Complete Land Use Map Of Tea Gardens Will Be Ready By Early 2008

Kolkata: Satellite mapping of all small tea gardens (less than 25 acres) in Assam and West Bengal will be finished by end 2007; and by early 2008, the complete land use map of all tea gardens will be ready. Systematic remote sensing technology was first utilized for location of extensive ground water resources, and then extended to mapping of wastelands, helping to develop State-wise wasteland maps. Tea would now be the fourth area of application of satellite imagery after ground water resources, wasteland development and mapping changes in forest cover improvement. The remote sensing facility of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), at Kharagpur, will be executing the project in collaboration with Tea Board.