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GIS Experience contd.
Having completed the preparation of Standards for Digitization of Ikonas imagery, as next step, the quantification of infrastructure requirement at each agency establishment and estimated man hour for digitization of each type of imagery- Dense/Medium/Light came in picture. So as a strategy I distributed/circulated in rotation to each party the 3 one Sq.KM sample imagery which we brought from Denver and asked every agency to practice with respect to frozen standards /estimate the infrastructure requirements and come out with man power and man hours consumed /Sq./km for each type.
Excepting RMSI ,ESRI and Rolta, all the other parties were too enthusiastic to be on board &evinced keen interest. As nobody had any idea of the quantum of involved work and the time period schedule, while freezing the order scope, we did not specify the quantum and type for each party; but we froze the QA/QC conditions and the man hours for each type common to all agencies. The man hours figure were arrived based on common average reported by each party as well as Reliance internal people who attempted in the beginning. When it came to arriving the unit man hour rate, we made all the parties to agree for uniform rate and move on. Only Mr Mohan Reddy of Infotech was saying that his company was getting huge premium while undertaking US orders but this being indigenous requirement, with reservation he will undertake on trial basis and experiment. For that he has assigned Mr S A Lakshminarayan as Project manager exclusively. In the end Infotech was the party who did the maximum quantity and billed Rs 30 Crores ! Next in line were DSM,INCA and Ridings and all of them were sincere till the end.
As we declared the job as open house, there was no disparity between parties and first come gets the first available imagery- be it Dense or Medium or Light. On their submission, my internal team carried out audit check , approved the receipt and the party get the next imagery issued. If the audit has any remarks, that party has to take back and re-do that imagery. This cycle was smooth but I had the difficulty of sourcing the satellite imagery from Denver that too cleared by Indian authorities in time. There was no technical or procedural hitch but the process of requirement identication, freezing the edge coordinate lat/Long , SI waiting to get clear weather to pick the imagery of indented coordinates took its time.
Having touched about imagery sourcing issue, let me narrate how I overcame that hurdle with Indian Government. Somehow I established my contacts with The Secretary-Science&Technology, Surveyor General of India, Heads of ISRO-Dr Kasturirangan and Dr Madhavan Nair and placed Reliance requirement of sourcing fine resolution satellite imagery of Ikonas from Space Imaging, Denver. As my luck was favorable at that juncture, all of them were expert scientist and could appreciate the situation. With detailed deliberation, they chalked out a viable procedure to have complete check and balance of imagery import. The traffic control was entrusted to one Mr Sampath of Antrix at Bangalore. That made Reliance relieved of tension in sourcing the imported satellite imagery from SI. Thereafter Reliance signed a comprehensive agreement with SI for US$ 1 Mn. There after the requirement identification process set in.
Contd.....
Key Aspects :- Communication, Conviction, Critical challenge, Planning, Proactive approach, Motivation
GIS Experience contd.
Having completed the preparation of Standards for Digitization of Ikonas imagery, as next step, the quantification of infrastructure requirement at each agency establishment and estimated man hour for digitization of each type of imagery- Dense/Medium/Light came in picture. So as a strategy I distributed/circulated in rotation to each party the 3 one Sq.KM sample imagery which we brought from Denver and asked every agency to practice with respect to frozen standards /estimate the infrastructure requirements and come out with man power and man hours consumed /Sq./km for each type.
Excepting RMSI ,ESRI and Rolta, all the other parties were too enthusiastic to be on board &evinced keen interest. As nobody had any idea of the quantum of involved work and the time period schedule, while freezing the order scope, we did not specify the quantum and type for each party; but we froze the QA/QC conditions and the man hours for each type common to all agencies. The man hours figure were arrived based on common average reported by each party as well as Reliance internal people who attempted in the beginning. When it came to arriving the unit man hour rate, we made all the parties to agree for uniform rate and move on. Only Mr Mohan Reddy of Infotech was saying that his company was getting huge premium while undertaking US orders but this being indigenous requirement, with reservation he will undertake on trial basis and experiment. For that he has assigned Mr S A Lakshminarayan as Project manager exclusively. In the end Infotech was the party who did the maximum quantity and billed Rs 30 Crores ! Next in line were DSM,INCA and Ridings and all of them were sincere till the end.
As we declared the job as open house, there was no disparity between parties and first come gets the first available imagery- be it Dense or Medium or Light. On their submission, my internal team carried out audit check , approved the receipt and the party get the next imagery issued. If the audit has any remarks, that party has to take back and re-do that imagery. This cycle was smooth but I had the difficulty of sourcing the satellite imagery from Denver that too cleared by Indian authorities in time. There was no technical or procedural hitch but the process of requirement identication, freezing the edge coordinate lat/Long , SI waiting to get clear weather to pick the imagery of indented coordinates took its time.
Having touched about imagery sourcing issue, let me narrate how I overcame that hurdle with Indian Government. Somehow I established my contacts with The Secretary-Science&Technology, Surveyor General of India, Heads of ISRO-Dr Kasturirangan and Dr Madhavan Nair and placed Reliance requirement of sourcing fine resolution satellite imagery of Ikonas from Space Imaging, Denver. As my luck was favorable at that juncture, all of them were expert scientist and could appreciate the situation. With detailed deliberation, they chalked out a viable procedure to have complete check and balance of imagery import. The traffic control was entrusted to one Mr Sampath of Antrix at Bangalore. That made Reliance relieved of tension in sourcing the imported satellite imagery from SI. Thereafter Reliance signed a comprehensive agreement with SI for US$ 1 Mn. There after the requirement identification process set in.
Contd.....
Key Aspects :- Communication, Conviction, Critical challenge, Planning, Proactive approach, Motivation
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