Departmental research activities:
• Minor Research Project (2006-08)
“Development of Dry land Agriculture in Selected villages of Nanjangud Taluk, Mysore District: A Special Analysis of Problems, Prospects and Strategies”, funded by the University of Mysore
• Major Research Project, (2008 April to 2010 March)
“Water Resource Management of the Cauvery Basin: Irrigation Management Transfer as Strategy for Participatory Irrigation Management”, funded by the University Grant Commission (U.G.C), New Delhi
• Research Collaborations
The Centre has been engaged in developing collaborations with several Foreign Universities, Indian Universities and GIS industries. Successfully, we have collaborations with the following two organizations:
1. MoU with Masaryk University, Czech Republic in the year 2011
2. MoU with InfoMaps Pvt. Ltd., a mapping organization in Chennai for Research, Training and Internships for students in the year 2013
MoU process is in progress with Waterloo University, Canada; Staffordshire University, UK; Bonn University, Germany; Nokia India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; EI Technology, Bangalore and Pancharathna Rural Urban Development Organization, Mysuru.
Research Opportunies
Students are encouraged to pursue research work as to gain in depth knowledge on a specified area of interest. Three students have currently enrolled under my guidance in the Department of Geography (GIS) and 6 more students have written the Pre-PhD. Entrance Exam to get enrolled as a research scholar under my guidance in the department. The research topics of the students already enrolled are as follows:
S N | Name of the Students | Title of the Thesis | Year of the Award |
1. | Mr. Krishnamoorthy | Coastal Dynamics and Shoreline Mapping: Multi-Source Spatial Data Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing along Le Morne Brabant Coast (Mauritius Islands) | 2014 |
2. | Mr. Abhilash Rajendra | Geo-environmental Analysis of Solid Waste Management in the Local Planning Area of Mysore using GIS and Remote Sensing Databases | 2015 |
3. | Mr. Nandeesha | “Agricultural Drought Assessment Using GIS And Remote Sensing Applications in Different Agro Climatic Zones of Karnataka State” | 2016 |
4. | Ms. Shima Sajadi Jajaram | “Suspended Sediment Estimation for Cauvery River Basin of Karnataka State using Artificial Neural Networks via Geoinformatics Techniques” | 2017 |
5 | Mr. Giridhar V. Thayoor | “An Assessment of the Sewage System using GIS and Remote Sensing – Case Study at Hunsur Town” | 2017 |
6 | Mr. Vinay. M | “Scenario Based Simulation of Urban Expansion and Evaluation of Ecological Security: A Case Study of Mysuru-Nanjangud LPA, Karnataka, India” | 2020 |
7 | Mr. Manjunatha. R | “Implementation of Intelligent Tourism Information System (I-TIS) for Karnataka State: A GIS based prototype” | Ongoing |
8 | Mr. Hariharan Aiyer |
| Enrolled |
9 | Mr. Sivaram Sistla |
| Enrolled |
10 | Mr. Rajasekhar P.V |
| Enrolled |