GnY Live | Series 01 | Episode 01 | 2025
Air pollution is a significant crisis in India, contributing to severe health risks and environmental degradation. This G’nY blog summarises key insights from a podcast discussion with Prof. Gufran Be...
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...
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...
IMPACT ARTICLES
Tidal Predictions: Geodetic and Research Branch Survey of India
The Geodetic and Research Branch of Survey of India has a long history of over 130 years, since 1877, of maintaining tidal data generated from the tide gauge network along the Indian coast and islands...
Exploring Geodesy
Survey of India is in the process of developing a geoid model. In practice, geodesy uses the principles of mathematics, astronomy and physics and applies them within the capabilities of moderm enginee...
National Map Policy
The advancements in digital technologies have now made it possible to use diverse spatial databases in an integrated manner. The responsibility for producing, maintaining and disseminating the topogra...
The Story of Mapping India
The Great Trigonometrical Survey were spread over 1,600 miles in length along the meridian and, at places, 1,200 miles in latitude, in order to cover the entire country. This work took approximately f...
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Tidal Predictions: Geodetic and Research Branch Survey of India
The Geodetic and Research Branch of Survey of India has a long history of over 130 years, since 1877, of maintaining tidal data generated from the tide gauge network along the Indian coast and islands. This data is being used by 30 Indian and 14 foreign ports for subsequent processing and analysis for various purposes.
Exploring Geodesy
Survey of India is in the process of developing a geoid model. In practice, geodesy uses the principles of mathematics, astronomy and physics and applies them within the capabilities of moderm engineering and technology.
National Map Policy
The advancements in digital technologies have now made it possible to use diverse spatial databases in an integrated manner. The responsibility for producing, maintaining and disseminating the topographic map database of the whole country, which is the foundation of all spatial data vests with the Survey of India (SoI).