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  • ISRO offers free online course on GNSS

    ISRO offers free online course on GNSS

    Logo: Indian Space Research OrganisationA free 12-day online course on GNSS will be offered by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), part of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

    “Overview of Global Navigation Satellite System” (Course-ID: 107) will be held Sept. 19-30. The course is designed to help with the urgent demand for trained manpower in remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), GNSS and associated geospatial technologies. The course will introduce GPS and GNSS, receivers, processing methods, errors and accuracy.

    The course will cover the following topics:

    • GPS receivers, processing methods, errors and accuracy
    • satellite-based augmentation systems and GPS-aided and GEO-augmented navigation (GAGAN)
    • GPS signal characteristics and data formats (broadcast and precise ephemeris)
    • Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
    • DGPS demonstration
    • advanced GNSS processing
    • development of satellite navigation technology, TRANSIT, TSKLON, GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou), principles of GNSS, segments and applications
    • satellite navigation.

    The course is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students; technical or scientific staff of central or state government; and faculty or researchers at university or institutions.

    Course study materials — lecture slides, recorded video lectures, open-source software and handouts of demonstrations — will be made available through the IIRS learning management system E-CLASS.

    Visit the IRSS website for details.

  • IIT Roorkee offers free online course on GNSS and DEMs

    The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee is offering a free online course on GNSS and Applications on the NPTEL platform. The four-week course will provide a basic understanding about digital elevation models (DEMs) and their applications in civil engineering and Earth sciences.

    During the course, various DEMs and their sources, generation techniques, derivatives, errors and limitations will be discussed extensively. Surface hydrologic modeling using DEMs, modeling derivatives and their applications will also be discussed.

    Intended audience. Under- and post-graduate engineering and post-graduate science students and faculty.

    Pre-requisites. Current students of engineering, post-graduate science students and Ph.D. students should have basic knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing.
    Industry support. Geoinformatics companies (such as NIIT, Esri India, Leica Geoinformatics, MapmyIndia, ISRO and more).

    The course will be taught by Arun K. Saraf, professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at IIT Roorkee. He teaches courses on remote sensing, digital image processing, GIS, advanced GIS, geomorphology and related topics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Geological Technology and Applied Geology. He has a Ph.D. in remote sensing from the University of Dundee, United Kingdom.

    The course takes place July 26-August 20. Registration is open until August 2 and can be done through the SWAYAM platform.