Dear Kavita, Hyderabad Urban Lab recently did something vey similar! We used freely available SRTM DEM data to delineate catchments and Landsat imagery to pull out waterbodies..
a brief presentation of that is here- http://www.slideshare.net/siddharthhande/waterbody-presentation would be happy to help! Sid. On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Kavita Arora <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am part of one focus group of the larger "Save Bangalore Lakes" > community initiative that aims to provide an open forum to discuss the > degrading (or improving) condition of Bangalore's Lakes. > > As part of our ongoing research to obtain as much information about the > lakes and other water bodies -- we are piloting a new data science exercise > where we plan to attempt collecting as much raw data (from scratch) about > the lakes - including catchment areas, lake peripheries and other measures. > > Although some of this work has been done before, in order to be completely > objective and not introduce too much bias into our project -- we are trying > to figure out how to capture and analyze raw data collected from scratch - > such that we can come up with insights we may have overlooked before. > > Was hoping to get some ideas from some of you in this group as to how to > go about the following: > - How to go about capturing remotely sensed data > - How to convert raw data captured via Remote Sensing into shape files > - Understanding the process of building a basemap from scratch > - Annotating, tagging and modeling the adapted data > > I know I am basically asking for "all the answers" but we have a team of > volunteers in place and need someone/some people to give us a few pointers > in the right direction so we don't run around in circles too much. > > Anyone have any advice? > > thanks! > > kavita arora > > > > > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
