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Anora
For governments
30.316 N 78.032 E · Uttarakhand

Spatial intelligence for decision-makers

Simulate hazards, model growth, monitor change. Scoped to the schemes a department already reports against, and delivered to its decision cycle.

Night-time lights, Uttarakhand 2025

What we do
Our role

Decision support

We help governments sharpen plans before launch and monitor them as they run, beside your engineers and regulators, never in their place.

Our method

Integrate satellite data + analysis

Satellites pass over the same ground again and again. Cheap, frequent, and needing no new field teams.

Our commitment

Fast, internal, shaped to you

We deliver to your decision cycle. Results stay internal, in the format your team already uses: brief, GIS layer, dashboard or API.

What we do

Three service areas, five worked examples

Each example runs through the same three levels. What changes between them is the subject, not the method.

Urban planning

Cities & infrastructure

Where cities grow, heat, flood and fail. Mapped, modelled and prioritised.

  • Urban analytics
  • Sprawl developments
  • Urban heat & energy
  • Stormwater & drainage
  • Natural hazard risk
  • Post-event damage
Water

Compliance

An independent check that scales, working next to your on-site systems and inspections.

  • Wastewater monitoring
  • Surface-water quality
  • Benchmarking & prioritisation
Land

Ecosystem pressure

Confirming what's happening on the ground, and what isn't.

  • Vegetation & green space
  • Land-use compliance
  • Enforcement & incentive support
Service examples
How we work

Three levels, and where an engagement starts

An engagement enters at whatever level the existing data supports, and stops at whatever level the decision requires. A department with a usable baseline starts at modelling. A department that only needs to know what is there does not need the other two.

foundational
What is happening?

Surveying & mapping

We map the baseline: drainage networks, hazard zones, land cover, urban footprint. Checked end to end, so every team plans from the same map.

modellable
What would happen?

Modelling & simulation

We run that baseline forward: monsoon stress, growth, the effect of each fix.

decisional
What should we do?

Decision support

We rank and price the options: best return per rupee, where to start, how to phase it across the budget.

1 layer set in play
  • Satellite imagery
  • Terrain / DEM
  • Built-up & roads
2 layer sets in play
  • Rainfall / IDF
  • Drainage & soil
  • Population
3 layer sets in play
  • Intervention cost
  • Asset value
  • Budget lines

Each level adds the layers the next decision needs: the baseline first, then what drives change, then cost and value. Which is why the last question on this page is which of the three describes your department today.

The gap we fill

Today's decision-maker pieces a picture together from five sources

  1. 01 Government data accurate, but slow to update
  2. 02 Field sensors accurate, but expensive and only where deployed
  3. 03 District reports could benefit from increased depth
  4. 04 Academic research rigorous, but slow and limitedly translated to application
  5. 05 Institutes strong on warning systems, weaker on day-to-day decisions
Anora Intel

A sixth layer

A repeat satellite view, laid over the five sources you already use and pulled into one picture. We analyse, model, simulate and support your decisions in the most technologically advanced way.

You already piece a picture together from five sources. We add a sixth that refreshes every cycle, and pull them into one.

Why it has to be GIS

A PDF you look at. A GIS layer you can use.

The picture
A map on paper

Looks right, does little

A printed or PDF map shows one view, once. It cannot be stacked, queried, measured or updated. Every new question means a new map, from scratch.

The format
A georeferenced layer

Saved once, in a standard any system can read

Every map will be a coordinate-locked layer in an open format which is the same standard of PM GatiShakti, NSDI and the National Geospatial Policy 2022.

The payoff
One shared library

Every department draws from the same source

Saved that way, a layer lives once, stacks with every other layer, exports for analysis, and plugs into the national system, instead of ten departments keeping ten incompatible copies.

Save every map as a geo-referenced, standard layer so it can be stacked, measured, analysed and exported. That standard is the basis of PM GatiShakti and NSDI.

Map-creation proposals

Twelve maps we can create, by civic theme

What each map is built from, and what it lets you decide.

See all twelve
  • Water
  • Safety
  • Growth
  • Heat
  • Nature
  • Water quality
Who does the work

Frontier methods, applied by the researchers themselves

6
IIT Bombay researchers
4
ISRO / IIRS alumni
20+
peer-reviewed publications
Founders
Joep van der Wal
Business Development
Arunim Anand
Technology & Research
PhD Remote Sensing · IIT Bombay
Abhinava Gopal Srivastava
Policy & Partnerships
LLB · Environmental Law
Specialists
Konica Bhandari
Remote Sensing
IIT Bombay
Biswarup Bhattacharya
Water & Climate
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Vipul Parmar
Urban Planning
IIT Bombay
Vineet Gajamer
Geohazards
IIT Bombay
Sil Bouwman
Data Science & AI
Lennart van de Velde
Technical Advisor

Aligned with AMRUT 2.0, PM GatiShakti, Swachh Bharat, Namami Gange, Smart Cities Mission and NDMA guidelines. An Indian entity, built for Indian procurement.

The question

Where would you say your department sits today?

We start where you are. Tell us which of the three describes your position and we will send back a scoped outline, by email, within five working days. No call unless you ask for one.

Would rather talk it through first? Book a 30-minute call.

Note

The layers you build are already funded

Which central scheme funds which layer, and where a GIS-ready map sits inside an existing budget line.

Data

Your data, handled to government standard

Who owns the layers, where data is stored, what can and cannot be mapped, and the standards we operate to.