Seminar on ‘Geographical Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing’- 12 November, 2015

ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 FROM 09:00 AM TO 1:00 PM

AT MAIN AUDITORIUM, AIOU, ISLAMABAD.

This seminar intended to give an opportunity to the students with background in diverse fields like engineering, environmental sciences, agriculture, forestry & IT to apply geospatial tools in their respective fields. In emerging technology paradigm, “Geographical Information System (GIS)” has emerged as a powerful technology which has a potential to organize complex spatial environment with tabular relationships. “Remote sensing” is the art and science of making measurements of the earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites.

The following topics were covered in this seminar:

• Identification and Assessment of Crop (Wheat) using Geo-Informatics
• Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS for Agricultural Mapping and Monitoring
• Geospatial Big Data
• Programming Tools in Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing

Resource Persons:

1. Engr. Rozina Naz

Principal Scientific Officer, CAEWRI, NARC, Islamabad.

2. Dr. Mobushir Riaz Khan

Director, University Institute of Information Technology (UIIT), PMAS-AAU, Rawalpindi.

3. Dr. Ali Tahir   

Assistant Professor, Institute of Geographical Information System, NUST, Islamabad.

4. Mr. Kamran Mir (session through video conferencing)

Shanghai Open University, China.