Presently, precious little has been attempted in the direction of introducing EF
new courses in satellite remote sensing both at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels in developing countries such as India. Of course, some universities and instit-
utes in India have made bold attempts in introducing full fledged postgraduate degree
programmes in Remote Sensing. Well; such an attempt has been criticised with
regard to employment and career opportunities and overall standard of candidates
for the courses. One school of thought propogates that only brilliant physicists F
and mathematicians should enter into the field of space technology and other spinoffs
such as satellite remote sensing and its applications. This concept is partially allright
for activities connected with basic and fundamental research but when the question
of operationalisation of new technology comes up for consideration, the subject
encompasses entire society and all user agencies. In the national interest, the system
has to be looked into by educationists and technocrats. In view of space technology F
and remote sensing, taking into consideration of interests of all nations, the problem
of education has assumed a worldwide importance regarding satellite remote sensing
and its operationa lisation. It should be clearly understood that remote sensing
is an inherently multidisciplinary technology, a fact which must be recognised,
accepted and dealt with in teaching as well as in developing and applying the techn-
ology
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Education in the emerging area of satellite remote sensing has to be attacked
by the three pronged method. It consists of imparting and introducing special courses ii
at i) undergraduate level
ii) postgraduate level and by
iii)nonformal education methods for inservice engineers and scientists
i) Undergraduate level : Chart 2 gives general aspect of course work at the
undergraduate level.
Undergraduate level
| Sc
Science streams Engineering Other specia- Se
| Y lised branches
Physics Mathematics Botany &
& Statistics Chemistry
; | Sc
Course dealing with Fundamentals of In
Light measurement Physics Elements
Electro Magnetic of Earth Sciences
Spectrum,Image Processing Computer Programming
Computer Science & Image Processing
Programming Map making Map making
& Cartography Cartography
Surveying Surveying
Engineering
iii)
in
Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering & WO
Computer Engineering
Chart 2
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