ISRO Offers Free Online Courses with Certificate of Completion

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) invites applications for new free-of-cost online courses as a part of its outreach program. The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) conducts these ISRO courses and the participants will receive the ISRO certificate of completion at the end of the courses. These ISRO courses focus on strengthening the academia and user segments in space technology and its applications using online learning platforms. The article is categorized basis the availability of ISRO free online courses with certificate 2021.

 

Ongoing ISRO Courses

Geoinformatics for Biodiversity Conservation Planning  

Dates – December 06-17, 2021

Target Audience

The ISRO free online course is designed for professionals from Central/State/Govt./Private Organizations/NGO/students and researchers engaged in ecological studies.

Course Contents 

• Applications of GIS in biodiversity conservation planning
• Fine-scale mapping of vegetation using machine learning
• 3D characterization of forest biodiversity
• Functional biodiversity assessment using geoinformatics
• Wildlife habitat suitability assessment using geoinformatics
• Cloud computing for forest monitoring
• Biodiversity informatics and wildlife telemetry

Course Study Material 

Course study materials like lecture slides, video-recorded lectures, open-source software & handouts of demonstrations, etc. will be made available through e-class. Video lectures for this ISRO free online course will also be uploaded on e-class.

Past ISRO Courses

Global Navigation Satellite System (Module -2)

Dates – September 13 – 24, 21

Target Audience –

• Undergraduate and Postgraduate (any year)
• Technical/ Scientific Staff of Central/ State Government/Faculty/researchers at university/institutions

Number of Seats – 5,000 (First come, first served)

Course Content and Schedule

13 September 2021 – Introduction to GPS and GNSS

14 September 2021 – GPS receivers, processing methods, errors, and accuracy

15 September 2021 – No Lecture

16 September 2021 – Satellites based Augmentation systems & GPS Aided and GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN)

17 September 2021 – GPS signal characteristics, Data formats (broadcast, precise ephemeris)

20 September 2021 – Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)

21 September 2021 – DGPS demonstration (Pre-recorded followed by live query session)

22 September 2021 – No Lecture

23 September 2021 – Advance GNSS processing

24 September 2021 – Paned Discussion

Module 3: Geographical Information System

Course Duration – September 27 – October 22, 2021 (Details will be updated soon)

Module 4: Basics of Geocomputation and Geoweb Services

Course Duration: October 25 – November 02, 2021 (Details will be updated soon)

Module 5: RS & GIS Applications

Course Duration: November 08 – 26, 2021 (Details will be updated soon)

Remote Sensing & Digital Image Analysis (Module -1)

Dates – September 13 – 24, 2021

Target Audience –

• Undergraduate and Postgraduate (any year)
• Technical/ Scientific Staff of Central/ State Government/Faculty/researchers at university/institutions

Number of Seats – 5,000 (First come, first served)

Time – 16:00 – 17:30

Course Content and Schedule

16 August 2021 – Inaugural Lecture – ISROs Earth Observation Missions For Societal Benefits

17 August 2021 – Basic Principles of Remote Sensing

18 August 2021 – Earth Observation Sensors and Platforms

19 August 2021 – Spectral Signatures of Different Land cover Features and Visual Image interpretation

23 August 2021 – Digital Image Processing: Basic Concepts Rectification and Registration

24 August 2021 – RS and Image Interpretation Practical + Image Enhancement techniques

25 August 2021 – Image Classification Techniques

26 August 2021 – Advanced Classifiers and Accuracy Assessment

27 August 2021 – Thermal Remote Sensing

31 August 2021 – Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

1 September 2021 – Image Processing Hands-on Demo using QGIS

2 September 2021 – Google Earth Engine API: Introduction and case studies

3 September 2021 – Open Source Data and International Geoportals for Satellite data download

6 September 2021 – Overview of Microwave Remote Sensing

7 September 2021 -Overview of SAR Data Processing

8 September 2021 – Overview of UAV Remote Sensing

9 September 2021 – Overview of LIDAR Remote Sensing

10 September 2021 – 1430- 1730 – Query Session / Feedback / Valedictory

Below is the list of some of the past ISRO courses –

Web GIS Technology

Dates – June 21 to July 2, 2021

Target Audience – Open to all

Course Content and Schedule 

21 June 2021 – Introduction to Client-server systems, Internet and Web GIS technology

22 June 2021 – Introduction to HTML and Javascript

23 June 2021 – Introduction of Database Management System- SQL Queries and Data visualization including PostgreSQL and POSTGIS

24 June 2021 – Spatial SQL and Geo-visualization-QGIS and Web 

28 June 2021 -OGC We Services and Data publishing using Geoserver

29 June 2021 -Hand-on Experiment on GeoserverSLD, WMS, WFS, WCS, and other Web Mapping APIs – OpenLayers

30 June 2021- Web Mapping APIs – Leaflet

1 July 2021 – Development of Web GIS applications using Mashup architecture

2 July 2021 – Web GIS applications for Governance

Course Info – https://www.iirs.gov.in/iirs/sites/default/files/pdf/2021/CourseSchedule_81stCourse.pdf

Earth Observation for Carbon Cycle Studies

Dates – June 21 – 25, 2021

Prerequisites – Understanding of Basic concepts of Remote Sensing and GIS

Course Requirements 

• This course is designed for professionals from Central / State Govt. / Private Organizations / NGO/ students & researchers engaged in Earth observations aspects, carbon modeling, Carbon assessment using RS & GIS
• The course participants have to be duly sponsored by their university/ institution and application should be forwarded through coordinators from respective Organisations/Centres
• Users attending programmes under CEC-UGC / CIET / other networks can also participate 

Course Content and Schedule

21 June 2021 – Role of EO in Carbon Cycle Assessment: Status, Challenges, and Issues

22 June 2021 – Measuring Ecosystem Carbon Exchange: Observational network, Instrumentation, and advanced sensors

23 June 2021 – Up-scaling and Modeling of Carbon fluxes: Remote Sensing and Process-based modeling

24 June 2021 – Earth Observation and its role in Vegetation Carbon Pool Assessment

25 June 2021 – Earth Observation and its role in Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Assessment

Machine Learning to Deep Learning: A journey for remote sensing data classification

Dates – July 5 – 9, 2021

Prerequisites – Understanding of Basic concepts of Remote Sensing and GIS

Target Audience – This short course is designed for professionals engaged in remote sensing data processing in different applications and those willing to learn fuzzy machine/deep learning concepts.

Course Content and Schedule 

5th July 2021- Remote Sensing and its sensors of various resolutions. Radiometry and Geometric corrections and Basic understanding of Image

6th July 2021 – Basic classifier to Machine Learning – A Journey

7th July 2021 – Methods in Machine Learning: Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforcement

8th July 2021 – Fuzzy based machine learning with application in Temporal data processing

9th July 2021 – Network-based Learning algorithms – ANN to CNN/RNN

Important to Note 

Students must attend 70% of the session through the e-class portal to receive the certificate. Students taking ISRO free online courses with certificate 2021 via IIR’s YouTube channel would need to mark their presence through an offline session that will be made available 24 hours after the class.