NEHARI, NIH, NESAC, and IIT-G join hands to impart flood management

GUWAHATI: The North Eastern Hydraulic and Allied Research Institute (NEHARI), an arm of the Brahmaputra Board, organized a five-day training workshop from May 8 to May 12 on “Use of Geospatial Technologies in Flood Management and Erosion Control” in association with the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH). The training workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Anil Kumar Lohani, Scientist ‘G’ and Head, Surface Water Hydrology Division (NIH), alongside Dr. Manoranjan Kalita, Director, School of Technology, ADBU, and Er. Ranjit Deka, Director, NEHARI.

The course of the programme was tailored to fit officers of government departments related to the water resources sector serving in the North Eastern Region (NER). This training workshop was designed with a view to impart know-how on flood management and erosion control measures using geospatial technologies, covering important topics such as Google Earth Engine, QGIS, and DEM processing, catchment delineation using DEM-I and DEM-II, remote sensing and hydrodynamic modelling applications of HEC-HMS, integration of space technology with ground-based data, the Flood Early Warning System, LULC mapping, and flood inundation mapping, along with other subjects pertaining to the use of geospatial technology in flood management and erosion control in the North Eastern Region.

A total of 24 government officials serving in the North Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura have participated in the training workshop. Faculty from NIH Roorkee: Dr. Anil Kumar Lohani, Dr. L.N. Thakural, and NIH Guwahati Dr. Rahul Singh, NESAC Dr. Diganta Barman, and Dr. Arjun B. M., a professor from IIT-Guwahati, Dr. Rajib Bhattacharjya, and experts from NEHARI and the Brahmaputra Board contributed as resource persons in this training workshop. A total of 21 lectures, including a field lecture, were delivered by the faculty members in this training workshop, stated a press release.

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