NRSC

Department of IT - Velegapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College - NRSC

National Remote Sensing Centre-ISRO Lab

Funded by NRSC-ISRO

Information Technology department is established a research lab in the name of National Remote Sensing Centre-ISRO Lab to execute the projects sanctioned by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC),ISRO, Hyderabad. The main objective of this lab is to provide solutions and services to NRSC, Hyderabad. To meet the objective, solutions are provided by delineating tree and its parameters estimation like tree height and crown diameter for forestry applications and Mobile Based Panchayat level asset mapping of Krishna district to update in the NRSC-Bhuvan Server. An amount of Rs. 26,14,000/- is sanctioned by NRSC . The Department was already been sanctioned a R&D project on Video Analytics by ADRIN – ISRO worth of Rs.18,23,000/-.

The main objectives of this lab are as follows:

  1. To develop and evaluate algorithms for forestry applications using multispectral remote sensingimages
  2. To motivate faculty to pursue their research in Remote Sensing and Geographic information system
  3. To provide internships to students in the areas of Remote Sensing and GIS
  4. To enhance the knowledge of students and staff by organizing various events via Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Edusatoutreach Programs
  5. To map various assets of village panchayats into BhuvanPanchayatProtal of NRSC, Hyderabad
  6. To interact with the eminent personalities from Academia, industry, NRSC, ISRO, IIRS, APSAC etc.,

List of Equipment :

Equipment

Date of Purchase

Quantity

HP Z640 Workstation/E5-2620v4/16GB/1TB Hard Disk Drive/ DVD/ NVIDIA Quadro M4000 8GB 4XxDP

31-03-2017

01

Projects Executed :

S.NO.

Name of the Project

File Number

Date of Sanction

Amount in Rs.

1

Development and Evaluation of Algorithms for automated Tree Delineation and Tree parameters (height and crown diameter) Estimation
for Forestry Applications

ISRO/RES/4/627/16 17

30/09/2016

16,90,000

2

Mobile Based Panchayat Level Asset Mapping of Krishna District Andhra Pradesh

RC-EPRIS-2017

03/07/2017

9,24,000/-