ID: 64966
Title: Hidden risks of PV projects in India
Author: -(News)
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.3&4 Aug 16-16 (2018)
Subject: Hidden risks of PV projects in India
Keywords: PV Projects, India
Abstract: India's PV market is booming. However, climate conditions and downward pressure on prices have a substantial impact on the performance and quality of PV installations, a study has warned.
The report by the Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin [PI Berlin], commissioned by Germany's National Metrology Institute [PTB], advises investors and project developers to exercise particular caution with regard to the quality of PV components, technical know-how of technicians and proper maintenance practices in order to dodge the risks lurking the flourishing market.
Location: T E 15 New Biology building
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ID: 64965
Title: Compromise in Brussels
Author: Tim Altegor
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.3& 4 Aug 14-15 (2018)
Subject: Compromise in Brussels
Keywords: Compromise, Brussels, Renewable energy, efficiency
Abstract: May be Peter Altmaier just wasn't able to make the switch from Berlin-mode to Brussels-mode. When it comes to the energy transition, Germany's economics minister likes to talk up the problems, and the cost of clean energy is an issue especially close to his heart. In Germany this has long earned him a reputation as an opponent of the transition. But on 11 June Altmaier was acting in an international capacity.
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ID: 64964
Title: "Large power producers will have to adapt or disappear"
Author: -(Interview) Interviewed by Michael Hahn
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.3&4 Aug 11-13 (2018)
Subject: "Large power producers will have to adapt or disappear"
Keywords: Lare power producers, adapt, disappear
Abstract: new energy: Mr Sefcovic, You want to redesign the European energy market (see box) .At the same time, we are seeing developments such as Blockchain technology that are considered disruptive and have the potential to radically change the market. Do you worry that Blockchain could get in the way of your plans?
Maros Sefcovic: I don't think so. The technology is still relatively new. What I would say, I though, is that Blockchain is directly applicable to what we have in mind. I find it particularly interesting in terms of energy trading. When it comes to prosumers or trading between private citizens, Blockchain will be extremely helpful. The question is, how we make sure that every-thing runs smoothly, and that transmission lines are not overloded, for example?
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ID: 64963
Title: The new renewable energy directive and governance: a deal with a bittersweet taste
Author: Dorte Fouquet
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.3&4 Aug 6-7 (2018)
Subject: The new renewable energy directive and governance: a deal with a bittersweet taste
Keywords: New renewable energy, Directive and governance
Abstract: In the early hours of 14 June 2018, the lead negotiators of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council finally managed to conclude a deal on the future of renewable energies for the period from 2020 to 2030.The agreement reached by EU policymakers after one and a half years of legislative process includes a number of politically sensitive points. The commission's proposal, released in late 2016, was astoundingly unambitious from the start, due to negative guidance from the Council in 2015.
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ID: 64962
Title: An Overview of December 26, 2004 Tsunami Damages in Cuddalore Coastal Area of Tamil Nadu, India
Author: K Ayyappan, K Thiruvenkatasamy, T Arumugam, Ramesh P
Editor: P K Bhattacharya
Year: 2017
Publisher: Dr. Ajay Mathur
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: TIDEE Vol.16 (4) Dec 401-408 (2017)
Subject: An Overview of December 26, 2004 Tsunami Damages in Cuddalore Coastal Area of Tamil Nadu, India
Keywords: Tsunami, Damages, Overview, Disaster management, Cuddalore
Abstract: This article presents an overview of the damage caused by the tsunami on December 26, 2004, along the east coast of the Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu. The tsunami struck the Indian coast, along the Cuddalore coastal area where it severely damaged the buildings and properties of the coastal fishing communities. Damages included the large-scale destruction of houses, property, and compound walls; washed-away roads; uprooted electric poles; damages caused to boats and nets; the toss and drag of vehicles; damages of agricultural land; destruction of young coconut trees; loss of human lives; and livestock; and so on. In addition to analysing the damages, the article also evaluates their causes and the remedial measures to avoid these in the future.
Location: T E 15 New Biology building
Literature cited 1: Michael R. Motley et al. 2015.'Tsunami-Induced Forces on Skewed Bridges'. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, ASCE, ISSN 0733-950X.
