National Database for Emergency Management:
The Ministry of Road Transport and has made it mandatory for all Detailed Project Reports of highway projects to include analysis using the National Database for Emergency Management (NDEM).
- National Database for Emergency Management is a unique Geo-portal to disseminate space-based inputs along with services of forecasting organizations addressing all natural disasters in India.
- It is a national repository of multi-scale geospatial database coupled with decision support system tools.
- It is developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under the guidance of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
- The NDEM portal is maintained by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).
- NDEM services have been operationalised since 2013 providing timely information along with disaster specific products for effective decision making.
- National Database for Emergency Management provides multi-temporal satellite data and thematic layers that help identify areas vulnerable to floods, landslides, earthquakes, and other natural hazards.
- It also offers decision-support tools for monitoring and managing such hazards.
- It is a unique and homogenous database served for entire country with essential database elements for addressing emergency/disaster management in the country.
- It assists the decision makers, disaster management officials of all States/UTs, NDRF/SDRF for preparedness, hazard/risk zonation, damage assessment and emergency response.
