Project in charge: Dr. Anoop Kumar Shukla and 

Mr. Naga Venkata Sai kumar Manapragada

Thematic Area: Disaster Management

Project Guide(s): Dr. Anoop Kumar Shukla and 

Mr. Naga Venkata Sai kumar Manapragada

International partners: (If any) NA

MAHE Partner: NA

Village/City: Manipal

Project Duration: 28th – 30th December 2021 (02:00 PM – 04:30 PM)

Aim: Geospatial Applications for Disaster Management and in addition the proposed training programme intends to disseminate the knowledge on geospatial applications for management, resilience, monitoring, analysis, prediction, forecast, and hindcast various disasters. 

The study/ Innovation: The geospatial information aids to mitigate and manage disasters

The geospatial technology is key in processing, analysing, and predicting large geospatial data to extract information

Responsible decision-making leads to minimal disasters only when citizens are given proper education on the topic 

There exists connection between the green cover and disasters that take place

Non-structural measures are real time flood forecasting, flood plain zoning, flood inundation mapping, dam break flood simulation.