Odisha has bagged Geospatial World Excellence Award-2018 in the Geospatial World Forum Meeting held at Hyderabad.
The award was given for successful IT application on tracking of mineral production, dispatch and value accrued on real time basis through its i3MS website based software.
i3MS (Integrated Mines and Mineral Management System) is GPS-linked web-based software designed by scientists of Odisha Space Applications Centre (ORSAC), Bhubaneswar.
This is for the first time in India that GPS devices have been fixed on a large volume of moving objects in mining sector.