Advanced techniques in environmental monitoring (NIAS Report R39-2016)

Our planet is witness to incidents and events of different scales-some benign, some catastrophic, some due to natural causes and some due to man-made interventions. In order to anticipate, forecast, control and manage events and their effects, information and knowledge are key. And sophisticated sensors and techniques are the key to such information and knowledge, India, within a network of seismic sensors and good remote sensing capabilities already in place, has a certain level of environmental monitoring capability. The theme of the workshop was to collate this capability, compare it with contemporary international trends and highlight measures needed for India to attain and maintain state-of-the-art capability in Advanced Environment Monitoring Techniques