GIS

h1. %{color:BLUE}  Collaborations%

|_.CSR Geomatics Description of Activity / Research / Project|_.AA|_.AVF|_.LB|_.FAMC|_.WG|_.CSR|_.Talam|_.DST|

|Topographic Survey of Auroville City Area: Matrimandir entire compound, Residential Zone Sector 1 completed, Sector 2 ongoing|yes|||||||yes|

|Topographic Survey of specific projects area: Vibrance, Wasteless, Cultural Zone along the Crown Road, Baraka, Gardens of Unexpected |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

| Collective wastewater treatment systems health check-up survey: 68 plants evaluated | yes |  |  |  | yes | yes |  | yes |

| Manual weekly monitoring of water level in selected wells on Auroville land on approximately 50 wells (number fluctuates depending on local conditions) | yes |  |  |  | yes |  |  | yes |

| Collection of rainfall data through manual raingauges distributed to Aurovilians: data received regularly from at least 7 raingauges |  |  |  |  | yes |  |  | yes |

| 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 |  |  |  |  | yes | yes |  | yes |

| Collaboration with Land Board for survey of identified land boundary stones: collection of coordinates of Government boundary stones for georeferencing of cadastral maps |  | yes | yes |  |  |  |  |  |

| Collaboration with AV Foundation for compilation of land ownership map: geographic land records as provided by AV Foundation, protected by login access |  | yes |  |  |  |  |  |  |

| 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) | yes |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

| Collaboration with L’avenir d’Auroville and FAMC for database links: structural work on procedures for linking databases already existing with various agencies | yes |  |  | yes |  |  |  |  |

| Study of application of drone topographic survey in Auroville context: pilot test conducted on Residential Zone with outside drone survey agency | yes |  |  |  |  | yes |  | yes |

| Study of open source software for drone topographic survey: testing of softwares like OpenDroneMap, MeshLab, CloudeCompare to evaluate work flow, processes and limitations |  |  |  |  |  | yes |  | yes |

| Surface water modelling: research on evaluation of surface water collection potential through automatic processing of field data |  |  |  |  |  | yes |  | yes |

| 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) |  |  |  |  |  |  | yes | yes |

| Organisation of data collected in Auroville in the past (ongoing): standardisation of data in geospatial database |  |  |  |  |  | yes |  |  |

| Provision for basic statistical analyses of geographic-related data (indicators/dashboard) |  |  |  |  |  | yes |  | yes |

| Publication of collected data in standardised format on web portal gis.auroville.org.in |  |  |  |  |  | yes |  | yes |

* AA : L'avenir d'Auroville

* AVF : Auroville Foundation

* LB : Auroville Land Board

* FAMC : Auroville Funds and Assets Management Committee

* WG : Auroville Water Group

* CSR : Auroville Centre for Scientific Research

* TALAM : a project under CSR

* DST : Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi