ISRO Invites Applications from Students and Scientific Staff for Free Online Course on Geospatial Applications

ISRO is offering a free online course called Geospatial Applications for Forest Ecosystem Analysis for students and scientific researchers

ISRO is currently accepting applications from students and scientific staff for a free online course called “Geospatial Applications for Forest Ecosystem Analysis”. The course is being offered by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, which is a centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation. IIRS says that the course is aimed at offering an understanding of the technology as geospatial technology is an effective tool for assessment, monitoring and management of forest ecosystem. Participants will be given certificates upon successful completion of the course.

Who Can Take the ISRO Free Online Course?

The course would be most suitable for the following participants:

• The candidates who want to participate in should be a postgraduate or final year postgraduate student of environmental science or life science. 
• Scientific staff of central, state government, faculty or researchers at university or institutions are also eligible to apply for this course.

What the ISRO Free Online Course Will Cover?

The course brings both theoretical as well as use cases on how geospatial technology can be effectively applied to better understand and manage the forest ecosystems. The following topics will be covered as part of the course:

• Overview on application of geospatial technology in forest ecosystem studies.
• Geospatial application for forest biomass assessment.
• Geospatial application for forest productivity assessment.
• Geospatial application for biodiversity study for conservation planning.
• Forest monitoring using publicly available EO data and cloud resources.

The course should be able to enable the participants to self explore and apply methodology on use of geospatial technology for monitoring and assessment of various forest ecosystems.

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

• Interested participants can go through the official brochure for further information.. 
• 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.
• The course will be conducted from 20 to 25 June 2022. 
• Since there are limited number of seats, the registrations will be accepted on a first come first serve basis.