very images can be created which are sensory perception like seeing, hearing, time consuming, non-reproducible, and called weighted images, like T1- memory, emotions, speech, decision highly depends on the expert. If such weighted, T2-weighted, Proton- making and self-control. While WM analysis can be done by computer, then Density Weighted, Fluid-attenuated is made up of myelinate neurons that it identifies features of brain tumor and Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) etc. connect the regions of GM to each other delineates it in entire 3D image. Such Weighted MRI focuses on specific and to the rest of the body. WM can play automated/semi automated tumor kind of tissues prominently. As the part of information highway of the segmentation supports human expert, MRI does not use ionising radiation brain to speed the connection between which may help them in treatment and soft-tissues projection is distant parts of the brain and body. planning and follow-up of patients. much better than other imaging
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techniques, it is more preferable may share the same tissue contrast. anatomy. Atlases are constructed imaging technique for brain scans. To help segmentation task, a prior on the basis of populations to better 3. Difficulty in MRI image anatomical information is provided understand variability of anatomical segmentation either by a rule based tissue properties structures. Such atlases are often All the MRI images are not ready or by manual tissue annotation. known as probabilistic (population- for processing directly, as it may contain Atlas gives predefined structure or based or statistical) atlases. Figure noise, non-brain tissues, bias field etc. distribution (probability priors) of brain 2 shows probabilistic atlas. Disease- Various pre-processing techniques tissues. Basically there are two type base atlas can also be generated. Table required to deal with these issues. of atlases: Topological (deterministic) 2 provides various probabilistic atlas Moreover this, MRI images provides and probabilistic. When the atlas based BTS techniques. various modalities like T1, T2, FLAIR, construction depends on a single subject Such methods requires mapping DWI etc. which focuses on different then it is called topological atlas. These of MR image with the atlas for tissues of brain, in this case image type of atlases are often a volume image segmentation of tumor, so selection of registration also becomes very crucial which is a representative (average size, atlas plays the major role. Moreover this, and important task if processing shape or intensity) among the other some kind of spatial information related requires different MRIs of same subject objects to be segmented. Figure 1 shows to the location of tumor is also needed or may be different subjects for some such atlas. But anatomical atlases are as one of the input for segmentation. specific task. MRI pre-processing does: not representing diversity of human c. Deformable methods Noise-Removal : Removes noise Table 1 : Basic Brain Tumor segmentation techniques from image. Skull-Stripping : Removes non- Technique Key Points brain tissues of the image. Region Growing It is a semi-automated technique, where seed point is Bias Field Correction : Removes provided for finding the interested region of tumor. bias field created because of MR Thresholding Here contribution of partial volume is calculated based on machines. the intensity distribution of normal brain tissues. Using this Image registration : aligns or co- fact brain tumor is segmented. aligns MRI images. Along with pre-processing, Partial Watershed Multi-scale watershed segmentation is used which works on linear Gaussian scale-space which simplifies the image. • Coverstory Volume Effect (PVE) also plays an important and crucial role in segmenting This linear scale-space is described by PDE based on heat • Technical Trends MRI images. PVE is considered to be the diffusion equation. • Reserach Front contribution of more than one type of Localization watershed at low scale is combined with tissues in a single voxel. Any voxel which detection watersheds at high scale to detect tumor area. • Articles incorporates PVE cannot be delineated • Innovations in IT or segmented properly. So PVE should • Security Corner also be taken care of properly. 4. MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation • Practioner Workbench (BTS) Techniques • brain Teaser MRI BTS techniques developed • Chapter Reports by various researchers may be either fully automated or may require human • Student branch reports interaction to provide some seeds to start. Such researches are done basically on MRI images only and images are provided by various hospitals, from open databases available for common challenges or may be synthetically generated by computers. MRI BTS techniques are summarized as follows: a. Basic BTS Techniques Basic BTS techniques are considered to be thresholding, region growing and watershed methods as Fig. 1 : The anatomical phantom derived from average of T1, T2, PD-weighted images of shown in table 1. various scans of same subject. These volumes are defined at a 0.5mm isotropic voxel grid in Talairach space, with dimensions 362*434*362 (XxYxZ) and start coordinates −90,−126,−72 b. Atlas and probabilistic based (x,y,z). A discrete phantom was created by storing the label of the most important fraction Methods class at each voxel location [5]. Different anatomical structures
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Table 2 : Atlas and Probability based BTS techniques Technique Key Points Probabilistic Uses disease specific atlas. Here the task is divided in four parts: Atlas for OPG 1. co-registration and normalization of MR images with help of rigid registration method and dynamic histogram matching. 2. registration of MR images with Optic Pathway Gliomas (OPG) atlas is done based on affine transformation atlas voxel weights. 3. From FLAIR images, sharp boundary of OPG is detected by simply applying fixed-value thresholding. 4. Sharp OPG boundary is completed using Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test. Probabilistic 1. Channel specific tumor segmentation is done based on Atlas from multi-dimensional sequences. Fig. 2 : ICBM452 population-based atlas: (a) T1-weighted mean, (b) white matter, (c) multiple 2. For healthy tissue, atlas based multinomial distribution grey matter, and (d) cerebrospinal fluid [4]. channels finds probabilities of GM, WM and CSF. 3. Probabilistic atlas for tumor state is constructed for multiple Deformable models are basically channels using estimation maximization. Once tumor curves which moves under the influence specific parameters are estimated for all the channels, of internal force which are curves and presence of tumor at each voxel is labelled. surfaces in the image itself and external Probabilistic 1. Probabilistic atlas is generated which has tumor prior force which are calculated using Atlas with information. image data. Geometry, physics and tumor as new 2. To form an unbiased atlas which can tolerate tumor and approximation based features can easily class traumatic brain injury lesions, low-rank-plus sparse be found using deformable methods. image decomposition technique is used which is iterative, Deformable features helps in tracking diffeomorphic, and uses group-wise image registration anatomical structures appropriately method. which are very different according 3. Each iteration of image registration identifies healthy and to biological structures of different pathological components in the image and uses healthy individual. There are basically two type component to create unbiased atlas. Such atlas is then used of deformable models: parametric and to identify pathology in the image. Geometric. Table 3 shows some of those for brain tumor segmentation. In Deformable methods, if large Table 3. Deformable Methods based BTS Techniques amount of deformation has happened Technique Key Points in the normal tissues then tumor detection becomes very difficult. Other Dynamic 1. Internal forces uses adaptive balloon forces to increase than this, prior knowledge of shape of Gradient Vector capture range of tumor and to speed-up evolution. tumor is also required which is very Flow (DGVF) 2. Spatial diffusion gradient of an edge map is used in DGVF difficult as the tumor shape, size and snake to track concave boundaries such that it becomes location changes in different patients. less sensitive to local minima. d. Machine Learning based methods Generalized 1. After pre-processing the image, initial tumor detection is In machine learning based Gradient Vector done using fuzzy classification method which is applicable methods, clustering and classification Flow (GGVF) to hyper-intense tumors and symmetry analysis to any type methods are studied for BTS. Clustering of tumor. methods learns relationship of image 2. Symmetry plan analysis is performed to determine the intensities for segmentation without region that deviate from the symmetry assumption to get domain knowledge. Such methods rough location of tumor. takes image specific features which 3. Accurate estimation of its boundaries is done using are relevant to tumor. Large volume parametric deformable model GGVF which constrained by of training data is required for robust spatial relations based on topological and distance relation segmentation against imaging artefacts, Geometric 1. Abnormal brain tissues are found using registered normal intensity and shape variations. Whereas Properties brain atlas and tumor area is determined. classification methods learns from the 2. Spatial and geometric properties are applied to locate the training data given. Table 4 summarizes tumor area. these methods.
