New Delhi: The Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) organized four-day Training Workshop on ‘Digital Image Processing’ for the Postgraduate Students from 24-29 March 2023. The event was organized in collaboration with the Regional Remote Sensing Center (RRSC)- North India, Indian Space Research Organization, Government of India, New Delhi.

According to the official press release, The Chief General Manager, RRSC-North, New Delhi, Dr. S.K. Srivastav was the Chief Guest, and Prof. Syed Akhtar Husain, Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, JMI, Chaired the Inaugural ceremony on 24 March 2023. Prof. Sajjad, Head, Department of Geography, JMI, stressed the need for imparting emerging geospatial technology among budding geographers to serve society, nation, and humanity. Prof. Lubna Siddiqui, The coordinator of the workshop, highlighted the scope and technical details of the training program.

“Prof. Srivastav highlighted key points related to the applications of remote sensing and GIS on soil, water, and forest resources; Application of Remote Sensing in agricultural drought, horticulture mapping, and monitoring; Use of datasets in various applications through BHUWAN portal; Hydrological modeling for basin management and Morphometric analysis; Forest mapping, forest fire mapping, and alert; Biodiversity classification; and Remote sensing for disaster studies such as hazard mapping, inundation mapping and early warning,” said the press release.

The workshop concluded with the closing ceremony held at the RRSC, New Delhi. Thirty postgraduate students of the department participated in the closing ceremony. All the students were awarded a certificate of completion. 

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