The BITSunami intervention was an attempt to re-build two tsunami hit villages in the Vedaraniyam Taluk of Nagapattinam District in Tamil Nadu. 

Monitoring and assessment of such a comprehensive effort required a system capable of dealing with large amounts of dynamic and spatial data. FERAL made a presentation demonstrating possible applications of GIS for similar projects and followed up with a proposal to set up a GIS based system for the BITSunami project.