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Table 4 : Machine Learning Based BTS Techniques Technique Key Points Fuzzy C-means Method 1: 1. On the basics of fuzzy c-means clustering model, various models are defined based on the combination of Hard C-means/Fuzzy c-means and various partitioning criteria. 2. Neural Network is established putting assumptions on error functions and derivatives of error functions. 3. Comparison of these two approaches is shown. Method 2: 1. Apply local filtering to each voxel to compute its intensity. 2. Determine number of voxel in the MR slices having specific intensity level. 3. Optimize Fuzzy C-means clustering function. Fuzzy knowledge 1. From multi-spectral MR images, fuzzy knowledge is acquired, which includes fuzzy edge, fuzzy and region similarity and fuzzy distance. growing 2. This fuzzy knowledge is applied to conventional seeded region growing method so that the method does not undersegment the image. Support Vector 1. SVM is trained to classify tumor under the assumption of inter voxel independency. Machine (SVM) 2. As voxels always depends on their neighbours, such spatial relationship is modelled using Conditional Random Field (CRF) to regularize the results generated by SVM Classifier. Random Decision Method 1: Forest (RDF) 1. RDF uses k-fold cross-validation approach for fully automatic segmentation. After image pre- processing, intensity features, gradient based features and context features are extracted for each voxel. 2. These features are used in RDF for classification. Morphological filtering is applied as post processing step to deal with large tumor region. Method 2: 1. Separately trained decision trees are used to create ensemble approach, where each tree differs due to randomness of feature selection during training. 2. Highest information gain feature parameter is saved for each node. • Coverstory Artificial Bee 1. ABC algorithm is applied on the MRI image using fitness function to provide global thresholding. • Technical Trends Colony (ABC) 2. This thresholded image is further given for tumor classification to Fuzzy C-Means algorithm. • Reserach Front Hybrid Intelligent 1. Hybrid intelligent algorithm does image fusion for T1 and T2 weighted MRI. • Articles Algorithm 2. This image is tested against symmetry of brain for tumorous slice classification. 3. Such tumorous slices are then provided to fuzzy Hopfield Neural Network for tumor segmentation. • Innovations in IT Stationary Wavelet 1. Apply SWT to pre-processed MR image for decomposition of wavelet coefficients. • Security Corner Transform (SWT) 2. Generate Self Organizing Maps (SOM) with SWT coefficients using unsupervised learning algorithm. • Practioner Workbench 3. Label such SOM using manually segmented regions. 4. Fine tune the weighted vectors of SOM using Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ). • brain Teaser K – Nearest 1. Semi-automatic supervised learning method uses within brain generalization, where user roughly • Chapter Reports Neighbour (KNN) selects voxels associated to each class of tumor. • Student branch reports 2. This input is provided to KNN method, which generalizes this labelling to other unlabelled data. K-Singular Value 1. K-SVD uses topological and texture features and iterates between sparse coding and input data based Decomposition on the current dictionary to modify the atoms in the dictionary to better fit the data. (K-SVD) 2. This sparse coding is then used to classify between normal and abnormal brain tissues. Artificial Neural 1. By taking the advantage of brain hemisphere symmetry, brain lateral ventricular models is created Network (ANN) dynamically for extracting deformation features. and SVM 2. Such features are then fed into ANN and SVM for Brain Tumor Segmentation. KNN and SVM 1. Intra-tumor segmentation is done by Otsu’s method to segment the image in high and low signal groups followed by spatial mapping scheme from a multi-modality MRI imaging dataset to consider correlation between them. 2. Survival time prediction is done by classifying data in two categories (<400days and ≥400days) using KNN and SVM. Above mentioned Machine WM/CSF/Tumor etc). Large amount of uses very specific data which gives good Learning methods requires number of training data to be provided for better accuracy on that data only. classes into which the input tissues are results, which may not be possible if the to be divided (normal/abnormal, GM/ data set is too small. These methods www.csi-india.org 34 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 ARTICLE
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About the Authors: Ms. Rupal R. Agravat is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Technology, Nirma University and Ph.D. Scholar at School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. Her areas of research interest includes Digital Image Processing, Medical Imaging, Machine Learning. She can be reached at rupal.agravat@ iet.ahduni.edu.in
Dr. Mehul S. Raval [CSI–00091380] is currently working as Associate Professor with School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. He is an alumnus of College of Engineering (COEP), Pune. His research interests are in the areas of computer vision, digital watermarking, digital image forensics, soft biometrics. He is a CSI distinguished speaker for Region 3. He can be reached at [email protected].
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A Study on Open Source Software in Health Care System
Shikha Agrawal and Jitendra Agrawal Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya Bhopal (MP)
The Open Source Software is body for medical investigation [1]. It to the VTK toolkit. Now VTK has become the computer program that is freely consists of different functions such as a permanent feature in academic, available and can be used by anybody generic, registration, segmentation, commercial and R&D sectors. Its as per his/her requirement. One of the visualization, reconstruction, simulation framework is the backbone of several biggest advantages of this is that it is and diffusion. Many open source other visualization applications like easily available. It can be downloaded software have been created to carry out Para View, MayaVi and OsiriX. Since it from a number of websites and user these different functions are as shown is possible to wrap other language’s has to pay nothing for software licensing in figure below. interpreters to VTK, it can be enlarge on fees. To inspire the reader to explore and other languages like Python and Java The Open Source Software in use these freely accessible open source and can also be integrated with many health care has proven its success. software for medical image processing, GUI toolkit based database such as QT Many software companies like Red this section surveys several open source and Tk. Besides that, it contains a suite Hat, MY SQL & JBOSS etc. have libraries. of 3D interaction widgets and sustains demonstrated their potential as an parallel processing. 1. Generic: open source enterprises.”IBM”, “SUN 1.2 Insight Toolkit (ITK): Microsystems”, “Hewlett Packard” and 1.1 Visualization Toolkit (VTK): Developed in 1999 by the National many more is now actively taking part The Visualization Toolkit (VTK)[2] Library of Medicine (USA), Insight in the development of open source is most popular and widely used open- Toolkit (ITK)[3] is an open-source, • Coverstory software. Both government and federal source, cross platform, implemented in cross-platform system for registration agencies are paying attention to bring C++ for 3D computer graphics, image and segmentation of medical data of CT • Technical Trends revolution in the health care industry processing, rendering and visualization. and MRI scans. Cross-Compilation is • Reserach Front through open source software. The This tool was initially developed by done with the help of CMake software. result is many well established health three researchers, “Will Schroeder, • Articles ITK is written in C++ but also supports care based open source projects; few of Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen” (with other languages such as Python and • Innovations in IT them are described here in this article. the permission of GE), as companion Java. Concept of generic programming • Security Corner A. Open Source Software for Medical software for the book, ‘The Visualization and smart pointers enhances the Image Processing: Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to memory management efficiency of ITK. • Practioner Workbench Medical image processing is 3D Graphics’ published by Prentice-Hall. It not only supports multi-dimensional • brain Teaser the method of generating optical Later on VTK is taken by Kitware, whose views but also allows different file • Chapter Reports illustration of the inner part of a team is still performing enhancement formats “DICOM, PNG, VTK, BMP, JPEG, • Student branch reports Medical Image Processing
