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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING 
Commission VI 
Symposium held in Mainz, FR Germany, 22 - 25 September 1982 
ADVANCED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC EDUCATION 
IN INDIA ; 
Colonel M.M. Datta and Major L.M. Beotra, 
Survey Training Institute, Hyderabad, India 
ABSTRACT 
The details of the photogrammetric courses imparted to technician, tech- 
nologist and professional level surveyors have been presented to the 14th. 
Congress of ISP held in Hamburg, 1980. In this paper the experience gained 
and steps taken to update and enrich the post-graduate level advanced course 
in photogrammetry conducted in Survey Training Institute, Hyderabad since 
1970 has been discussed. 
Introduction 
The advantages of photogrammetry as the most modern technology of survey- 
ing have been established through its extensive practice all over the world 
for the last sixty years. Realising its advantages of speed, economy and 
accuracy, the photogrammetric method of surveying using precision photogram- 
metric instruments was introduced in India from 1954. Due to the vastness 
of the country and the increasing demands of maps on different scales the 
photogrammetric potential of India is being continually increased. This 
in turn requires imparting photogrammetric education and training to a large 
number of technical personnel at various levels. 
At present in India there are very few universities which offer full time 
courses in advanced photogrammetry. In India the first Advanced Photogram- 
metry course which is an one-year post-graduate level course in photogram- 
metry was started in Survey Training Institute, Hyderabad in 1970. The syl- 
labus of the Advanced Photogrammetry course has been designed to be com- 
prehensive in all aspects of photogrammetry and of international academic 
standard i.e. equivalent to P-1 and P-2 courses of the International In- 
stitute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), The Netherlands. In 
this paper the experience gained in conducting ten Advanced Photogrammetry 
courses since 1970 and the steps taken to update and enrich this post-gradu- 
ate level course in photogrammetry conducted in the Survey Training Institute 
(STI), Hyderabad have been discussed. 
Post-Graduate Studies 
  
In India photogrammetry is taught in two universities. In University of 
Roorkee, Roorkee near Delhi, a two-years Master's Degree course in Civil 
Engineering with specialisation in Advanced Surveying and Photogrammetry 
is conducted where some two or three subjects of advanced photogrammetry 
syllabus are covered. In Perarignar Anna University of Technology, Guindy 
near Madras, an one-year post-graduate diploma course in remote sensing 
is conducted where some aspects of photogrammetry and remote sensing are 
covered. The University of Roorkee has procured some photogrammetric in- 
struments for practical work. The Roorkee University post-graduate students 
Bibliographic quotation : 
Datta, M. and Beotra, L. : Advanced photogrammetrc education in India. In : Int. 
Archive of Photogrammetry. 24 - VI, pn 200- 20h, Mainz 1982