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Welcome to
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing!
 International
Collaboration
ITC
(The Netherlands)
A collaborative project between IIRS and ITC, covering the period 1995-2000 was
directed at upgrading staff capabilities, facilities in the field of Geoinformation
Systems and applications for natural resources development and environmental plannning and management.
In India, now a days, the development of natural resources is more and more
confronted with limiting factors that prevent a sustainable development, especially due
to occurrence of natural disasters, and an increasing need exits in capacity building
and training in the field of Geoinformatics for Environmental Assessment and Disaster
Management.
To augment this, the second phase of the SAIL institutional development cooperation with IIRS will focus on minimizing environmental
degradation and disaster generated sufferings using technology of Geoinformatics. The project will focus on
capacity building, development of course curricula,
applications by developing case
studies and establishing infrastructure. The interface will be strengthened through
networking, sharing experience and probing technology know how. The, Delft and
WU, Wageningen are also partners for this second phase project.
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 GDTA
(France) Under
Indo-French collaboration an understanding has
been arrived with ISRO to collaborate in the field
of training and education. A memorandum of
understanding has been signed on May,1999 between
ISRO and GDTA (France) for mutual cooperatino in
training, education and research in remote sensing
and GIS applications for Natural Resource
Management. To start with, the cooperation focuses
in following areas.
* Exchange of post-graduate diploma (IIRS)
and CETEL (GDTA) students for project assignment.
* Faculty exchange for consultation on
curriculum.
* Sharing of experience in the specialized
areas. |
 ITTO/JOFCA
(Japan)
IIRS is actively involved in International Tropical
Timber Organisation (ITTO) project for the formulation
and development of Forest Canopy Density Mapping using
semi- expert system. It is a collaboration with South
East Asian countries to develop robust techniques for
Forest Density Stratification. ITTO has recognized the
Institute to conduct regular training programmes for
forest officers of ITTO member countries in Forest
Canopy Density mapping. Under this programme, IIRS and
JOFCA (Japan Over- -seas Forestry Consultancy
Association) have organized two training programmes for
ITTO member countries. |
 UNESCO
UNESCO has recognised IIRS as training centre in
capacity building for disaster red- -uction programme
under IIRS ITC IHE WUR initiative on Geoinformatics for
environ- -mental assessment and disaster management.
Under this programme IIRS will org- -anise several
training programmes on disaster reduction and mitigation
for various developing countries. First such course has
been organized with CSSTEAP during Aug-Sept. 2002
wherein UNESCO has provided six scholarships from
South-Asian countries. |
 WMO
IIRS has established linkages with World Meteorological
Organisation (WMO), located at Geneva, Switzerland. The
major objectives of this linkage are capacity building
through training and education, joint research in the
fields of satellite remote sensing and GIS applications
in agro-meteorology, hydro-meteorological and
environmental disaster management. Recently held
training workshop (RA II) on satellite remote sensing
and GIS applications in Agricultural Meteorology at IIRS,
was the first step under this linkage. |
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