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IMapp-Modelling Immunisation Outreach in Far-flung Rural Clusters

IMapp, the Immunization App, was developed to strengthen the delivery of public health services, taking advantage of an innovative multidisciplinary approach and digital technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Machine Learning (ML). The initiative demonstrated the suitability of porting public health data on a GIS platform to get good insights into the distribution of vaccines; create an automated indexing system to monitor the efficacy of the Universal Im......

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Myriad Challenges of the Coasts of India

Monitoring from space, aerial and in situ platforms in coastal regions will help develop models for interactions between ecological and anthropogenic processes, helping sustainable management of coast...

By: Shailesh Nayak

COASTAL RESEARCH

Our Fragile Coasts: Scientific Approaches and Solutions

The Indian coasts hold diverse geomorphological features—mudflats, rocky shores, cliffs, sandy beaches and deltaic reaches that shelter unique ecosystems. However, significant sections of the coastlin...

By: S K Raju Alluri, V Ramanathan, R S Kankara and M V Ramana Murthy

COASTAL RESEARCH

Need of Flood Warning System for Coastal Metropolis

Integrated Flood Warning System (IFLOWS) is an integrated GIS-based decision support system developed for Chennai and Mumbai that provides flood inundation scenarios and helps state governments to put...

By: S K Dash, Gopinath G, A Gera and T Usha

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By: Dr Manosi Lahiri

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Controlling the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Strong Healthcare Systems

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the subject of healthcare to the forefront. As such, it becomes pertinent to ask the question that why some countries are doing better than others in dealing with this crisis? Does the answer lie in the difference in the healthcare system of various countries? In this article, we try to answer this question by looking at some of the features of the healthcare s...

By: Staff Reporter

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Voluntary Isolation of the Boti

As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, I am reminded of the indigenous group Boti and their remote, tiny kingdom in West Timor, Indonesia. When I visited them in 2017, I was in awe of the sheer simplicity of their lifestyle. Strangers to electricity and machines, they are supremely self sufficient. Despite a tenuous existence, they are proof that a simple, secluded life can be a...

By: Chris Dunham

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