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Summer School in Geospatial Technologies (Level 2)
Organized by
Department of Geography
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Supported by
National Resources Data Management System
Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India, New Delhi
Urban Planning 2-23 December 2019
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is a public uni-
versity, funded by the central Government
of India. It was established by Sir Syed Ahmad
Khan as Madrasatul Uloom Musalmanan-e-Hind
in 1875, which later became Mohammedan Anglo-
Oriental College (MAO College). The Moham-
medan Anglo-Oriental College became Aligarh
Muslim University in 1920. The main campus of
AMU is located in the city of Aligarh in Western
Uttar Pradesh in North India. There are three fully
functioning off-campus centers located in the cities
of Malappuram (Kerala), Murshidabad (West Ben-
gal) and Kishanganj (Bihar). The university cam-
pus occupies an area of over 468 hectares (1,155
acres). It has total academic staff strength of 2,500
with around 30,000 students. A special feature of
the University is its residential character with most
of the staff and students residing in the campus.
Aligarh Muslim University draws students from all
corners of the country as well as foreign countries,
especially Africa, West Asia and Southeast Asia.
In some courses, seats are reserved for students
from SAARC and Commonwealth Countries.
AMU is truly representative of the country's multi-
religious, multi-racial and multi-lingual character.
In 2017, the University ranked 1st in the top 10
higher education institutions in India by Times
Higher Education World University Rankings.
Department of Geography
The Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim Uni-
versity, Aligarh was established in 1924 which is the
oldest department of Geography in the Indian sub-
continent. Since then the department is catering geo-
graphical knowledge at under-graduate, post-graduate
level and pursuing research in almost all the fields of
Geography, especially in Agriculture, Rural-Urban
Development, Population, Environment and Planning.
Department has got support under UGC-SAP DRS-
III (UGC) and FIST-Level I (Department of Science
& Technology-DST).
Presently, there are more 700 students in the depart-
ment studying at the undergraduate and postgraduate
level besides around 90 students are pursuing their
Ph.D. The thrust areas of the department are Agricul-
ture, Regional Development, Urban Geography, Envi-
ronmental Studies, Population Geography, Social Ge-
ography, Transport Geography and Urban Environ-
ment.
The AMU Geographical Society publishes a bi-
annual peer reviews Journal ‘The Geographer’ since
1926, which is the oldest journal of geography in In-
dia. The faculty and research students are actively
engaged in innovative research in varied field of ge-
ography. Faculty members and research scholars have
contributed in the field of academic research by pub-
lication of large number of research papers in Nation-
al & International journals with hundreds of citations.
Infrastructure
The Department has a well-equipped Remote Sens-
ing & GIS laboratory with 40 computers, 10
handheld GPS, one DGPS, 1 Total Station, audio
visual equipment and lecture halls.
Lodging Facilities
The University has it own guest house with AC/non-
AC rooms and has 24x7 wi-fi facility across the cam-
pus. The number of the rooms are sufficient to ac-
commodate 100 participants and resource persons at a
time.
About the Summer School in Geospatial Technol-
ogies (Level 2: Urban Planning)
Winter School (Level 2 - Advanced) on Urban Plan-
ning focusses on developing capacity and enhancing
the perspectives of the geospatial aspects of Urban
Planning.
Urbanization has emerged as one of the most serious
challenges before the planners for sustainable devel-
opment. Due to unplanned growth, cities are con-
fronted into complex problems such as degradation
of environment, acute shortage of drinking water,
insanitation, health and hygiene, lack of amenities
and facilities, social insecurity, improper disposal of
waste air, water and noise pollution.
Geospatial technology has emerged as one of the
most important state-of -art for planning and develop-
ment, especially the high resolution satellite data
helps to analyse the existing trend and pat-
tern as well as future implications through
geo-spatial modelling.
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through geo-spatial modelling. The proposed pro-
gramme will benefit the stakeholders like urban
planners, policy makers, academicians and research-
ers through deliberations and practical work. This
will also provide an insight to recent trends in urban
planning with the help of geospatial technologies i.e.
remote sensing, GIS and GPS.
Dates: 2nd to 23rd December 2019
Venue: Department of Geography,
Aligarh Muslim University
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ateeque Ahmad
Address: Department of Geography, Aligarh Mus-
lim University, Aligarh – 202002
Phone: +91-571-2700683; Email: [email protected]
Application
Detailed information and application for the course can be obtained through given link:
http://dst-iget.in
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Computer Labs, Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh