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Earth Observer, Civil Engineer Tweets: Data-Driven Decision Making, GIS, Remote Sensing, Water, Urban Development, Environment, Maps

Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu

Joined March 2011

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9 months

#Thread on Ponniyin Selvan #Maps Last year, I had the opportunity to work as map consultant in director Maniratnam's magnum opus, #PonniyinSelvan movie. Though seen only in bg, there was a lot of professional effort put into maps which must be the 1st in Indian film industry 1/n

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4 months

Here's a compilation of my #maps which can help you in understanding the #Bengaluru #Water situation a bit better. Bengaluru is unofficially a hill station which is located nearly a kilometre above sea level.

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4 months

Here is the story of how @googlemaps helped me recover items stolen in a moving train from my father. My father was travelling from Nagercoil to Trichy in sleper class in Nagercoil - Kacheguda express. He had boarded at 1:43 AM from NCJ. The train was relatively empty & another

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4 years

#Viz : Elevation Profile - west coast to east coast Cross section along a line between Mangaluru-Bengaluru-Chennai

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4 years

#Viz : India's river systems!

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4 years

#Viz : Ocean floor around India - If you're wondering how it would look like without the sea water. Exaggerated relief. The Bengal and the Indus fans are the largest of their kind in the world. Their approx area marked here along with their canyons :)

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2 years

#Map shows the percentage of people with #Hindi as mother tongue in each subdistrict of India as per census 2011

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3 years

#Map shows literacy rate in South India (2011). Each village/town in each Taluk is represented as one dot. Blue =Good, Red=Bad So many stories in one map!

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6 months

Short thread: #Chennai , lakes, and floods I have written some threads about the flooding in Chennai, this one would focus specifically on the lake aspect. #Map below shows the flood forecasted areas in Chennai for an extreme amount of rainfall. If we carefully look into this

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5 years

It's not just #Delhi , most of India is hit by #AirPollution crisis. Dispersion Models suggest that the plume is travelling across India (in east coast too). It's a #NationalHealthCrisis ! Source: SILAM (Asia) #DelhiAirEmergency #DelhiChokes #DelhiPollution #DelhiBachao

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4 years

Another render of Mumbai 😍 Spent 15 minutes today just zooming in and out 😁

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4 years

#Thread : Since many had asked this, Writing a short thread on the formation between India and Sri Lanka Usually many get deceived by "static" satellite images and believe that the Tombolo section as permanent relics of a man made bridge.

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8 months

Fun Geography fact: 96.7% of Indians live at an elevation lesser than or equal to that of #Bengaluru 87.5% of Indians live at an elevation lesser than or equal that of #Hyderabad Map shows the areas of India which are at lower elevations than these cities #HillStations

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3 years

Viz: #Kaveri river watershed 😍 I would be posting some #maps about the river with finer details in this thread in coming days! Bookmark..

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9 months

Short #Thread : Does the #Cauvery river need another dam? Kaveri river is one of the most exploited watersheds in the world and yet there are many calls from both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka public to build one more mega dam 1/n

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4 years

#Viz Palakkad Gap between Tamil Nadu and Kerala

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2 years

#Thread : Here are my views on use of satellite images & maps in the Economic survey 2022. Overall I have a mixed feeling. I am so glad and delighted that a section has been devoted in this manner but I am not happy how certain maps have been presented as they tend to mislead

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5 years

Thread - India's flood plain issue: There r so many flood incidents this year. One big problem s that we haven't mapped flood plains yet. Many crucial infra (road, railway) are built in flood plains with less care Kabini Flood simulation shown here FYI @PrinSciAdvGoI 1/n

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3 years

A Kutty (Short) Story with Satellite Images about a hamlet near Tirunelveli, #TamilNadu In 2003, the hamlet can be seen (marked in orange). It is next to Tirunelveli - Madurai railway line. There's a crossing (marked in black) through which people went to the nearby main road

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2 years

That beautiful #map in #PS1Teaser (if you hadn't noticed).. I contributed to it too :)

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4 years

#Viz : Map shows the water divide in India Surface water flow from rainfall to the left of green line flows into western seas (Arabian etc.) n the right of the green line drains into eastern waterbodies (Bay of Bengal etc.). Endorheic Basins (that dont drain into sea) not shown

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1 year

#Satellite image from today morning at 9:15 AM showing the fog cover over Northern India. Notice a hole in the fog cover over Delhi's urban agglomeration. The fog is lacking over there primarily because of urban heat island effect

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3 years

#Thread Many parts of #Chennai have been inundated after heavy rains (22 cm) last night. The city like all other in India faces a wide range of issues and it is UNLIKELY to solve any of the urban flooding related problems that it faces within the next 10 years. Here's why 1/n

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3 years

People used to scratch the paint and covers in bus seats, vandalize heritage buildings, rocks etc to record such messages. Now they are using Google Maps. அடேய்களா...

