Geomatics in Tsunami

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Tsunami - History, Mechanisms and Photogrammetry: 1. History of Tsunami/N. Rajendran. 2. The role of oscillations of the first and second class in Tsunami around Andaman and Nicobar Islands/T.S. Murty, N. Nirupama, I. Nistor and A.D. Rao. 3. Photogrammetry applications for Tsunami damage assessment/M. Dharma Raj. II. Tsunami - disaster assessment: 4. Indian Tsunami (2004): initiatives by NRDMS, Department of Science and Technology, India/R. Siva Kumar and Bhoop Singh. 5. S&T input: earthquake and Tsunami effects, Andaman Islands, India/Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Sanjoy Nag, Subrata B. Dutta, Susmita Dasgupta and Niladri Gupta. 6. Damage assessment and mapping of Tsunami affected areas in parts of Nellore Coast, India/K. Mruthyunjaya Reddy, A. Nageswara Rao, V. Raghu and A.V. Subba Rao. 7. Tsunami - 2004 damage assessment mapping, Chennai Region/M. Ramalingam, M. Kamaraj, K. Vaithiyanathan and R.M. Narayanan. 8. Damage assessment in the Tsunami affected Pondicherry - Cuddalore Coast, India/G.V. Rajamanickam, E. Saranathan, V. Rajeshkumar, Sujatha E. Ramani, D. Soosai Manickaraj, R. Chandrasekaran, K. Muthumeena, R. Mahesh, C. Sriramkumar, A. Rajarajeswari and V. Sathiskumar. 9. Geomatics in Tsunami damages, Nagapattinam Coast, India/S.M. Ramasamy, C.J. Kumanan, K. Palanivel, R. Selvakumar, V. Agastheeswaran, D. Sankar, Steny Thomas and J. Saravanavel. 10. Geospatial assessment of Tsunami 2004 damages along the Rocky Coast of Kanyakumar, India/N. Chandrasekar, J. Loveson Immanuel, M. Rajamanickam, J. Dajkumar Sahayam. D. Satheesh Herbert Singh and G.V. Rajamanickam. III. Tsunami - ecosystem: 11. Physico - chemical perturbation on coastal system by Tsunami events/A. Rajendran and R. Arthur James. 12. 26, December 2004 Great Tsunami: it's characteristic and coastal responses in Car Nicobar Island, India/Arun Kumar, R.K. Chingkhei and Bhoop Singh. 13. Reflection of boxing day Tsunami on coral reef ecosystem of India/L. Kannan, T. Thangaradjou and R. Sridhar. 14. Reflections of recent Tsunami on Mangrove ecosystem, Cuddalore Coast, India/V. Selvam. 15. Tsunami induced water quality changes in Buckingham Canal, Chennai region, India/Usha Natesan and S. Kalaivani. IV. Tsunami - relief and rehabilitation: 16. Syndrome of the Tsunami (2004) ravaged society - a microscopic view from Nagapattinam, India/C. Venkatachalam. 17. Tsunami: the citizen's perspective/T. Dhanapal. 18. Partners in action: NGOs in Tsunami relief and Rehab/Annie George. 19. The Tsunami disaster and Tamil Nadu's response, India/R. Santhanam. V. Tsunami - Fjord Provinces of Norway: 20. Landslide triggered Tsunami in Norway/S.M. Ramasamy, Bhoop Singh and R. Siva Kumar. Author Index.

"The Asian "Mega Tsunami" (2004) has struck most of the territorial nations of South Asia including the East Coast of India. The NRDMS Division, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, has conceived and executed an All India Co-ordinated Programme on "Tsunami Disaster Assessment and Mitigation" through various institutions of expertise on Geomatics in earth system dynamics and the related natural disasters. The Geomatics technology which includes Arial Photography, photogrammetry, satellite remote sensing, digital image processing, GPS surveys, GIS modeling etc. was used in this programme, geospatial data bases were created on Tsunami disasters over natural, physical and human resources, and futuristic mitigation strategies were evolved therefrom. The book illuminates the results of the studies carried out along the Indian Coast and a bird's eye view on the tsunami studies in Norway.

In addition, some special papers on the role of mangroves as Tsunami mitigator, impacts of Tsunami over marine water quality, coral ecosystem etc; the administrator's experience over the tsunami crisis management, NGO's perspective, certain societal issues triggered by the killer Tsunami and citizen's perspective, etc. also find a place in this volume.

Key features:

Covers topics on initiatives by NRDMS, Department of Science and Technology on Tsunami (2004).
Fine resolution Tsunami damage assessment on the natural, physical and human resources and baseline geospatial data for futuristic mitigation measures.
Impacts of Tsunami over the coastal ecosystem and crisis management.
Tsunami scenario in Norway.

A multi-disciplinary book adequately illustrated with satellite images, photographs and figures beneficial to: students, researchers, field level professionals and the administrators in the arenas of environment, coastal ecosystem, disasters, coastal vulnerability, remote sensing, GIS etc."