infrastructure facilities

LABORATORIES

Institute of Remote Sensing houses three laboratories namely Surveying, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) Laboratories

 

Surveying Laboratory

  • Electronic Distance Meter, with one second Theodolite for 5Km range
  • Electronic Tachometer with one Second Theodolite and automatic Recorder (ELTA-3)
  • Total Station Electronic Theodolite (ETH-2) with ELDI-10)
  • GPS receiver Trimble - 4000 SSE
  • Handheld GPS
  • VHF wireless sets
  • Vernier, Electronic, Digital and Laser Theodolites
  • Levels and ground survey equipments

 

Remote Sensing Lab Facilities

Aerial Remote Sensing
  • PLANICART E3 interfaced with DZ-7 Automatic Plotting Tables
  • Wild AG-1 Stereo Plotter with Aviotab Plotting Table and RAP system
  • PLANICOMP P3 with PHOCUS software
  • STEREOCARD G3
  • ORTHOCOMP Z2
  • VISOPRET DIG 10
  • Mirror and Pocket Stereoscope
  • Sketchmaster
  • Double Scanning Mirror Stereoscope
  • Stereo Zoom Transferscope
  • Wild Pug 5 Point Transfer Unit
  • Procom

Remote Sensing  Software

  • ERDAS Imaging
  • EASI/PACE
  • GEOMATTICA
  • ENVI

 

digital photogrammetry

Photomod  ver 3.7 SW/HW ( 10.nos)
Leica   Photogrammetry suite SW/HW  (9.2)  10.Nos.
Photogrammetry Scanner (Ultra scan 5000)    1 No.

HARDWARE

  • Pentium PCs
  • A0 Digitizer
  • A3 Digitizer
  • A3 Colour Scanner
  • A4 Colour Inkjet Printer
  • A4 Laser Printer
  • A0  size Block & White scanner and Colour scanner
  • A0 size HP Plotter
  • A0  Xerox Machine

SOFTWARE

  • Arc GIS (V9.2) / Arc view
  • ArcInfo Work Station
  • Microstation

 

environment and other facilities

Conference Room – 1 No (Seating Capacity – 20)
Auditorium – 1 No (Seating Capacity – 120)
Training Room – 3 (Seating Capacity – 25 each)
180 KVG kirloskar generator and Reprographic Facilities

LIBRARY

The IRS library has a large collection of textbooks, technical reports, project reports and journals. A total of 770 textbooks on various disciplines of Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS, Photogrammetry and Surveying are available for the use of staff and students. The library has also 730 technical reports from various Central and State Government Departments.

DATA BANK

IRS is having a Data Bank housed in the Third floor of IRS Main Building.  The data bank consists of  archival of the following data products.

 

satellite data

Photographic Data

The following satellite data of different sensors are available

Multi Spectral Scanner False Colour Composite MSS (FCC)
Thematic mapper (FCC) data
IRS-1A, 1B, 1C & 1D LISS II & LISS III FCC data and diapositives
SPOT FCC
Resources sat -  LISS IV  FCC
Cartosat -1 FCC

Digital data

IRS 1C / ID,   LISS III and PAN FCC
IRS 1D LISS III + PAN
Resource Sat LISS IV
Carto Sat -1
Radar Sat -1  SAR, IKONOS, QUICK BIRD, OCM data

Aerial photographs

Aerial photograph for the selected areas of Tamil Nadu on different scales 1:20,000, 1:25,000 and 1:50,000, 1: 60,000

Topographical Maps

    1. Survey of India Topo maps  of scales 1:250,000, 1:50,000 for entire state
    2. Survey of India Topo maps  at a scale of 1:25,000 for selected areas

District and Taluk maps


District and Taluk maps on different scales 1:250,000 and 1:50,000 and Cadastral map on 1:5,000 scale available for selected areas.