Geosciences and Remote Sensing

GIS has been developed as a powerful technology for mapping and analyzing earth resources. Although it has been widely used as a mapping tool and well-known for its application in various fields of earth sciences, but it has emerged as a new subject with immense potentiality and opportunity in recent days. The Department of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System was established in 2003 with the view to cater the increasing demand of qualified and skilled manpower in this rapid growing field. It is one of the first Remote Sensing & GIS departments in West Bengal to start the course of Remote Sensing and GIS at Post Graduate and Doctoral levels. The Alumni of this Department have occupied responsible positions in India and abroad. Our students have unique opportunity to undertake their dissertation collaboratively with renowned state and central government agencies and research institutes and they are encouraged to carry out innovative.

At BIT Mesra, the Department of Remote Sensing was established in 1997 with an aim to meet the increasing demand for qualified manpower in this rapidly developing field. Application of Remote Sensing / Geoinformatics techniques using tools such as Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) in various activities including resources evaluation, environmental monitoring and land use/land cover mapping etc. , has grown considerably during the last few decades and RS data products are increasingly being used for plan formulation at all levels. An essential pre-requisite to partaking in these opportunities is the building of various indigenous capacities for the development and utilization of space Science and technology. Department of Remote Sensing is now a FIST-DST sponsored department and is also SAP (Special Assistance Programme) supported by UGC.