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The dense fabric and the complex infrastructural arrangement in urban areas owing to the high

population calls for data-informed disaster risk management and planning. The role of geospatial

mapping, thus, is being globally increased in managing urban risks. The mapping tools enable the

spatial representation of the demographics and its relationship to natural and built environments

strengthening the planning capabilities of cities in all spheres. The geospatial mapping is also

applied in various aspects of public health like that of disease surveillance, spatial epidemiology,

child immunization tracking and health policy research. The application of geospatial mapping in

public health could be traced back to 1854 when the water source responsible for the cholera

outbreak in London was identified using Geographical Information System (GIS) by an English

Physician John Snow. The incorporation of geospatial mapping in the present context of COVID-

19 pandemic outbreak has become remarkably significant in several aspects like contact tracing,

online shopping and retailing, remote monitoring and operation of supply chains, etc. However,

the pandemic has also shed light on the inefficacies of geospatial mapping in the present time like

that of lack of databases of socio-economic parameters, disaggregated demographic data,

infrastructure benchmarking and informal sector records, among others. The situation beckons for

collaboration of academic and research institutes with government agencies to develop dynamic

and disaggregated geospatial databases.

In this context, National Institute of Disaster Management organising a Webinar on “Role of

Geospatial Mapping in managing Pandemic: Applications and Interventions for Resilience”

on 28th July 2:00 – 4:00 pm to bring together all the stakeholders including academic and research

institutes, geospatial experts, policymakers, technocrats, government agencies and budding

professionals to chart actions for addressing the existing lacunae and further advancements. The

webinar was initiated by a brief overview by Dr. Chandrani Bandyopadhyay Neogi, Assistant

Professor, NIDM. Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal, VSM, Executive Director, NIDM graced

the webinar with his keynote address followed by sessions by eminent speakers including Dr. P.K.

Champati Ray, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun; Dr. Balamurugan Guru,

Central University of Tamil Nadu and Prof. Kamal Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

(IIT-R). The technical sessions were followed by an open-house discussion addressing the queries

of the participants. Ms. Mohana Manna, Young Professional, NIDM moderated the webinar.

Around 171 participants attended the webinar throughout while around 250 participants joined.

The detailed list of the attendants has been annexed herewith.

Dr. Chandrani Bandyopadhyay Neogi set the webinar in motion with a warm welcome to all the

eminent speakers and participants and a brief overview of the programme. She emphasized on the

growing need of geospatial technology in urban risk mitigation along with other developmental

projects. She further accentuated that the geospatial mapping acts as aid to decision-informative

planning reducing the risks and vulnerabilities in an urban context.

Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal highlighted the importance of geospatial mapping in

managing pandemic and in overall public health. He highlighted the initiatives taken by

Government of India that are based on geospatial mapping such as the launch of Aarogya Setu

App for contact tracing. He also pointed out on the existing gap and the lacunae that has raised

challenges during the pandemic. He stressed that with the unlocking of the pandemic-induced

lockdowns across the country, the unavailability of micro-level data has become a major hindrance

to analyse the trend of contamination and impact assessment at the community level.

Dr. P.K. Champati Ray during his session presented on “Geospatial technology: Vulnerability

and risk Assessment”. He covered various aspects of incorporating geospatial technology for

assessment of vulnerability and risks varying from regional to household level. He also delivered

the key methodology that needs to be followed for risk assessment at any level. He also shared

various studies carried out for management of COVID-19 pandemic incorporating geospatial

mapping. He also shed light on several applications and future interventions that can be carried

out for geospatial mapping.

Dr. Balamurugan Guru focused on the role of geospatial mapping in urban public health. He

pointed out the several opportunities for future interventions that must be carried out to strengthen

public health in general. He further discussed several health hazards and how geospatial mapping

can be used for managing risks related to them by citing various case studies. He also discussed

tracing of several communicable diseases using geospatial technology in national as well as global

context. He concluded his session by citing the barriers in mainstreaming geospatial mapping due

to unavailability of data.

Prof. Kamal Jain discussed about several techniques of mapping urban information. He discussed

about various techniques of data collection at micro-level using remote sensing, Unmanned Aerial

Vehicles (UAVs), etc. He also spoke about the different techniques of mapping the raw data

collected and the ways of analysing them. He also shared the applications of data collection

techniques in the present context of pandemic outbreak. Further, he shared a case study analysing

the impact of lockdown and the level of contamination in any particular area.

