KLS GOGTE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BELAGAVI

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

AICTE sponsored Two-week National Level Technical

Faculty Development Programme on

“Emerging Trends of Geoinformatics in Agriculture”

from 11th to 23rd December 2017

Day-wise Report on FDP

Day 1 – 11/12/2017

Session 1: Inauguration was done by Dr. K Ganesh Raj, General Manager, RRC-ISRO,

Bengaluru with a Keynote Address. Dr. A.S. Deshpande, Principal, briefed about the importance

of Agriculture and applications of Geoinformatics in Agriculture. Prof. A. B. Gavade, FDP

coordinator briefed about the plans for all the days of the FDP.

Session 2: Dr. K Ganesh Raj, General Manager, RRC-ISRO, Bengaluru, briefed about various

space programs and forthcoming Indian Space Programs by ISRO. Also, the applications of

Geospatial with various fields were discussed.

Session 3 and Session 4: Dr. Jagadeesh Pujari, Professor, SDMCET, Dharwad, gave a brief

Introduction on various Image processing Techniques and their applications with respect to

agriculture. The session briefed about different techniques for detecting the crop damage due to

various reasons due to excessive use of insecticides, insects, etc.

Day 2 - 12/12/2017

Session 1: Mr. Anand. B. Deshpande, Assoc. Prof, AITM, Belagavi, briefed about various image

super-resolution techniques and its clarity in viewing with reference to the images of Geospatial

applications. The session also briefed about the applications of Super-Resolution in Agriculture.

Session 2, 3 and 4: Dr. Kumar Rajamani, Manager, Robert Bosch, Engineering gave an

introduction to Machine Learning and its algorithms, Deep Learning algorithms and its various

applications in Agriculture. He briefed about embedding the Machine Learning and Deep

Learning Algorithms in the system so as it could automate itself in decision making in the field

of Agriculture.

Day 3 - 13/12/2017

Session 1, 3 and 4: Dr Ramachandra Hebbar, Scientist, RRC-ISRO, Bengaluru, briefed about

the Basics of Remote Sensing such as its definition, various principles and concepts and

applications. He also briefed about the rotation of satellites around the same place at the same

time of the day using which the boundaries and other parameters of the fields can be found. Day

by Day changes can be monitored. Various Image Processing techniques with reference to the

Geospatial techniques were discussed and various Research and Development projects and also

the scope and opportunities in ISRO were briefed upon.

Session 2: Dr. Suresh. R, Asst. Professor, KUD, Dharwad, briefed about the various day-wise,

month-wise and year-wise statistics with reference to the agricultural fields and crops. He also

briefed about the agricultural parameters with reference to the various quantities, etc.

Day 4 - 14/12/2017

Session 1: Dr. V.S. Rajpurohit, Professor, KLSGIT, Belagavi, briefed about various Big-data

techniques with reference to agriculture. He discussed on how large quantities of data of

agriculture can be stored, searched and sorted.

Session 2 and 3: Mr. Ravi. Singh, Indrones India Pvt. Ltd, briefed about how drones can be used

with reference to agriculture. He also discussed about image/video capturing, transmitting and

receiving by the use of the camera fixed on the drone. A demo using a drone was demonstrated

within the premises with a camera fixed on it so that the participants can view the video live.

Session 4: Dr. Nagaraj Patil, Professor, VTU, Belagavi, briefed about the different formats used

to transmit and receive the geospatial data to and fro to earth. The different sources of the

Geoinformatics information collection and categorization was briefed.

Day 5 - 15/12/2017

Session 1: Aditya Killekar, Graduate Student, University of Southern California & Computer

Vision Researcher, LA, USA, briefed about Computer Vision, Intelligence and its application

with reference to the fields of agriculture as to how processes like weeding, etc. can be

automated using various image processing techniques in the Computer.

Session 2, 3 and 4: Dr. B.S. Dayasagar, ISI, Bengaluru, briefed about various morphology with

reference to agriculture. The fractional geometry of the fields with reference to the shapes, sizes

and other parameters of the fields and storage and prediction of the Geospatial data on the server

and its interpretation was being discussed.

