IIRS Outreach Programme About IIRS 143th 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
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Contact Details Geospatial Technology for
Digital Agriculture
Dr. N.R. Patel
Course Director
Tel: 0135-2524138
June 24-28, 2024
Email: nrpatel@[Link]
Feedback session during IIRS User Interaction Meet (IUIM)-2023
Mr. Abhishek Danodia
Awards Course Coordinator
IIRS has received national awards for excellence in Tel: 0135-2524141
Email: abhidanodia@[Link]
training for outreach and e-learning programme during 1st
National Symposium on Excellence in Training conducted
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during April 11-12, 2015 in New Delhi by Department of
Personnel & Training (DoPT), Govt. of India in collaboration IIRS DLP Team
with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Mr. Janardan Vishwakarma
&
Mr. Ashok Ghildiyal
Tel: 0135-2524130 Organised by
Email- dlp@[Link]
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 [Link]
About the Course Target Participants Course Funding & Technical Support
Geospatial technology is transforming digital agriculture • This course is designed for professionals from Central / The programme is sponsored by Indian Space Research
State Govt. / Private Organizations / NGO/ students & Organisation, Department of Space, Government of India.
by providing advanced tools such as Geographic researchers engaged in agricultural applications i.e. crop
Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), Global inventory, crop condition assessment, crop yield
Positioning Systems (GPS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
modeling, crop water requirement etc. using advances in
RS & GIS via UAV, Machine learning, Artificial
Programme Reception
(UAVs), field based instrumentations and wireless field Intelligence, sensors/ instrumentations etc. Programme can be received through e-class platform
sensors. These technologies enable farmers and • The candidates who want to participate in the course
of IIRS-ISRO using internet connectivity. No specific
should be students of a final-year undergraduate course
agronomists to collect, analyze and interpret spatial data or postgraduate course (any year) at least and citizens of
hardware/software required. However, it is
for better decision-making. By leveraging these tools, India. recommended good internet connectivity at user end.
To run the programme in class room, following
agricultural professionals can monitor crop health,
optimize irrigation, manage soil properties and enhance
Course Study Material hardware will be required:
• Desktop computer with web camera microphone
yield predictions, leading to increased productivity and Course study materials like lecture slides, video recorded and output speakers or laptop with microphone
lectures, open source software & handouts of
sustainability. camera and output speaker.
demonstrations, etc. will be made available through e-
class. Video lectures will also be uploaded on e-class • Large display screen/projector/TV.
In today's world, digital agriculture has emerged as a
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transformative force, offering innovative solutions to
address the challenges of food security, sustainability Course Fee Important links
and efficiency. At the heart of this revolution lies There is no course fee for attending this programme. To participate in this programme the interested
geospatial technology, enabling farmers to make organizations/ universities/ departments/ institutes have to
informed decisions based on real-time data and analysis. Course Registration identify coordinator at their end. The identified coordinator
will register online his/her institute as nodal center in IIRS
Now a days, government project and scheme are also • Course updates and other details will be available on URL-
website
digital technology oriented, which is the need of hours. [Link]
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• Registered through Nodal centres. The participant’s
registration must be approved by the coordinator of
Course Contents nodal centres.
Award of Certificate
• The participants can register and see their Registered through Nodal centres : Based on 70%
• Overview of Digital Agriculture and scope of
application status through URL- attendance, students will be awarded a "Courses
Geospatial technology
[Link] . In Participation Certificate.”
• IoT and ICT technologies for digital agriculture
case, the application is pending for approval then Individual Registration: A "Course Participation"
• Geospatial and data driven technologies for crop
participants are advised to contact the coordinator certificate will be given to everyone who devotes at
monitoring & crop yield prediction
of respective nodal centre. least 70% of each session's hours to the course. The
• Digital soil mapping and soil quality assessment Registered as “Individual registrations”- course participation certificate will be available for
• Advance RS & Data Analytics for Precision/smart
•The participants with individual registration will be download in ISRO LMS.
farming automatically approved. All the registered participants
will get their login credentials for ISRO Learning There are a limited number of seats.
Management System (LMS)- [Link] Registration will be done on a first-come, first-served basis.
