01-05 December 2025
INCOIS, Hyderabad, India.
| Abstract Submission No. | ABS-05-0282 |
| Title of Abstract | A state-of-the-art digital ecosystem for Supporting Multi-Hazard Coastal Resilience, the Blue Economy and Sustainable Ocean Planning |
| Authors | Srinivasa Kumar Tummala*, M Ravichandran, Balakrishnan Nair, E. Pattabhi Rama Rao, K. Annapurnaiah, Muralikrishna, T.N.C. Karthik, J. Padmanabham, Nagaraja Kumar, Udaya Bhaskar TVS, Aneesh Lotliker, Sudheer Joseph, Francis Pavanathara, Satyanarayana BV, Bernardo Aliaga |
| Organisation | UNESCO-IOC |
| Address | 1 Ord Street WEST PERTH, Western Australia, Australia Pincode: 6005 E-mail: sk.tummala@unesco.org |
| Country | Australia |
| Presentation | Oral |
| Abstract | Oceans are central to climate regulation, food security, maritime transport, and coastal development, yet they also pose risks such as tsunamis, storm surges, and sea-level rise. Understanding and predicting ocean behavior is essential for safeguarding lives, livelihoods, infrastructure, and economies. This demands sustained ocean observations, systematic data, focused research, modeling, and forecasting - underpinned by state-of-the-art digital infrastructure, capacity development, and global cooperation - to generate services that support end-to-end ocean value chains for diverse stakeholders. The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), delivers operational services including potential fishing zone advisories, harmful algal bloom alerts, coral bleaching and marine heatwave forecasts, ocean state predictions, and early warnings for tsunamis, storm surges, high waves, sea-level rise, and oil spills. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO), mandated to foster international cooperation in marine science, ocean observations, services, early warning systems, and capacity development, also coordinates the UN Ocean Decade. It facilitates transformative, cross-sectoral collaboration to advance integrated ocean knowledge and support sustainable development. INCOIS works closely with the IOC in facilitating the co-design, co-development, and co-delivery of ocean science solutions in the Indian Ocean region through its roles as Tsunami Service Provider, Decade Collaborative Centre, Regional Oceanographic Data Centre, Specialized Training Centre, UNESCO Category 2 Centre, Secretariat for IOGOOS, International Project Office for IIOE-2, and Indian Seas node under the OceanPredict DCC⿿s India Seas Node. The powerful digital ecosystem at INCOIS, integrating Synergistic Ocean observations, Prediction and Services (SynOPS) Facility, Tarang HPC, SAMUDRA web/mobile apps, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), and immersive learning platforms, enables seamless acquisition, analysis, visualization, generation and dissemination of ocean services, and capacity development. It supports multi-hazard coastal resilience, the blue economy, and sustainable ocean planning, while serving as a scalable precursor to the Digital Twin of the Ocean. |
| Are you part of IIOE-2 endorsed project | no |
| Keywords | Tsunami Early Warning, Multi-Hazard Coastal Resilience, Operational Oceanography, Ocean Value Chain, Digital Twin, Blue Economy, SynOPS, SAMUDRA, Digital Ecosystem, High Performance Computing, Ocean Decade |
| For Awards | no |