Processing and visualization and quantification of the data have been particularly
benefitted by the Geographical Information Systems, and nowadays, RS-GIS has
become inseparable twins for planning, especially the water resources planning.
Migrating to aircraft and of late drone-based surveillance technologies using the
similar principles as that of satellite-based remote sensing has enabled planning
exercises to come down to much greater atomic levels almost to the individual
fields and villages.
5 India Water Resources Information System
One of the biggest achievements of assembling of a wide variety of data sets on a
single platform for water resources applications has been achieved jointly by
National Remote Sensing Center and Central Water Commission in form of Water
Resources Information System (WRIS) Portal available at https://indiawris.gov.in/
wris/#/.
The portal has achieved integration of the resource data as well as the utilization
data in a holistic manner. The remote sensing assessment has been capable of
visualizing the various parameters like
• Status of water flows available at various locations subjects the classified data
policy and locations of measurement stations
• Major and medium water resources project locations and their command areas
across the country especially those covered by erstwhile Accelerated Irrigation
Benefits Programme and now Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
• An inventory of water bodies above 0.1 ha surface area all across the country
• Land use and land cover information for the country
• Basin and sub-basin boundaries with watershed atlas for the country
• In all, there are 32 layers on the Web GIS platform covering associated information relevant to water resources assessment, planning and operations.
The portal is a very essential first step in the direction of integration of the water
resources data across the sectors and platforms. However, as has been pointed out
earlier, the information is dynamic. Many of the parameters like land use project
command areas and other associated infrastructure information keep on varying
with developments taking place over time.
Having created the base layers at great effort and cost by Central Water
Commission and National Remote Sensing Center, the same is now required to be
nurtured under the newly established National Water Informatics Center. The value
of information lies in having a specific time period which can be considered reasonable for the planning and assessment purposes. Active cooperation of states is
needed for upgrading the information about the utilization. With a large geographic
area of the country, it is necessary to keep the spatial resolution of the database
within limits so as to provide reasonable response times during Web operations. For
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benefitted by the Geographical Information Systems, and nowadays, RS-GIS has
become inseparable twins for planning, especially the water resources planning.
Migrating to aircraft and of late drone-based surveillance technologies using the
similar principles as that of satellite-based remote sensing has enabled planning
exercises to come down to much greater atomic levels almost to the individual
fields and villages.
5 India Water Resources Information System
One of the biggest achievements of assembling of a wide variety of data sets on a
single platform for water resources applications has been achieved jointly by
National Remote Sensing Center and Central Water Commission in form of Water
Resources Information System (WRIS) Portal available at https://indiawris.gov.in/
wris/#/.
The portal has achieved integration of the resource data as well as the utilization
data in a holistic manner. The remote sensing assessment has been capable of
visualizing the various parameters like
• Status of water flows available at various locations subjects the classified data
policy and locations of measurement stations
• Major and medium water resources project locations and their command areas
across the country especially those covered by erstwhile Accelerated Irrigation
Benefits Programme and now Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
• An inventory of water bodies above 0.1 ha surface area all across the country
• Land use and land cover information for the country
• Basin and sub-basin boundaries with watershed atlas for the country
• In all, there are 32 layers on the Web GIS platform covering associated information relevant to water resources assessment, planning and operations.
The portal is a very essential first step in the direction of integration of the water
resources data across the sectors and platforms. However, as has been pointed out
earlier, the information is dynamic. Many of the parameters like land use project
command areas and other associated infrastructure information keep on varying
with developments taking place over time.
Having created the base layers at great effort and cost by Central Water
Commission and National Remote Sensing Center, the same is now required to be
nurtured under the newly established National Water Informatics Center. The value
of information lies in having a specific time period which can be considered reasonable for the planning and assessment purposes. Active cooperation of states is
needed for upgrading the information about the utilization. With a large geographic
area of the country, it is necessary to keep the spatial resolution of the database
within limits so as to provide reasonable response times during Web operations. For
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