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4 years

#Viz After seeing 2D map of rivers, many suggested to connect Himalayan rivers & SI rivers Though Ganga originates at higher elevation,majority of it's course is at lower elev than SI rivers (let alone watersheds).Pumping wud be very costly Forget Interlinking! #WorldRiversDay

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#Viz : India's river systems!

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4 years

#Viz : Elevation North- South From Kanyakumari to K2: KK-Bengaluru-Delhi-Shimla-K2 To the soul asked me "why dont you show us north-south?"

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#Viz : Elevation Profile - west coast to east coast Cross section along a line between Mangaluru-Bengaluru-Chennai

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#Thread A collection of geographical myths & unknown facts about #Kanyakumari 1. Kanniyakumari is NOT the southern most point of mainland India, the southern most point is near star of the sea rock in nearby #Kovalam . In the last 20 years,it has been popularized as sunset point

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6 months

Thread: I'll summarise the #Chennai cyclone event and the flooding issue once again as I feel that there is a lot of misinformation floating around which could guide people and government in wrong way w.r.t future actions #ChennaiFloods2023 1/n

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4 years

#Viz : India Population Density

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3 years

Not a secret talent but once I made a map by colour formatting @msexcel cells 😅

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What's your secret #Excel talent?

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4 years

#Short Story/Thread : In 2003, A stream/river (seasonal) was flowing in #Dehradun near Sahastradhara Road.. Satellite Image snapshot from Google Earth 1/4

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4 years

#3D Map for today: Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Kerala, and an Ocean without water. Approx depths (w.r.t current mean sea level) marked for reference. Exaggerated Relief.

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3 years

Thread: I had earlier posted that I am not confident about Covid Nos & few asked explanation Attaching satellite images where SWIR bands have picked up fire signals in crematoriums(orange colour). In most cases, this is 1st time detected or ten times intensity detected in past

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#Map shows the election results in Tamil Nadu. Colour indicates the party / alliance that has been elected. One of the toughest maps to prepare 😜

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8 months

Useless geographical fact for the day: Did you know that #Chennai is slightly more "north" than #Bengaluru ? #Map shows the cities & their respective urban area at same scale and latitudes

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3 years

What if South becomes North & Mountains became valleys.. #Viz shows an Inverted India 😀

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3 years

It is critical to understand the past courses of #Porunai river (Thamirabarani) to study history better #Korkai once a thriving port city was closer to river & sea but is now kms away Sedimentation by river & sea have changed the landscape #Map shows my version of old course

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4 years

#DYK : Nearly half of India's population lives in the Ganga-Brahmaputra hydroshed! Map shows population share of each of the hydrosheds (derived from elevation data)

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4 years

Just a 3D Render of #Maharashtra 's terrain in Aerialod 😍

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4 years

#Map shows the submarine cable system which are in the ocean floor that is vital for Internet! Every time we transfer data from an US/international server, that data travels in these cables 1000s of meters below sea surface.. In India cables land primarily in Mumbai & Chennai

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4 years

#30DayMapChallenge Map 2: Lines (Only one line though 😋) #Viz shows the elevation profile of Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Tamil Nadu which is an UNESCO world heritage site

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3 years

Working on a 3D render of Mumbai without it's buildings. Still lot of work left 😫 Can anyone guess the software in which this was made?

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#Chhattisgarh is a seahorse in disguise

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3 years

#Map showing Hebbal valley in #Bengaluru . Have said many times, more than lakes, the valleys are important to understand and reduce flood damages in cities But we are building right in the middle of valleys. Read Tweets below to see how the areas marked in red were affected

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3 years

#Thread - #Bengaluru Airport: What exactly happened in Bengaluru airport that led to the flooding/stagnation a few days before? My version: Before the airport, area (marked in white) was in a ridge between 2 valleys, had cropland, quarries, a minor valey, open scrubland 1/n

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#30DayMapChallenge Day 4: Bad Map #Map shows the consumption of #potatoes in India during the reign of Mughal emperor, Akbar

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Digitizing the village locations in Little Andaman.. Started digitizing village/town locations in India 4 years ago & it is almost over now 😍 so delighted! This is my current work desk (no one asked but....)

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#Map shows the major employment hubs in Tamil Nadu based on Economic Census data

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#Thread : A Problem in the making. Two major problems faced by #Bengaluru are flooding and traiffic. But just like any other Indian city, unbridled urbanization is aggravating these crises and is making sure that these problems would stay for longer 1/n

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4 years

#30DayMapChallenge Map 1: Points Thermal anomalies observed across Northern India in the last one week. These are primarily stubble-burning crop fire incidents in #Punjab .

