A software tool that uses hydrodynamic models to simulate dam breaks and show resulting flood inundation on a map for emergency planning.
National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) · Software
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Data Ingestion Module
Accepts hydrological data, digital elevation models, and satellite imagery as inputs.
Simulation Engine
Runs dam break and water flow simulations using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and Delft3D models.
Scenario Comparison
Compares output scenarios generated from different input datasets and water surge conditions.
Dashboard and Visualization
Provides a graphical user interface to input parameters and visualize simulation outputs.
Export and Mapping
Converts simulation outputs into shapefiles or KML files and integrates with Google Earth Engine for near real time analysis.
Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.
The jury will check if your software successfully integrates Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and Delft3D models, handles large volumes of data, exports to .shp or .kml formats, and demonstrates a simulation using open source data for an Indian river and dam.
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Exact performance benchmarks for large data volumes?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Specific target rivers and dams to use for initial testing?
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Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.
The brief asks for data ingestion module. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26161 itself — Accepts hydrological data, digital elevation models, and satellite imagery as inputs. The brief asks for it by name.
Each one is quoted from a gap in the brief, not a guess about your team.
No measurable target
The description requires supporting a large volume of data and near real time analysis without giving specific numerical thresholds for speed or data scale.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
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Pick what you are about to do and copy the prompt. It carries the organisers' own wording, the constraints they never spell out, and an instruction not to invent requirements they never set.
Who has this problem, what already exists, and what you would have to find out.
The brief asks for simulation engine. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26161 itself — Runs dam break and water flow simulations using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and Delft3D models. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for scenario comparison. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26161 itself — Compares output scenarios generated from different input datasets and water surge conditions. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for dashboard and visualization. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26161 itself — Provides a graphical user interface to input parameters and visualize simulation outputs. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for export and mapping. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26161 itself — Converts simulation outputs into shapefiles or KML files and integrates with Google Earth Engine for near real time analysis. The brief asks for it by name.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
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Show me this working: the jury will check if your software successfully integrates Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and Delft3D models, handles large volumes of data, exports to .shp or .kml formats, and demonstrates a simulation using open source data for an Indian river and dam.
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