Flood monitoring the remote sensing way

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Flood in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh where the swollen river inundated thousands of villages.

Abstract: Remote sensing technologies serve as a management tool for authorities to forecast and issue early warning of floods. A Flood Response System developed by C-DAC focuses on near-real time flood monitoring in the Brahmaputra valley.

Authors are Senior Technical Officers, Joint Director and Associate Director, respectively Emerging Solutions and e-Gov group, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune. manojk@cdac.in