The book on Geospatial Technologies and its applications is compiled from the inputs of
subject experts all across ISRO centres under the guidance and support from the Directors
of IIRS, Dehradun, SAC, Ahmedabad NRSC, Hyderabad and NESAC, Shillong.
The team is thankful to the Secretary, Department of Space and the Chairman of ISRO Shri
S Somnath for the encouragement, guidance and support in bringing out the book in
Geospatial Technologies and Applications. Team is highly indebted for the guidance of
overseeing committee in reviewing the course content and the chapters under the
Chairmanship of Shri Shantanu Bhatawdekar, Scientific Secretary ISRO HQ , Shri N Sudheer
Kumar, Director CBPO ISRO HQ, Shri NM Desai, Director SAC, Ahmedabad, Dr. Prakash
Chauhan, Director NRSC Hyderabad, Dr RP Singh, Director IIRS Dehradun, Dr. SP Agarwal,
Director NE-SAC Shillong, Shri SK Srivastava, CGM (RC), NRSC, Dr. Pramod Kumar1
, Dr. G
Srinivas Rao2
, , Dr. Bimal Kumar Bhattacharya3
, Dr. S Manthira Moorthi3
, Dr Harish
Karnataka1
, Dr Arijit Roy1
, Dr. Subra Nandy1
, Shri Ashish Joshi1
, Dr. Kamal Pandey1
, Dr.
Ashutosh Bhardwaj1 Dr Shovan Lal Chattoraj1 and all the contributors across ISRO Centres.
The team is indebted to Ms. Shailja Mamgai1
JRF and PhD Scholar for the support in final
formatting of the chapters and Ms Nikhitha C and Shri Sujay Sreedhar for their
contributions for books cover design and formatting the initial draft of chapters. Last but
not the least the support and encouragement received from CBPO, ISRO HQ colleagues.