JALUKBARI, Dec 14 - The two-day National Conference on Environmental Remote Sensing (NCERS) came to an end at the Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, Azara today.
The conference was inaugurated by PLN Raju, Director, North Eastern Space Applications Centre as the chief guest.
The inaugural ceremony was presided over by Prof Manoranjan Kalita, Director, School of Technology. In his speech, he called for creation of awareness among the student community and researchers about the potential of remote sensing in resolving the core issues related to geo-informatics.
Remote sensing is the data capturing tool of geo-informatics which is described as electronic sensing of the object or phenomena at a known time without there being any physical contact with the object. The basic advantage of remote sensing is that data are spatial in nature and devoid of human subjectivity, said Professor Kalita.
NCERS-2016 was organised by the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. It was co-sponsored by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
In the technical session of the conference the resource persons were Prof Parag Phukon, Head of Geological Sciences, Gauhati University; Prof Subashis Dutta, Head of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati; Prof Anup Saikia, Head of Geography, Gauhati University and Dr Dhrubajyoti Saharia, Dept of Geography, GU.
The conference was attended by more than 70 participants and 21 technical papers on various topics supported by remote sensing such as engineering, geography, geology, environment, hydrology and meteorology were presented.