Key takeaways

Geospatial mapping serves as the foundation for assessing and managing hazards and risks in

urban areas. Various applications of geospatial technology in the field of disaster risk management

have been discussed during the webinar. The webinar also highlighted the opportunities and

challenges in the present context that needs to be worked upon. Some of the major takeaways are

as follows:

Availability of high-resolution spatial data needs to be ensured without comprising the

national security.

Need for capacity building for application of geospatial technology in departments and

authorities related to developmental projects.

Collaboration between medical professionals and spatial scientists needs to be abridged for

improvement of public health scenario.

Data records needs to be maintained uniformly across the nation for effective analysis.

Privacy issues and spatial aggregation needs to be looked after.

Internet based geospatial mapping should also be mainstreamed for ease of use and

accessibility.

Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for collection and mapping of data at micro-

level.

Need for developing disaggregated database at micro-levels for impact assessment of

disasters like that of the ongoing pandemic.

Photographs

Presentations

List of Participants

S.N. Name Email Duration

1 Abby Varghese abby.varghese59@gmail.com 79 mins

2 Adrija Raha adrijaraha1997@gmail.com 120 mins

3 Ahana Mukherjee mukherjeeahana58@gmail.com 117 mins

4 Ajay Rautela ajay1234rautela@gmail.com 139 mins

5 AJAY SINGH MANAWAT ajaysinghmanawat@gmail.com 134 mins

6 Akash Biswas aakashbiswas17@gmail.com 113 mins

7 Akshay Bajaj akshaybajaj04@gmail.com 119 mins

8 Akshay Jyoti Medhi akshayjyotimedhi831@gmail.com 123 mins

9 Alen Mariyam Thomas alenmariyamthomas95@gmail.com 123 mins

10 AMRITA BANERJEE amrita.banerjee16@yahoo.com 128 mins

11 Anasua Chakraborty chakraborty.anasua97@gmail.com 115 mins

12 Anirban Halder anirbanhalder77@gmail.com 110 mins

13 Anis Aayub Bagwan anisbagwan7@gmail.com 111 mins

14 Anita Singh asingh581989@gmail.com 92 mins

15 Anjali Vijayan anjalivijayan.geo@gmail.com 130 mins

16 Anumita Mondal anumitamondal09@gmail.com 94 mins

17 Anumol Sajeev anusajeev1997@gmail.com 113 mins

18 Anup Kumar Dey akrdey1997@gmail.com 121 mins

19 Anurupa Saha anurupa9635@gmail.com 85 mins

20 Aravindh Mahez aravindhmahez@gmail.com 100 mins

21 Aravinth R aravinthraja662891@gmail.com 113 mins

22 Arnab Borgohain nickborgohain@gmail.com 81 mins

23 Arumugam Jothibasu ajbasu.a09@gmail.com 79 mins

24 Arun Kumar hi.arun143@gmail.com 73 mins

25 Arvind Chauhan arvindchauhan.chauhan081@gmail.com 131 mins

26 Ashish Kumar Vijay ashishvj087@gmail.com 103 mins

27 Ashish Mishra 95ashishmishra@gmail.com 110 mins

28 Atul Kumar akumar5@ar.iitr.ac.in 122 mins

29 Avtar Singh rajdhaniscoutgroup@gmail.com 80 mins

30 Ayush Tiwari ayushnt7@gmail.com 74 mins

31 Bankim Mahanta bankim42mahanta@gmail.com 117 mins

32 Bhagyashree Das bhagyasbreedas343@gmail.com 84 mins

33 Bhumika Rai vumeekarai98@gmail.com 96 mins

34 Bomli Ngucho lendokanyir@gmail.com 131 mins

35 Bubul Kalita bubulkalita99@gmail.com 117 mins

36 Chandra Kant Pawe chktpawe@gmail.com 109 mins

37 CHIRAG ROHILLA chirag191091@gmail.com 97 mins

38 Chittimala Nagaraju chittimalanagaraju@gmail.com 132 mins

39 Colins Johnny J colinsjohnny@gmail.com 93 mins

40 D.Prasamita Sarkar prasamita_geo@rediffmail.com 103 mins

41 Daisy Moni Borah daisy20borah@gmail.com 134 mins

42 DEBOLINA SARKAR debolina.95.12@gmail.com 103 mins

43 Deshmukh Nilam Dnyaneshwar deshmukhnilam72@gmail.com 77 mins

44 Dibas Mandal mandal.dibas123@gmail.com 77 mins

45 Dilbhag dilbhag1986@gmail.com 119 mins

46 DIPIKA MONDAL dipikamondal680@gmail.com 121 mins

