A Real-Time Decision Support System for River Basin Management

Abstract

The applications of computer technology to analysis of the rainfall-runoff process and the hydrological dynamics of natural rivers have greatly expanded in the past few years. A large number of general purpose programs and a few programs designed for specific application have been developed and applied to hydrologic engineering problems. This paper briefly describes the study of climate change effects on the hydrological dynamics of the Satluj and Beas river system using computer models like HEC- RTS (Hydrologic Engineering Center- Real Time Simulation). It also presents the use of real time data collection and processing on a GIS platform so as to derive a real time decision support system.