ISRO Free Online Course on Global Navigation Satellite System Announced, Certificates to be Given

ISRO free online course on Global Navigation Satellite System, and location based services is being offered to interested participants

ISRO free online course on Global Navigation Satellite System, and location based services is being offered through the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), a unit under the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India. The 12-day free online course will be conducted from 21 February to 4 March 2022. Those who successfully complete the course, and take an examination will also be a give a certificate. 

Topics to be Covered in ISRO Free Online Course

While the website does not mention much about the content of the course,ISRO generally aims at training manpower in global navigation satellite system and associated geospatial technologies as the usage of these technologies is increasing rapidly. Some of the topics that could be covered in the ISRO free online course, based on what was covered in the past, are as follows:

• Introduction to GPS and GNSS.
• GPS receivers, processing methods, errors and accuracy.
• Satellites-based Augmentation systems and GPS Aided and GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN).
• GPS signal characteristics, and data formats including broadcast, and precise ephemeris.
• Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).
• DGPS demonstration.
• Advance GNSS processing.

Who Can Take the ISRO Free Online Course?

The course is open to the following participants:

• Undergraduate and postgraduate students of any year.
• Technical or scientific Staff of central or state government, faculty or researchers at university and institutions.

How to Enroll and Other Important Points of the ISRO Free Online Course?

• Interested participants can register for the course through the official website as either individuals or through the nodal institute. 
• 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.
• The coordinator will have to approve participants for the course.
• Participants of the course will be able to access the course study materials like lecture slides, video-recorded lectures, open-source software, and handouts of demonstrations on the e-class platform.