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AP govt leverages power of technology
Andhra Pradesh government’s move to leverage the power of technology and involve citizens in disaster management works post \'Hudhud\' devastation seems to be yielding dividends as scores of people have uploaded pictures of affected areas from their smartphones.
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government’s move to leverage the power of technology and involve citizens in disaster management works post 'Hudhud' devastation seems to be yielding dividends as scores of people have uploaded pictures of affected areas from their smartphones.
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The government on Monday released some of the pictures it had received directly from the public. They have been downloaded from AP Disaster Management Facebook page, Twitter pages of AP govt and APCMO and some of the officers’ personal account handles.
These pictures have been collected for AP government’s crowd-sourcing project to send them to National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) here for geo-tagging locations and putting them on the satellite map to directly identify them, officials said. “A lot of people wanted to reach out to AP government but couldn’t do so due to snapping and disruption of telecommunications and power lines,” an official said.
The government, with the help of NRSC, has also launched an Android app for a crowd-sourcing project where people can upload photos from their smartphones.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has directed NRSC to use GIS, GPS and remote sensing technologies to spot the damage and put them on the satellite through geo-tagging.
