Dr.

Balakrishnan Nair
Group Director, INCOIS
Our mission is to: Our stake holders are:
All those who depend on Sea for livelihood and those who leave on the
“Provide the Ocean Information and coasts
Advisory Services to  Fishermen

Society, Industry, Government Agencies  Coastal population

 Navigators
and Scientific Community through  Ports & Harbours
Sustained Ocean Observations and  Maritime Industries (oil, shipping, Power..)

Constant improvements through  Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Police

 Disaster Management agencies
Systematic and Focussed Research”.
 Coastal Tourism
 State Administration
 Academia and Researchers
 Ocean Information & Forecast System

Customized products Hazard based products

Real time
observation

Modeling/Research

Ocean
Information/
Advisory
services
Multi
mode
Dissemina
tion
Fisheries & Ecosystem services

STAKEHOLDERS OF BLUE ECONOMY

Potential Fishing Zone Advisory Service

Niche for Fish

Temperature Light

Salinity Chlorophyll
Feeding
Dissolved Nutrients
Breeding
Oxygen
Surface Currents Wind

Key Indicators: Eddies, Rings, Meanders,

Tongue/Mushroom features
Upwelling ,Thermal Fronts
Algal Bloom Information Service
• Inaugurated on 24 Feb 2020
• Monitoring the four hot-spots in
Indian Ocean
• Northern Arabian Sea
• Kochi
• Gulf of Mannar
• Gopalpur

Status Condition Color Code

Normal Bloom pixels < 50%
Watch Bloom pixels ≥50% and < 75%
Warning Bloom pixels ≥ 75%
Coral Bleaching Alert System (CBAS) - A satellite-derived SST based Service
Methodology 4 Andaman Coral Bleaching
Threshold
Nicobar

Temperature Anomaly (deg. cen.)

GOM

2 Lakshadweep

1 GOK

0
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5

Jan/10

Jan/15
May/13

May/18
Sep/11

Sep/16
Date (ddmmmyy)

Service initiated since Feb 2011 and 122 advisories provided every year

Bleaching event was recorded during the April-May 2016 at Andaman validated with Field Data

“Satellite based advisory service to predict thermal stress on an important coral ecosystem”
• Global Forecast
• Regional – 7 Regions
Ocean State Forecast & Early Warnings
• Coastal – 9 Coastal states of India 45 User specified products were designed, validated and operationalised
• Island – A&N and Lakshadweep
• Location specific -100 locations
• Tidal forecast system for 178
locations
• Real time validation System
• Forecast dissemination in local
languages
• High resolution Forecast for West
Coast of India

• High Wave/swell/bulletins
• Tsunami Warning
• Joint INCOIS – IMD Bulletins
including storm surge warning also
• Bulletins on Ocean State Forecast
along Standard shipping routes

• Forecast along ship-track

• Eddy Forecasts
• OSF for Neighbouring countries
through RIMES
• Navy specific forecast products
• OSF Web Map Services
• Sea State Forecast for ports and
Harbours
• Online Oil spill advisories (OOSA)
• Search and Rescue Aid Tool (SARAT)
 Geospatial data importance for Ocean forecast services
Model Assimilated Satellite Analysis/Forecast parameters
parameter
Wave and Swell Surge Significant wave Saral-AltiKa Height, direction and period (of both wind waves and swell
Forecasting System height Altimeter –Jason2, waves), Swell surge (arrival time and extent of inundation).
(WAVEWATCH III, SWAN, Jason3,
ADCIRC)

