NRSC - Factsheet A - 13 (Jan, 2014)

National Remote Sensing Centre

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National Database for Emergency Management

National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM) is conceived as a GIS based repository of data to
support disaster/emergency management in the country. The database enables development of decision
support system in the form of customized user interfaces with necessary security mechanisms.
Objectives

Organisation of multi-scale geo-spatial database for disaster/emergency management

Development of Decision support (DSS) tools for addressing disaster/emergency management
Mirroring/Replica of databases at MHA with suitable access/security mechanism
NDEM Concept
Hyderabad

Integrated Database

Customized Decision Support Tools

Event reporting
Integrated SMS based mobile solution enabling
authenticated users to report disaster events for
visualization and analysis of the event is developed
Relief Management Application
Mobile application integrated with web GIS is
developed for relief management
Collects georeferenced information from disaster
location with field photographs
Information is uploaded in real time on web portal for
visualization & acknowledgement sent to the user

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Indian Railway Accident Management Application

Android mobile application for reporting the first
hand information from the accident site along with
the photographs for assessing the cause and scenario
of the accident in GIS environment is developed

Application for Generation of Geospatial Datasets

Mobile application for locating & adding attribute
information of essential amenities with aid of online
maps and retrieval of information at the time of
emergencies

SECR ZONE

Information Dissemination Through Secured Satellite based Virtual Private Network (VPN)
State wise value added information products derived from Satellite datasets on disasters are organized in
NDEM Portal and enabled access to respective State Governments through ISRO-DMS-VPN secured
network. Data sets of recent disaster events are disseminated to following States.
Uttarakhand disaster : Uttarakhand
Flood event: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

Assam page

Uttarakhand page

NDEM Infrastructure
Exclusive NDEM facility is established at Shadnagar in a secured environment with necessary
computer infrastructure.

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