Remote Sensing

New Delhi: In its bid to protect its forests and keep a check on illegal mining and non-forest activities, Haryana is all set to make use of geographical information system (GIS). Environment and forest minister Kiran Chaudhry claimed that the government was developing the technology to map forest boundaries, identify damages in Aravalli and Shivalik hills.

Publication Date:

19/08/2009

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Forests, Aravalli Range, Mining, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Haryana

Air Pollution

City to use new technology to check pollution

In a bid to control pollution, the Delhi government

Publication Date:

18/08/2009

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, CNG, Remote Sensing, Delhi

Air Pollution

Now ultra-violet rays to monitor vehicular pollution

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government

Publication Date:

18/08/2009

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Air Quality Monitoring, CNG, Remote Sensing, Delhi

Water Resources

N Indias groundwater vanishing

Mumbai: Using Nasa satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33cm (one foot) per year over the past decade.

Publication Date:

14/08/2009

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Water Resources, Groundwater, Remote Sensing, India, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, NASA

Water Resources

Satellite data show Indian water stocks shrinking

Unsustainable water use in India is threatening agricultural production and raising the spectre of a major water crisis.

Publication Date:

13/08/2009

Author(s): Quirin Schiermeier

Source: Nature

Vol:

460

Issue:

7257

pp:

789

Tags:

Agriculture, Rice, Water Resources, Groundwater, Groundwater Assessment, Groundwater Irrigation, Remote Sensing, India, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Rainfall Pattern, NASA

Water Resources

NASA satellites unlock secret to Northern India's vanishing water

This latest study based on NASA satellite data says that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade and the loss is almost entirely due to human activity. Shows that more than 26 cubic miles of groundwater disappeared from aquifers in areas of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi, between 2002 and 2008.

Publication Date:

12/08/2009

Author(s): Gretchen Cook-Anderson

Source: NASA

Tags:

Agriculture, Groundwater, Irrigation, Remote Sensing, India, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, NASA

Water Resources

Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India

Groundwater is a primary source of fresh water in many parts of the world. Some regions are becoming overly dependent on it, consuming groundwater faster than it is naturally replenished and causing water tables to decline unremittingly. Indirect evidence suggests that this is the case in northwest India, but there has been no regional assessment of the rate of groundwater depletion.

Publication Date:

12/08/2009

Author(s): Matthew Rodell, Isabella Velicogna, James S. Famiglietti

Source: Nature

Vol:

460

Issue:

0

pp:

999-1002

Tags:

Agriculture, Rice, Water Resources, Groundwater, Groundwater Assessment, Central Groundwater Authority (CGWA), Groundwater Irrigation, Remote Sensing, India, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Rainfall Pattern, NASA

Climate Change

Arctic Ocean may be polluted soup by 2070

Without drastic cuts in emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic's most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming.

Publication Date:

08/08/2009

Author(s): Kate Ravilious

Source: New Scientist

Vol:

0

Issue:

2720

pp:

11

Tags:

Pollution, Marine Pollution, Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Remote Sensing, Norway

Air Pollution

Infrared tech to curb emission

New Delhi: In a bid to crack down on polluting vehicles, the transport department is planning to procure remote sensing pollution checking equipment to replace the obsolete hand-held device which is currently being used. Field demonstrations of the machine will take place for a week from August 10.

Publication Date:

06/08/2009

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Remote Sensing, Delhi