Remote Sensing/GIS:Short Term Course 2010-IIT Kharagpur
2010 Continuing Education Programme of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur on Remote Sensing and GIS: Short Term Course sponsored by MHRD / AICTE
In recent years, Remote Sensing and GIS techniques have emerged as one of the most versatile decision making tools in the geospatial domain with increasing applications in new areas. Integrated application of these two techniques culminates in harnessing the natural resources with incredible speed and reasonable accuracy, even from inaccessible areas, to help the process of planning the integrated development of a region. They are widely used in monitoring, management and planning in diverse fields of activities, such as, sustainable development, infrastructure development, disaster management, environmental monitoring, resource inventory, rural and urban planning etc. Remotely Sensed data from Aerial photographs and Satellites, combined with GPS serve as the basic database in GIS for multi-criteria decision making in several applications, viz., groundwater and mineral exploration, land use / land cover, wasteland management, inland water resources, mining, agriculture, forestry, coastal mapping and developm nt, land records, health care, socio-economic, crime investigation etc., to name a few.
The main objective of this course is not only to expose the participants to the rapidly growing field of Remote Sensing and GIS but also to motivate them to take up research in this rapidly growing field of science and technology.
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Short term course 2010-Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur is going to organize a Short term Course on Efficient Systems for Microwave Transmission and Radiation for the year 2010
Current microwave systems for transmission and radiation of electromagnetic waves have to meet the competing requirements of enhanced functionality, low loss, reduced size and weight and low cost. It is important to appreciate that many of the design goals in modern efficient and miniaturized systems are self conflicting. For example, incorporation of multiband or broadband characteristics involves increase in physical size, which may have to be carefully optimized in handheld and wireless sytems where space it at a premium. Similarly, development of lowloss devices are crucial for successful operation at the Ka and Ku-bands and beyond. It might be mentioned that traditional technologies like the microstrip are prohibitively lossy at 20-30 GHz frequencies and beyond. The rectangular waveguide based designs, though satisfying the loss requirements, are comparatively bulky and difficult to effectively integrate with planar components.
Keeping the above in view, the design andanalysis of efficient modern systems will be addressed with particular emphasis on low-loss guided structures and antennas. Reconfigurable antennas for mobile and wireless communication and current antenna miniaturization techniques for the realization of sub-wavelength radiating structures would be discussed.
In addition, metamaterials and their role in the design of systems with enhanced performance would be addressed. These include the design and realization of metamaterials, the design of electrically small antennas based on metamaterials and miniaturization of radiating structures based on the zeroeth order resonance.
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