IEEE’s Flagship Symposium – IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) – 2019 Report

Dr. Varsha Turkar

Professor & HoD, Department of Electronics & Telecommunication

presented a paper titled

Geographic Information System And Remote Sensing Education In India – Issues & Solutions

at

IEEE’s Flagship Symposium –

 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)-2019

Co-authored by Dr. Sangita Chaudhari (RAIT, Mumbai) & and Ms. Avila Naik (DBCE, Goa)

• She has received Travel Grant of Rs. 116000/- from Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
• 2500 delegates from China, India, Germany, Japan, Italy, USA, Canada, and different parts of the world participated in the Symposium
• Scientists from NASA, ISRO and European Space Agency presented their research findings
• Symposium was inaugurated in the hands of the Emperor and Empress of Japan
• The first IGARSS took place in 1981 at Washington, D.C., since then it is organized every year in the last week of July at various parts of the world
• IGARSS is sponsored by
• The Geodetic Society of Japan and IEEE AESS Japan Chapter
• IEEE APS Japan Chapter
• IEEE GRSS Japan Chapter
• Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Communication Society
• Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Electronics Society
• Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU), Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Section
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)