Lucknow Dev Authority to Start Digital Mapping to Check Illegal Construction

In a bid to keep a tab on unauthorized construction and infrastructure monitoring within the city limits, Lucknow Development Authority will begin digital mapping of the city with the help of the Remote Sensing Application Centre.
BY Realty Plus
Published - Friday, 20 Aug, 2021

In a bid to keep a tab on unauthorized construction and infrastructure monitoring within the city limits, Lucknow Development Authority will begin digital mapping of the city with the help of the Remote Sensing Application Centre. Scientists of the Remote Sensing Application Centre held a meeting with LDA authorities and gave a presentation of the satellite survey and mapping activities carried out by them in Ghaziabad district. Following the meeting, vice-chairperson of LDA Akshay Tripathi instructed them to make the system more technically robust and profitable. He said that digital mapping of the city is essential to prevent illegal constructions. The remote sensing department has been asked to prepare a proposal for the complete action plan. “The LDA has about 1,050 square-km of area under its jurisdiction. We need to prepare a database of satellite images of the entire area every month so that every unauthorized construction taking place in the city can be monitored. The mapping needs to be done in six to seven layers through satellite view, drone survey and Google map so that the plot area, constructed area and land-use can also be known,” Tripathi added. He further said that, “The system should be made in such a way that mobile location of any type of illegal construction can be found at latitude-longitude level. In future, all this data can be linked up with the portal.”