47 Dr Neha Sharma neha7green@gmail.com 117 mins

48 Dr Paramesha J R ati.cdm.jrp@gmail.com 107 mins

49 Dr RAGHAVENDRA M raghu.envi@gmail.com 127 mins

50 Dr. Droupti Yadav droupti.yadav@gmail.com 118 mins

51 Dr. G. JEYABAL geojayam@gmail.com 205 mins

52 Dr. Pallvi Sharma pallavisharmammkk@gmail.com 104 mins

53 Dr. Rajendra Parmar parmarro10@gmail.com 130 mins

54 Dr. Ravibabu mvravibabu.nird@gov.in 130 mins

55 Dr.Damodar Panda damodar_65@rediffmail.com 82 mins

56 Dr.K.ARUNA KUMARI drkolisettiaruna@gmail.com 127 mins

57 Durlove Jyoti Borah durlove3@gmail.com 111 mins

58 Ebormi S Langshiang lyngchiangbormi@gmail.com 128 mins

59 FALGUNI BAG falgunibag@gmail.com 92 mins

60 Garima in.garimakhera@gmail.com 90 mins

61 Gaurav Tiwari gauravgeo.gis@gmail.com 219 mins

62 Gitima Pathak gitima.pathak@gmail.com 122 mins

63 GOPAL LAL MEENA gopal92udawat@gmail.com 128 mins

64 Gurdeep Singh Bagga gurdeep.chat@gmail.com 105 mins

65 Gurmeet Singh gurmeetjnu1987@gmail.com 126 mins

66 Harbakhash Singh hs.civildefence@gmail.com 126 mins

67 Harshita harshita1205@gmail.com 146 mins

68 Himadri Dutta himadri.dt@gmail.com 73 mins

69 IFTIKHAR BEIGH beighiftikhars@gmail.com 117 mins

70 Iksha Singh iksha0522@gmail.com 136 mins

71 Ila Gupta ilagupta123@gmail.com 91 mins

72 Inbarasan K G inba.science09@gmail.com 112 mins

73 Indrajit Mondal indrajitmondal24@gmail.com 103 mins

74 IRFAN AHMAD BHAT bhatirfan9798@gmail.com 124 mins

75 JAS RAJ jasraj1113@gmail.com 80 mins

76 Jhantu Dey jhantudey46@gmail.com 107 mins

77 K. Karthika kalaivanankarthika661@gmail.com 89 mins

78 K. VASUDEVAN skvasu1969@gmail.com 83 mins

79 K.NAGARAJAN nagarajan22563@gmail.com 95 mins

80 Kavita Choudhary kavitachoudhary52090@gmail.com 121 mins

81 Kavya Jeevan kavyajeevan996@gmail.com 125 mins

82 KRISHNA DAS pragkrishna@gmail.com 122 mins

83 KUMANAN. S skmn2015@gmail.com 107 mins

84 Kundan Kunwar Chouhan happybitton@gmail.com 219 mins

85 LAKSHMI NARAYANA NAGISETTY grcnln@gmail.com 118 mins

86 Lakshya Yog lakshyajnv@gmail.com 95 mins

87 Lokesh Kanth lokeshkaanth@gmail.com 111 mins

88 M Baharuddin Shah starbahar@gmail.com 87 mins

89 Madhavan Dhanabalan kdmadhavan@gmail.com 119 mins

90 MADHUMANTI SARKAR madhumantisarkar@gmail.com 115 mins

91 Madhurima Purkait purkaitmadhurima97@gmail.com 117 mins

92 Mamta Pandey mamtapandeyntl084@gmail.com 119 min

93 MANISH Kr GUPTA mkumar.kth@gmail.com 128 mins

94 Manmeet Singh Arora manmeet_singh2006@yahoo.com 111 mins

95 Manoj Jangir jangidmanoj513@gmail.com 121 mins

96 Manoj Kumar Patley mpatley7@gmail.com 90 mins

97 Mijanur Ansary mijanuransary@outlook.com 122 mins

98 Mohammad Saleem msaleem@jmi.ac.in 108 mins

99 MOHAMMED SALIM S mattursalim786@gmail.com 75 mins

100 Mohd Waseem md.waseem0106@gmail.com 112 mins

101 MR. SRIRAMAN.K sriramaniyer.k@gmail.com 88 mins

102 Mukesh Kumar Saubhagya mukesh_saubhagya124@rediffmail.com 112 mins

103 Navdeep singh navdeepdcd@gmail.com 90 mins

104 Nitin Rathi sudhadevinitin@gmail.com 115 mins

105 Onkar Puri onkarnath.puri@gmail.com 122 mins

106 Perminder Singh perminder035@gmail.com 128 mins

107 Pradosh Ranjan Jena jenapradosh29@gmail.com 139 mins

108 Prashant Goklani prashantgokhlani@gmail.com 109 mins

109 PRASHANT JOGI prashantjogi126@gmail.com 90 mins

110 Pratik Chaturvedi pratik.pratikchaturvedi@gmail.com 111 mins

111 Pratik Deb deb.pratik26@gmail.com 108 mins

112 PRITAM BANIK banikpritambdn@gmail.com 114 mins

113 Pritipadmaja pritipadmaja@ce.iitr.ac.in 110 mins

114 Priyanka Das priyankadas7991@gmail.com 109 mins

115 PRIYANKA GHOSH pinkagenius@gmail.com 106 mins

116 Prof.S.Anbazhagan anbu02@periyaruniversity.ac.in 117 mins

117 Rahul Pandit rahulpanditdrr@gmail.com 91 mins