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NifySeg NiftyReg NiftySim MITK Camino NiftyRec ITK-Snap VTK Elastix DTI-TK ITK ANTS FSL GIMIASPM
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Siemens, Tiff, RAW, GE4x”, etc. distinct registration methods for a processing and analyzing written by Dr. 1.3 FMRIB Software Library (FSL): particular application. A command-line Tian and his group of the “ Intelligent As the name indicates FMRIB interface automated the processing Medical Research Center”, “Institute Software Library (FSL)[4] is a library of large numbers of data sets through of Automation”, “Chinese Academy of of software for statistical analysis of scripting. Since Elastix is now partnered Science”. It combines the Insight Toolkit FMRI, MRI and DTI brain image data. It with “SimpleElastix”, supports C++, R, (ITK) and the Visualization Toolkit was created by Analysis Group, FMRIB Python,Ruby, Java, C#, Octave and Lua. (VTK) with application framework so (Functional Magnetic Resonance 2.3 Advances Normalization Tools as to give medical image community a Imaging of the Brain), and OXFORD, UK (ANTS): uniform framework that combines the in 2000. This tool is easy to install and ANTS or Advances Normalization image registration, segmentation and runs on Apple and PCs. Tools [9] is a medical image registration visualization together. Its syntax and interface is simple and intuitive. 1.4 Graphical Interface for Medical and segmentation toolkit developed Image Analysis and Simulation by Brian B. Avants and currently 5. Reconstruction: (GIMIAS): maintained by Hands J. Johnson. 5.1 NiftyRec: GIMIAS[5] is a extensible open ANTs is not only capable for handling, This open source software for source progress oriented cross platform understanding and conceptulizing tomography reconstruction was initially system used for biomedical image multidimensional data but also able created at the “Centre for Medical Image computing and simulation of cardiac to extract information from complex Computing (CMIC)”, University College images, angiography images and dataset and also supports analysis of London (UCL) over the period 2009- neurology images. GIMIAS get funded standardized multimodality image. 2012 and is presently being expanded by many projects such as cvREMOD, 3. Segmentation: at the “Martinos Center for Biomedical euHeart and VPH NoE. 3.1 NiftySeg: Imaging Massachusetts General 1.5 Statistical Parametric Mapping University College London Hospital (MGH)” of Harvard University. (SPM): developed this open source toolkit that It is the fastest GPU-accelerated SPM refers to a open source software performs segmentation of images in reconstruction tools for emission and created by Karl Friston of “Welcome nifti or analyse format on the basis of transmission computed tomography. Department of Imaging Neuroscience” EM. It also has a bundle of label fusion NiftyRec [12] supports a wide range of (part of University College London) for programs like MV, STAPLE and SBA with modalities such as Positron Emission the statistical analysis of brain imaging diverse types of ranking approaches.[7] Tomography (PET), Single Photon data sequences. In this software Emission Computed Tomography 3.2 ITK-Snap: (SPECT),X-Ray Computed Tomography the Statistical Parametric Mapping Paul Yushkevich, “Penn Image [6] is used. In order to validate the and Tomosynthesis, Synchrotron X-Ray Computing and Science Laboratory Tomography, Neutron Tomography and hypotheses about functional imaging (PICSL)” at the University of data, SPM assess spatially extended Optical Projection Tomography. This Pennsylvania, and Guido Gerig, is easy to use. Code is developed in C statistical processes created from brain “Scientific Computing and Imaging imaging data sequences, such as fMRI, and comes with Python and Matlab Institute (SCI)” at the University of interfaces. PET, SPECT, EEG and MEG. Utah, create an open-source and multi- 2. Registration: platform program for segmentation 6. Simulation: 2.1 NiftyReg: of 3D medical images[10]. It is easy 6.1 NiftySim: This project was written by to use and learn. Along with semi- NiftySim,[13] an open-source members of the “Translational Imaging automatic segmentation ITK-SNAP highly efficient nonlinear limited Group” with the “Centre for Medical also provides physical depiction and element toolkit, evolved at “University Image Computing” at “University image exploration. Apart from these , it College London”. This was designed College London”[7]. This software also provides supports for many diverse to incorporate high-performance soft performs definite, fine and non-linear 3D image formats, which includes NIfTI tissue simulation potentialities into registration of medical images. Two and DICOM also , assist for concurrent, biomedical applications. The main types of the algorithms are incorporated, linked scanning, and segmentation attributes of this software are the choice one is a CPU based and another one is of multiple images and sustain time- of execution on graphics processing GPU- ( CUDA) based implementation. variant, multi-channel, and color unit (GPU) hardware, many constitutive images. models and solid-element alternatives, 2.2 Elastix: 4. Visualisation: membrane and shell elements, and An ITK based open source contact modeling facilities in a simple software, contains bunch of programs 4.1 The Medical Imaging Interaction to use library. that are often used for medical Toolkit (MITK): image registration. The modularity The Medical Imaging Interaction 7. Diffusion: of Elastix[8] permits user to rapidly Toolkit or MITK[11] is a C++ library 7.1 Camino: construct, examine, and contras for consolidated medical image Camino [14] is a freely available
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object-oriented software toolkit for TeleHealth” and “Health Informatics project utilizes a component software analysis and reconstruction for Diffusion for Rural and Remote Areas”. Other architecture that uses OSGi standard. MRI data processing, tractography and than the EHR, it additionally has the STEM is intended to make it simple connectivity mapping. It is able to do Biosurveillance mode, which empowers for designers and analysts to plug in construction of processing pipelines Public Health Departments to observe their choice of models. It accompanies that include modules from other and examine the infectious disease countless compartment models and software. At present, the microstructure outbreaks. THIRRA can be utilized as a other model building framework imaging group at UCL lead development part of a disconnected versatile mode, that permits clients to quickly extend is doing the maintenance of the toolkit. where no dependence on the Internet is existing models or to make altogether 7.2 DTI-TK: required. Information is kept on mobile new models. The model building This is open source software devices, for example, laptops and framework gives a basic graphical user present under the General Public notebooks. The clients can synchronize interface and automatically creates all License, developed by Gary Zhang, the information with the fundamental of the model code and hot infuses the University of Pennsylvania. DTI-TK server when they come back to the code into STEM at run time. In many [15] is a spatial normalization and clinic/doctor’s facility. THIRRA was cases, no knowledge of Eclipse or Java atlas construction toolkit reformed for composed in the PHP language and is required. Its code generator permits inspecting white matter morphometry utilizes the CodeIgniter system. client users to build models influenced using DTI data. In the year of 2011, DTI- OpenEMR [19] is an Electronic by changes in climate data. TK is ranked as the highest-performing Medical Records (EMR) framework Epi Info [24] is open space factual tool in its class by NeuroImage. that is used as therapeutic practice software for the study of disease management software. Its features transmission created at the “Centers B. Open Source Software for include ONC Complete Ambulatory for Disease Control and Prevention” Electronic Health or Medical EHR certification [20], complete (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Epi Record: incorporation of electronic medical Info has been in existence for more than Cottage Med [16] is a freely records, planning and electronic billing. 20 years and is as of now accessible available FileMaker based software OpenEMR is an open-source program for Microsoft Windows. The system for electronic medical record (EMR) subject to the terms of the GNU General takes into account electronic overview developed by “Caring in Community”. Public License (GPL). The server side is creation, information passage, and It is the first publicly distributed EMR composed in PHP and can be utilized investigation. that provides cross-stage for PC, Mac, in conjunction with a LAMP “stack”, Linux, and now also includes basic web Conclusion: however any operating system with PHP Most of the large organizations • Coverstory programs fitting in with open models backing is supported. which includes Chrome, Internet of medical domain discover open • Technical Trends Explorer, Safari and Opera. Since 2003 C. Open Source Software for Public source program attractive for following • Reserach Front the program has had more than 10,000 health and Biosurveillance: reasons: Open Dental, already termed as Procurement of these software is • Articles download and keeps running on a few hundred installations including projects Free Dental, is a Practice Management easy and cheap. • Innovations in IT by USAID and the UN. program authorized under the GNU Vendor Independent: There are General Public License was initially larger numbers of software • Security Corner FreeMED[17] is a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP ) based open- released in 2003. [21] It is composed in available so they are free to choose • Practioner Workbench source electronic therapeutic record the C# language and compatible with anyone without bothering about the • brain Teaser framework . The project was formally Microsoft .NET Framework. A current supplier. version of the program needs Microsoft Easy to switch from one open • Chapter Reports begun in 1999 by Jeffrey Buchbinder of Willimantic, Connecticut, United Windows. Prior adaptations of the source software to another. • Student branch reports States. Since then, it has turned into an product had supported other operating Flexibility: ability to view and modify international effort, with a large number systems except Linux. [22] Open Dental the source code. of downloads and a few interpretations. is owned and supported by Open Dental Also for small medical FreeMED is an immediate descendent Software, Inc., which is consolidated organizations the advantages of open of Pascal/DBase program AMOS, made in the State of Oregon in the United source software such as the low in 1983, preceding the far reaching States of America. The characteristics acquisition cost, flexibility, reduced utilization of relational databases and and availability of Open Dental make it risk of getting locked into proprietary object oriented programming. FreeMED an impressive alternative for use in the software thus opens the door of more is at present facilitated by the “ FreeMED dental business. options for the future. Software Foundation” , with downloads The Spatiotemporal Epidemio- Unfolding of these software for facilitated by Sourceforge. It utilizes logical Modeler (STEM)[23] is an open medical applications is not an indication Subversion as a Concurrent forming source software , developed by IBM of end of commercial vendors nor does it framework, which it has utilized since it Research and accessible by the Eclipse indicates that they are free for everyone, was relocated from CVS in 2005. Foundation. It is a tool intended to but they can be taken as a powerful tool THIRRA [18] is an online Electronic provide researchers facility to produce for cutting price and enhancing quality Health Records (EHR) System, and utilize spatial and temporal of services. Open source software developed by “Portable System for models of infectious disease. This can be a role model depending upon www.csi-india.org 38 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 ARTICLE
how IT industry captures the patient mapping: the analysis of functional niftyrec/ information, manages and share this brain images. London: Academic 2007; [13] Taylor, Z. A., S. Johnsen, and S. Ourselin. information firmly and utilize it to keep vii, 647. “NiftySim.” (2010). up high quality patient care. [7] TIG. (2014). TIG wiki page. In Meida Wiki. [14] http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/camino Retrieved on 23.nov.2014, from http:// [15] http://dti-tk.sourceforge.net/pmwiki/ References: cmictig.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/ pmwiki.php [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ Main_Page. [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ imaging. [8] Mengler, L., et al. Brain maturation of CottageMed [2] Pettit, C., et al. Developing a multi- the adolescent rat cortex and striatum: [17] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ scale visualization toolkit for use in changes in volume and myelination. freemed climate change response. Landscape NeuroImage 2014; 84, pp. 35–44. [18] http://sourceforge.net/projects/thirra Ecol (2012). [9] Avants, Brian B., Nick Tustison, and [19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEMR [3] Johnson, et al. The ITK Software Guide Gang Song. Advanced normalization [20] Maduro, Roger (2011-08-22). “OpenEMR Book 1: Introduction and Development tools (ANTS) 2009. Insight J. 4.1 Achieves Full ‘Meaningful Use’ Guidelines Fourth Edition Updated for [10] Paul A. et al. User-guided 3D active Certification”. Retrieved 2011-10-01. ITK version 4.6. (2014) contour segmentation of anatomical [21] “FLOSS Licence”. Open Dental Software [4] Jenkinson, M., et al. FSLl Neuroimage structures: Significantly improved Inc. Retrieved 2009-06-12. 2012; 62(2): 782-790. efficiency and reliability. Neuroimage [22] “Open Dental Software Manual - C#, [5] Larrabide, P. et al. GIMIAS: an 2006 Jul 1;31(3):1116-28. Linux, and Macintosh”. Open Dental open source framework for effcient [11] Nolden, Marco, et al. The medical Software Inc. Retrieved 2009-06-12. development of research tools and imaging interaction toolkit: challenges [23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ clinical prototypes. Functional Imaging and advances. International journal Spatiotemporal_Epidemiological_ and Modeling of the Heart 2009; 417- of computer assisted radiology and Modeler 426. surgery 8.4 (2013): 607-620. [24] https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html [6] Friston, et al. Statistical parametric [12] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ n
About the Authors: Dr. Jitendra Agrawal [CSI-01177532] is currently working with Department of CSE at the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, MP, India. He has published two books named Data Structures and Advanced Database Management System. He is the recipient of the Best Professor in Information Technology award by the World Education Congress in 2013. His research interests include Data Structure, Data Mining, Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence. He can be reached at [email protected].
Dr. Shikha Agrawal [CSI–01186620] is an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at University Institute of Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal (MP) India. She has been awarded as “Young Sciencetist” by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal in 2012. Her other extraordinary achievements include “ICT Rising Star of the Year Award 2015” and “Young ICON Award 2015”. Her area of interest is Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing and Particle Swarm Optimization and Database. She is a MP State Students’ Coordinator, Computer Society of India (CSI), 2016-2017. She can be reached at [email protected].
Contd. from page 30 among all these agencies and bodies, is ahead: Besides the IC4 initiatives that of the firewall, IDS and IPS are from the constitution of Indian Cyber Crimes is almost established and is about to abroad and almost the entire hardware Coordination Centre popularly known start functioning soon, the long term are imported from across the globe, as ICCCC or IC4. It would be relevant steps in India involves many techno- like the routers, switches, hard-disks, to note here that in the USA, Cyber legal issues. Though India prides cables etc. It is time that India as a Security Information Sharing Act (CISA) itself as a an IT superpower, it has no long term initiative moves in the right was passed in the Senate in October popular operating system of its own direction to combat data theft by putting 2015, to ensure proper information (our own C-DAC developed BOSS in place, our own network gadgets, sharing among the stake holders. operating system is yet gain popularity), network operating systems, cables and Information Security – the road no indigenous search engine and most all hard-disks.
