Chandigarh University joins hands with Punjab Remote Sensing
Centre Ludhiana for resources management, disaster mitigation
CU, PRSC sign MoU for research, academic collaboration; to
exchange faculty, knowledge, resource
Centre of Excellence established at CU
Campus; Joint ME course in Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics to be offered
MOHALI: Marking a revolutionary moment,
Chandigarh University, Gharuan has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with the Punjab Government’s premier enterprise Punjab Remote Sensing Centre
(PRSC) Ludhiana to enhance research and academic collaboration for application
of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technology.
With this
tactical partnership, Chandigarh University and PRSC aim to share knowledge,
faculty and resources to make advancements in the areas of Geoinformatics and
Remote Sensing focusing on advanced geospatial tools and techniques.
The MoU in
this regard was signed between Prof (Dr) Anand Agrawal, Vice-Chancellor,
Chandigarh University and Dr Brijendra Pateriya, Director, PRSC, Punjab
Agricultural University (PAU) campus, Ludhiana, in the presence of senior
members of CU and senior scientists from PRSC.
A Centre of
Excellence for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing was also inaugurated in the
Department of Civil Engineering at Chandigarh University, aimed at encouraging
various initiatives including government missions which are playing key roles
to implement and monitor the schemes through satellite data and other sensor
uses.
Giving
information, Prof (Dr) Anand Agrawal said that with this partnership, both the
institutions would converge energies, expertise and resources to focus on
advanced geospatial tools and techniques for utilities surveys and resources
management among others.
Apart from
this, quality training will be provided to the students in the field of
research and development through seminars, workshops, conferences, exhibitions
and research publications etc, even as Faculty development programs will be
conducted at both the institutions, he added.
Dr Agarwal
also informed that a joint Master in Engineering (ME) program on Remote Sensing
and Geo-Informatics related subjects will be offered by PRSC and Chandigarh
University in near future.
“This
agreement will allow the researchers of both institutions to work on joint
research projects, exchange research materials, publish research papers in
international and Indian scientific journals and will provide assistance in
publishing books. Likewise, exchange of faculty will also be done for further
qualitative improvements in research areas,” he added.
Speaking on
the occasion, Dr Brijendra Pateriya, Director, PRSC, Ludhiana said that this
collaboration will strengthen the better utilization of resources to serve the
society by using geospatial infrastructure majorly to help our farmers, for
disaster mitigation and management, utilities surveys, water and land resource
management, urban and rural development, including Landslide Hazard Zonation
(LHZ) and allied aspects based on expertise and resource availability in the
respective institution.
Following the signing of MoU, both organisations discussed the need to develop techniques to mitigate natural disaster in the Himalayan zone.