Regional Ocean forecast SST GHRISST L2 track Sea surface currents,

(ROMS) System (BGC) SLA data Sea surface temperature,
Chlorophyll Mixed Layer Depth,
Depth of the 20ᴼC isotherm, Temperature & Salinity profiles
Global Ocean ANALYSIS Temperature and NOAA OI (for daily Sea surface currents,
(INCOIS-GODAS) salinity profiles (SST SST relaxation) Sea surface temperature,
System is relaxed with 5 Mixed Layer Depth,
day time scale from Depth of the 20ᴼC isotherm, Temperature & Salinity profiles
OI SST)
Basin wide Ocean Forecast SST, SLA Jason3, Sea surface currents,
(HYCOM) Saral-AltiKa Sea surface temperature,
GHRSST Mixed Layer Depth,
Depth of the 20ᴼC isotherm, Temperature & Salinity profiles
WRF SST, SLA, Surface Jason3,
HWRF-HYCOM winds Saral- AltiKa Cyclone intensity and track forecast
coupled model GHRSST ,SCATSAT
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Oil spill, SAR models
Coastal Vulnerability Atlas
CVI Atlas covering Indian coast comprising 156 maps on 1:1lakh scales has been prepared and released on May 09, 2012

Parameter Data
Geomorphology IRS LISS-IV

Slope GEBCO

Methodology Elevation SRTM

Tidal Range Astronomical tide from WXTide-32

Geologica
Coastal Geomorphology
Input Parameters Coastal Regional Elevations Shoreline Change Rate Landsat data (1972-2000)

l
Coastal Slope Historical Sea Level GLOSS long term tide gauge observation
Shoreline-change Rate
Significant Wave Height Mike-21 SW modeling
Physica

Sea-level-change Rate
Mean Significant Wave Height
l

Tide Range

Risk Rating
CVI = √ [(a*b*c*d*e*f*g)/7]
Analysis

Where
a = Shoreline change rate (m/y)
b = Sea level change rate (mm/y)
c = Coastal slope (degree)
d = Significant wave height (m)
e = Tide range (m)
f = Coastal regional elevation (m)
g = Coastal geomorphology
Outpu

CVI Maps
t

Coastal Vulnerability Atlas

INCOIS, (2012). Coastal Vulnerability Atlas of India. INCOIS-ASG-CGAM-CV-2012-01, Pages 212, Maps
156, INCOIS, Hyderabad, India. ISBN 978-81-923474-0-0.
Multi-hazard Vulnerability Mapping
Topographic Data

Completer for Indian Mainland

MHVM on 1:25000 scale

Village wise MHVM Village wise SEVI Village level Decision matrix -SEVI
Socio-economic Vulnerability
Index (SEVI)
3D Visualization and analysis for disaster management

3DVAS 3DVAS Application integrated with 2D

and 3D Geospatial data pertaining to
vulnerability, geophysical and 3D GIS
database
The terrain is improved by
incorporating the new topographic
dataset and images
Building bases converted to 3D models
to have seamless 3D buildings

MHV Maps 3D Buildings draped on high resolution Topography

Inundation Modeling and risk assessment in 3DVAS
Model setup, propagation and inundating modeling,
Overlay of the modeling results and risk assessment
at building level and generation of outputs
Summary of the satellite data requirements for INCOIS applications

Sensor Requirement Application Utility in services

Ocean Color Multispectral /Hyperspectral &/or Primary productivity, bio-geo-chemical model, General and Species-specific
geostationary, daily revisit phytoplankton functional type, coastal processes, Marine Fishery Advisory Services
as a forcing in ocean models (MFAS) PFZs, Algal Bloom
Information Services (ABIS),
Coral Reef Advisory Service
Altimeter Ensure minimum four sensors in orbit Assimilation in numerical models, merged Wave, swell surge forecast, Value
products added, species specific PFZs,
ocean currents
SST Geostationary, along OC payload High temporal resolution, front demarcation, overcome cloud cover, PFZs
Assimilation in numerical models

Scatterometer 1800km swath, ≤25km res., accuracy of Primary productivity, bio-geo-chemical modeling, Species specific PFZs, forecasting
≤2m/s ocean general circulation models

Salinity ≤2 day revisit, ≤25km res., large swath Salinity fronts, fish migration studies, Species specific PFZs, fish
Assimilation in numerical models breeding

Precipitation ≥2 visits/day, large swath, RT/NRT Rain-over-the-sea estimation, L4-Product for Species specific PFZs, fish
numberical oecean breeding

Nutrient / O2 / First sensors in orbit Biogeochemical cycles, modeling, budgeting Ecosystem studies, modeling,
Carbon daily revisit and large swath forecast