About the Author: Mr. V. Rajendran [CSI-I0175673] is currently practicing as an advocate mainly handling cyber crime cases, and as a trainer and consultant on banking law, information security, cyber law, ATMs, Internet Banking etc. He is a certified cyber forensic examiner from IDRBT and a CeISB from Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, CISP from STQC, Govt of India and a Diploma holder in IT Law. He is a guest Faculty in industry bodies like CII, FICCI Reserve Bank of India, Gujarat State Forensic University, IITs, and various Universities and academic institutions including the staff colleges of various banks, Police Training colleges in Tamil Nadu. He is past president of Cyber Society of India. He can be reached at [email protected] .
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Bharat Maps - A Multi-layer GIS Platform [http://nicmaps.rsgis.nic.in/]: Digital India aims to establish end to end geo-spatial electronics with Global GIS Services. delivery systems as part of Mission Mode Projects in e-Governance NIC spatial data repository has been updated as per the domain and envisages “National GIS Mission” as core foundation standards and around 1000 vector layers comprising of of location based Electronic Delivery of Services for Planning & Administrative Boundaries, Transportation Network , Natural Governance. NIC/DeitY has created Multi-Layer GIS Platform named Features etc. has been used for this composition. “Bharat Maps” which depicts core foundation data as “NICMAPS”, NIC Base Map service consisting of pre-composed maps and an integrated base map service using 1:50,000 scale reference data served using tile cache from scales ranging from 1: 20 Million - from Survey of India, ISRO, FSI, RGI and so on. This encompass 23 1:20000. High scale Maps has been incorporated for seven cities layers containing administrative boundaries, transport layers such on the scale of 1:10000 to 1:4000. as roads & railways, forest layer, settlement locations etc., including NIC Satellite Imagery service consists of satellite images of terrain map services. varying resolutions like AWiFS ( 56 m), LISS ( 23.5 m) and PAN Salient Features ( 5.80 m). Rich Internet Application (RIA), with cross platform and browser NIC Terrain Map service developed using contour data from support, has been developed visualized along with Mash-ups Survey of India.
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AHMEDABAD CHAPTER Baba Amravati University, Amravati. He was also honoured with the Rajarambapu Patil National Award for Promising Engineering Teacher for Creative work done in Technical Education for Engineering College for the year 2014 by Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
COIMBATORE CHAPTER
CSI Ahmedabad Chapter in association with Google Developer Group, Ahmedabad and School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University has organized hands on workshop on “Angular 2.0” on Saturday, October 22, 2016. Speaker of the session was Mr. Jinal Shah, Member, Google Developer Group, Ahmedabad. Angular 2 is an open source JavaScript framework to build web applications in HTML and JavaScript and has been conceived as a mobile first approach. He covered the topic such as Introduction to Angular 2.0, its demand and popularity, Type Script, Component and nesting Computer Society of India, Coimbatore Chapter organized components, Services, CRUD operations etc. More than 50+ a Guest Lecture on “Internet of Things” in Adithya Institute Students and fresher’s from industry attended this event. of Technology, Coimbatore on 23rd September 2016. Dr. E. Dr. Sandeep Vasant, Vice Chairman cum Chairman Elect Chandra Blessie, Associate Professor, Nehru College of has coordinated this session. The session ended with the Management and SBC of CSI Coimbatore Chapter delivered interesting questions and answers. the talk.
AMRAVATI CHAPTER The program started with the prayer song. It was followed by the welcome address and introduction of the Chief Guest by the Head of the Department Mrs. Chitra, Professor. The chief guest Dr. E. Chandra Blessie explained about the benefits of student members for half an hour including the details about student portal, journal publications, CSI events, and CSI Annual Conventions. She delivered her talk on IoT and its components. She briefed about the techniques and technologies used. She pointed out some real time projects currently on IoT and finally concluded her talk by explaining the challenges and future of IoT. Dr. Chitra Devi, CEO of Adithya Institute of Technology Dr Gajendra R Bamnote, Chairman, Computer Society of presided over the function and delivered the presidential India, Amravati Chapter was conferred with the prestigious address. The program ended with the vote of thanks by Mr. Brigadier M L Anand National Award by the Institute of Sahayavivian, Assistant Professor. Electronics & Telecommunication (IETE) in its Annual Technical Convention at New Delhi on 24th September 2016 by the hands of Pradmashri A S Kiran Kumar, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Pradmabhushan Kris Gopalkrishnan, cofounder of INFOSYS. The award is presented for his outstanding original contribution for the development of applications of networking and Internet with emphasis on usage in everyday life and commerce, during the last 5 (five) years. The award consists of a medal, a citation and a cash prize. He was invited to deliver a lecture on the work leading to the award at the IETE centre. He is Professor at Department School of IT and Science, Dr G R Damodaran College of of Computer Science & Engineering, Prof. Ram Meghe Science jointly in association with Computer Society of India, Institute of Technology & Research Badnera and the Dean Coimbatore Chapter organized a Guest Lecture by Dr. N. R. of the faculty of Engineering & Technology, Sant Gadge ALAMELU, Principal, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College,
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Coimbatore. Dr. G. Radhamani Director, school of IT and October 2016, in coordination with CSI Indore chapter on the science welcomed the gathering and introduced the chief theme Contemporary computing. NC32K16 has celebrated guest. its inaugural function on 21st October at CDGI and Dr. Sanjiv Dr. Geetha Padhmanaban, Secretary, Dr. G. R. Damodharan Tokkekar Director IET DAVV, Indore, Dr. CNS Murthy Dean College of Science shared a few words of felicitation and CDGI, Indore addressed the gathering and released the CD honored the Chief Guest Dr. N. R. Alamelu with a memento. of conference proceedings. Around 60 authors has attended the workshop and presented the paper in the conference Vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. S. Umamaheshwari, NC32k16. Valedictory of NC32K16 was headed by Mr. A. K Associate Professor, School of IT and Science. Jain Chairman CSI Indore Chapters.
JABALPUR CHAPTER A two days workshop on Rapid Miner- A data mining tool organized by CSI Jabalpur Chapter in collaboration with Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology & Sciences, Jabalpur on 25-11- 2016 and 26-11- 2016. The resource person of the workshop were Dr. Santosh Vishwakarma, Secretary CSI Jabalpur Chapter. The workshop was attended by total 36 participants. In this occasion Management Members of Gyan Ganga Group of Institutions Dr. Rajneet Jain, Shri Pankaj Goyal, Mr. S. Arumugam, Past Chairman of the chapter opened the Shri Apoorva Singhai, CSI Jabalpur Chapter Chairman Dr. meeting and welcomed all members for participation and Maneesh Choubey, Dr. Vinod Kapse, Dr. RK Ranjan, Prof. then he handed the proceedings over to Mr. Venkat Kailasam, Meghna Utmal and other CSI Members were also present. Chapter Treasurer for presenting the financial statements for the year 2015-16. Mr. Venkat Kailasam, Chapter Treasurer, updated the participants on Chapter’s income and expenditure details and explained the total assets and liabilities position. Members enquired details about establishment expenses and the process that is being followed with respect to service tax payments on hall rent receipts. He briefed the current process and explained the on account adjustment with HO. Members suggested that the same should be settled from now on a monthly basis and it has be uploaded in cloud accounting system promptly. Treasurer agreed to the suggestion. After detailed review and discussion, the financial NASHIK CHAPTER statements as presented was proposed for adoption by Mr. P.R. Rangaswami and seconded by Dr. M. Sunderasan. Subsequent to financial statements review, Dr. G. Radhamani, Secretary of the Chapter thanked all the members present. With no other matters in the agenda, the meeting then concluded.
