National Workshop on “Geospatial Technology” org by Department of Geography Pachhunga University College
National Workshop on “Geospatial Technology”
10th – 14th February 2020 Department of Geography Pachhunga University College
The Department had organized a National Workshop on the topic “Geospatial Technology” from 10th to 14th of February, 2020. The workshop was inaugurated by Chief Patron Dr. Tawnenga, honorable Principal, Pachhunga University College. He also delivered his speech and highlighted about Pachhunga University College in brief. Prof. Rintluanga Pachuau delivered the Keynote address. In his keynote address, he explained the details about Remote Sensing & GIS with reference to different geospatial technology and tools. He also described about the utility of geospatial technology. Dr. R. Ramthara delivered the welcoming speech to the participants and other dignities. The whole workshop was divided into ten different sessions and the resource persons delivered a series of lectures and conducted practical sessions. The details of the session and resource persons are as follows.
Details of Technical Session
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Day One (10thFebruary, 2020) |
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Venue: GIS-Lab |
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1st Session |
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Topic |
Resource Person |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Basic Concept of Geoinformatics |
Zoramkhuma |
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Lunch Break |
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2nd Session |
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Topic |
Resource Person |
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1:00 – 2:00 |
Geodesy (Concept of Datum & Coordinate System) |
FC. Kypacharili |
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2:00 – 4:00 |
Practical related to 1st& 2nd Sessions |
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Day Two (11thFebruary, 2020) |
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Venue: GIS-Lab |
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1st Session |
Time |
Topic |
Resource Person |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Principles of Remote Sensing |
Zoramkhuma |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Introduction to Geospatial Data |
Zoramkhuma |
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Lunch Break |
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2nd Session |
Time |
Practical related to 1st Session |
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1:00 – 4:00 |
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Venue: GIS-Lab |
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1st Session |
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Topic |
Resource Person |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Concept of Geographic Information System |
Dr. G. Deka |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Geographic Information System: Data Models |
FC. Kypacharili |
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Lunch Break |
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2nd Session |
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Practical related to 1st Session |
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1:00 – 4:00 |
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Day Four (13thFebruary, 2020) |
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Venue: GIS-Lab |
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1st Session |
Time |
Topic |
Resource Person |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Image Processing & Data Analysis – I (Pre- Processing) |
FC. Kypacharili |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Image Processing & Data Analysis – II (Classification) |
FC. Kypacharili |
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Lunch Break |
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2nd Session |
Time |
Practical related to 1st Session |
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1:00 – 4:00 |
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Day Five (14thFebruary, 2020) |
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Venue: GIS-Lab |
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1st Session |
Time |
Topic |
Resource Person |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Uses and Exploration of Open Sources Data |
Zoramkhuma |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Application of Remote Sensing & GIS |
Dr. Bobby |
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Lunch Break |
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2nd Session |
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Practical related to 1st Session |
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1:00 – 3:00 |
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3:00 – 4:00 |
Certificate Distribution & Closing Function |
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Key Information:
Date of the Workshop: 10/02/20 to 14/02/2020 Number of Resource Persons (Speakers): 4 Number of Registered Participants: 30 Convenor of the webinar: Dr. R. Ramthara Organizing Secretary: Zoramkhuma
Sponsored By: Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of Mizoram
Mode of Workshop
· The content/syllabus of the workshop was solely based for meeting the requirement of Under Graduate and Post Graduate syllabus especially on earth sciences and life sciences (Geography, Geology, Environmental Science, Forestry, Botany and Zoology etc).
· The workshop was also designed to introduce Geoinformatics technology on teaching faculty, researcher and scientists.
· The workshop was specially designed to make used of open-source software, mainly QGIS, which is popular and user friendly in Remote Sensing and GIS domain.
· This workshop introduced different sources of spatial and non-spatial data product available in public domain (Raster or Vector Data) such as, Google Earth, DIVIA-GIS, Open Street Map (OSM), Earth Explorer and Bhuvan etc.
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