Research Projects

National water policy of Government of India emphasizes on addressing the wide temporal and spatial variability in availability of water through advances in ground based and satellite technology. This water availability varies due to occurrences of drought, floods and demographic pressure and changing climate. Currently available network of measurements of CWC needs further augmentation with satellite measurements and National hydrological modelling initiative. This would involve integration of space technology, IT and hydrological system models with ground based measurement system. The proposed project aims to carry out research innovations in the field of development of near real time monitoring hydroinformatics system for terrestrial water storage changes over India through integration of multi-source satellite data and automatic network of ground measurements. Scope: Automated retrieval of hydrological parameters such as water levels and spread of rivers/reservoirs, flood inundation, soil moisture, snow cover etc., development of automated network of hydro-meteorological observatories, modelling and web-based dissemination of terrestrial water storage changes in near real time for a major river basin.