Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Infrastructure Details

Vandana Thakur

Campus Life

Life at IIRS offers a quality learning resources along with a wealth of opportunities for social and intellectual engagement. Being a student here is about studying – but it’s also about learning new skills and getting involved in what’s going on outside the library or laboratory. IIRS attracts students not only from around the world, creating a culturally rich and diverse student community. Services for students include an experienced and committed faculty

As a truly multicultural city, IIRS, Dehradun caters for students from all cultures and backgrounds and has places of worship for every major religion and faith.

Computer Laboratory

Digital Image Processing, Photogrammetry & GIS Labs

All the Departments of the Institute are equipped with state-of-art computing facility and input/output devices to meet various photogrammetric, remote sensing and GIS data processing requirements. The Institute's servers host a variety of RS & GIS softwares, such as ERDAS Imagine, Geomatica, Geomedia, IDRISI Taiga, ENVI, Definiens (Ecognition), SARMAP, ArcGIS, ArcView, ISRO's IGiS, and several other open source softwares which are shared across the computer network. The Institute also has a dedicated digital photogrammetry lab equipped with high-end photogrammetric workstations and softwares for processing satellite, aerial and terrestrial stereo photos/images for DEM generation and 3-D feature extraction.

Internet and intranet facility is available across the network in the campus. Sharing of all the technical information related to various education, training and research programmes, including the technical outputs of the students' research, is enabled through internet.

Central Library

IIRS Central Library has a wide range of collection of documents and information resources in print and electronic form to meet the requirement of its user community, especially on literature pertaining to Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Geospatial Technologies and their applications in various fields. Presently, it has a collection of over 23,600 volumes of documents (until November 2011), which include books, monographs, technical reports, dissertations & theses, proceedings, back volumes of journals, etc. Besides, multimedia CDs, video cassettes on several topics are also archived for the benefit of students/trainees as a supplementary material for outside-classroom learning. The Library subscribes to 57 national and 50 international journals in print form. Its electronic resources (online full-text) at present include 29 Journals and 589 e-books.

Internet Facility (24X7)

IIRS has set up an excellent facility for accessing Internet through a dedicated line based microwave link from VSNL and BSNL.

The Internet can be accessed from each department and library by faculty and students. It provides ample opportunity to explore Internet resources for research and training activities. 

Hostels

The Institute Hostels boast of providing culture and facilities that make one feel like being at home. The lodging and boarding facilities are provided to all the students/trainees of IIRS in its five hostels - Ganga, Alaknanda, Bhagirathi, Godavari and Cauvery. These hostels are located within its green campus adjacent to the main academic block.

All hostel rooms are well furnished and are allotted on single/double occupancy basis. Indian cuisine is served in a common mess, which is primarily run by the hostel inmates with all infrastructural support provided by the Institute. The rooms for foreign students/ trainees are provided with kitchenette facility for their own preferences. Altogether, about 200 students/ trainees can be accommodated in IIRS hostels at a given time.

The hostels and the campus are housed with lots of facilities for recreation, such as billiards, basket ball, table tennis, lawn tennis, badminton, volley ball, party-hall, ultra-modern Gymnasium, etc. In all, the international culture, homely atmosphere and ambience, and world-class facilities make living in the campus an unforgettable experience.

Health Services

A qualified resident doctor is available within the IIRS campus from 3 PM to 5:30 PM catering to the medical needs and health problems of the students and staff, in order to providing a caring and sharing environment, conducive to their sound health.environment, conducive to their sound health.

Moreover IIRS has a large number of specialist doctors, hospitals, pathology labs  through its Contributory Health Service Scheme (CHSS) in their panel which students can consult based on the AMO recommendations.

Guest House 

The Institute's Guest House is located right at its entrance. It provides most modern lodging and boarding facilities to the Institute guests, visitors and participants of different conferences, symposia and workshops. It has ten air-conditioned double bed rooms and two suites, a dining area, recreational zone and a round the clock reception desk. The furnishing in the rooms, the hygiene and the service give guests homely atmosphere and ambience.