ISRO, IIT Bombay, and AICTE have launched a Mapathon competition. The registering process is starting from today on the official website.
The Mapathon is a map-making competition. All Indian nationals, either individuals or teams of four participants, can take part in the map-making competition that involves producing maps using Indian remote sensing data.
According to the official website, “the competition aims at using data collected from ISRO platforms to map India’s resources, agriculture, climate and disaster management, rural and urban planning, and identifying pathways for future development.”
Benefits of the Mapathon, as per ISRO, IIT Bombay, and AICTE, is building capacity in the country in space applications towards making India AatmaNirbharBharat and a Global GIS hub, and to make this an enabler platform for collaborative problem-solving.
The participating individual or team can choose to work on one of the following problem statements. They are also allowed to choose their own topic:
The participating individual or team can choose to work on one of the following problem statements:
- Mapping of natural resources / man-made features.
- Change Detection based on AWIFS or LISS III Datasets.
- LULC Change with hotspots using LULC maps from Bhuvan.
- Flood Maps.
- State-wise Health Care Indicators Maps.
- Locust infestation / Stubble burning / Low lying areas / Jhum Cultivation.
- Road Network / Drainage Maps.
- Land Degradation Maps.
- Health infra, population, age group, etc. for Vaccination.
- Detection of change in Waterbodies / Reservoirs / Wetlands.
- Choose your own topic.
The winners will be awarded prizes and certificates.
AICTE has already shared the information about Mapathon on its official Twitter account.
#AICTEdge@IITBombay–@ISRO–#AICTE #MAPATHON
A National level collaborative Indian Mapping Event using #OpenSource software @FOSSEE to create resource #maps for future development, capacity enhancement & making #AatmaNirbharBharat.
Register @👉https://t.co/aXDNYU7XhK@PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/l56Idb12cm
— AICTE (@AICTE_INDIA) December 7, 2020
As mentioned above, the registration for Mapathon starts today. The last date to register is December 18, 2020. You have to submit your map between December 14 to 31, 2020. The results will be published between January 4, 2021, and January 10, 2021. Interested participants can visit the official website for details.