INDORE CHAPTER CSI Nashik Chapter organized a program on Barcode-RFID Technology and Applications on 21st October, 2016 powered by Intercode Solutions at Express Inn, Nashik. Mr. Vaibhav Dabhade, Secretary, CSI Nashik welcomed guest and participants. Program started with presentation of Mr. Jay Kothari, Director, Intercode Solutions, on ‘Introduction of Barcode & RFID Technology-TTO Printer’. Next session conducted by CS/IT department of Chameli Devi Group of Institutions, Mr. Vinod Gaonkar, National Pre-Sales Head at Intercode Indore has organized a National Conference on 21-22 Solutions, on ‘WMS Application with Barcode-RFID
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Technology & with case study of TBEA energy’. CSI Vadodara Chapter conducted third Technical Lecture Mr. Sachin Gala, Regional Manager (West) at Intercode of the year 2016-2017 on the topic “Digital Demystified” by Solutions, presented session on ‘Plant & Multiple Ms. Rajal Chattopadhyay, Vice President and Global Head Warehouse inventory tracking with case study of Syngenta for Global Portfolio Management in Atos on Saturday, 26th India Ltd, Consumables’. In addition to this demo session November 2016 at Dept. of CS and Engg., The Maharaja was organized during program. Ms. Pramila Nair and Sayajirao University of Baroda. Mr. Shridhar Shanbag from Zebra Technologies The topic was discussed at length by Ms. Rajal demonstrated New Products of Zebra Technologies. Chattopadhyay beginning with very interesting discussion During Q & A session Intercode Solutions and Zebra on strategic importance of ‘Going Digital – beyond IoT’. Technologies team addressed participant’s questions. The She elaborated on concepts of Digital - beyond Technology, program attended by CEO, Production head, warehouse and emphasized on why it was essential to win in the head, Production manager from various organizations. This Digital economy. Her discussion primarily was focussed program was chaired by Mr. Kishor Vyas, Past Chairman, on 5 topics (1) What is Digital? (2) Why Now? (3) IT Analysts CSI Nashik and Co-ordinated by Prof. Bhakti Nandurdikar, view for Digital & Best Practices (4) Digital Transformation Guru Gobind Singh Polytechnic College, Nashik. Building Blocks (5) Digitally Empowered Business & Society. She also highlighted on Identification of the Opportunities TIRUCHIRAPPALLI CHAPTER for Digital Career & Digital Business for small IT firms & Entrepreneurs
VELLORE CHAPTER
The international workshop, organized by the Department of Computer Science, in technical collaboration with CSI Tiruchirappalli Chapter, IEEE Podhigai Sub-section and IEEE Signal Processing / Computer Intelligence / Computer Joint Societies Chapter (SIPCICOM) of Madras Section on 2nd CSI Vellore Chapter organized a one day Seminar on and 3rd September 2016 was inaugurated by Dr. A. K. Khaja “Industrial Internet of Things” on 12/11/2016 at VIT Nazeemudeen, Secretary and Correspondent of the college. University. Mr. B. Venkateswar, AGM, R&D Center, BHEL, In his inaugural address he highlighted on the importance of Ranipet explained introduction to internet of things, such workshops and also the use of image processing in our application areas in industry, discussed the protocol stack daily life. Dr. S. Mohamed Salique, Principal, presided over for IOT and shared the research areas of IOT in different the inaugural session. Janab M. J. Jamal Mohamed Sahib, verticals of industry, around 40 industry members and 20 Assistant Secretary of the college offered felicitations. life members participated in the seminar. Janab K.A. Khaleel Ahamed Sahib Treasurer of the college and Prof. K.N. Abdul Kader Nihal, Director (Self-Finance Programs) graced the occasion. Dr. G. Ravi, Convener and Head of the Department, welcomed the gathering and Dr. D. I. George Amalarethinam, Coordinator and Director MCA Programme proposed a vote of thanks.
VADODARA CHAPTER
CSI Vellore Chapter organized a one day Seminar on “Industrial Internet of Things” on 12-11-2016 at VIT University. Mr. B. Venkateswar, AGM, R&D Center, BHEL, Ranipet explained introduction to internet of things, application areas in industry, discussed the protocol stack for IOT and shared the research areas of IOT in different verticals of industry, around 40 industry members and 20 life members participated in the seminar.
43 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 CSI IT-2020 Conference and IT Innovation and Excellence Award 2016 14-15 Oct. 2016
This year the CSI – IT 2020 Annual was the chief guest and delivered by Mr. Shanker Jadhav Strategic Technology Conference alongwith the inaugural address. Ms. Ranjana Head BSE and other eminent panel IT Innovation & Excellence Awards Narawane, Managing Director, and members, talks on data analytics by 2016 ceremony was held at Green Mr. Nitin Sawant Managing Director Mr. Narendra Sahoo, VISTA InfoSec, Mr Technology Auditorium, University of both from Accenture delivered keynote S Anand, Gramener, talks by Debdoot Mumbai, Kalina Campus, Santacruz address on Big data Analytics. This Mukherjee, Hike Messenger, Advocate East, Mumbai on 14-15 October 2016, was followed by Panel Discussion on Prashant Mali, Advocate High Court with much pomp and fanfare. This event Machine Learning & Analytics which and Cyber Security Expert, Mr. Henry attracted large number of delegates included eminent panel members Mr. P, Ms. Gandhali Samant, Microsoft, Mr from all over India. The Theme of the Sundar Krishnan, CRO Reliance Nippon Sivakumar Sriraman, VISA etc. Parallel conference was “Big Data Analytics Life Insurance who discussed the Case tutorial session on Big Data Analytics & Cyber Security”. The conference Study on use of Analytics. by Mr Amit Agarwal, Senior Consultant was organized by CSI Mumbai chapter Other speakers included Mr. was also conducted. Mr Diniyar Modi of jointly with Department of IT, University Rohit Chatter from InMobi (Big Data Contact Singapore spoke on working of Mumbai. Conference was sponsored Analytics), Mr. Shiju Rawther from and living in Singapore. by corporates like Accenture, NxtGen CIBIL (Cyber Security and challenges), An award function was held and Datacenter, Contact Singapore, Vista Mr. Joel Divekar, Creative Antenna awards were distributed to CXO’s , CISO’s InfoSec, Zensar Technologies and (Secured Public Ledger), Ms. Ujjyaini in various verticals, sectors, sub sectors supported by IEEE Bombay Section, Mitra, Flipkart (Searching Deep sea etc. As well as to Companies following PMI Mumbai Chapter, TAIT, InfoComm