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21-Day DST Workshop on Geospatial Technology Inaugurated
at USTM
Shri P.L.N. Raju, Director,
NESAC speaking at the Inaugural of 21 day long DST
Geospatial Summer School at USTM on 8 July 2019
9th Mile, Ri-Bhoi,
Khanapara, 8 July 2019: Shri P.L.N. Raju, Director,
North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC) today
inaugurated the 21 day long Summer School on “Capacity
Building in Geospatial Technologies and Applications” at the
University of Science and Technology-Meghalaya. The workshop
is being organized by the Department of Earth Science, USTM
and sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology
(DST), Government of India. Researchers from all over
country have come to participate in the Summer School. A
total of 31 participants from Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal
and the North-eastern states of India have joined the
workshop.
Inaugurating the workshop, Shri PLN Raju explained about the
use of space technology in various applications, right from
space mission to agriculture, biodiversity, conservation,
management of hazards like flood and erosion. The workshop
has targeted researchers, teachers, planners, surveyors and
decision makers as the main purpose of the workshop is to
support planning and decision making of the government.
In a statement, Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of USTM said that
the use of remote sensing and GIS and other geospatial
technologies for planning and development is not new for
India. But there is a renewed focus of its use in various
aspects of life. “I am very much grateful to DST, Govt. of
India for awarding this academic project for the first time
in Meghalaya by selecting our University as one of the
centres to conduct the programme”, he stated.
Dr Narayan Chetry, Principal Investigator of the project and
Head of the Department of Earth Science at USTM said that
geospatial technology can be targeted for social and
community development, geospatial data structure development
and locational services. The participants of the summer
school are expected to be benefitted in their teaching and
learning activities including research by using the modern
tools and technology. |
