Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched C-FLOOD, India’s First Unified Flood Forecasting Platform. It is a web-based platform that provides two-days advance inundation forecasts up to village level in the form of flood inundation maps and water level predictions.
It will act as a unified system integrating flood modelling outputs from national and regional agencies, offering a comprehensive decision-support tool for disaster management authorities.
About C-FLOOD
- Collaboratively developed by: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune and Central Water Commission (CWC), Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti
- Developed under: It has been executed under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) jointly steered by
- Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
- Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Coverage: At present, the system covers the Mahanadi, Godavari, and Tapi river basins, with more river basins to be incorporated in the future.
- It uses advanced 2-D hydrodynamic modelling to simulate flood scenarios.
- The simulations for Mahanadi Basin are run-on High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure under NSM at C-DAC Pune, with integration of outputs for Godavari and Tapi Basins, which have been developed by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) under the National Hydrology Project (NHP).