Year: 2019

Aug 24

Securing 1st position in the 3rd National Youth Conclave

Parshuram Shourya, Utkarsh Kulshrestha and Sandeepan Dhoundiyal being awarded the 1st Prize by the judges Our students under the guidance of our group leader Prof. Surya S Durbha, secured first position in the 3rd National Youth Conclave conducted by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for demonstrating a working prototype on smart eco bins in digital revolution category.  The event was hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in August 2019 and was graced by the presence of top Read more

Apr 06

Plenary Talk Chair: UAV Concepts and Innovations in UASG 2019

Dr. Surya S Durbha, our group leader was invited to be a chair for the plenary talk on the theme UAV Concepts and Innovations at the 1st International Conference On Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics – 2019. The conference was organised in cooperation with the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). The talk was conducted on the 7th of April 2019 at the IIT Roorkee Noida Campus.

Mar 20

Acing the Build-a-thon at the Google Earth Engine India Advanced Summit

Our Ph.D. students – Abhishek Potnis and Rajat Shinde were selected to attend the Google Earth Engine India Advanced Summit by Google India in Bangalore. They were selected as one of the best teams for the Build-a-thon that took place during the summit. It was a two-day event where teams were expected to work on their problem statement using Google Earth Engine. The team consisting of our Ph.D students – Rajat Shinde and Abhishek Potnis worked on “Locating Solar Farms Read more

Feb 02

SIIM Framework Featured in Research Matters Article

Satellite images are a rich source of data and can play a significant role during a disaster scenario in planning and mitigation activities. The images captured here contain low-level features like colour, texture and shape, which are understood by the system, but hardly make sense for the user. For example, a user may be interested in a search for ‘flooded residential areas’. Since the images capture the flooded areas with a different colour or texture, the system fails to understand Read more

Feb 02

Exhibits at World Congress on Disaster Management

The 4th World Congress on Disaster Management was held at IIT Bombay during 29th January – 1st February 2019.It was organized jointly by the Government of Maharashtra (India), Disaster Management Initiatives and Convergence Society (DMICS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and was designed to be the largest assembly on disaster management outside the UN system and had a plethora of exhibits related to rapid response in the wake of a disaster. Geocomputational Read more

Jan 08

Team wins Esri India’s mApp Your Way 4.0

A team from Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering mentored by Prof. Surya S Durbha secured the first Runner Up position in the mApp Your Way 4.0 App Development Challenge held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi on January 8, 2019. The team of students comprising of Gaganpreet Singh, Sandeepan Dhoundiyal, Nidhi Kapoor, and, Aditya Vitthalrao Chondke developed a GIS based mobile and web application to address the issue of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Congratulations to the Read more