whales in Telecomm), Mr. Gabriel Lim, best practices in Implementation of International, Merce Broadside and Contact Singapore (Working and Living Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security etc. others. in Singapore) There was a parallel For the first time in the history of CSI The conference could materialize tutorial session on “Bit Coin Block Mumbai Chapter four senior IPS officers with the active efforts by Dr. Chain Technology” by Mr. Joel Divekar, were honored and welcomed to the Hall Sureshchandra J. Gupta, Hon. Head of Creative Antenna. of Fame wiz., Shri. Brijesh Singh, IPS – CSI Mumbai, Mr. Uttam Mane, Present The second day started with Hall of Fame, Shri. KMM Prasanna, IPS Chairman, Mr. Abraham Koshy, Vice welcome note by Mr. Sandip Chintawar, – Commendable ICT Implementation Chairman, Mr. Ajit Joshi, Hon. Secretary, past chairman of CSI Mumbai, at the Public Service Level, Shri. Ms. Shilpa Wagh , Hon. Treasurer and keynote address on Cyber Security by Madhukar Pande, IPS – Commendable • Coverstory other committee members. Shri. Brijesh Singh, IPS IG, DGIPR, ICT Implementation at the Public • Technical Trends The conference was inaugurated on Maharashtra Police. Shri Birjesh Singh Service Level, Shri. Prabhat Kumar, IPS 14th October with Tribute to the Armed announced 100 Internship to talented – Commendable ICT Implementation at • Reserach Front Forces and lighting of the ceremonial students in Big Data Analytics / Cyber the Public Service Level • Articles lamp by dignitaries followed by opening Security. Talk on Cyber Security was All the award winners were remark by Dr. Sureshchandra. J. Gupta, delivered by Mr. Bharat Panchal, NPCI applauded profusely by the 350 plus • Innovations in IT welcome address by the Chairman Mr. (ancient age to digital age). This was audience who were present. Late • Security Corner Uttam Mane. Dr. Sanjay V. Deshmukh, followed by panel discussion on the evening program included a CXO Meet Vice Chancellor of Mumbai University Rise and rise of Ransomware headed in a City Hotel. • Practioner Workbench • brain Teaser • Chapter Reports • Student branch reports
Dr. Sanjay Deshmukh Shri. Brijesh Singh, IPS Hon’ble VC of Mumbai University IG, Head Cyber Security, Maharashtra Police
Award presented to Shri Madhukar Pande, IPS Award presented Shri. Brijesh Singh, Jt. Commissioner of Police, Navi Mumbai by IG, Head Cyber Security, Maharashtra Police, by Dr. Gupta Sureshchandra J. Hon. Head Chairman Mr. Uttam Mane www.csi-india.org 44 CSI COMMUNICATIONS | DECEMBER 2016 FROM STUDENT BRANCHES
REGION-I Amity University, Noida Chitkara University, Barotiwala
6 & 7-10-2016 - International Conference on InCITe 2016 9 to 11-11-2016 – Hands on Workshop on PHP and JQuery
The NorthCap University, Gurgaon
3-11-2016 - Quiz competition 3-11-2016 - Event on Watch and Respond REGION-III Vikrant Group of Institutions, Vikrant College, Gwalior Acropolis Institute of Technology & Research, Indore
22-10-2016 - Guest Lecture on Research Methodology & 5-10-2016 to 7-10-2016 - Hands on workshop on Internet of Application uses SPSS Things using Raspberry Pi Modi Institute of Management & Technology, Kota The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur
8-10-2016 - CSI Rajasthan State Student Convention 25-10-2016 - Event on CSI Plenum
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REGION-III Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna
19-11-2016 Event on Windows Application Development 4-10-2016 - Event on TYPOLYMPICS REGION-IV REGION-V National Institute Science & Tech. (NIST), Berhampur Vasavi college of Engineering, Hyderabad
22-10-2016 – CSI Odisha State Student Convention on Cloud 19-10-2016 – Event on MOCK GRE and IOT REGION-V NBKR Institute of Science and Technology, Nellore Anurag Group of Institutions, Hyderabad
4-11-2016 - Event on Mock the Press 5-11-2016 - One day workshop on Internet of Things GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, Mysuru
22-10-2016 – Technical Talk on 2G/3G Communication 21 to 26-10-2016 - Five Day Workshop on Web Development using Ruby on Rails
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REGION-V JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore
19 & 20-9-2016 - Technical talk on OS Security, Protection 19-9-2016 & 4-10-2016 – Dr Ashoka, Prof Padma Reddy & and RAID levels Applicable to SAN Mrs Chayadevi during Series of Technical talks KKR & KSR Institute of Technology & Sciences , Guntur MLR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
28-9-2016 – Prof Thrimurthy, Past President, Mr. Raju 21-10-2016 – Motivational talk on latest trends and technologies Kanchibhotla, RVP-V & Mr Krishna Prasad, SSC, AP during Student Branch Inauguration K S Institute of Technology, Bangalore K L E College of Engineering & Technology, Chikodi
10 to 12-11-2016 - CSI Karnataka State Student Convention 2-11-2016 - Technical Talk K L E College of Engineering & Technology, Chikodi Late G N Sapkal College of Engineering, Nasik
23-9-2016 - Technical Quiz 27-9-2016 - Webinar on Inverted Index
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REGION-VI Late G N Sapkal College of Engineering, Nasik MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune
20-9-2016 - Seminar on Internet of Things 22-8-2016 - Panel discussion on How to build a strong foundation for a successful career Prof Ram Meghe Inst. of Technology & Research, Amravati Sharad Inst. of Tech. College of Engg., Yadrav (Ichalkaranji)
17 & 18-9-2016 - Two days workshop on C & C++ 1 & 2-8-2016 - Two days hands-on workshop on Android Development REGION-VI REGION-VII Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune Seshasayee Institute of Technology, Trichy
19-9-2016 – Event on Building command line tool with 24-10-2016 – Shri H R Mohan, Past President, CSI during PYTHON Student Branch Inauguration REGION-VII Jaya Engineering College, Chennai Amrita Schools of Arts & Sciences, Kochi
24-9-2016 – Mr Sivaji & Prof Kumaran during workshop on 18-11-2016 – CSI Kerala State Student Convention Drupal
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REGION-VII National Engineering College, Kovilpatti Einstein College of Engineering, Tirunelveli
25-8-2016 to 29-8-2016 - Hands on Training on Embedded 18-11-2016 - Dr Velayutham, Prof Amudhavanan, Dr Ramar & System Design Using Arduino Processors Mr Sundarrajan during Technical Quiz Jeppiaar Engineering College, Chennai Report Submission Student branches are requested to send their report to [email protected] with a copy to [email protected].