Takashi Tomita et al. 2006. 'Damage Caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
on the Southwestern Coast of Sri Lanka'. Coastal Engineering Journal, World Scientific Publishing Company and Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2006) 99-116.
Literature cited 2: Iida, K, D C Cox, and Pararas-Carayannis, G. 1967. ‘Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean’, Report HIG-67-10, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.
Day, R W. 2002. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill.
ID: 64961
Title: Estimation of Extreme Storm Surge for the Chennai Coast using Delft3D
Author: K Thiruvenkatasamy and P Mohamed Rajab
Editor: P K Bhattacharya
Year: 2017
Publisher: Dr. Ajay Mathur
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: TIDEE Vol.16 (4) Dec 391-400 (2017)
Subject: Estimation of Extreme Storm Surge for the Chennai Coast using Delft3D
Keywords: Storm surge, Chennai coast, Delft 3D, Coatal disasters, Shallow water equations
Abstract: This study carried out a numerical modelling of storm surges for historical tropical cyclones that crossed the Chennai coat, the northern part of the coastline of Tamil Nadu, India. An extreme value analysis was made based on the peaks-over threshold 9POT) method to calculate extreme storm surge estimates for different return periods. The area's bathymetry was generated from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) sea-floor data derived from ETOP05(the earth's surface that integrates land topography and ocean bathymetry).Historical storm tracks in the vicinity of the study area were selected from the database. These storm tracks were used to generate temporally and spatially varying wind and pressure fields using the Holland method. Cyclones considered for the simulations are from a 35-year period, ranging from 1977 to 2012.Cyclones of significant intensity that occurred in the vicinity of Chennai were selected for modelling. The Delft 3D modelling software was used for the analysis .The domain considered for the study was generated on a rectilinear grid of size 540 x 670 km covering the coastline from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu to Diviseema in Andhra Pradesh with 1.35 km x 1.65 km as the size of each grid cell. The water level calculated by the Delft3D-FLOW module by solving the shallow water equations (SWEs) was extracted from the model over the entire domain at constant intervals and was monitored. The maximum surge in the water level at the Chennai coast was reported as the storm surge value for each cyclone. Results showed that Chennai is highly vulnerable to cyclones. A one-in-a-100-year cyclone can produce a storm surge of 1.0 m, which can pose severe hazards to the city, since the topography is very low. This study will assist officials in preparing for a disaster of this enormity.
Location: T E 15 New Biology building
Literature cited 1: http://ndma.gov.in/ndma/2008; last accessed on November 10, 2017.
Murty, T S, R A Flather, and R F Henry. 1986. ‘The Storm Surge Problem in the Bay of Bengal’. Progress in Oceanography 16: 195–233.
Literature cited 2: Siddiqui, Z A. 2009. ‘Storm Surge Forecasting for the Arabian Sea’. Marine Geodesy 32: 199–217
Pradeep, C, A K Bharadwaj, and D Thirumalaivasan. 2014. ‘Trends and Vulnerability to Cyclone Hazard along the East Coast of India’, in Disaster Management: Issues and Challenges, 1st ed., Easwari et al. (eds). Chennai: Semmodhai Pathippagam, pp. 1–15.
ID: 64960
Title: An Optimized QoS-based Multipath Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: ODeepa and Dr J Suguna
Editor: P K Bhattacharya
Year: 2017
Publisher: Dr. Ajay Mathur
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: TIDEE Vol.16 (3) Sep 263-278 (2017)
Subject: An Optimized QoS-based Multipath Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Keywords: Agricultural monitoring system, OQoS-MRP, Quality of service, Wireless sensor networks
Abstract: As the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) continue to evolve, it becomes more and more significant in our day-to-day lives. By using WSN technology and the basic principles of the Internet, designing an agricultural monitoring system (AMS) becomes important for improving agriculture in India. The AMS is low-power conservation with high precision, which can realize remote, real-time monitoring for unattended farmlands. WSNs are a promising approach used in AMS, but finding an optimal route discovery is more problematic due to dynamicity, heterogeneity, resource scarcity, and so on. The proposed optimized QoS-based multipath routing protocol (OQoS-MRP) for the WSNs in AMS is used to find near-optimal multi-hop communication path from sink to sensors for selecting the next hop neighbour nodes. The best case paths selection procedure is used for transferring data to sink. According to the QoS metrics, the performance of this communication protocol is evaluated and compared with the other existing protocols, namely, EE-LEACH and MRBCH. The simulation result shows that OQoS-MRP for the AMS achieves prominent data communication with reasonable energy conservation. It also reduces transmission delay and communication overhead on the basis of ensuring the outcome of the entire network.