Day 6 - 16/12/2017

Session 1 and 2: Dr. P. P. Nageswara Rao, Faculty Member, VTU-EC, Outstanding Scientist,

ISRO, briefed about smart agriculture based on climatic changes. The role of geoinformatics

plays an important role in acquiring information using various satellite imagery at different

intervals in a year. Based on the information acquired, type of crop, etc. is decided to be

cultivated.

Session 3 and 4: Dr. Ramana. V. Kothapalli, Vice-Chairman, AP Space Application Center,

Vijaywada, discussed about spectral applications in Agriculture. Highly dense and less dense

spectral analysis using Microwave and Remote Sensing was discussed.

Day 7- 17/12/2017 Sunday

Day 8 - 18/12/2017

Session 1, 2, 3 and 4: A visit to University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, was done.

Different methods of cultivating and yielding the crops were gone through. New automation

methods and machines for automating the processes were explained by the faculties at the visit.

Day 9 - 19/12/2017

Session 1 and 2: Dr. Venkatesh, NIH, Belagavi, briefed about the Remote Sensing applications

in Hydrology using various methods. The demonstration of modeling the tools using GIS was

briefly discussed about.

Session 3 and 4: Dr. Purandar, NIH, Belagavi, briefed about the applications of information

obtained from Geospatial satellites in Agriculture and hydrological data as to how much water

can be utilized, estimation of the water beneath the earth surface at place of cultivation,

estimation of water in the water bodies at regular intervals of time. Estimation of water resources

using Applications of Remote Sensing was briefed.

Day 10 - 20/12/2017

Session 1 and 2: Dr. Paresh Chandra Deka, Associate Professor, Department of Applied

Mechanics, NITK, Suratkal, briefed about the determination of land suitability for various crops

and yields using Remote Sensing and GIS. Also the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence into

Geoinformatics promotes the automation of the agricultural processes such as a specific time to

yield, crop, etc was briefed.

Session 3 and 4: Mr. Sanganabasayya, Lead Architect, Wipro Limited, Bengaluru, briefly

discussed about the Remote Sensing Concepts and its applications in Agriculture. The rotation

and revolution of satellites around the same place at the same time of the day using which the

boundaries and other parameters of the fields was discussed. Also the application of Remote

Sensing in Precision agriculture was briefly discussed.

Day 11 - 21/12/2017

Session 1 and 2: Dr. Sanjeev Gadad, ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore, discussed various

atmospheric details and the suitability of various crops according to the changes of the climate.

The concept of yield of the crops and their relative scalability models were discussed.

Session 3 and 4: Dr. Kumar Raju B. C, ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore, provided a

clear understanding of all the components of the water balance and is essential to analyze

possible measures of water savings in irrigated agriculture. He also briefed about

Evapotranspiration, a process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by

evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants.

Day 12 - 22/12/2017

Session 1 and 2: Dr. Kumar Raju B. C, ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore, briefed about

the uncertainty in the analysis occurred in the hydrological modelling of various waterbodies

when analyzing the data from the Geostationary satellites. Also the information acquired from

the geostationary satellites provides the lakes that are to be rejuvenated based on the mud, sand

and other materials deposited in the lake.

Session 3 and 4: Dr. Sanjeev Gadad, ACS College of Engineering, Bangalore, discussed about

the data acquisition/ generation and modelling of the information of the agriculture in various

aspects. Also the wind distribution and suitability of it to the crops and their modelling with the

information obtained from the Geostationary satellites. The wind flow, speed and other details

are notes from the satellites and accordingly mapping and modelling was discussed.

Day 13 - 23/12/2017

Session 1, 2 and 3: Dr. Girish Pujar, Scientist, NRSC, Hyderabad, briefly discussed about

acquisition of rural population data and the employment opportunities generation using

Geospatial technique. Also high resolution image analysis for Woody Component in Ecosystem

using various methods was briefly discussed.

Session 4: The 2 Week FDP was concluded with the experiences and the feedbacks of the

participants and valedictory. The attendance certificates and the Participation certificates were

provided to all the participants by the Committee Head.

Photos of the programme