Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) under Indian Space Research Organisation, Department of Space, Govt. of India is a premier Training and Educational Institute set up for developing trained professionals in the field of Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics and GPS Technology for Natural Resources, Environmental and Disaster Management.
It functions as a constituent Unit of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India. Formerly known as Indian Photo-interpretation Institute (IPI), founded in 1966, the Institute boasts to be the first of its kind in entire South-East Asia. While nurturing its primary endeavour to build capacity among the user community by training mid-career professionals, the Institute has enhanced its capability and evolved many training & education programmes that are tuned to meet the requirements of various target groups, ranging from fresh graduates to policy makers including academia.
The Institute campus also houses the headquarters of the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and The Pacific (CSSTEAP), affiliated to the United Nations and first of its kind established in the region in 1995. IIRS provides support to conduct all its remote sensing and GIS training & education programmes at postgraduate level. The headquarters of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), the largest non-governmental scientific society in the country, is also located in the Institute campus.

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organisation,
Dept. of Space, Govt. of India 4, Kalidas Road, Dehradun - 248 001 (India) Tel: + 91 - (0)135 - 2524399 Fax: + 91 - (0)135 - 2741987
E-mail: director[At]iirs[dot]gov[dot]in

COMPUTER LABORATORY

Printer-friendly version Digital Image Processing, Photogrammetry & GIS Labs All the Departments of the Institute are equipped with

state-of-art computing facility and input/output devices to meet various photogrammetric, remote sensing and GIS data processing requirements. The Institute's servers host a variety of RS & GIS softwares, such as ERDAS Imagine, Geomatica, Geomedia, IDRISI Taiga, ENVI, Definiens (Ecognition), SARMAP, ArcGIS, ArcView, ISRO's IGiS, and several other open source softwares which are shared across the computer network. The Institute also has a dedicated digital photogrammetry lab equipped with high-end photogrammetric workstations and softwares for processing satellite, aerial and terrestrial stereo photos/images for DEM generation and 3-D feature extraction. Internet and intranet facility is available across the network in the campus. Sharing of all the technical information related to various education, training and research programmes, including the technical outputs of the students' research, is enabled through internet.

CENTRAL LIBRARY

• IIRS Central Library has a wide range of collection of documents and information resources in print and electronic form to meet the requirement of its user community, especially on literature pertaining to Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Geospatial Technologies and their applications in various fields. Presently, it has a collection of over 23,600 volumes of documents (until November 2011), which include books, monographs, technical reports, dissertations & theses, proceedings, back volumes of journals, etc. Besides, multimedia CDs, video cassettes on several topics are also archived for the benefit of students/trainees as a supplementary material for outside-classroom learning. The Library subscribes to 57 national and 50 international journals in print form. Its electronic resources (online full-text) at present include 29 Journals and 589 e-books.

  The house keeping operations and user services of the library are automated. The resources can be searched through Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) available on LAN. The Library is open to its users six days a week during 09:00 – 20:30 hrs.

  

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