PHOTOGEOLOGY AND REMOTE SENSING

  • Aerial photo interpretation is used by GSI as an aid to geological mapping structural elucidation, mineral investigation, Quaternary geology & geomorphological mapping, hazard studies and geo-environmental appreciation since three decades.

  • PGRS laboratories are now situated in nine centres, one each at the regional headquarters and one in the Wings headquarters and offers remote sensing application support to various operational activities.

  • Has carried out promotional and development projects in collaboration with ISRO, ISI, NRSA, CMPDI and Roorkee University.

  • Has produced lineament and geomorphological map of India on 1:20,000 scale.

  • Has completed a few projects as structural analysis of Singhbhum belt, resources appraisal of Indravati basin, project Vasundhara for mineral prognosis in peninsular India and studies of coastal geomorphology and neo tectonics.

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Services available:

  • Photo-interpreted geological and structural maps of terrains with limited field checks.

  • Lineaments, terrain evaluation, landuse maps, hazards zonation maps

  • Mineral targetting and exploration

  • Geoinformatics and GIS

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Last modified: 8th October, 2004