The RADAR Imaging Satellite (RISAT), to be launched from Sriharikota on April 20, will enable India manage disasters more efficiently, observed G Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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CHENNAI: The State Forest Department has taken up the work of monitoring and mitigating fires in forest areas with the help of remote sensing and GIS technologies.

Aprimatologist, environmentalist and UN messenger of peace - that's Dame Jane Goodall for one and all. But what is she doing at a technology platform like Map World Forum, raised the brow of many a technologist at the event.

Ahmedabad : Civic body is likely to take up a tree census for city with help of a Mumbai-based firm Terracon Ecotech. Census is one-of-its-kind in the country, based on modern methods using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) system.

Udhagamandalam: A ten-day advanced training programme on Geographical Information System (GIS) organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for conservationists in various Asian countries got under way here on Monday.

Methane is an important greenhouse gas which significantly contributes to global warming. Livestock is a major anthropogenic source of methane emission from agriculture. India possesses the world

CHENNAI: Buoyed by the success of the Global Positioning System (GPS) installed in few Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses, the corporation has decided to expand the facility in more number of buses plying on the arterial Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Roads in the city.

The Bandipur National Park situated in the Western Ghats of Karnataka State, is one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world. During recent years, this park has witnessed repeated fires, affecting considerable areas under vegetation.

A case study has been conducted to identify suitable sites for water harvesting structures in Soankhad watershed, Punjab using information technologies such as Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (RS-GIS). The IRS-1C, P6 satellite imagery of the Soankhad watershed was used.

Evaluation of the morphometric parameters requires preparation of drainage map, contour map, ordering of the various streams and measurements of catchment area, perimeter, relative relief, relief ratio, length of drainage channels, drainage density, drainage frequency, bifurcation ratio, texture ratio, circulatory ratio and constant channel maintenance, which help to understand the nature of the d

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