Abstract:
Dams and diversion are built in India for
meeting needs of water and energy. Due to variability of
monsoon in space and time, precipitation falls short or
exceeds causing in extreme cases drought and floods
respectively. Water resource planners and engineers
need information on dams and diversion. Drought
information is needed in disaster management. For
dissemination of these spatial data,Web GIS technology
can be utilized, which is amalgamation of several
information technologies. For Web GIS application, a
high end, powerful and open source software, namely
Mapserver is available. The software is CGI technology
based. An application on dams and drought information
for India is conceptualized using Mapserver. It is
planned to write the application by modifying available
tutorial. This will require writing DHTML pages,
writing logic, using available libraries etc. Separate
DHTML pages will be written for dam and drought
applications. For dam application pages will be written
for storage, hydropower and all dams. The drought
application will provide maps of rainfall over districts
for different SPI and time scales.