118 Rajan Kumar rajan.sharmanov1991@gmail.com 131 mins

119 Rajdeep Deb rajdeepdeb21@gmail.com 117 mins

120 RAJU GHOSH rjpraan@gmail.com 105 mins

121 Raju Roy rajulive24@gmail.com 125 mins

122 Ramamohanarao ramceinsys@gmail.com 124 mins

123 Ramesh Veerappan rameshremote@gmail.com 110 mins

124 Ravi Prakash Verma raviverma45and@gmail.com 100 mins

125 Rinku Nag Biswas vu2jfb@gmail.com 74 mins

126 Rohan Mark rohanmark@live.com 132 mins

127 Rolland Andrade rollandandrade@gmail.com 124 mins

128 Sagar Valanju sagarvalanju10@gmail.com 121 mins

129 Sai Kiran saikiran959@gmail.com 128 mins

130 Sangita Sarangi genuine.282@gmail.com 124 mins

131 Sanith Jeffrey sanithjeffrey641@gmail.com 83 mins

132 Sanjib Das sanjibdas.1503@gmail.com 120 mins

133 Sanjit Kundu sanjit.n73@gmail.com 117 mins

134 Sanjukta Das sanjukta0098@gmail.com 96 mins

135 SANTOSH KUMARI PATEL sp664686@gmail.com 110 mins

136 SANU KUMAR SAHA sahasanu49@gmail.com 100 mins

137 sayan Samanta sayansamanta347@gmail.com 123 mins

138 Sayani Malik sayanimalik7435@gmail.com 115 mins

139 Sayantan Samui sayantansamui25@gmail.com 80 mins

140 Shaheed Ahmad shaheedahmad29@gmail.com 112 mins

141 Sharad Deep sharad.deep@hexagonsi.com 120 mins

142 Shivyank Singh Negi shivyanksinghnegi10225@gmail.com 97 mins

143 SIVARANJANI sivasumathi.95@gmail.com 76 mins

144 Snigdha Mondal smondal20030@gmail.com 114 mins

145 Sohini Pal sohinipal20@gmail.com 77 mins

146 Somnath Bera bera.somnath2007@gmail.com 124 mins

147 Sourabh Anand anand.sourabh29@outlook.com 116 mins

148 SREEJITH SREEKUMAR skumar.sreejith@gmail.com 115 mins

149 Subhash Chand Jogi rohit.yogi10@yahoo.com 115 mins

150 Sujang Khiamniungan sujangkhiamniungan@gmail.com 93 mins

151 Sunayana Chandra nayanahbti@gmail.com 106 mins

152 Surendar Babu surendarbabu.17mc000377@agl.ism.ac.in 124 mins

153 Surya Prakash surya.archi.1303@gmail.com 107 mins

154 Susmita Oraon susmitaoraon18@gmail.com 119 mins

155 Tamilarasan K ktamilarasan05@gmail.com 77 mins

156 Tanmay Sardar tanmaysardar06@gmail.com 95 mins

157 Tejaswita Moktan moktantejaswita@gmail.com 101 mins

158 Vachaspati Pandey vpnhpc@yahoo.com 116 mins

159 vijay kumar meena vm976735@gmail.com 105 mins

160 Vikas Kumar vikaskumarnitk@gmail.com 105 mins

161 VIKASH KUMAR Vikashkum83@gmail.com 133 mins

162 Vikram fred@fireflies.ai 118 mins

163 Vinod Kumar Yadav vinodyadavmsc16@gmail.com 127 mins

164 Visakh V visakh990@gmail.com 142 mins

165 Vishal S. Gholap vishal19gholap@gmail.com 101 mins

166 Vivekanand Vijaykumar Kadam vivek91587@gmail.com 112 mins

167 Yaminee Sharma yamineesharma21788@gmail.com 97 mins

168 Yashraj Jain yashraj.pg181219@cept.ac.in 123 mins

169 Yogesh Santosh Moraye yogeshmoraye7862@gmail.com 189 mins

170 Yusuf Farooqi farooqiyusuf97@gmail.com 88 mins

171 Zainab Reza zainabreza945@gmail.com 112 mins

Webinar on

Role of Geospatial Mapping in managing Pandemic: Applications and

Interventions for Resilience

28th July 2020

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Organised by

National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)

Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

Background

The rapid urbanisation owing to the expeditious increase in population, coupled with extreme

climatic events, has increased the vulnerabilities of urban communities in the modern era. The

dense fabric and the complex infrastructural arrangement in urban areas call for data-informed

planning to build resilience. The role of geospatial mapping, thus, is being globally increased in

managing urban risks. It serves as the foundation for assessing and managing hazards and risks for

minimising urban vulnerabilities. The mapping tools enable the spatial representation of the