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2 years

#Thread Story with maps about Vaan Theevu, a small island off the coast of Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. Animation shows how much the Island has changed over last 3 decades. It has been shrinking for a while. Here's my take on the subject. Please do read this long thread! 1/n

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#Satellite observed night lights for #Karnataka (temporal composite) Karnataka is a classic example of "primate city" where in 1 city ( #Bengaluru ) has over grown when compared with other cities IMO: India's Megacity led growth trend is coming to an end (since 2015)

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4 years

Today's 3D Viz: #Karnataka as viewed from west (above Arabian Sea). Have a great week!

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3 years

#Map shows the number of Government of Hospital #Beds available per 10,000 people (2019). We have to invest more in our health infrastructure in such a way it is geographically accessible, financially and socially inclusive manner

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@zomato Don't end it with Tamil. Build the app versions for Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali etc. You dont have to wait for an incident to do these :)

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3 years

Now that #EVERGIVEN is unstuck, what would it look like if it drifted to India & got stuck? Mumbai - Marine drive: Between stadiums It can be alternative to Kolkata-Howrah Bridge Kanniyakumari: it can serve as a bridge between rock& mainland Kochi: it can block the backwater!

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2 years

#Visualization of Western Ghats from the west. This is the #topography behind some of the wettest places in India These regions (marked) recieve heavy #rainfall when #monsoon winds hit the western ghat escarpment in a process known as orographic lift

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2 years

Short Story: 🧵 Near wonderla exit in #Bengaluru - Mysuru road, there existed a valley system (flow directions indicated below). Few irrigation tanks were also there in the valley (marked in blue). 1/n

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Let me clarify once again on this usual forwarded message of NASA #satellite picture of India during #Diwali : The actual image composite is NOT fake, Interpretation is wrong - I.e. it is not Deepavali night and has nothing to do with it. So what is it? It is a temporal

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3 years

#Map of #Karnataka shows the leading agricultural commodity produced in that village. Villages will have more than one commodity. Map shows the first one as reported in Census 2011.

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4 years

Wow 😍 Take a look at Bay of Bengal! Invest91B #AmphanCyclone

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3 years

Short story/Thread: There was a Madras high court order on lake encroachment & judge said "whether it is 112 crores or 1K crores, we will destroy it. Get bulldozers ready" But my lord, Madurai Bench of Madras High court was constructed in lake Old Satellite image attached 1/n

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Short thread of satellite images Story of a navigational canal that was built with ~12 crore rupees tax payer money in #Ganga riverbed in #Varanasi Uttar Pradesh. h/t @Indian_Rivers Before the construction of the canal, this was the river Ganga 1/n

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Animation shows the horizontal growth of #Bengaluru in 25 years. The city just sprawled..

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2 years

#Nagercoil at its finest. Like a painting

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Snapshots of satellite images showing sewage mixing (mostly untreated) in #Ganga river, Varanasi

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No Playgrounds, No setbacks for buildings, No trees 😡 Many of our #schools are mere concrete cubes that manufacture candidates for entrance examinations & are not a place of learning where children gain skills to become human beings Some schools with satellite images shown:

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Popular Request: Linearly exaggerated relief of Mainland - India 😇 The reason why I didnt do this in the past is because when exaggerated linearly , Himalayas look like a wall and the finer details in Topography get lost

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What if South becomes North & Mountains became valleys.. #Viz shows an Inverted India 😀

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Contd.. #Map shows #literacy rate (Based on Census 2011) - Western/Central India Each village/town represented as a dot. Red = Bad; Blue = Good

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#CycloneBurevi evolution in 16 seconds EUMETSAT observations

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#Thread on Koshi and Bihar Floods: Though there are articles on Koshi River n flooding in Bihar, I prepared this thread to visually explain it! Image: Topography of #Bihar Despite being far from sea most of Bihar people live at an elevation lesser than 100m similar to Kerala

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The confluence of Yamuna and Chambal Rivers 😍 Striking difference in widths! But Chambal is considered as a tributary of Yamuna :)

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On 15th January, an underwater volcano erupted in #Tonga . It sent shockwaves across the globe. #Shockwave reached India around 7:30 PM & moved across country for next few hours. The change in pressure was recorded by IMD's weather stations Animation shows the change in pressure

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#Thread Another city, another neighbourhood, another stream but same story This is about a nala that flows through the dense urban concrete jungle of #Hyderabad city. It flows through Padma colony of nallakunta neighbourhood and eventually joined Musi river.

