CSR Geomatics Description of Activity / Research / Project |
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AVF |
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FAMC |
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Talam |
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Topographic Survey of Auroville City Area: Matrimandir entire compound, Residential Zone Sector 1 completed, Sector 2 ongoing |
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Topographic Survey of specific projects area: Vibrance, Wasteless, Cultural Zone along the Crown Road, Baraka, Gardens of Unexpected |
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Collective wastewater treatment systems health check-up survey: 68 plants evaluated |
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Manual weekly monitoring of water level in selected wells on Auroville land on approximately 50 wells (number fluctuates depending on local conditions) |
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Collection of rainfall data through manual raingauges distributed to Aurovilians: data received regularly from at least 7 raingauges |
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Collection of weather data through automatic weather station installed at CSR, Sunshine and Kalpana: data collected every minute, stored in the database, and published online in real time |
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Collaboration with Land Board for survey of identified land boundary stones: collection of coordinates of Government boundary stones for georeferencing of cadastral maps |
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Collaboration with AV Foundation for compilation of land ownership map: geographic land records as provided by AV Foundation, protected by login access |
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Collaboration with L’avenir d’Auroville for data sharing and coordinated system set-up: organisation of geographic data for unique online platform to enhance planning processes (initial stage) |
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Collaboration with L’avenir d’Auroville and FAMC for database links: structural work on procedures for linking databases already existing with various agencies |
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Study of application of drone topographic survey in Auroville context: pilot test conducted on Residential Zone with outside drone survey agency |
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Study of open source software for drone topographic survey: testing of softwares like OpenDroneMap, MeshLab, CloudeCompare to evaluate work flow, processes and limitations |
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Surface water modelling: research on evaluation of surface water collection potential through automatic processing of field data |
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Collaboration with TALAM on research on radio-transmission for automatic wells level monitoring (ongoing) and water flowmeters: evaluation of application of radio-transmitted signals for water-related monitoring and metering (selected borewells, flow meters) |
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Organisation of data collected in Auroville in the past (ongoing): standardisation of data in geospatial database |
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Provision for basic statistical analyses of geographic-related data (indicators/dashboard) |
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Publication of collected data in standardised format on web portal gis.auroville.org.in |
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