demographics and its relationship to natural and built environments strengthening the planning

capabilities of cities in all spheres.

Geospatial mapping plays a crucial role in the urban public health sector as well. The application

of geospatial mapping in public health could be traced back to 1854 when the water source

responsible for the cholera outbreak in London was identified using Geographical Information

System (GIS) by an English Physician John Snow. In the present time, the application of geospatial

mapping has extended to various other aspects of public health like disease surveillance, spatial

epidemiology, child immunization tracking and health policy research.

With more than three lakhs of active COVID-19 cases in the country, the need for geospatial

mapping has become remarkably significant. The launch of Aarogya Setu App by the Government

of India based on geospatial databases for contact tracing of active COVID-19 cases is an evidence

to that. A majority of the population in the country has also shifted to online buying of daily

essentials through navigation-based apps. Further, the geospatial mapping services has also

enabled the business sectors to monitor and operate supply chains remotely. The pandemic,

however, has also highlighted several inefficacies in the application of geospatial mapping that

needs to be addressed such as lack of databases of socio-economic parameters, disaggregated

demographic data, infrastructure benchmarking and informal sector records, among others. With

the unlocking of the pandemic-induced lockdowns across the country, the unavailability of micro-

level data has become a major challenge to analyse the trend of contamination at the community

level. The paucity of data at micro-level would also act as a barrier for impact assessment of the

pandemic. The situation beckons for collaboration of academic and research institutes with

government agencies to develop dynamic and disaggregated geospatial databases.

About the Webinar

In this context, the National Institute of Disaster Management is organising a Webinar on “Role

of Geospatial Mapping in managing Pandemic: Applications and Interventions for

Resilience” on 28th July from 2:00 – 4:00 pm for incorporation of geospatial mapping in

strengthening resilience. The focus of the webinar is to bring together all the stakeholders including

academic and research institutes, geospatial experts, policymakers, technocrats, government

agencies and budding professionals to chart actions for addressing the existing lacunae and further

advancement in this field.

Programme Team

Patron

Maj Gen Manoj K Bindal, VSM

Executive Director, NIDM

Convenor

Dr Chandrani Bandyopadhyay

Assistant Professor, NIDM

Moderator

Ms Mohana Manna, Young Professional, NIDM

IT Support

NIDM IT Team

Session Plan

Session Theme Speaker Duration

Welcome and Programme

Overview

Dr Chandrani Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor,

NIDM

5 mins

Keynote Address Major General Manoj Kumar Bindal, ED, NIDM 10 mins

Geospatial Technology:

Risks and Vulnerability

Assessment

Dr. P.K. Champati Ray, Group Head, Geosciences

and Disaster Management Studies Group, Indian

Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun

20 mins

Role of Geospatial

mapping in Urban Health

Dr. Balamurugan Guru, Associate Professor, Centre

for Geo Informatics, Jamsetji Tata School of

Disaster Studies

20 mins

Mapping of Urban

Information: A way

forward

Prof. Kamal Jain, Department of Civil Engineering,

IIT Roorkee

20 mins

Q&A Moderator, NIDM 20 mins

Summing up and

Conclusion

5 mins

Registration

Interested candidates may register at https://forms.gle/fdYYy8rXKgV5tzjG6. The link for meeting

and log in details would be sent individually.