ISRO Free Online Course on Geographical Information System Announced

ISRO free online course on Geographical Information System is being offered to interested participants from 3 to 28 October 2022

ISRO free online course has been announced for interested students and professionals by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, a centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation. The course will be conducted from  3 to 28 October 2022. The course called Geographical Information System gives an insight into the technology, databases, topology, spatial analysis and open source software, and how the technology can be applied.

The course would be most suited for students with a minimum qualification of under graduation or post graduation, technical or scientific staff of central or state government, faculty, and researchers at university or institutions. Course study materials like lecture slides, video-recorded lectures, open source software and handouts of demonstrations will be made available through e-class.

Topics to be Covered in ISRO Free Online Course

The course will cover the following topics related to geographical information system over a period of 21 days:

• Introduction to geographical information system.
• Geographic phenomena, concepts and examples.
• Geographical information system data models including spatial and non-spatial.
• Data inputting and editing in geographical information system.
• Spatial analysis.
• Map projection concepts and Use in remote sensing and geographical information system.
• Spatial analysis: vector and raster.
• Open-source software technology and tools.
• Overview of spatial data quality.
• Uncertainty in geographical information system and error propagation.
• Overview of machine learning for geographical information system.
• Overview of big data analytics.
• Recent trends in geoinformatics.

How to Apply for ISRO Free Online Course?

Interested and eligible candidates will have to submit applications on the official website. To participate in the IIRS Outreach program the interested organizations, universities, departments or institutes have to identify a coordinator at their end who will register online their Institute as the nodal center on the IIRS website. Participants can register using the Individual registration option if their institute is not registered under the IIRS Outreach network by entering the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun as the nodal center.