BUILDING SPATIAL DATABASE FOR CUTTACK MUNICIPAL CORPORATION: A GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH

Pritirekha Daspattanayak, Prabhu Prasad Das

Abstract: Decentralized governance necessitates participatory approach which is crucial for realizing sustainable development. Accordingly, the concerned government as well as non-government agencies assume responsibility to plan, execute, manage and monitor social welfare schemes in a coordinated manner. This in turn, relies on integrated information in the form of database which plays a vital role in the process of decision making. Despite significant improvements made in the field of database creation and management, problems of availability and organization of accurate data in the country continue to persist. In this context, the present study is taken up for building a reliable and accurate geo-database for Cuttack Municipal Corporation, Odisha. The database thus created will enable information flow for planning and monitoring of various government schemes. The study involves acquisition and integration of spatial and non-spatial data derived from multiple sources. More often than not, data from these sources suffer from various types of errors embedded in it. Lack of availability of cutting edge technologies within government enterprises as well as absence of appropriate manpower with specialized expertise are the underlying reasons of errors in existing databases of Cuttack Municipal Corporation. The present study proposes a methodological framework towards removal of these errors in spatial information. The study is based on geospatial technologies of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System and Global Positioning System in generating a desired accurate and common geo-database for planning and implementation of social welfare schemes. While Global Positioning System and Remote Sensing imageries can help enhance the positional accuracies of spatial entities, data management, analysis and visualization capabilities of Geographic Information System can help build the standard geo-database which can be shared by policy makers for better implementation of the schemes.

Keywords: Geospatial, Database, Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0501010