{"id":271465,"date":"2019-04-27T05:17:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T05:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271465"},"modified":"2019-04-27T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T05:23:02","slug":"coal-india-using-space-technology-to-curb-pilferage-and-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-using-space-technology-to-curb-pilferage-and-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India using space technology to curb pilferage and illegal mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After surpassing coal output of 600 million tonne (mt) last fiscal, state-owned Coal India is banking on space technology and mobile apps to control pilferage and illegal mining. <\/p>\n<p>The company has come up with the Coal Mining Surveillance &amp; Management System (CMSMS) portal, developed by the coal ministry in coordination with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics and the Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology. <\/p>\n<p>Under the CMSES framework, the maps of the coal blocks and coalfield boundaries have been geo-referenced and superimposed on the latest satellite remote sensing images. The system can scan a region of 100 meters around the existing coalfield boundary to identify any unusual activity that may be illegal coal mining. All such identified activities are deemed suspicious and a trigger is generated with a reference number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After surpassing coal output of 600 million tonne (mt) last fiscal, state-owned Coal India is banking on space technology and mobile apps to control pilferage and illegal mining. The company has come up with the Coal Mining Surveillance &amp; Management System (CMSMS) portal, developed by the coal ministry in coordination with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics and the Ministry of Electronics &amp; Information Technology. Under the CMSES framework, the maps of the coal blocks and coalfield boundaries have been geo-referenced and superimposed on the latest satellite remote sensing images. The system can scan a region of 100 meters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}