Geodesy for Senior level Survey of India

National Center for Geodesy (NCG), the newly started centre at IIT Kanpur is starting a new short-term course on Geodesy for Senior level Survey of India (SoI) officers. It is a two-week course, commencing 19th July 2021 and would continue till 30th July 2021. The course is being conducted online with planned lab sessions followed with hands-on exercises during the labs.

The course would cover fundamental topics on Geodesy such as Marine Geodesy, National Spatial Reference Frame, Satellite Altimetry, Plate tectonic studies and Geoid modeling. NCG is well equipped with expertise and resources to teach the course. The course will be taught by Prof. Onkar Dikshit, Prof, B. Nagarajan, and Prof. Balaji Devaraju, well renowned in the field of Geodesy.

Course capacity: The course is conducted online, and for better interaction we have kept an upper limit of 20 participants.

Lab sessions: It is planned to conduct lab sessions of three hours each from Monday to Friday (in the afternoon). Theory relevant to the lab topics would be first covered in the lectures, followed by hands-on exercise during the labs. Each lab session will be conducted online, where the participants may be allotted remote access to desktop machines where all necessary software would be pre-installed. This requires no more than a working internet connection and a remote desktop connection software. Alternatively, participants can also do labs on their own machines, if they wish to. The pace of labs and lectures would be kept so as to suit the learning capacity of the participants.

Infrastructure required at trainee's end: The necessary requirements are (i) stable internet connection, (ii) video conferencing (Zoom/Webex) and (iii) a remote desktop connection software (TeamViewer, AnyDesk, etc.).

Clarification on budget estimates: Yes, the given budget estimates are for the entire course and are not on per student basis. The estimates cover the complete budget required to run the course.

Modules on Marine Geodesy, National Spatial Reference Frame, Satellite Altimetry, Plate tectonic studies and Geoid modeling: The fundamentals required to understand these topics have been included in this first course. These modules were excluded based on the course duration and the decided pace of instructions. We have expertise available to teach these modules, and will be included in future courses.