Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

The Centre : Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE) is one of the five Centres setup in IITs in 1976, by the then Govt. of India, in pursuance of its S&T policy and on the recommendations of the Council of IITs. The centre, set up as a centre of excellence for advancing the frontiers of science and giving the country breakthrough technology, programmes for generating manpower required in the area of Resources Engineering has progressed steadily to adopt the technologies of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS) & Global Positioning System (GPS), Microwave Remote Sensing, Stereo Image Analysis etc., in its activities of research, consultancy post graduate academic prgromme and of continuing education programmes. The Centre at present has 15 scientists and engineers having expertise in diverse area such as Geosciences, Mineral Resources & its Environment, Water Resources and Hydrology, Terrain Evaluation and Landuse, Natural Hazards such as Drought, Desertification, Land Slides etc., Agro-informatics, Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing and Geographic Information Systems and Digital Photogrammetry. The Centre with the assistance from UNDP and the DST Govt. Of India has developed India’s first indigenous GIS software called as GRAM++.

Training Post Graduate Programmes

International collaborations

Sponsered Research Activities

: Presently, CSRE offers M.Tech programme in Natural Resources Engineering to students from various science & engineering disciplines and is likely to offer a Ph.D program in the same field by 2006. About 20 students are admitted to M.Tech course every year through a competitive process that includes consideration of Graduate Aptitude Test ( GATE) scores in a wide variety of subjects. Connected to Natural Resource and Information Technology (Please check www.csre.iitb.ac.in for further details). Institute Teaching Assistantships of Rs. 5000/- p.m. are available for a few students every year, based on the merit. One of the objectives of CSRE is to conduct training programmes for the benefit of in-service engineers and scientists working in the country. So far, the Centre has conducted 40 short term training courses attended by 600 participants. The duration of these courses varies from 2 to 5 days, or 2 to 4 weeks, depending on the target group. Courses are offered in Remote Sensing and GIS applications to Water Resources, Mineral Resources, Terrain Evaluation and Landuse, Digital Terrain modelling, Image Processing, Agroinformatics.The courses are normally tuned to the needs of the participants. In addition to theoretical aspects hands on experience is also given equal emphasis.

:The centre has linkages with British Universities (Leeds, Aston, Reading etc.) ITC The Netherlands and the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. Recently a Project in collaboration with the department of Geography, University of Leeds, sponsored by the UK India Science and Technology Research Fund (UISTRF), is being carried for studies on Urban Morphography of the cities of Chandigarh and Nagpur using high resolution satellite images has been completed.

: The centre undertakes sponsored research projects from various agencies like Dept. of Science and Technology (DST) , Govt. of India, DRDO, Ministry of Water Resources, The state Governments of Maharashtra, Goa and Manipur, Ministry of Environment and forests, Department of Spece, Konkan Railways, National Informatics Centre, collaborative sponsored research and consultancy have been carried out for some foreign countries and agencies. ISRO-IITB Space Technology cell, Setup under the aegis of ISRO, also supports research projects in the area of mutual interest to ISRO and IIT.

GRAM++GIS Software developed at CSREIRS IC Anaglyph Image from North India

(Use Left-ed and Right-green filter for 3D View)

Consultancy Services

Infrastructure

CSRE Faculty :

: The Centre provides expert consultancy services to use agencies in the area of image processing, GIS, Environmental Impact Assessement, Hydrology and water resources, Terrain Evaluation and Landuse, Engineering Soil Investigations, Evaluation of ores and Minerals for their commercial utility etc.

: The Centre is housed in a four storied building with well equipped lecture halls, laboratories, seminar and conference room and a library unit which receives Remote Sensing and GIS related literature from around the globe to maintain current awareness. Research and Development activities of the Centre are supported by modern sophisticated instruments and equipment. In addition to IIT's computing facilities across the network, the centre has its own local network of Intel CPU based graphical workstations. Computing laboratory for student has about 20 PCs on the network. These platforms are used for the in-house software development as well as to work with some of the commercial/freeware software such as ERDAS IMAGINE with LPS, GEOMATICA, ARC-INFO, ARCVIEW, Geo-image, EASI-PACE, ERDAS, ENVI, ILWIS, MAPINFO, SPANS, Intergraph-MGE, Khorus etc. The centre has facilities for AO size digitizers, pen plotter, A0 inkjet plotter and colour scanners etc. The Geomatics laboratory has four units of dual processor dual monitor high end graphic workstations with stereo adapters and Z-Screens for digital Photogrammetry work. This laboratory also has a differential GPS systems and several portable GPS units for its R & D activities. In addition, there is a laboratory for soil and rock testing. The chemical analysis laboratory has sophisticated equipment such as X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer (XRF) and Atomic Absorption spectrometer (AAS). Other instruments include a universal Microscope, Ore Microscopes, spectro radiometers etc. The photogrammetry laboratory has classical photogrammetry equipments such as Additive Colour Viewer, Planitop, Zoom Transferoscope, Interpretoscope, pocket and Mirror stereoscopes, Image Enlarger (Procom-2) etc.

: Hydrogeochemistry and Geothermics : Agro-Informatics and Rural Development

: Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Terrain Analysis and Hydrology; Stereo Image Analysis. : Coastal & Marine Environment

: Dry Land Management- Drought & Desertification : Geotechnical and Soil Sciences

: Image Processing : XRF, AAS and Geochemical Methods of Analysis

: Digital Image Processing : Landslide Information System Drought Information System

: Microwave Remote Sensing and Image Processing : Remote sensing and its applications to Water Resources

: Ground Water and GIS : Mineral Resources and Environmental Geosciences

: GIS Software Development (GRAM++) and applications

Prof. D. Chandrasekharam (Head CSRE)Dr. J. Adinarayana Dr. S. S. GedamDr. A. B. Inamdar Dr. Rina JanaDr. M. V. KhireDr. Shyamali MukherjeeDr. M. V. R. MurthyDr. B. Krishna MohanDr. R. NagarajanDr. Y. S. RaoDr. M. G. SrinivasDr. Jyoti SakalleyDr. G. VenkataramanDr. (Mrs) P. Venkatachalam

For further information contact :-

Centre of Studies in Resources EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology Bombay Tel : +91-22-2576 7662Powai, Mumbai - 400 076 Fax : +91-22-2572 3190Web : Email : www.csre.iitb.ac.in office@csre.iitb.ac.in

Vihar and Powai lakes of Mumbai are seenin 3D-VIEW. IRS data is draped over InSAR DEM

Turbidity Distribution MapMethod : Multiple Regression Using DNS