Remote Sensing and GIS Approach for Planning and Analysis of Storm Water Drainage System

Abstract

Floods are among the most destructive acts of nature. World-wide, flood causes damage to agriculture, houses and public utilities amount to billions of dollars each year in addition to the loss of precious human and cattle lives. India is no exception as far as floods are concerned. Severe floods occur almost every year in one part of the country or the other causing tremendous loss of life, large scale damage to property and untold misery to millions of people. In building sustainable and smart cities Storm water modeling and management is a challenging task in the proposed smart cities in India. Recent floods in urban areas in India and across the world have brought susceptibility and helplessness of Smart Cities to disasters into attention. Geospatial technologies can help cities to prepare and mitigate the impacts of floods—as they design and build the smart systems. While storm water modeling with GIS can help ULB’s exercise caution in mitigate the risk, it also offers a huge potential for development of the area. It is now important that Disaster planning, Modeling and Mitigation are closely interrelated with sustainable development of the smart cities. Using RS and GIS technology cities can evaluate potential risks in future. With the use of RS images and GIS technology the required information for flood analysis can be developed in the form of spatial and non-spatial database.