Aims and Scope

Areas of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

1. Remote Sensing and GIS Technology Image and Signal Processing for:

• Optical, Radar, Lidar image preprocessing /processing techniques
• Image enhancement, image restoration, machine Intelligence, data fusion, etc.
• Image understanding: Pattern recognition, classification techniques, object and change detection, content-based retrieval of images

2. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in:

• Geology: Geomorphology — Structure — Hydrogeology — Mineralogy
• Engineering Geology
• Space Archaeology
• Agriculture: Soil Science –Crop condition assessment- Crop identification – Crop yield estimation- Precision Agriculture- Irrigation management- Agro-environment - Plant diseases, Plant protection, Food Security
• Urban Planning: Highway Layouts – construction materials inventory – site investigations – Engineering soil mapping – regional inventories – corridor surveys -Mapping Problematic soils
• Hydrology : water resources - dam site location – flood control structures
• Environment: Land Degradation- Disasters - Desertification
• Marine and atmospheric applications
• Geomatics: surveying and mapping -Digital photogrammetry- Image Fusion – Visualization-LIDAR-Hyperspectral-RADAR-Change detection-Feature extraction-thermal remote sensing
• Hazards : Flash floods- Sand Dunes Encroachment
• Geographic Information Systems Applications
• Developing and Applications of Digital Land Resources Databases

3. Space Sciences including (but not limited to):

• Guidance, navigation, dynamics and control
• Space environment, structure and thermal control
• Space software and on-board computers
• Space communications and ground stations
• Electric power and electronics
• Space optics
• Space mission and strategic missile studies.