Bangalore

Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Venue: Bengaluru

Organizer: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society

Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS), Bangalore

Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Topics:

• Basics of GIS/RS data structure and analysis
• Cartographic principles
• Basic principles of remote sensing
• Digital Image Processing
• Spatial data sources
• GPS theory
• Field data collection and processing

Venue: Bangalore

Description:

This intensive course will provide participants with an opportunity to learn the basic principles of remote sensing, geographical information systems and GPS. The course will also provide rigorous, individualized hands-on training in GIS/RS techniques using state-of-the art software.

Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change

Theme: Wetlands Conservation and Management

Content and Image Courtesy: Centre for Education and Documentation (CED)

CED is registered Public Trust, all of whose activities are its information centres, now in Bombay and Bangalore.

Every individual will have an instinct gene to love nature and plants. That encourages having greeneries around, that forces to show concerns for environment and ecology and that urges to look for safe and functional vegetables, fruits and so on. Sometimes, this gene gets masked by certain extraneous factors which need to be unmasked to draw everyone’s attention.

Organizer: Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

Venue: Tharangavana, D/5, 12th Cross, Rajamahal Vilas Extension, Bengaluru – 560 080

Description:

This week-long initiative will bring together theoretical debates and existing practices, enabling an interdisciplinary exploration of the systems, processes and values that drive the development of cities. The Institute will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary Indian and international faculty of academics and practitioners for the selected 40 applicants. Applicants should either have completed or be currently pursuing a Bachelors or Masters programme in any discipline. The Institute is also open to professionals from relevant fields.

Writing a good research paper is a challenge, but it is very vital for students & researchers looking forward to publish their results.

People contemplating to make R&D as a career need skills to write good Research papers. This workshop is designed to impart skills to students and researchers to write better research papers.

Orgnizer: The Ants Crafting Traditions

This Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Environmental Pollution and Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Environmental Pollution and Management is structured into modules on the following topics: