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Department of Geoinformatics (DGI)

The Centre for Land Resource Management started functioning in January 2012, under the School of Natural Resource Management. The Centre offers various courses in Geoinformatics .These courses are designed keeping the advances of Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS technologies and its integration with geosciences, water resources, wildlife habitat, forest and ecology, agriculture and soil, coastal management, urban & regional planning etc. with wide spectrum of research in these field. These courses aim to develop both a solid theoretical understanding and a comprehensive practical introduction to the use of Geoinformatics in the day-today life as well as in the sustainable development of the society and the environment.

The Centre is equipped with basic and state of artequipments, which includes Workstations, Server, DGPS, Handheld GPS, DSLR camera, Scanners, plotters as well as various GIS and Image Processing softwares viz., Geomatica, MAPINFO, IGIS, Erdas Imagine, AutoCAD and eCognition. The Centre for Land Resource Management is committed to serve the academic community and society as a whole through terrestrial and extra-terrestrial research base in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Columbia Water Centre (CWC), Columbia University, New York, Survey of India (SOI), Geological Survey of India (GSI) and various academic/ research institutions of national and international repute.

Mission

Centre started functioning in January 2012, under the School of Natural Resource Management with a mission to provide education in the field Geoinformatics for Land Resources Management aiming towards policy formulation, sustainable development of the society and the environment.

Area of Research:
  1. Water resource management
  2. Climate change
  3. Disaster management

 

Facility Available:

Facility Available, Lab etc.

Facilities Available

Number


Library

Central Library   

Internet facility for staff and students

Available

Total no. of class rooms

03

Classroom with ICT facility

01

Student's Laboratories

03

Research Laboratories

Nil

 

Coordinator of the Department

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Dr. Amit Kumar

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Assistant Professor
+91 86038 60814
amit.kumar@cuj.ac.in

Office Address

Department of Geoinformatics,
Central University of Jharkhand,
Ranchi, Jharkhand
Departmental Research Committee

Departmental Research Committee (DRC) of the department is constituted with the following members (who are also eligible research supervisors):

Chairman of the Committee Head of the Department (ex-officio member)
Professor / Associate Professors of the department
Assistant Professors of the department
Department of Geoinformatics

It is notified for information of all the concerned that the Board of Studies (BOS) for Department of Geoinformatics is hereby constituted having the following members:

As prescribed by the Ordinance of CUJ Proposed Names
The Head of the department, Convener & Chair Person Ex-Officio  
All professors of the Department  
Two Associate Professors and Two Assistant Professors of the Department by rotation, on the basis of seniority Associate Professors:
Assistant Professors:
One teacher each from other Department within having common course with the Department
Not more than two teachers teaching allied or cognate subjects in other schools nominated by the Vice- Chancellor on the recommendations of the Department concernedt
Five teachers from constituent college and recognized institutions if any, engaged in teaching the subject concerned nominated by the School of Studies
Note more than three persons nominated by the Board of the school, who have specialized knowledge of the subjects around which the Department/ Centres in the school are organized and who are not employees of the University, any of its constituent college or recognized institutions.

 

Department of Geoinformatics

It is notified for information of all the concerned that the Departmental Admission Committee of the Department of Geoinformatics is hereby constituted, having the following members

As prescribed by the office order Names Contact Details (which can be displayed)
The Head of the department: Chairman    
All professors and Associate Professors of the Department: Member  
Two Assistant Professors of the Department (to be nominated by the Head of the Department): Members

Departmental Academic Purchase Committee

It is notified for information of all the concerned that the Departmental Academic Purchase Committee of the Department of Geoinformatics is hereby constituted, having the following members:

As prescribed by the office order Names
The Head of the department: Chairman  
All professors and Associate Professors of the Department: Member  
Two Assistant Professors of the Department (to be nominated by the Head of the Department): Members
Finance Officer's Nominee: Member