Earth Observation

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The field of remote sensing has revolved rapidly just as GIS. Our knowledge of viewing the earth from space has greatly increased our understanding of growing natural and human-induced phenomena in our environment. The real time ability to monitor such phenomena from space presents us enormous benefits of efficient management of natural resources. Remote sensing has therefore grown from a field of acquisition of aerial photos to real-time collection of environmental variables. The computing ability nowadays, allows the speedy integration of these information and GIS framework. This provides us unending opportunities towards modelling of our natural environment. The name "Remote Sensing" has also become obsolete in recent times, to give more room to "Earth Observation". However, these two terms are mentioned interchangeably in conferences and workshops. It is only a matter of modernisation but the fundamental meaning still stands the same. To further understand the growing developments in this field, viewers are encouraged to refer to our "web links" and "download" pages.