A Walkable JNU

JNU is a magnificent campus in which being outdoors is a real delight. All can enjoy ring roods and …

Small duscussion on Network Analysis and land use.Travel demand models are used to predict future traffic flows based on data on population, employment, travel times and costs etc. These forecasts are used in urban transport policy, planning and engineering. Increasingly such models are used in India’s rapidly developing urban regions, often using GIS data as inputs.

Third EduSat based Outreach Programme In Basics of Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS telecasted by IIRS (NRSC) Dehradun

EduSat based programme on “Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Positioning Systems” is being telecasted by IIRS (Indian Institute of Remote Sensing / Department of Space, GOI) Dehra Dun from 25th Aug, 2008 to 07th November 2008 ( Six Weeks).

J.N.U. already has EduSat SIT terminal for receiving signal at Center for Biotechnology Building, CIS, Room No. 2.

Outreach education and Knowledge Development through EduSat Beam

India envisioned to be a developed nation by year 2020, growing with impounding economic growth. Economists are on their toes claiming growth of various sectors, which are out of sight of common man. Cartoonist R.K. Laxman’s common man use to read newspaper, but there is uncertainty; whether India’s common man can do so.

This paper addresses present trends in modes of education, namely outreach EduSat based program, e-learning and WEB2.com for bridging gab between those who have or have not. In process of education, information is to be conveyed, interaction between producer (teacher) and receiver (student), confidence level by degree of interaction, question/hour sessions, synthesis of information by assignments and finally formation of knowledge domain. Now, present technology has all these rational knowledge formation process mediums, but it needs to be conceived and practice. EDUSAT, launched on September 2, 2004, is configured for audio-visual medium employing digital interactive classroom lessons and multimedia content. The ground coverage’s are specially configured to cater to the educational requirements of the country. The EDUSAT programme is primarily for school, college and higher levels of education and to support non-formal education.

Networks for IGNOU, CEC/ University Grants Commission (UGC), CIT/National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) have been set up using the national beam. JNU also has SIT EduSat facility, which is underutilized and possibilities are not fully explored. This paper also gives insight into pattern of information spread through EduSat facility across various universities/institutes for outreach programme on Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Positioning System, conducted by IIRS (NRSA)-DOS in 2007.

Satellite data show potential of rice straw as bioenergy

Milap Punia from the Center for the Study of Regional Development at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Vinod Prasad Nautiya and Yogesh Kant, both from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, first sketch the scale and seriousness of the current practise: setting fire to millions of tonnes of crop residues releases vast amounts of greenhouse and trace gases (CH4, CO, N2O, NOx), which heavily contribute to global warming and result in perturbations to regional atmospheric chemistry. The resulting air pollution is an important health hazard for Punjab's population. Weather patterns can change because of the aerosols that enter the atmosphere as a result of the burning.
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Workshop on Openstreetmap

There is need for spatial data sharing to avoid duplication, both gloabaly and locally. With same outreach openstreetmap has been put on web. On 27th february 2008 a small workshop was organised in JNU, where Mikel Maron demonstrated NavSat GPS for collecting points from the neigbourhood to CSRD students.

GIScience for Spatial Analysis and Regional Development

Workshop conducted (31st January- 7th February 2008) for research scholars and university faculties, so that they can have insight into societal challenges by using GIscience. About 28 scholars participated in the programme. Guest speakers were Prof. Josef Strobl and Dr. Shahnawaz from Salzburg University, Austria and Dr. M.C. Porwal from IIRS (NRSA), Dehradun.

GHG Observations from Space

From next summer, green house effect will be monitored through satellite-Green House Gases Observation satellite (GOSAT) - will be launched by Japan to monitor the region wise emission of carbon dioxide and methane.( Text from HT, December 24, 2007 edited by Fujino, NIES)