About Geospatial Technology Laboratory
The Geospatial Technology laboratory was established under the University Grants Commission (UGC), India for granting UGC SAP (II) DRS Phase-I & Phase-II F. No. 3-42/2009 &4-15/2015/DRS-II for Laboratory facility to Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. The figure 1. Shows the research domain of the Geospatial Technology (GT) laboratory.
The Geospatial Research laboratory has maintained its excellence in academics, research and development. The main objective of the establishment of a research facility is the utilization of space research for benefit of society. The Geospatial Technology Laboratory is contributing to the various geospatial research area like Smart city, Vegetation, Forest, Agricultural, Soil, Drought, IoT (Internet of Things), Geospatial database etc.
The Hyperspectral and Microwave remote sensing are the major thrust area of research. In addition, the laboratory is equipped with modern devices such as ASD Field spec 4, which is mainly used for development of a spectral library of Vegetation, Soil and Mineral. The unique spectral signature of soil and crop has generated in the laboratory.
The IoT based agro-meteorological devices, Weather station and Soil moisture system, PH Meter, Modern GPS instruments are available in state of the art laboratory. The advance servers and workstation has installed for the handling of huge satellite image processing operation without hurdle.
The upgraded and licensed copy of remote sensing software’s like ENVI, ERDAS, ArcGIS, and open sources tools such as QGIS, GRASS is available for research work. The centralized database server is installed for spectral library and repository management. The laboratory has produced noteworthy publications in reputed national and international journals. Total 7 patents have filed under the provisional section of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) India.