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1st International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovation & Computing SSIC-2017 www.ssic2017.com
About SSIC –2017 Indian Space SSIC will focuses on two main areas i.e. Smart Systems Innovations which includes applications for smart cities, smart grid, social computing and privacy challenges with their theory, specification, design, performance, and system building, Secondly with Computing of complex solu- tions includes algorithms, security solutions, communication and networking approaches. SSIC will further expand its coverage to include the Research Organization overlap between theoretical solutions and practical implementations, as well as experimentation and quantitative assessments. This aims to promote translation of basic research into applied investigation and convert applied investigation into practice. All the Accepted paper will be submitted Track 1: Smart Systems Track 2: Computing (ISRO): in Book Series and Innovations High Performance Computing “ Smart Innovation, Systems and Tech- Smart Grid and Micro Grid Power Management in Embedded Systems nologies” published by Springer Mobility, security, access and control in smart learning Real-Time Computing (SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Spring- environments Multi/Many-Core Embedded Systems erlink) Internet-of-Things (IoT) in smart learning environments Emerging trends in embedded multimedia systems Intelligent Systems and Services Computing PSLV-C36 / (gaming, streaming) Important Dates Social Implications for Smart Systems Data Analysis Smart Grid Submission Starts Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability RESOURCESAT-2A st 1 September, 2016 Technological focus for Smart Environments Social networks: modelling, analysis, and synthesis Last Date for Submission Energy Efficient Infrastructure Wireless and mobile computing th is scheduled to be 15 December, 2016 Smart City Examples and Case Studies Malware Analysis and Intrusion Detection Notification of Acceptance Architecture for secure and interactive Network Security Management 15th February, 2017 launched on Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems Camera Ready Submission Applied Cryptography th Smart Traffic Theories for Transportation Management 15 March, 2017 Biometrics Security and Privacy December 07, 2016 Analytics, Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Security and Privacy for Big Data Data Centre Enabled Technologies Security and privacy in Complex Systems Other Highlight Smart Education and E-Learning Security and Privacy in Smart Grids at 10:24 hrs Industry Academia Talks Business, Finance and Management Security in Distributed Systems Social Networks Analysis, Media and e-Government Tutorials Security Information Systems Architecture from Student Poster Exhibition Healthcare applications of Smart Systems Communication and synchronization protocols and security Energy-saving and Green IoT applications Signal processing in communications SDSC SHAR e-Government, e-Commerce, e-Science and Creative Multimedia and multicast communications Technologies Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, Smart Electronic Systems for Solar photovoltaic and other sensor networks) Sriharikota. Paper Submission renewable energy sources Electric Vehicles Network, control and service architectures (https://easychair.org/conferences/? Home Automation/Industry Automation On-demand networks, utility computing architectures conf=ssic2017) Game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
Contact Info.: [email protected], [email protected] OR Call us: +91-9667604115, +91-9829258559 Venue: Manipal University Jaipur, Dehmi Kalan, , Jaipur-Ajmer Expressway, Jaipur, Rajasthan 303007
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Sanjay Mohapatra, Vice President, CSI & Chairman, Conf. Committee, Email: [email protected]
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DECEMBER National Symposium on “Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems” 07-09, 2016 and their Annual Conventions at Dehradun. www.isrs2016.iirs.gov.in Contact: Dr. S. K. Srivastav, Organising Secretary & Group Head, RSGG, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organisation, Department of Space, Government of India, Dehradun, India - 248 001. email : [email protected]
08-10, 2016 CSI Annual Convention (CSI-2016): Theme: Digital Connectivity - Social Impact; Organized by CSI Coimbatore Chapter; Pre-Conference Tutorial on 7th Dec. 2016 Venue: Hotel Le Meridien, Coimbatore Contact : Dr. Ranga Rajagopal, Convener, 9442631004 [email protected] CeBIT INDIA 2016 – Global Event for Digital Business in association with CSI Venue: BIEC, Bengaluru www.cebit-india.com Contact : Mohammed Farooq, [email protected], +91 9004691833
12-13, 2016 ICICT 2016 - Second International Congress on Information and Communication Technology in concurrent with APETA 2016 - Asia Pacific Education & Technology Summit and Awards. Supported by : CSI Division IV, V At Bangkok, Thailand http://www.icict2016.org/ 16-17, 2016 National Conference on Innovative Technologies in Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Security (ITBCMS-2016) at Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET), Hyderabad http://biet.ac.in/2016-08-19-03-54-51 Contact : [email protected] Cell Numbers: 9440793154, 9866628493
17-18, 2016 National Conference on Computer Security, Image Processing, Graphics, Mobility and Analytics, Organized by Department of CSE at CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad in association with DIV – 5 Education & Research, CSI India, http://www. cmrtc.ac.in/nccsigma Contact : N. Bhaskar, 8464925680 18, 2016 8th International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering Science and Management (ICIRESM-16), Venue: The Institutions of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Delhi, India, http://www.conferenceinfo.org Contact: Conference info and Academic Science [email protected], Whats App: 09873309345, Mob: 09873275385 FEBRUARY Kovai Techathon 2017 by CSI Coimbatore Chapter along with TiE Coimbatore, GRDCS & KovaiTechstart, 11-12, 2017 http://www.kovaitechstart.com/techathon/ Email : [email protected] • Phone : +91 96292-00022 15-16, 2017 WS4 - 2017 - World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems Security and Sustainability Supported by: CSI Division IV, V at London, United Kingdom http://www.worlds4.org/ Contact : Amit Joshi, [email protected] 17-18, 2017 National Conference on Challenges and Opportunities in Computer Engineering, NCCOCE’17, Christ University, Bengaluru. Supported by: CSI Division IV & CSI Bangalore, Chapter, Contact: Dr Samiksha Shukla, 9880462311, Mr. Naveen J, 9994289908, [email protected], https://christuniversity.in/news/national-conference-on-challenges-and- opportunities-in-computer-engineering-2017. MARCH INDIACOM 2017, Organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New 01-03, 2017 Delhi http://bvicam.ac.in/indiacom/ Contact : Prof. M. N. Hoda, [email protected], [email protected], Tel.: 011-25275055 03-04, 2017 I International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI -2017), venue : Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam (Mandal), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, http://anits.edu.in/ sci2017/, Contact: Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy. Mob.: 9000249712 24-25, 2017 First International Conference on “Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA - 2017)” at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Contact: [email protected]; (M) 94754 13463 / (O) 033 24205209
APRIL 1st International Conference on Smart Systems, Innovations & Computing (SSIC-2017) at Manipal University Jaipur, 15-16, 2017 Jaipur, Rajasthan. http://www.ssic2017.com Contact : Mr. Ankit Mundra, Mob.: 9667604115, [email protected] MAY ICSE 2017 - International Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering, Organized by : JECRC, Jaipur, www.icsc2017.com 08-10, 2017 Contact : Prof. K. S. Raghuwanshi, [email protected], Mobile : 9166016670 JUNE Workshop on LAMP (Linux, Apache, My SQL, Perl/Python), Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Raghogarh, 05-30, 2017 Guna - MP, www.juet.ac.in Dr. Shishir Kumar ([email protected]) 9479772915 OCTOBER International conference on Data Engineering and Applications-2017 (IDEA-17) at Bhopal (M.P.), 28-29, 2017 http://www.ideaconference.in Contact : [email protected] DECEMBER Fourth International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2017), at Jaypee University of Information 21-23, 2017 Technology (JUIT), Solan, India, (http://www.juit.ac.in/iciip_2017/) Contact : Dr. P.K. Gupta ([email protected]) (Off) +91- 1792-239341 Prof. Vipin Tyagi ([email protected])
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