Context: The geo portal for National Capital Region, called Pariman, has recently been opened for public.

Key Points

• Geo-Portal for NCR known as ‘PARIMAN’ was launched in 2021 by the Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs.

• The Portal consists of around 179 Layers presented as Line, Point & Polygon feature covering details of various sectors like Land Use, Transport, Industries, Water, Power, Health, Shelter, Heritage & Tourism, Disaster Management, etc.

• This Geo-Portal will help to improve decentralized planning and management in NCR region.

• This Geo-portal is an important platform to know where and what exists in the National Capital Region (NCR) that enables better planning.

• It will help in effective utilization of Remote Sensing and GIS technology.

Geospatial Technology

• Geospatial technology uses tools like GIS (Geographic Information System), GPS (Global Positioning System) and Remote Sensing for geographic mapping and analysis.

• These tools capture spatial information about objects, events and phenomena (indexed to their geographical location on earth, geotag). The location data may be Static or Dynamic.

• Static location data include position of a road, an earthquake event or malnutrition among children in a particular region while dynamic location data include data related to a moving vehicle or pedestrian, the spread of an infectious disease etc.

• The technology may be used to create intelligent maps to help identify spatial patterns in large volumes of data.

• The technology facilitates decision making based on the importance and priority of scarce resources.