Saturday 1 April 2017

Shoreline Mapping


Ministry of Earth Science29-March, 2017 18:23 IST
Shoreline Mapping
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has assessed shoreline change using the satellite data acquired during 1972-2000 in order to calculate the shoreline change rate. Shoreline change rate is one of the input parameters to calculate the coastal vulnerability index along the Indian coast.

This work was carried out during the period 2007-2009 at INCOIS using the satellite data acquired during 1972-2000, State wise shoreline change rate calculated at 1:100000 scale are given below

State
Length (km)*
Erosion
No change
Accretion
Total
Gujarat
933
650
573
2156
Maharashtra
309
518
114
941
Goa
43
131
19
193
Karnataka
67
229
39
334
Kerala
205
322
93
621
Tamil Nadu
286
489
159
934
Andhra Pradesh
185
473
430
1087
Orissa
153
220
125
498

West Bengal
863
750
314
1927
Lakshadweep
30
98
24
152
Andaman
366
1573
511
2449
Nicobar
286
200
317
803










Satellite data were taken from open source Landsat of USA and Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite of India data available at INCOIS from other projects were used; hence no expenditure was incurred towards data specific to this work.

This information was given by Minister of State for Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences Shri Y.S.Chowdhary in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 
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(Release ID :160174)

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