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How Sustainable are the Global Goals?
Sustainable Development Goals, alternatively known as Global Goals or the Global Agenda for 2030, would soon complete three years. These goals are set on a mission of wider inclusivity.
The ‘Act East’ Policy and the Upliftment of the Northeast
The Indian government, through its Act East Policy, is committed to improve its relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) through market operations. The northeastern states...
Migration and Citizenship in India: The Assam Crisis
Assam is the first state in the country where the National Register for Citizens has been re-prepared after 1951, on the basis of legacy data from the 1971 electoral rolls. Tracing back to such antiqu...
GIS Models to Measure Soil Erosion Risk
Soil erosion is the removal of the top layer by natural agents. However, deforestation, overgrazing and infrastructural development accelerate soil erosion. As soil is a critical natural resource, the...
GIS for River Floods
Flood is a complex outcome of an interface between geological, physiographical, hydrological, meteorological and anthropogenic dynamics. It mandates high computational techniques for the analysis of a...
New Techniques to Avoid a Kerala Like Disaster
Kerala has witnessed one of the most devastating floods in history. Many lives and livelihoods were lost in just a few days. To reduce future occurrences and the impact of such calamities, it is impor...
Kailasavadivoo Sivan | Space based information on floods played a major role in saving thousands of lives during Kerala floods
Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation speaks with G’nY on the importance of geospatial technology in combating natural disasters like floods.
g-Governance in India
g-Governance can be described as a geospatial plugin to e-Governance, acting as an extended module with the additional functionality of geospatial technology. The article explains the genesis and geos...
Geospatial Technology for Monitoring Natural Resources
Natural resources are depleting rapidly impacting development. The availability of time series Earth observation data assists the investigation of spatial patterns of different natural resources and t...