New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has begun a pilot drone survey of properties in two wards as part of an effort to improve property tax assessment and identify properties that may have been left unassessed or under-assessed.

According to officials, the first phase of the aerial survey is being conducted in Rohini F Ward of Rohini Zone and Gharoli Ward of Shahdara South Zone, news agency PTI reported.

The civic body plans to combine drone imagery with technologies including GIS, LiDAR-based mapping, geo-tagging, artificial intelligence and 3D digital modelling to build a more detailed property database.

The technology-based exercise will allow the MCD to examine existing property records against aerial and...