Orientation Program in Geospatial Technologies

Organised by

Sophia Girls College, Ajmer (Autonomous)

Ajmer, Rajasthan

Supported by

National Resources Data Management System

Department of Science and Technology, Gov-ernment of India, New Delhi

Orientation to Geospatial Technologies 28-30 November 2019

Sophia Girls College, Ajmer, (Autonomous)

Sophia Girls College, Ajmer (Autonomous)

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Autonomous) affili-

ated to Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University is

an ‘A’ Grade accredited Institute by NAAC (UGC).

Since 1959 the College holds high repute in the re-

gion for imparting quality higher education through

its dedicated and conscientious staff with high aca-

demic credentials and diversity of offered courses.

Department of Geography

The Department of Geography was established in

1959 with an aim of imparting quality teaching, re-

search & consultancy with promotion of outreach

programs in the subject with major thrust areas as

Social Geography, Population Studies, Regional

Planning and Development, Geopolitics, Geospatial

Technologies, Urban Planning and Sustainability.

The department offers B.A, M.A /M.Sc and Ph.D

Programs in Geography and a Diploma Program in

Geographic Information System. The well equipped

Research and Geoinformatics Lab of the department

supports research explorations and facilitates inno-

vative and investigative culture for undertaking pro-

ject works. The department also has an Outreach

Centre for organizing Online Geospatial Programs

offered by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

(IIRS), ISRO, Govt. of India, Dehradun.

Infrastructure

The department has well qualified and experienced

staff with expertise in Geographic Information Sys-

tem and Remote Sensing. It has a well equipped Re-

search and Geoinformatics laboratory with suffi-

cient logistics and has successfully housed many

National level workshops and Training Programs on

‘Hands on Training using Open Source Softwares’.

About the Orientation Program in Geospatial

Technologies

The three day orientation program in geospatial technologies supported by the Natural Resource Da-ta Management System of the Department of Sci-ence and Technology, Government of India will fo-cus on a general orientation to geospatial technolo-gies providing an overview of the technology and applications.

Accommodation

Registered participants will be provided all hospital-

ity during the stay. Accommodation facility will be

arranged at the closest hotel on twin sharing basis.

The hosting Institute will bear all expenses of ac-

commodation, food, lodging and study material dur-

ing the Winter School Program.

Dates: 28-30 November 2019

Venue: Sophia Girls College, Ajmer

Principal Investigator : Dr. Monika Kannan

Associate Professor & Head, P.G Department of Geography

Address: Jaipur Road, Mir Shah Ali Rd, Colony, Ajmer, Rajasthan 305001 Phone: 020 25672841, 25672842

Email: kannanmonika@gmail.com

Website: https://www.sophiacollegeajmer .in/

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Well equipped state of art laboratories

ORIENTATION PROGRAM on

Capacity Building with Geospatial Technologies (DST NRDMS Winter School)

28-30 November, 2019

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

DAY 1 November 28th, 2019 THURSDAY

9.00 - 9.45 am REGISTRATION

9.45 – 10.45 am INAUGURAL CEREMONY

10.45-11.00 am HIGH TEA

11.00 – 12.30pm Key Note Address Dr. YVN Krishna Murthy

Sr. Professor & Registrar,

Indian Institute of Space Science &

Technology (IIST), Dept. of Space, Govt. of

India, Valiamala, Thiruvanathapuram (Kerala)

12.30 – 2.00 pm Concepts and Principals of

Remote Sensing & GIS

Dr. Mahaveer Punia

Dept. of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of

Scientific Research, Jaipur (Raj.)

2.00 - 2.30 pm LUNCH

2.30 – 4.00 pm Overview of spatial & non-

spatial data types. Aerial

photos, remote sensing

data, toposheets, databases,

etc.

Ms. Shilpi Yadav

Department of Geography,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer

(Rajasthan)

4.00 – 4.15 pm TEA BREAK

4.15 – 5.45 pm Bhuvan: Understanding

and Interpretation Dr. Monika Kannan

Head, Department of Geography,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Raj.)

DAY 2 November 29th, 2019 FRIDAY

9.00-10.30 am USGS, Open Street Maps,

NAKSHE, acquiring

toposheets from SOI

Dr. Monika Kannan

Head, Department of Geography,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Raj.)

10.30 – 12.00 am Brief Introduction to Dr. Shailesh Chaure

QGIS3. Data Creation :

Georeferencing

Government Holkar Science College,

Indore (M.P)

12.00–1.30pm Digitization of Toposheet

Creation of Point, Line and

Polygon

Dr. Shailesh Chaure

Government Holkar Science College,

Indore (M.P)

1.30-2.00 pm LUNCH

2.00 – 3.30 pm Spatial Analysis (Editing:

Split; Copy; Parallel; Buffer Dr. Neha Sharma

Department of Computer Science,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Raj.)

3.30 – 3.45 pm HIGH TEA

3.45 - 5.15 pm Simple Map Composition

from created layers

Dr. Monika Kannan

Head, Department of Geography,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Raj.)

DAY 3 November 30th, 2019 SATURDAY

9.00-10.30 am Introducing SAGA GIS &

Understanding an Image

Dr. Ritu Bhargava

Department of Computer Science,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Raj.)

10.30- 12.00pm Using Google Earth,

Extracting information from

Google Maps

Dr. Mehtab Rana

Department of Geography,

MDU, Rohtak (Haryana)

12.00 – 1.30

pm

Application of Remote

Sensing in Resource

Planning & Management

Dr. Mehtab Rana

Department of Geography,

MDU, Rohtak (Haryana)

1.30 - 2.00 pm LUNCH

2.00 – 3.30 pm Application of Remote

Sensing in Climate Studies;

Urban Planning

Mr. Rishi Saxena

Department of Computer Science,

Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer (Raj.)

3.30 – 4.30 pm VALEDICTORY CEREMONY