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India’s First Intelligent Flood Warning System
October 18 , 2019
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- Tamil Nadu is all set to deploy an ‘intelligent flood warning system’ in Chennai.
- It will enable officials to get area-wise inundation details during the monsoon.
- Chennai thus becomes first city in India to get an intelligent flood warning system
CFLOWS
- The technology, called CFLOWS, is India’s first integrated coastal flood warning system.
- CFLOWS is a Web GIS-based decision support system
- It integrates data and outputs derived from weather forecast, hydrologic, hydraulic and hydrodynamic models.
- It has 6 modules, including 3D visuals of flooding in infrastructure, buildings, roads and ward boundaries.
- It can provide forecast on potential inundation 10 days in advance.
Agencies Involved
- Conceptualised by the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Union Government, the Ministry of Earth Sciences and TN government have jointly developed it.
- The link to the fully-operational CFLOWS will be formally handed over to the State Disaster Management Cell by the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR).
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