INCOIS Maps Indian Coastal Vulnerability

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New Delhi (ABC Live): INCOIS :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.