Clearing mounds of garbage in Bengaluru or anywhere in the country could get much easier with satellite technology and an app with which you could send the exact mapped location of the garbage to civic authorities.
Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) is developing the app along with IIT (BHU), Varanasi. It combines crowd-sourced, satellite-based information such as the position of garbage dumps, a map of their surroundings and graphically conveying them to civic bodies through geospatial technology (GST).
The freely available app should be ready in a couple of months and can be used anywhere in the country, according to IIRS Director A. Senthil Kumar.
Its success would depend on pro-active public, who download and use it, and the involvement and response of the local bodies.
IIRS started the garbage management pilot three months ago on October 2, marked as Swachh Bharat Divas, when it got down to the ground reality of waste management.
It roped in Central government institutions in the hill station and capital of Uttarakhand and went through with a successful pilot run for the app, spotting and cleaning up mounds of garbage in the city.
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