The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) was established in the year 1966 under the Indian Department of Space at
Dehradun
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,
Uttarakhand
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remote sensing
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natural resources
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, environmental and disaster management.
Formerly known as the Indian Photo-interpretation Institute (IPI), the institute was founded on 21 April 1966, under
Survey of India
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University of Twente
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The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...
, formerly known as the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences. The institute was conceptualized by
India
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's first
prime minister
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, Shri
Jawaharlal Nehru
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, during his visit to the
Netherlands
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in 1957."History" Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. .
Courses
The IIRS focuses on education and training in the field of
geoinformatics
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, to include
technology
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and applications of remote sensing, GIS, and GPS.
Some are affiliated with
Andhra University
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History
King Vikram Deo Verma, the Mah ...
, located in
Visakhapatnam
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.
Collaborations
The IIRS has collaborated with ITC, IHE (International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering),
Wageningen University
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in the Netherlands, ITTO (International Timber Research Organization),
UNESCO
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, WMO (
World Meteorological Organization
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