Mangalore University Courses

M.Sc. (Geoinformatics)

Course Over View

Geoinformatics is an emerging field catering to Societal, Industry and Scientific needs of the country and has attained a unique position in global space. Spatial analysis of data, positions itself in extracting information from among other focal and global interests such as Flood Management, Water Resources, Crime Management, Road networks, Bank locations including ATMs, Forestry, Oceanography, Urban development, Oil & Gas industry, Potential Fishing Zones, Marine and Coastal Environmental mapping and analysis, Crop yield estimation, Ocean Color, Coral Reef mapping, Tringulated Irregular Network-3-D analysis, Facility Management, Data management, Data Mining and Data Harvesting, Meteorology, EIA., EMP., Sea/Ship routing, Spatial Mapping of Marine Archeological Sites etc.  The focus is on Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems, Cartography, Data Management, Statistical Analysis, Computer Applications, etc. The Geoinformatics course reinforces the concept of creating not mere scientists but application scientists who are of direct use to society. Geoinformatics makes use of Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), Global Positioning System (GPS) for precise geographical co-ordinates, Cartography-for mapping population, resources, climate etc. Included here is also the Information Superhighway (including DBMS, for rapid data transfer). Human Settlements, Oceanography, Water Resources, Environmental Studies, Computer Applications, Numerical Analysis are some specialized areas deliberated in the syllabus.  Our students are exposed to invited talks from scientists from ISRO, SAC, and CSRE-IIT, ESRI, GROUPE SCE  etc. Our students are trained during their dissertation foray in scientific institutes such as NIO-Goa/Cochin, ISRO-RRSSC Bangalore, INCOIS, and SAC-DOS etc. About 115 student projects have been completed in collaboration with ISRO, NIO, SAC-DOS, KSR-SAC, NCAOR-Vasco, CSRE-IIT, Sky Group, Magnasoft Geospatial Innovations, ERDAS, RMSI, Rolta, FIC, etc., etc.

Our former students have contributed skilled manpower to South America and East Africa.  Currently, we have students placed in Dubai-Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Kuwait, Doha, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other areas of the Gulf. Our students also have placements in Canada, USA on long and short assignments.  We have students from various states including Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarath, West Bengal,  etc.  About 99% of our students with Geoinformatics represent the Geoinformatic discipline as Application Scientists or Research Fellows in the private industry that includes Tech Mahendra, Group SCE Pvt. Ltd., Rolta, RSMI, ERDAS India Ltd., Data Collection InfoTech Ltd., First India Corporation, Navayug Spatial Technologies, Bangalore, Magnasoft, Genesis, Manthra Infotech Inc.,  SECON, Bangalore, ESRI, In-RIMT, Gujarat Ecological Society, ATREE Bangalore, Information Handling Systems USA, AND Data Pvt Ltd. Pune.,  CORE Logic etc.,  and scientific organizations such as CWRDM-Calicut, CESS-Trivandrum, INCOIS Hyderabad, KSR-SAC, Bangalore, S.O.I, Bangalore, SAC-DOS-Ahemadabad, etc.

Project Work/Dissertation: Students of the 4th Semester are encouraged to do their Project/Dissertation work either in the software application industry or in research institutes and they submit a dissertation on the work done.

LABS: Our Labs are equipped with state-of-art software and hardware and has largely been financed by the ISRO that assisted in establishing an ISRO-SPONSORED GEOINFORMATICS LAB.  Two other labs exist with equipment such as Hyperspectral Radiometers, Spectrophotometers, Mulitparameter Marine Hydrolab  Data Sonde,  Millipore Filtering Units, IKONOS images, IRS-IC/ID images, Stereoscopes Aerial Photographs,  IRS-P4 Digital Data Products, Naval Hydrographic Charts, Topographic Sheets, Trinocular Microscopes, etc.

Seats :

1. General – 16
2. Payment – 16 
3. Defence/Ex-Serviceman – 1
4. Physically Handicapped – 1
5. NCC/NSS/ Sports persons – 1

Duration

Four Semesters.

Eligibilty

Candidates who have passed any Bachelor Degree Examination of Mangalore University or any other examination considered as equivalent thereto with any three science subjects or two science subjects with geography at the undergraduate level or B.E., in any subject securing 45% (40% for SC/ST/CATEGORY-I candidates) marks in aggregate are eligible. For candidates with B.Sc. degree the aggregate marks should be 45% (40% for SC/ST/CATEGORY-I candidates) excluding languages and group III subjects.

Non-Karnataka students have to produce an eligibility certificate issued by the registrar, Mangalore University at admission and the Migration Certificate and Transfer Certificate should be produced at the time of admission.

 Course Detail

Semester – I

1. Computer Applications
2. Data Acquisition & Processing
3. Database Management System
4. Cartography
5. Computer Application & DBMS (Lab)
6. Cartography (Lab)  

Semester – II

1. Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry
2. Digital Image Analysis
3. Numerical Analysis
4. Geographic Information Systems
5. Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry (Lab)
6. Geographic Information Systems (Lab)

Semester – III

1. Application of RS & GIS to Human Settlement
2. Application of RS & GIS to Oceanography & Eviornmental Studies
3. Application to RS & GIS to Water Resources
4. Application to RS & GIS to Agriculture & Forestry
5. Application of RS & GIS to Oceanography Environment & Water Resources (Lab).
6. Application of RS & GIS to human settlements to Agriculture & Forestry (lab).

Semester – IV

1. GI 431 Dissertation Viva-voce