IIRS Outreach Programme About IIRS

The IIRS outreach programme, which started in 2007 with 12 Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) under Indian Space
universities/ institutions has now grown substantially. Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, Govt. of
Currently, 580 universities / institutions spread across India India is a premier Training and Educational Institute set up for
are networked with IIRS. The beneficiaries of the developing trained professionals in the field of Remote
programme may include: Sensing, Geoinformatics and GNSS Technology for Natural
Resources, Environmental and Disaster Management. Formerly
• Central/State/Private Universities & Academic Institutions known as Indian Photo-interpretation Institute (IPI), founded in
• Central & State Government Departments 1966, the Institute boasts to be the first of its kind in entire
• Research Institutes South-East Asia. While nurturing its primary endeavour to build
• Geospatial Industries capacity among the user community by training mid-career
• NGOs professionals, the Institute has enhanced its capability and
evolved many training and education programmes that are
Feedback Mechanism tuned to meet the requirements of various target groups,
IIRS has conducted six workshops in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013,
ranging from fresh graduates to policy makers including
2014, 2015 and 2016 to take feedback from participating
academia.
institutions to improve the quality of future courses.
IIRS also conducts e-learning programme on Remote Sensing
and Geo-information Science (http://elearning.iirs.gov.in).

Contact Details
Mrs. Shefali Agrawal

UAV Remote Sensing and

Course Director
Tel: 0135-2524110

Applications
Email: shefali_a@iirs.gov.in

Mr. Raghavendra Sara

Course Coordinator
18th outreach programme feedback session during IIRS User
Tel: 0135-2524112/M-7417017417 July 03-07, 2017
Email: raghav@iirs.gov.in
Interaction Meet (IUIM)-2017
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Awards
IIRS has received national awards for excellence in training DLP Team
for outreach and e-learning programme during 1st National Dr. Harish Karnatak
Symposium on Excellence in Training conducted during April Head, GIT& DL Dept.
11-12, 2015 in New Delhi by Department of Personnel & Tel: 0135-2524332
Training (DoPT), Govt. of India in collaboration with United Email: harish@iirs.gov.in
Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Dr. Poonam S Tiwari
Tel: 0135-2524115; email: poonam@iirs.gov.in

Mr. Janardan Vishwakarma

Tel: 0135-2524130; email: janardan@iirs.gov.in
Organised by
Mr. Ashok Ghildiyal
Tel: 0135-2524130; email- ashokg@iirs.gov.in Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing,
Indian Space Research Organisation
Indian Space Research Organisation Department of Space, Govt. of India
Department of Space, Govt. of India,
4-Kalidas Road, Dehradun Dehradun
Email: dlp@iirs.gov.in www.iirs.gov.in
 Target Participants Course Funding & Technical Support
About the Course
The programme is sponsored by National Natural
The increasing development in Unmanned Aerial • The course is designed for professionals from Central/
Resources Management System – Standing
Vehicle (UAV) platforms and associated sensing Sate Govt./Private Organizations/NGO engaged in Committee on Training and Education (SC-T), Indian
technologies, has brought new dimension to the water resources management and planning, regional Space Research Organisation, Department of Space,
field of remote sensing. The UAVs enable and national water resources projects; students and Government of India and is conducted with due
accurate, flexible and low-cost measurements of researchers aligned to research in water resources. technical support from Amrita Virtual Interactive E-
3D, radiometric and temporal properties of land • The course participants have to be duly sponsored by learning World (A-VIEW).
cover features with high quality cameras, GPS their university / institution and application should be Programme Reception
and precise processing. Availability in wide range forwarded through coordinators from respective Programme can be received through Internet
of sizes, easier deployment and cost- connectivity of 2Mbps or better. Following hardware
Organisations/centres. Users attending programmes
effectiveness of UAVs compared to conventional and software set-up is required at user end:
under CEC-UGC/ CIET / other networks can also
air borne/space borne systems make them Hardware Requirements :
attractive. With light weight systems, typically participate. Institutions on high speed National
Knowledge Network (NKN) can also participate using High-end Computer/Laptop (Windows OS);
flying at altitudes ranging from 100 m to 300 m Good quality web camera ;
and the aerial strip extent ranging typically few A-VIEW software.
Headphone with Microphone;
kms, they have a great potential in applications Course Study Material Speakers ;
like fire monitoring, natural resource and disaster Course study materials like lecture slides, video Large Display Screen (Projector or TV) .
management, 3D terrain mapping, precision recorded lectures, open source software & handouts Software and Internet Requirements
agriculture, wildlife observation, vegetation of demonstrations, etc. will be made available Desktop based: A-VIEW software (free to download
measurements, etc. The huge amount of data through IIRS ftp link. Video lectures will also be from www.aview.in or IIRS ftp link:
provided by UAVs pose, a new challenge towards uploaded on YouTube Channel ftp://ftp.iirs.gov.in)
developing appropriate processing, storage and (http://www.youtube.com/user/edusat2004). Online live access through http://live.iirs.gov.in
transmission techniques. with free registration.
In view of the present and future potential of this Course Fee
Connectivity & Other configurations:
emerging technology, Indian Institute of Remote There is no course fee. NKN or any other high speed internet facility
Sensing (IIRS) offers a 5 day course on UAV based (preferably without firewall, with minimum of 2
photogrammetry and remote sensing. Course Registration
• Course updates and other details will be available Mbps bandwidth)
Network requirements: Port 80 and RTMP (port
Curriculum on URL- http://www.iirs.gov.in/Edusat-News/
• To participate in this programme the interested 1935) protocol should be unblocked from user’s
The course will be a blend of lectures and computer and Firewall.
organizations/ universities/ departments/
demonstrations on: Note: Institutions/ universities have to bear total
Institutes has to identify a coordinator at their
• Fundamentals of UAV Remote sensing; expenses for establishment of the classroom facility
end. The identified coordinator will register
• Challenges in data acquisition and processing;
online his/her Institute as nodal center in IIRS Award of Certificate
• Potential advantages of UAV data in Natural
website. Working Professionals: Based on 70%
Resource management
• All the participants has to register online through attendance and submission of assignments.
registration page by selecting his/her Students: Based on 70% attendance and online
organization as nodal center. examination.