IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES

The research activities at CWPRS are supported by has excellent infrastructure facilities like sufficient space for physical models, current meter rating trolley, coastal data bank, remote sensing centre, library, campus-wide LAN with intranet and broadband internet facilities.

• Major facilities include Silicon Graphics Workstation under Unix environment, Digital Image Processing and GIS Software

• Important studies undertaken include reservoir sedimentation, reiver morphology, assessment of tidal storage, shoreline stability etc.

CURREMT METERE RATING TROLLEY

• Rating tank 228m long, 3.66m wide and 2.13m deep

• Speed range 0.01m/s to 6.0 m/s

• AC servo motor drives for precise speed control

• PC based data acquisition and processing system

• Measurement accuracies conforming to International Standards

• Subscription to over 100 scientific and technical journals/periodicals with on-line access to many important journals

• Over 50,000 books and reports representing a comprehensive collection in engineering and alied subjects

• About 18,000 bound volumes of technical journals/periodicals

• Selective dissemination of information services to groups of users within and outside CWPRS

• Retrospective and on-line searches on holdings of the library