ISRO Launches Free Online Course You Can Finish In a Week. Details Here!

Participants will have access to all the relevant course study materials like lecture slides, video lectures, open-source software and handouts of demonstrations, etc. through IIRS-shared link.

By Vidya Raja

June 16, 2020

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) through its centre the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) is inviting applications for a free online course on Satellite Photogrammetry and its Applications.

What is ‘Satellite Photogrammetry’?

The course aims to focus on concepts and techniques to process and analyse stereo data from space-borne sensors. A few potential users of the technique are administrators, decision-makers, engineers, city-planners, natural resource scientists.

It is scheduled from 29 June – 03 July 2020.

What will you learn?

The course will introduce the participants to:

• Photogrammetric Concepts
• Satellite Photogrammetry
• Basics of GPS
• DEM and its derivatives
• Orthoimage generation

You can get more details about the free online course by clicking here.

Do note: Participants will have access to all the relevant course study materials like lecture slides, video lectures, open-source software and handouts of demonstrations, etc. through an IIRS-shared link. Additionally, all video lectures will also be uploaded on the YouTube channel.

Important dates

The course will commence on 29 June 2020 and will go on until 3 July 2020.

Things to know:

Join ISRO’s free online course: Source: ISRO/ Twitter.

• There is no fee for this programme.
• The course is designed for professionals from central or state governments, private organisations, NGOs as well as students and researchers engaged in disaster management related activities.
• The course participants have to be duly sponsored by their university or institution and application should be forwarded through coordinators from respective organisations or centres.
• A certificate of completion will be awarded to participants on the basis of
– working professionals having a minimum of 70 per cent attendance and timely submission of all assignments and
– 70 per cent minimum attendance for students and appearing and clearing the online examination.
• You can access the lecture schedule here
• All course details will be uploaded on the official website here.

In case of any query, you can send an email to – [email protected]/[email protected].

Facebook & Feature Image Source: ISRO/Twitter

(Edited by Saiqua Sultan)

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