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
- Survey of India Topo maps of scales 1:250,000, 1:50,000 for entire state
- 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.