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The volcanic eruption in Tonga captured by #Himawari satellite.. Massive!😳

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Government institutions like IMD charge lakhs/Crores of rupees for accessing historical weather data created with taxpayer money. But they provide the same to select institutions (ex: IISc) free of charge. Researchers outside would never get to study or publish in such domains

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#Viz - Kanyakumari District DYK: Even though closer to sea, many mountain peaks in Kanyakumari district are taller than peaks found in 15 Indian states (Punjab, Haryana, Bihar,UP, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, MP, Maha, Telangana, AP, Odisha, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tripura, Goa) #Home

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Due to popular request: #Satellite observed Night lights for #TamilNadu (Temporal Composite) Tamil Nadu also has a primate city, #Chennai but unlike Bengaluru which is 8 times larger than Mysuru, Chennai is larger by 4 times than the next largest city in the state ( #Coimbatore )

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#Satellite observed night lights for #Karnataka (temporal composite) Karnataka is a classic example of "primate city" where in 1 city ( #Bengaluru ) has over grown when compared with other cities IMO: India's Megacity led growth trend is coming to an end (since 2015)

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Meandering of River #Ganga - Animation shows the dynamic nature of the river and how it's course changed in the last 3 decades in #Bihar . These are the ones which we're trying to control using Embankments. Shown with a Google Maps backdrop for reference.

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#Map shows literacy rate in India (2011) Each village/town is represented as a dot in the map (Blue - High, Red - Low)

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#Rampur is the most commonly found name in India as per the Census' village list. #Map shows the villages named Rampur. The name is highly concentrated around UP, Bihar, WB This is based on what was analysed by @zeusisdead Underlying data is from @MapMakinMeyers

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There is an island within a lake inside an island within a lake inside an island in the Pacific ocean #GeographyIsCool

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Short #Story of a river, a sea, a fishing village, and a groyne Satellite image from 2005 shows the delta of Porunai river (Thamirabarani) in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu. 1/n

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Got an amazing gift today from @akaasi ! 3D Prints of Topography of Southern India 😍😍😍 Annotated some place names in the photo for your reference!

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What would PM2.5 observations depicted in 3D look like? Satellite observations of PM2.5 across #India from 2018 shown in visualization. Gangetic plains become a big mountain range peaking around Southern #Delhi

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#Viz : India Population Density

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Map of #Karnataka showing villages which have #Coconut as one of the top agricultural produce. Coconut which is native to coastal regions is being grown at inland even at heights of 800m (& greater) above sea level!

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One #Chart to summarize the #Covid situation..

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#30DayMapChallenge Map 8: Yellow #Map shows locations of lighthouses in India. 170 Lighthouses have been marked in this.

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#Map Nearly a billion people in India would have faced high temperatures (above 38 degree celsius) today and around 80% of it might have faced 40 degree celsius today. #heatwave

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#Map shows #India divided into 4 sections of equal population sorted based on height above mean sea level Each colour denotes a quarter of India's population 25% of people live at an elevation less than 60m Another 25% live between 60m & 165m

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The role of Western Ghats: #Map shows 2020 rainfall overlaid on a terrain map. Left side is Kanyakumari District which received more rainfall and on the right side is Tirunelveli Dist which is rainshadow!

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#Visualization shows the topography of the region around #Bengaluru & the water divide is shown in red colour Surface water to the left side of the ridge line flows into Cauvery River & water to the right side flows into Ponnaiyar/Dakshina Pinakini/South Pennar

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Thread of some beautiful #satellite images captured last week 1. Waves crashing in the mouths of #Godavari river, Andhra Pradesh. The sand deposited causes the waves to break farther from the coastline

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#Map showing the ratio of workers in work other than #Agriculture to the total number of workers as per census 2011 Each dot depicts a village/town in each subdistrict (slightly normalized based on total workers) Red : More agricultural workers Blue : Less agricultural workers

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#Thread : #Visualization shows ownership of Cars, Bicyle, Two wheelers and also the households that dont own any of these Why is this critical to know? Prepared by @PratapVardhan @Stats_of_India h/t @indiainpixels

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1. Short term disaster responses & on ground actions - Excellent 2. Forecasting and associated preparedness - Excellent 3. Hotspot Management - Good 4. Storm water drain plan - In works 5. Streetscape plans - Requires work 6. Rehabilitation plan for low lying areas - not in place

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One more fun geographical fact: 25% of Indians live at an elevation lower than / equal to that of the top of the Thiruvalluvar statue in #Kanniyakumari #Map shows areas corresponding to them. States like Bihar, Assam which don't have a coast are at lower elevation Please note

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2013: TGV (France) @ 320 kmph 2023: Vande Bharat @ 108 kmph Hair remains the same 😀

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#Thread of maps on Palayamkottai, now part of #Tirunelveli As a city,Palayamkottai has a recorded history for more than a thousand years. It reached its zenith during the British era & was called as "Oxford of South India" My first thread in 2022 is a tribute to #ThoPa

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Cheering you up! #Viz shows the famed #Kolli hills road in Namakkal district Inorder to achieve a vertical displacement of nearly a kilometer & reach a place 3.5 kms far (aerially from the base), the road takes ~70 hairpin bends thus covering a distance of more than 20 Kms....

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