Location: T E 15 New Biology building
Literature cited 1: Akyildiz, I F, Y W Su, Sankarasubramaniam, and E Cayirci. 2002. ‘Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey’. IEEE Communication Magazine 40(8): 102–114.
Romer, K and F Mattern. 2004. ‘The Design Space of Wireless Sensor Networks’. IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications 11(6): 54–61.
Literature cited 2: Akkaya, K and M Younis. 2005. ‘A Survey on Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks’. Elsevier Ad Hoc Network Journal 3(3): 325–349.
Yick, Jeniffer, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Dipak Ghosal. 2008. ‘Wireless Sensor Network Survey’. Computer Networks 52: 2292–2330.
ID: 64959
Title: Water complexities due potential of hydrogen (pH) in Lake waters of Kashmir Valley
Author: Dr. Parvaiz Ahmed Bhat
Editor: P K Bhattacharya
Year: 2017
Publisher: Dr. Ajay Mathur
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: TIDEE Vol.16 (3) Sep 257-262 (2017)
Subject: Water complexities due potential of hydrogen (pH) in Lake waters of Kashmir Valley
Keywords: Kashmir water lakes, Ligands, Metal ions, pH-metric studies, Glycine and cysteine
Abstract: The stability of heavy metal complexes cannot be accounted by a single factor, each is considered separately in terms of ligands or vice-versa, hence revealing that he stability constants show a large variation in values. The stability constants of heavy-metal complexes in the solution phase are generally considered as being stable or unstable, depending on the strength of the bond between heavy metal ion and ligands. The stability of a complex is very often expressed in terms of the stability constant, which is used to describe the equilibrium behavior of metal complexes. This paper studies the interacting behavior of the prototype heavy-metal ions and ligands as fund in the water bodies in the lake waters of the Kashmir Valley.
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Literature cited 1: Fritioff,A,L Kautsky, and M Greger, 2005.'Influence of Temperature and Salinity on Heavy Metal Uptake by Submerged Plants'. Environemtal Pollution 133: 265-74.
Crumrine, JP and A M Beeton.1975.'Limnology of Lakes, Ottawa National Forest Special Report Number 25, University of Wisconsin, the centre for Great Lake Studies.
Literature cited 2: Zutshi, DP and KK Vass.1978. Limnological Studies on Dal Lake'. Indian Journal of Ecology51:90-97.
Bjerrum, J. 1944,'Metal -amino formation in Aqueous Solution'. Copenhagen: p. Haase and Son.
ID: 64958
Title: 0.75 hp Solar water pumping systems as an irrigation option for small and marginal farmers
Author: Ram Chandra Pal, Manjushree Banerjee and Swarup Mallik
Editor: P K Bhattacharya
Year: 2017
Publisher: Dr. Ajay Mathur
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: TIDEE Vol.16 (3) Sep 253-256 (2017
Subject: 0.75 hp Solar water pumping systems as an irrigation option for small and marginal farmers
Keywords: Solar water pumping systems, Sprinklers, irrigation, Crops, Remote villages
Abstract: Only 36 % of the total cropped ae in India falls under irrigated land and the rest 64% is rainfed. According to the 2010/11 Cenus [1], out of 85% of the total farmer families, more than 67% belong to the marginal farmers and 18% to small farmers. Many times, the land is fragmented into 2-3 different patches. Irrigation is an important aspect in agriculture to improve agricultural productivity and reduced dependence on rains. Irrigation can be powered either by electricity or diesel, wherein the operational cost of diesel-based irrigation is much higher and also not very environmentally friendly. In this context, the introduction of solar-powered water pumping system is a good option in the remote areas where grid supply is either intermittent or not available at all. This article discusses the initiative where solar water pumps for irrigation were tested in small and marginal farms in Golaghat District.
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Literature cited 1: Census of India 2011.Office of the register General and Census Commissioners, India. Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi.
Demonstration of Solar Water Pumping Systems: Irrigation for Small and Marginal armers' for Livelihood Enhancement, TERI, report number: 2017CF28, December 2017.
Literature cited 2: State/District-wise Area, production, Price, and Value Often Major Crops in Assam from 2003/04 to 2012/13.
The report was prepared under the 13th Finance Commission Grant Commission, Government of Assam.
ID: 64957
Title: Charting Indo-US space cooperation
Author: Arup Dasgupta
Editor: Sanjay Kumar
Year: 2023
Publisher: Sanjay Kumar
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: Geospatial Artha Vol. 2 (4) Jul-Augst 2023 page No. 40-45 (23)
Subject: Charting Indo-US space cooperation
Keywords: Indo-US space cooperation
Abstract: Indian PM Modi's visit to the US, amid much fanfare and joint communiques on deepening space collaborations, coincided with India signing the US-led Artemis Accords, becoming the 27th country to join the non-binding agreement that prioritizes space sustainability and lunar light.
The official joint statement by President Biden and Prime Minister Modi, during the visit in June, talks about India and USA setting "a course to reach new frontiers across all sectors of space cooperation"
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ID: 64956
Title: Suhora space analytics simplified.
Author: -(Startup focus) interviewed by Sachin Awana
Editor: Sanjay Kumar
Year: 2023
Publisher: Sanjay Kumar
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: Geospatial Artha Vol. 2 (4) Jul-Augst 2023 page No. 38-39 (23)
Subject: Suhora space analytics simplified.
Keywords: Suhora ,space analytics
Abstract: The Noida-based company serves multiple industries and verticals, from renewable energies to forestry, and from agriculture to defense.
"We have a lot of users from different verticals. We also provide a lot of satellite data downstream processing, analytics and offer solutions to relevant customers. Our ultimate goal is to revolutionize how spatial data is utilized, enabling informed decision-making and positive impacts on a global scale", says Amit Kumar Co-founders & COO, Suhora, in an interview with Geospatial Artha.
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ID: 64955
Title: Unsmarting smart cities
Author: Nibedita Mohanta
Editor: Sanjay Kumar
Year: 2023
Publisher: Sanjay Kumar
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: Geospatial Artha Vol. 2 (4) Jul-Augst 2023 page No. 32-37 (23)
Subject: Unsmarting smart cities
Keywords: Smart cities
Abstract: It is estimated that by 2030 India will be home to 60cities with a population of more than 1 million and 6 megacities with a population of more than 10 million. Thus, will undoubtedly put a heavy burden on infrastructure and civic amenities.
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ID: 64954
Title: Improving water resources planning using spatial data
Author: -(Case study)
Editor: Sanjay Kumar
Year: 2023
Publisher: Sanjay Kumar
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: Geospatial Artha Vol. 2 (3) May-June 2023 page No. 50-50 (23)
Subject: Improving water resources planning using spatial data
Keywords: Improving water resources, spatial data
Abstract: The National Hydrology Project (NHP) was taken up by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of water resources, RD & GR, Govt. of India to improve the extent and accessibility of water resources information and strengthen institutional capacity to enable improved water resources planning and management across India. The focus was on establishing a sound hydrological database and information system and scientific tools for effective planning and management of water resources within each implementing agency.
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ID: 64953
Title: Modernizing land records for effective administration
Author: -(Case study)
Editor: Sanjay Kumar
Year: 2023
Publisher: Sanjay Kumar
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: Geospatial Artha Vol. 2 (3) May-June 2023 page No. 49-49 (23)
Subject: Modernizing land records for effective administration
Keywords: Modernizing land records,effective administration
Abstract: After going through several land record management system, India's administration has struggled with wide gapping loopholes, incomplete datasets, and a lack of standardized metrics for data collection.
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ID: 64952
Title: Improving urban liveability using geospatial technologies
Author: -(Case study)
Editor: Sanjay Kumar
Year: 2023
Publisher: Sanjay Kumar
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: Geospatial Artha Vol. 2 (3) May-June 2023 page No. 48-48 (23)
Subject: Improving urban liveability using geospatial technologies
Keywords: Urban liveability, geospatial technologies
Abstract: The smart Cities Mission aimed at driving financial development and improving citizen satisfaction through exhaustive work on the friendly, monetary, physical, and institution strengths of the city. The attention was on manageable and comprehensive advancement by the formation of replicable models.
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