INCOIS Services,

Disseminati on Mechanisms
and Roadmap

Balakrishnan Nair & Team

INCOIS
The Mission of INCOIS
To provide the Ocean Information and Advisory
Services to Society, Industry, Government
Agencies and Scientific Community through
Sustained Ocean Observations and Constant
improvements through Systematic and Focussed
Research.
Services from INCOIS
• Marine Fishery
Livelihood Advisories
• Tuna Advisories

• Ocean State Forecast

• Tsunami
Safety • Storm/Wave surge
• High Waves
Customized Hindcast/forecast and
Geospatial Services
• Port and Harbours
Blue Economy• Shipping
• Oil and Gas
• Offshore Industry & tourism
• Coast Guard/Navy
 Scientific Know-How for
Societal Benefit
• To address the livelihood and the safety of sea farmers
– Livelihood
• Effective harvesting of fish which are dwindling resources in nature
• Reducing the time for searching of the fish shoals
• Enhance the probability of getting better catches
– Safety
• Understand the state of the Ocean and plan
• Venture to Sea or not
• Plan the fishing operations (navigation path, direction of casting the nets)
– Blue Economy Growth
• Customized forecast , hindcast and geospatial services to coastal and Offshore
industries ..
• Information effectiveness
– Right information and Timely
 Marine Fishery Advisory Service
Mission: Increased User Base
Generation (More than Three Lakh Users)
To make the Potential Fishing Zone
advisories as part of the value chain of
fishing community

Dissemination

User Interaction/ Awareness

Validation &
Feedbacks
PFZ Map
& Text

R & D for Improvement:

Tagging of Tuna
Success Rate: ~ 80%
Net Profit: 03 – 04 times
Less Searching Time: 30 to 70%
Total Annual Net income due to use
of PFZ could be Rs.34,000 to Rs.
Species-specific 50,000 Crore - NCAER
Advisories for Tuna
Benefits
A fishing village of 32 fishing boats in
Raigad Dt., Maharashtra could save
70,000 litres of diesel in a month
which cuts down of 150000 kg of CO2
(@ 2.7 kg/l) emission – National
Agricultural Innovation
Project(NAIP), ICAR
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Global
Global Forecast
Regional
Forecast
Regional –– 7
Coastal
7 Regions
Regions General Forecast Products
The 45 User specified products were designed, validated and
•• Coastal – 9 Coastal
– 9 Coastal states
states of
of
India
India operationalised during 12 Plan
•• Island
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Lakshadweep
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Coast of
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High wave/swell/bulletins
wave/swell/bulletins
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• Forecast along ship-track
• Eddy Forecasts
• OSF for Neighbouring
countries through RIMES
• Navy specific forecast
products
• OSF Web Map Services
• Sea State Forecast for ports
and Harbours
• Online Oil spill advisories
(OOSA)
• Search and Rescue Aid Tool
(SARAT)
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 Tsunami Early Warning System
Detection Warnings Dissemination

Bathymetry

VSAT
Seismic Network
TSUNAMI
WARNINGS!!!

INSAT Capacity Building

Tsunami Modelling

BPR Network
GPRS

Topography

R&D

INMARSAT

Tide gauge Network Costal Vulnerability

Observation Networks Communications Simulations Last mile connectivity
Dissemination Mechanisms
Telephone /  Real time access to information
SMS
Fax  Advantages:
Voice Call
Web and Email – Save lives by providing timely Ocean state
information to survive dangers in high seas
– Minimize risks by providing disaster alerts in
EDB Radio advance for high waves and tsunami
– Enhance livelihoods by providing real time
data on fish colony, species specific forecast
User
Television with GPS coordinates
Community – Indicate to them when they are nearing or
crossing International Waters

Increase in Self-esteem,
FFMA Safety (two major incidents
highlighted)
Helpline
Village
Information Social Reduction in Diesel,
Centers mKRISHI Carbon Credit
IVRS
Economic Impact Environmental
Partners / Service Providers:
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Upto 50% Cost saving
(MSSRF), Reliance Foundation, Handygo, (diesel, labor), Subsidy Research
IKSL, RegPoint, Community Radios, AIR,
FM Radios, PMSSS, TMSSS, etc. Feedback based model
innovation
 Incois In-house Android App

Registration

Welcome Screen
Download Map

•Available in Google Play Store Text

In-house SMS Templates
•Initiated from Mar 2015 in all Coastal
Languages

•Total 9,80,974 SMS successfully

delivered to 88,000 users
High Wave Warning & Joint INCOIS-IMD Bulletins
 Sno From Mode of Dissemination No. of Users

SMS 88,788
EDB 99
1. INCOIS
Mobile app 500

E-mail 525

Web Users 5689

Help Line 44252

Audio Advisory 16305

2. MSSRF
Text SMS 712

FFMA 6271

EDB 27000

Whats apps 991

Mobile Based Advisories 1,91,242

3. Reliance Foundation Print & Electronic Media 7,827

Bulletins 50,765

Toll Free Help Line 28,114

4. IFFCO Kisan Marine Fishermen 1,22,929

Mobile App 1.6 lakhs downloads

 The User Growth

Estimated users  Growth from 18000 in 2006 to

through all modes ~2.5 lakhs in 2016
including FM, Radio,  Key role by Mobile based
TV, Local News, etc. dissemination methods
 Active catalyst role by NGO’s
and Partner institutes

Forecast along Ship Routes Webmap services Forecast for Ports Value added services Ship_route_registered Users
10000 Oill_Spill_registered Maldives Seychells Srilanka SARAT 1800000
Users for customized products

Total number of users

1600000

Total no of users/Reach
1400000
1000
1200000

1000000
100
800000

600000
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400000

200000

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2010 2011 2012
Years
2013 2014 2015 Jul_2016
 Near Future - Integrated Dissemination System
• Centralized Integrated Dissemination System features
– Multi Lingual SMS
– Voice Call / Audio Advisory
– Mobile Apps (User / Admin modules)
– Social Media
– Email
– GTS
– Fax
– Digital Display Boards with Satellite Connectivity and Solar Panels
(at 100 locations + 100 existing)
– Radio / Television broadcast units,
– IVRS,
Access to Various
– Cloud Channels Stakeholders (NGOs,
– GAGAN State Fishery
Departments, Disaster
– MINT Management
Detailed Presentation by Gaian Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Authorities, etc.
 Near Future - Integrated Dissemination System

• Tie-up with various stakeholders all along the

coastal locations
• Tie-up with other NGOs
• Tie-ups with State Fisheries Departments
• Tie-ups with SDMA and DDMA (Kerala,
Karnataka and West Bengal is active).

Access to Various
Reliable Stakeholders (NGOs,
Location Specific State Fishery
Impact Based Departments, Disaster
Management
products. Authorities, etc.
Thank you very much