Rolta Geospatial Fusion for Government

National and local governments around the world set up policies to protect their assets and natural resources and to develop and maintain the basic amenities and infrastructure required for their citizens. Geography influences both natural resources and the basic infrastructure. Hence government agencies and private companies maintain significant amounts of valuable digital geographic information in the form of spatial data. Geospatial tools are being effectively used to integrate and analyze this data and achieve sustainable development. The data is often spread across departments or agencies, and is available in different formats with different projections. In some cases, the temporal data is inconsistent. As a result, sharing of data, its integration and analysis are major challenges.

Rolta’s advanced Internet-based Geospatial Fusion solution lets users seamlessly integrate distributed data sources over the Web. It leverages existing IT infrastructure and data investments by supporting multiple industry standard geospatial and database formats. Rolta has developed proficiencies in the following application areas:

• Land records
• Urban and regional planning
• Forestry
• Agriculture
• Water resources
• Marine and coastal zones
• Environmental pollution control
• Health, education and human resources
• Public safety and emergency incident management

Geospatial Solutions for Land Records

Land records / cadastral data define the extent, value and ownership of land. They are extensively used for mapping projects to meet the needs of many crucial public services, including tax assessment, legality, emergency management, public works and homeland security planning. It is critical, therefore, for government agencies to maintain accurate land records. Conventional field books and paper village maps are being replaced by digital cadastres and Land Information Systems (LIS).  Rolta offers services for both data creation and development of desktop / web-based LIS.  Our spatial data services combine traditional data conversion and sophisticated project management. Land and revenue authorities need Rolta geospatial technology for the following reasons:

• Planning development activities requires updated, accurate and reliable parcel information that can be quickly retrieved
• Currently, parcel details are available as paper maps or FMB in the registers
• Revenue authorities have large volumes of data
• Locating, retrieving and updating parcel maps / land records is tedious and slow
• Current land records and documents tend to disintegrate over time
• Village maps are not of uniform scale, and vary across regions
• Cadastral network not tied to the national mapping network
• Cumbersome procedures to calculate accurate areas/ perimeters
• Difficulties in marking plot boundaries and their creation from field books  -- the procedure is tedious and varies from region to region
• Records in different languages, changing from state to state

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Geospatial Solutions for Urban and Regional Planning

As population grows rapidly and urbanization spreads, decision-makers need effective tools to plan and manage urban centers. They need access to information that is dynamically updated based on changes in ground reality. Urban planning is essentially an exercise in resource generation, development and management. Urban planners must evolve an effective strategy to achieve the following objectives:

• Protect the natural environment
• Conserve cultural heritage areas
• Optimize land use and land utilization
• Provide services and infrastructure
• Ensure a participatory approach for the supply of land and infrastructure development

Problem Areas

• The planning department’s traditional information backup is paper-based
• These paper maps/ documents tend to disintegrate over time
• Wide gap between the ground reality and paper maps
• No ready access to appropriate land use on a suitable scale for large-scale mapping
• Locating and retrieving information is tedious and slow
• Updating is expensive and difficult
• Quick decision-making is difficult, as data is not computerized

Rolta’s geospatial solution achieves the goals of scientific urban planning, and helps planners obtain geographical and attribute data for quick analysis and decision-making.

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Geospatial Solutions for Forestry

Forests are among the world's most important natural resources. They are under immense pressure due to deforestation, industrialization, mineral exploration, oil/ gas spills, forest fires, encroachments and other factors. Accurate information on forests is, therefore, critical for proper management.

Central to strategic forest planning is the ability to collate and analyze data from disparate sources and extract pertinent information that allows for cost-effective and justifiable decision-making.

Rolta geospatial tools help foresters organize and interpret vast amounts of data pertaining to forest management. They facilitate quicker and more reliable decision-making by providing up-to-date information.

Rolta, with its vast domain expertise in forest resources management, provides turnkey GIS solution and consulting services for effective and efficient forest resources management. Our solutions help foresters:

• Identify location-specific methodologies for efficient forest resources management
• Assess the utility of historic data, remote sensing data and field data for the mapping and creation of a forest information system (map-based) and a forest inventory system (attribute-based)

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Geospatial Solutions for Agriculture

Agricultural agencies need geospatial tools capable of integrating services and data from multiple sources and in different formats. Spatial analysis, the study of geographic features, can be applied to many areas of agriculture. Because of their considerable experience, farmers often have great insights on how to manage a farm's natural resources. While Rolta technology can never replace such expert knowledge, it certainly can assist in the planning and implementing land management initiatives.

