Native AI-based software created to safeguard defence land from encroachment

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The Directorate General Defence Estates (DGDE) has developed a Artificial Intelligence-based Change Detection Software that can automatically detect unauthorised constructions & encroachments on the defence land using Satellite Imagery, demonstrating once again how technology has benefited the country’s defense-related issues. For efficient land management and urban planning, the Institute makes use of the most recent surveying technology, including satellite photography, drone imaging, and geospatial tools.
The Directorate General of Defence Estates established the Centre of Excellence on Satellite & Unmanned Remote Vehicle Initiative (CoE-SURVEI) at the National Institute of Defence Estates Management at Meerut Cantonment in Uttar Pradesh. CoE-SURVEI is responsible for developing AI-based software.
The change detection programme has been created by the CoE-SURVEI in collaboration with knowledge partner Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Currently, the software employs trained software and Cartosat-3 imagery from the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).
By analysing satellite imagery from various time periods, the alterations are found.
Tools for analysing unoccupied land and 3D imagery analysis of hill cantonments have also been created by the Centre of Excellence on Satellite & Unmanned Remote Vehicle Initiative for land management.

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