IIRS Outreach Programme About IIRS 133rd IIRS Outreach Programme

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) under Indian

The IIRS outreach programme, which was started in 2007 Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of
with 12 universities/ institutions has now grown Space, Govt. of India is a premier Training and
substantially to 3400+ network institutes. The beneficiaries
Educational Institute set up for developing trained
of the programme may include:
professionals in the field of Remote Sensing,
Geoinformatics and GNSS Technology for Natural
• Central/State/Private Universities & Academic Institutions Resources, Environmental and Disaster Management.
• Central & State Government Departments Formerly known as Indian Photo-interpretation Institute
• Forest Resource Professionals (IPI), founded in 1966, the Institute boasts to be the first of
• State Forest Departments/Forest Training Academies its kind in entire South-East Asia. While nurturing its
• Research Institutes primary endeavour to build capacity among the user
• Geospatial Industries community by training mid-career professionals, the
• NGOs Institute has enhanced its capability and evolved many
training and education programmes that are tuned to meet
Feedback Mechanism the requirements of various target groups, ranging from
fresh graduates to policy makers including academia.
IIRS takes continuous feedback from participating
institutions to improve the quality of future courses.
IIRS also conducts e-learning programme on Remote
Sensing and Geoinformation Science
(http://elearning.iirs.gov.in).

Contact Details
Dr. Harish Karnatak Geodata Processing using
Python
Course Director and Head, GIT&DL
Tel: 0135-2524332

Dr. Poonam S. Tiwari

Feedback session during IIRS User Interaction Meet (IUIM)-2020 Programme Coordinator January 15-19, 2024
IIRS Outreach Programme
Awards Tel: 0135-2524332
IIRS has received national awards for excellence in Ravi Bhandari
training for outreach and e-learning programme during 1st Course Coordinator
National Symposium on Excellence in Training conducted Tel: 0135-2524108
during April 11-12, 2015 in New Delhi by Department of
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Personnel & Training (DoPT), Govt. of India in collaboration
with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). IIRS DLP Team
Mr. Janardan Vishwakarma
&
Mr. Ashok Ghildiyal
Tel: 0135-2524130 Organised by
Email- [email protected]
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Indian Space Research Organisation
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Department of Space, Govt. of India
Indian Space Research Organisation Dehradun
Department of Space, Govt. of India,
4-Kalidas Road, Dehradun
www.iirs.gov.in
About the Course Target Participants Course Funding & Technical Support
The programme is sponsored by Indian Space Research
Today large amount of satellite imagery and geospatial The candidates who want to participate in the Organisation, Department of Space, Government of India.
data collected from different sources is available at free of course should be a student of final year
cost. Satellite imagery combined with power of Geographic undergraduate course or postgraduate course (any
information System can be a great tool for supporting year).Technical/Scientific Staff of Central/State Programme Reception
Government/Faculty/researchers at
environmental management, disasters, global climate Programme can be received through e-class platform of
university/institutions are also eligible to apply for
change, natural resources, wildlife, land cover and many this course. Applications of participants have to be IIRS-ISRO using internet connectivity. No specific
other applications. duly sponsored by university/institute and hardware/software required. However, it is
forwarded through coordinators from respective
Processing this vast amount of data in time and space centres. recommended good internet connectivity at user end. To
efficient manner and deriving useful information and run the programme in class room, following hardware
knowledge from data is one of the most challenging aspect will be required:
of geospatial technology. • Desktop computer with web camera microphone and
We invite you to attend this training program on Geo- Course Pre-requisite output speakers or laptop with microphone camera
processing and visualization on web platforms. The course  Knowledge of Basics of Remote Sensing and GIS and output speaker.
is scheduled from January 15-19, 2024.  Basic knowledge of computer programming
• Large display screen/projector/TV.

Curriculum Important links

Course Study Material
Courses updates and other details will be available on
 Overview of GIS and different geospatial data types
Course study materials like lecture slides, video recorded URL – https://www.iirs.gov.in/EDUSAT-News
 Overview to Python programming using lectures, open source software & handouts of To participate in this programme the interested
 Raster data processing, resampling and analysis demonstrations, etc. will be made available through e-
class. Video lectures will also be uploaded on e-class organisations/universities/departments/institutes have
 Vector data processing and analysis (https://www.eclass.iirs.gov.in/login). to identify coordinator at their end. The identified
 Familiarization to various open source geospatial data coordinator will register online his/her institute as nodal
Course Fee centre in IIRS website
processing libraries e.g. GDAL, Geopandas etc.
There is no course fee for attending this programme. (https://elearning.iirs.gov.in/edusatregistration/coordina
tor)
Expected Outcome Course Registration All the participants have to register online through
registration page by selecting his/her organization as
At the end of this course participant must be able to • Course updates and other details will be available on URL-
nodal centre.
http://www.iirs.gov.in/Edusat-News/
 Write program in python to read, write and process https://elearning.iirs.gov.in/edusatregistration/student
• To participate in this programme the interested organizations/
different raster formats. universities/ departments/ Institutes has to identify a coordinator
 Write program in python to read, write and process at their end. The identified coordinator will register online
Award of Certificate
his/her Institute as nodal center in IIRS website. Working Professionals and Students: Based on 70%
different vector formats.
attendance.
 Write program to visualize geospatial data in form of
• All the participants have to register online through registration
maps, images etc. There are limited number of seats.
page by selecting his/her organization as nodal center.
Registration will be done on first come first serve basis
 Able to Get insights from your spatial data