To make the right decision, farmers need access to accurate and updated information. Various agencies have accumulated a wealth of geospatial data over the years. Rolta geospatial solutions and services can add value to this data for the benefit of farmers and other agencies. They can help agricultural scientists address the following critical needs:

• Identification of suitable crops for a particular site
• Planning and management of available resources such as water, soil, fertilizer and pesticides
• Identifications of the most appropriate precision farming method for optimal crop yield or production
• Agriculture planning and market analysis
• Cropping pattern monitoring
• Yield modeling and estimation
• Soil management
• Irrigation management

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Geospatial Solutions for Water Resources

Water, the most important natural resource, is under immense pressure due to its overuse by large-scale urbanization, industrialization and mineral exploration. Many agencies are responsible for the maintenance and management of water resources, and collecting, processing and validating hydrological data. A hydrological information system is needed to integrate data from these disparate sources and make them easily accessible to various departments. Such a system can provide reliable data sets for long-term planning, design and management of water resources.

Rolta's unique geospatial solutions have a wide range of tools to manage water resources more efficiently and cost-effectively. They help to:

• Assess up-to-date and historic data for mapping and evaluation of  hydrological / hydro-geological features of watersheds
• Identify location-specific methodologies for flood / drought forecasting and occurrences
• Manage surface and ground water for domestic, agricultural and industrial use
• Assess spatial and temporal characteristics of surface and ground water in terms of quantity and quality
• Identify recharge areas
• Trigger flood alarms
• Identify the flow of pollutants to ground and surface water

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Geospatial Solutions for Marine & Coastal Zones

The coastal zone is a dynamic and fragile environment. Up-to-date and reliable information is needed to monitor and manage it. Rolta, which has considerable domain expertise in marine and coastal zones, provides geospatial tools to organize and interpret vast amounts of data pertaining to land and water. These tools enable coastal zone authorities to identity and assess:

• Erosion and depositional areas
• Wave dynamics
• Sediment movement
• Sea surface elevation
• Zoning of coastal areas
• Bathymetry / hydrographic charts

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Geospatial Solutions for Environmental Pollution Control

The pressure on the environment is growing because of uncontrolled population growth, rapid urbanization and industrialization. Many factors affect the environment, and many methodologies are used for its management. Rolta’s geospatial solutions bring together data about the dynamic and varied factors affecting the environment and its management. Our solutions analyze and present the data in a form that can be easily assimilated for day-to-day decision-making and to prepare an environmental management strategy.

Rolta helps pollution control agencies through the following geospatial solutions:

• Integrated geospatial management information system for environmental pollution management
• Development of an integrated GIS database of industries, common effluent treatment plants (CETP) and treatment stabilized disposal facilities (TSDF)
• Development of industry estate information system
• Design and development of a geospatial database for environmental monitoring stations
• Development of a computerized laboratory information system on environmental parameters
• Design, development and publishing of geospatial data across the enterprise

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Geospatial Solutions for Health, Education & Human Resources

Most health, education and human services problems facing the world today are location-specific. Geospatial tools are being extensively used to understand problems and to formulate appropriate plans. To take effective decisions, policy makers need the following:

• A computerized information and management system
• Easy-to-use customized applications for using and updating data
• Location-wise details of education, health and community centers
• Service area description
• Population density, birth rate and mortality rate of an area
• Areas likely to face disasters
• System to view data over the web and update data on time

Rolta relies on its domain expertise and state-of-the-art infrastructure to provide advanced desktop and Web-based geospatial systems. These systems provide unique location / allocation models that are primarily based on spatial distribution of population, incidence of diseases and the distance to be traveled by the public. Our solutions also provide tools to analyze the basic infrastructure facilities required across regions.

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Geospatial Solutions for Public Safety and Emergency Incident Management

For decades, leading-edge computer-aided dispatch solutions created specifically for emergency and non-emergency incident management have helped create safer cities and communities around the world.

Rolta’s cutting-edge incident and response management solutions and services can help law enforcement authorities tackle ever growing challenges. Our geospatial solutions for public safety are a product of innovative thinking and world-class engineering. They are designed to offer new levels of communication and control to the police, fire, airport, emergency and security forces. These solutions have been appreciated for their remarkable speed, flexibility, synergy, and user-friendliness. Rolta’s public safety solutions provide the tools for emergency readiness planning, response management, and investigations.

Among the public safety applications is the Emergency Response Management System. This system can seamlessly integrate an interactive, real-time map display with call handling, dispatching, records and information management, remote access and mobile data. The dispatchers will be able to see police vehicle locations and the events they are responding to on a map, allowing them to locate, alter and route calls for more effective service. The system enables precise and exceptionally fast response, while conveniently generating a full incident record for downstream use.

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