Like the profiles on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or YouTube to identify a person, the digital profiles of the country's rivers are also being created.
To create Visual River Atlas Monwarul Islam is working on that exceptional initiative.
His company succeeded in a novel attempt to see the river with the eyes of a bird to tell about the complete course of a river from its source to its final destination, said Monwarul Islam, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Visual River Atlas.
As a result, the entire courses of rivers, their sources, lengths, widths, tributaries and wings, the cities or towns on the banks of these rivers, the basins of the rivers, the river network, and its various important aspects can be easily known through the digital profile of the rivers, said Monwar.
Apart from this, economic, political, diplomatic, life and communication systems can also be known through the profiles. It is a well-known feature of a river as it presents sufficient basic data for classification, including meeting points of rivers like sea, river or lakes, climatic impacts, and identification of disaster-prone areas.
According to him, the digital profiling of 13 rivers have already been completed by the Visual River Atlas. These rivers are the Teesta, Karnaphuli, Sangu, and Gomti in Bangladesh; Alaknanda, Bhagirathi, and Jemu Glacier in India; Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) in China, Saptakoshi in Nepal, Thames in England, Seine in France, Victorian Nile in Uganda and Niagara River in the US and Canada. Six of these rivers are transboundary rivers.
While talking to this correspondent founder and CEO Monwarul Islam stated, "This initiative will serve as a milestone for education activities on rivers around the world."
"The idea of creating a digital profile of the river is quite new and its journey started with the Visual River Atlas. Now, traditionally, to learn about a river, we have to take help of numerous reference books, maps, and the internet, which is a time-consuming and laborious task. These river-related information are often fragmented, isolated, or scattered. The Visual River Atlas will give an informative 'visual experience' about each river, reducing this waste of time and effort," he added.
