Project Input Data
Project Input Data
B. SIMHADRI RAO
Water Resources Group
National Remote Sensing Centre
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Topographic Data
Meteorological Data
• Rainfall
• Temperature
Hydrological Data
• River Discharge
• Reservoir level
• Ground water level
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Ancillary Data
• Demographic
• Industrial
• Livestock
• Irrigation Command boundaries
• Administrative boundaries
• Snow cover maps
Ancillary Information
• Crop area statistics
• Land Use Coefficients
• Available water capacity for soil type
• Root depth for crop type
• Specific yield maps
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SRTM Parameters
Parameter C - Band X - Band
Wavelength 5.6 cm 3.1 cm
Carrier 5.3 GHz 9.6 GHz
frequency
Polarisation dual VV
Swath width 225 km 50 km
Elevation step 1m 1m
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Terra Satellite
• Terra launched on 18-Dec-1999
• 16 day repeat cycle
• 705 km altitude, sun-synchronous
• ASTER sensor has nadir and
backward looking cameras in red
band
http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/
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CARTOSAT-1
• Cartosat-1 launched 05-May-2005
• 6018 km altitude, sun-
synchronous
• Carosat-1 has nadir and backward
looking cameras
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/data/download/i
ndex.php
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Digital Elevation Model: To derive drainage and basin and sub-basin boundaries
Drainage and basin and sub-basin boundaries of Brahmani-Baitarani basin
Min. Elevation = 1 m
Max. Elevation = 1176 m
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Developed using Multi-temporal AWiFS covering Kharif, Rabi and Zaid seasons
LCC projection and WGS84 datum
Can be downloaded from http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
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Developed by National
Bureau of Soil Survey and
Land Use Planning
(NBSS&LUP)
Soil map of 1:250 k scale
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Rainfall Data
Temperature Data
Demographic Data
Administrative Boundaries
River Discharges
Industrial Data
http://www.nddb.org/English/Statistics/Pages/Population-India-Species.aspx
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Root Depth