Disaster management
- National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM) serves as national repository of GIS based database for entire country coupled with set of Decision Support System tools to assist the State / Central Disaster Management Authorities in decision making during emergency situations.
- Current activities to support disaster management support are : Near Real Time Flood & Cyclone monitoring & mapping in the country, Flood Hazard/Risk Zonation for Flood prone states, Spatial Flood Early Warning, forest fire alerts, landslide zonation and inventory, agricultural drought studies and Capacity Building and institutionalization is being done to the stake holders.
- NDEM essentially serves as national repository of GIS based data for entire country coupled with set of Decision Support System tools to assist the disaster managers in decision making during emergency situations.
- National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM) is a national repository of multi-scale geospatial database coupled with decision support system tools.
- It is a unique and homogenous database served for entire country with essential database elements for addressing emergency/disaster management in the country.
- NRSC/ISRO established a state-of-art facility with structured framework with multi-institutional participation to assist the disaster managers of all States/UTs for preparedness, hazard/risk zonation, damage assessment, and emergency response under the behest of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India.
- NDEM services have been operationalised since 2013 providing timely information along with disaster specific products for effective decision making.
Vedas Services
VEDAS portal serves to disseminate the data useful for various application. The portal may be browsed for understanding and obtaining the services. Anyone can obtain these services. All the services are free. Users can visualise and analyse the data for the purpose.
The services include:
- Vegetation and crop monitoring: through Periodical NDVI products of entire India is provided that helps in Vegetation Monitoring. Monitoring of agricultural crop.
- Monitoring of air quality, Fire
- Hydrological Services: Monitoring Water level, spread, Flood forecast etc
- Polar ice study. Monitoring polar ice melt status, area. Ship navigation
- New and Renewable Energy enables Harnessing of renewable energy by determining Solar insolation potential, Wind energy, Wave power etc
- Urban Sprawl Information System through Monitoring urban sprawl and its expansion, Built-up growth analysis, etc.
- Status monitoring of Desertification and Land Degradation can be made though Thematic services showing maps of different time frames
- Monitoring of snow and glacier is possible through Thematic services showing maps
- Monitoring of coastal land use, shoreline etc. is enabled through Thematic services showing maps
- Estimation of Forest biomass, Forest cover, Alpine tree line etc. can be performed though Thematic services showing maps
- Geospatial Energy Map of India facilitate planning, monitoring and decision making by Thematic services showing integrated map of all type of energy data
