Chennai: Authority in the country can now monitor various industries including those categorized as ‘red’ by clicking the mouse.
Tamil Nadu pollution control boards are set to be launched, with the help of the Institute of Remote Sensing (IRS) at Anna University, a web-based spatial geo service portal that will use satellite maps to oversee the industrial categorized according to its functions.
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The Chairperson of TNPCB AV Venkatachalam said details such as the location of the industry, type, category, various information relating to the approval, the amount of approved, extension status, whether the debit / emissions protocol was followed, the category of similar industries around it, the river or the nearest water body where EFLUENTS exhausted will be available on the portal.
Intranet system, where access priorities are based on hierarchies, can be very widely used in emergencies such as toxic gas leaks and can help the authorities concerned make rescue plans and rehabilitation in place and offsite, using details about the number of villages located Near the industry, the number of people living there and how far the leak will have an impact on them, he said.
Director IRS D Thirumalaivasan said the map used in the portal can be updated regularly.
National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), which provides satellite maps for institutions such as Anna University, have relaxed norms to get such a map.
TNPCB has also proposed to connect air and water data, which is being produced through a monitoring system that functions in various parts of the country, said VenkataChalam.
The state government is interested in taking board functions to the next level with the use of technology.
“The launch of the web-based geospatial service portal (GSS) is the first of its kind in this country.
This will act as a support system of decisions to monitor in the field and upper level, the industrial concent and authorization issued by the pollution control body,” he added.
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Srinivasa Raju from the IRS said all industries in the state would be mapped from satellite images collected from resources, Indian remote sensing satellites with a spatial resolution of 5.8 m.
Satellite images from industries together with infrastructure and resources up to a radius of 5 km in each industry will be mapped.
“For data collection, we will develop cellular applications that will be given to all TNPCB field officers who will visit the Latlong industry and Geotag location.
With that information, we will get a satellite image from NRSA,” he said.