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Department of Geoinformatics

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
  • • Water resource management
  • • Climate change
  • • Disaster management
Facility Available:
  • 1. Library
  • 2. Internet facility for staff and students
  • 3. Classroom with ICT facility
  • 4. Student's Laboratories

Head Of Department

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Prof. A.C. Pandey

Professor
  +91-9955492100
  arvindchandrap@yahoo.com

Office Address

Department of Geoinformatics
 Central University of Jharkhand
Cheri-Mantu, P.O. Kamre, P.S.Kanke Dist. Ranchi, Jharkhand, INDIA 835222
 +91-9955492100