Coastal and marine spatial data serve as wheels that drive the blue economy and open new doors for investment, revealing new insights about the coastal ecosystem.
For more than two decades, the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Chennai, has been collecting, collating, and analysing marine geospatial data for the benefit of the society and environment.
Solution and Implementation
Web GIS-based applications and mobile apps developed under NCCR’s Ocean-Services, Modelling, Application, Resources and Technology (O-SMART) programme:
- National Shoreline Assessment System (NSAS), an open-source Web-GIS decision support system, was developed to create maps of the entire Indian coast capturing the shoreline changes and erosion accretion trends since 1990, in different formats, including digital maps, infographics, reports, etc.
- Integrated Flood Warning Systems (i-Flows), an operational early warning system used to tackle coastal flooding was developed for Chennai and Mumbai.
- Disaster Risk Reduction Apps – Thooondil, an android-based app and dashboard developed for Tamil Nadu as an operational disaster risk reduction tool to aid the coastal fishing community during a time of hazard.
Tamil Nadu
with the coastal clean-up activities of Govt
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applications related
- Climate Changes Risk Information System (CRIS) is deployed to study the vulnerability of the coastal areas to various coastal hazards such as tsunamis, storm surges, sea level rise etc.
- Coastal Pollution Dashboard is used to study coastal water pollution and predicts coastal water quality across the Indian coast. The datasets are stored in a Geo-database, are analysed and the results are displayed using spatial dashboards.
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