Program Features/ Program Schedule About IIT Structure and Venue Classroom lectures – 50% 1 week, 13 – 19 October

Hands-on with RS software and R programming – 25% IIT Kharagpur – Centre for Database creation and Oceans, Rivers, model simulation for a case Atmosphere and Land study – 25% Science (CORAL)

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Program Fee Who will benefit

Nil for AICTE-QIP (Eligibility) sponsored participants Teacher/ Researcher in the field of Earth Science, Remote Sensing, 20,000/- (Twenty Geography, Planning, etc. thousand) + GST @18% per participant QIP QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME Last day of Accommodation Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Registration Accommodation will be provided to the AICTE-QIP 2019 sponsored participants at the campus Guesthouse. For other participants, the same will be provided on

Kharagpur - a dusty town tucked away in the eastern corner of chargeable basis as per rule. India, famous until 1950 as home to the longest railway Land Use Land platform in the world - became the nursery where the seed of the IIT system was planted in 1951. IIT Kharagpur started its journey in the old Detention Camp in Eastern India, where How to Apply Cover Modeling some of the country's great freedom fighters toiled and Use the link: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/CEP/courses.htm to apply sacrificed their lives for India's independence. Spurred by the ONLINE. success of IIT Kharagpur, four younger IITs sprouted around the Using Open Source country in the two following decades, and from these five came Choose a thousands of IITians, the brand ambassadors of modern India. It Program was the success of this one institution at Kharagpur that wrote India's technological odyssey. Payment if applicable is to be done ONLINE after getting short 1 Week The Institute takes pride in its relentless effort to provide the listed for the program. 13 – 19 October 2019 best platform for both education as well as research in the areas of science and technology, infrastructure designs, entrepreneurship, law, management, and medical science and Dr. Mukunda D Behera, Principal Co-ordinator technology. IITKGP is not just the place to study technology, it is Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and the place where students are taught to dream about the future of Land Science (CORAL) India Institute of Technology Kharagpur technology and beam across disciplines, making differences Contact Us enough to change the world. Phone: +91-3222-281802 Email: [email protected]

Introduction / Overview What you will learn About the Faculty Land use and land cover (LULC) change has been recognized as a key driver of global climate change Program Content Coordinator by influencing land surface processes. LULC is interlinked with environmental and socio-economic Dr. Mukunda Dev Behera systems. The driver plays leading role in LULC Introduction to basics of Remote Sensing Dr. Mukunda Dev Behera is Associate Professor in Centre changes, and are derived from the interrelationship for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science of the various elements such as altitude, slope, Familiarization with various open source Remote (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His aspect, soil type, precipitation etc. are grouped as Sensing and Geospatial data major research areas include Terrestrial Remote Sensing, environmental; and population, literacy rate, Spatial Biodiversity, Ecological Climatology, Biomass and household, drinking water facility, medical facility, Hands-on learning with image processing and Carbon Sequestration, Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) etc. Remote sensing with its synoptic view, fast Dynamics. He has contributed in developing national data acquisition and digital format suitable for GIS software computer processing, is one of the most successful database on decadal LULC and Vegetation type. His and reliable data source in last few decades in Statistical and machine learning approaches for current research project include: Chlorophyll recording spatio-temporal LULC change. Modeling Concentration estimation and plant diversity assessment LULC classification of potential future LULC assigning a set of defined in Bhitarkanika Mangrove forests using Hyperspectral conditions offers the opportunities to examine the Data, Climate Change effects on Indian forest cover, probable spatiotemporal changes. Generation of landscape metrics for assessment Species level mapping & Above Ground Biomass of LULC dynamics estimation, Estimating forest productivity using LAI and

Chlorophyll florescence, Ecological Niche Modeling of Program Objectives Sources and generation of various geospatial Primula and Rhododendron species. He has published more than 100 research papers in different peer-reviewed The prime objective of this proposed course is to data for modeling journals, scientific articles, conferences, books and book provide participants with both the theoretical and chapters. practical experiences in all aspects of remote Hands on with R programming language sensing applications in studying land sciences. The course will mainly cover the particular fields on: use Geostatistical analysis to quantify and qualify the External Faculty of open source multi-sensor satellite remote sensing drivers of landscape changes data for automated land cover mapping; use of R Dr. Pulakesh Das programming for geostatistical analysis; and use of Introduction to open source models on LULC Dr. Pulakesh Das is Assistant Professor in the department open-source modeling platform for simulating LULC of Remote Sensing and GIS, , scenarios. The outcomes of these models have dynamics (Dyna-CLUE) . His major research interest includes Geo- prominent applications, e.g., in planning, managing, informatics, Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Dynamics, policy formulation, studying impact on climate and Case study with Dyna-CLUE model Climate Change Impact on Forest, Hydrological Modeling. hydrological cycle, etc. He has also contributed in developing national database Database generation, model simulation, on decadal LULC. He has published about 19 research calibration and validation papers in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences. LULC Projection and Discussion