P 69
GIS Execution
KMJ accompanied me to Denver and we had a warm reception by Dr RS Rao, International Sales Director, Space Imaging. Space Imaging was the company who owned and operated Ikonas satellite.
Talking about RSR, though he is from Andhra Pradesh, he had a fluent tongue in Tamil as he has done his schooling from Ramakrishna school,North Branch, T .Nagar, Madras. He used to say that he is an Ekalaiva research student of Dr Vaidyanathan, geography professor from Andhra University.
Dr Vaidyanathan is my family friend and father of my colleague V Sridhar, who is a senior executive in Rel Jio. So I did feel comfortable while dealing with Space Imaging. Added to it, MDA has deputed Sh Thakore Sharma from our New York office with a clear directive to assist me in committing 1Mt resolution satellite imagery from Space Imaging for $1Mn value.
At that time,though there was ban for importing satellite imagery into India from international agency, Reliance management had plans to import them to UK and get them digitized at UK and get only the digitized version to Mumbai. This ban was in picture more from the department Survey of India rather than ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).Also there were restrictions for making map of India. Later I took up this matter with the Secretary, Science&Technology & ISRO as well as Surveyor General of India and convinced them technically. This opportunity gave me lead to interact with greats like Dr S Ramamurthy,that time Secretary S&T, formerly senior Research Fellow BARC, Dr Kasturi Rangan , Head of ISRO and Dr Madhavan Nair of ISRO & later with Sh Kapil Sibal, that time Science&Technology Cabinet Minister. With my convincing explanation, these greats understood the absolute requirement of sourcing the fine resolution satellite imagery into the country and gave permission to Reliance to import through M/S Antrix, an ISRO subsidiary at Bangalore. Their scope was limited to monitor what all areas imagery has been sourced from Space Imaging so as to keep track.
With RSR hospitality at Denver , Reliance team went through the process of looking to the details of imagery. We were explained that SI pick up India data once in a day at 11.30Hrs India time for obtaining Sunlit imagery quality. When Rao projected Mumbai data that too specifically Chembur and Mahul ,me being refinery project experienced that too specifically tank farm, could appreciate seeing a refinery tank cross sectional view with clear inscriptions of its tag no. size, product,volume, PESO licence no. etc. I could differentiate seeing a floating roof tank from that of a cone roof tank. I did comment that a particular tank had certain % inventory at that time etc. RSR laughed and said , international agencies source this satellite imagery for these geographical survey data only.
Then Rao explained to us about the classification of imagery based on data density( i.e Number of objects having 1M2 area in a Sq.KM land area) and applicable rates grouped as High, Medium and Light density. When it came to Indian City imagery, since our occupation density is considerable, any area having more than 2000 objects in a Sq. Km was considered Dense(High) & anything between 2000-1000 was considered Medium and anything less than 1000/Sq.Km were considered Light.
At that moment, myself and Thakore Sharma became busy regarding the split between Dense,Medium and Light and which cities of India are of what density and how to go about selection of city priority to arrive at $1M value. RSR was helping us in that process. When we were about to finalize and freeze the requirements tentatively, a surprise phone call came to Thakore Sharma from Sanjay Mashruwala saying not to go ahead with main order but help sourcing only samples! SM was not sure about digitization and how to go about; hence that call. So we returned with sample data of 1 Sq KM each of Mumbai,Hyderabad and Pune( H,M,L) at that time.
Contd.....
Key Aspects :-Human relations, Incident analysis, Technical issue,Recognition, Shock&surprise
GIS Execution
KMJ accompanied me to Denver and we had a warm reception by Dr RS Rao, International Sales Director, Space Imaging. Space Imaging was the company who owned and operated Ikonas satellite.
Talking about RSR, though he is from Andhra Pradesh, he had a fluent tongue in Tamil as he has done his schooling from Ramakrishna school,North Branch, T .Nagar, Madras. He used to say that he is an Ekalaiva research student of Dr Vaidyanathan, geography professor from Andhra University.
Dr Vaidyanathan is my family friend and father of my colleague V Sridhar, who is a senior executive in Rel Jio. So I did feel comfortable while dealing with Space Imaging. Added to it, MDA has deputed Sh Thakore Sharma from our New York office with a clear directive to assist me in committing 1Mt resolution satellite imagery from Space Imaging for $1Mn value.
At that time,though there was ban for importing satellite imagery into India from international agency, Reliance management had plans to import them to UK and get them digitized at UK and get only the digitized version to Mumbai. This ban was in picture more from the department Survey of India rather than ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).Also there were restrictions for making map of India. Later I took up this matter with the Secretary, Science&Technology & ISRO as well as Surveyor General of India and convinced them technically. This opportunity gave me lead to interact with greats like Dr S Ramamurthy,that time Secretary S&T, formerly senior Research Fellow BARC, Dr Kasturi Rangan , Head of ISRO and Dr Madhavan Nair of ISRO & later with Sh Kapil Sibal, that time Science&Technology Cabinet Minister. With my convincing explanation, these greats understood the absolute requirement of sourcing the fine resolution satellite imagery into the country and gave permission to Reliance to import through M/S Antrix, an ISRO subsidiary at Bangalore. Their scope was limited to monitor what all areas imagery has been sourced from Space Imaging so as to keep track.
With RSR hospitality at Denver , Reliance team went through the process of looking to the details of imagery. We were explained that SI pick up India data once in a day at 11.30Hrs India time for obtaining Sunlit imagery quality. When Rao projected Mumbai data that too specifically Chembur and Mahul ,me being refinery project experienced that too specifically tank farm, could appreciate seeing a refinery tank cross sectional view with clear inscriptions of its tag no. size, product,volume, PESO licence no. etc. I could differentiate seeing a floating roof tank from that of a cone roof tank. I did comment that a particular tank had certain % inventory at that time etc. RSR laughed and said , international agencies source this satellite imagery for these geographical survey data only.
Then Rao explained to us about the classification of imagery based on data density( i.e Number of objects having 1M2 area in a Sq.KM land area) and applicable rates grouped as High, Medium and Light density. When it came to Indian City imagery, since our occupation density is considerable, any area having more than 2000 objects in a Sq. Km was considered Dense(High) & anything between 2000-1000 was considered Medium and anything less than 1000/Sq.Km were considered Light.
At that moment, myself and Thakore Sharma became busy regarding the split between Dense,Medium and Light and which cities of India are of what density and how to go about selection of city priority to arrive at $1M value. RSR was helping us in that process. When we were about to finalize and freeze the requirements tentatively, a surprise phone call came to Thakore Sharma from Sanjay Mashruwala saying not to go ahead with main order but help sourcing only samples! SM was not sure about digitization and how to go about; hence that call. So we returned with sample data of 1 Sq KM each of Mumbai,Hyderabad and Pune( H,M,L) at that time.
Contd.....
Key Aspects :-Human relations, Incident analysis, Technical issue,Recognition, Shock&surprise
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