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  • Classes for Fall 2016 semester will start from 19th Sep., 2016.
  • New incoming batch must take the 3 core courses in Fall 2016 semester
  • For elective courses, it is recommended that students consult with RS/GIS faculty for advice before choosing the elective course. For enrollment in any elective course, please talk to the instructor first, as enrollment in elective course can only be made after instructor consent / approval.
  • The deadline for choosing/changing an elective course is 2 weeks after start of classes.
  • Class timings are 6-9 pm.
  • Students have to take a minimum of 1 course, and a student can take maximum up to 4 courses. The faculty recommends taking 3 courses each semester for timely conclusion of MS degree.
  • 3 courses is the full course load and to qualify for merit scholarship (fee refund) according to IST policy, full course load has to be taken. More information regarding this policy can be acquired from Admissions office.

 

SPRING 2016 GRADUATE COURSE DETAILS
COURSE FACULTY PRE-REQUISITES COURSE OUTLINE
TYPE CODE TITLE      
CORE RG 721 Advanced GIS

Dr. Rizwan Bulbul

Ms. Hira Fatima

  - Course Outline
RG 711 Advanced Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing Dr. Saleem Ullah  - Course Outline
RG 701 Advanced Research Methods

Dr. Rizwan Bulbul

Dr. Waqas Qazi

Dr. Asad Ali

  - Course Outline
ELECTIVE RG 713 Photogrammetry Dr. Sajid Ghuffar - Course Outline
RG 716 Radar Remote Sensing Dr. Waqas A. Qazi - Course Outline
RG 741 Environmental Sciences Dr. Imran Shahid  - Course Outline
RG 723 Advanced Spatial Databases Dr. Rizwan Bulbul - Course Outline

 

SPRING 2016 GRADUATE COURSE DETAILS
COURSE FACULTY COURSE TYPE PRE-REQUISITES COURSE OUTLINE
TYPE CODE TITLE        
CORE RG 721 Advanced GIS Dr. Rizwan Bulbul MS Course  - Course Outline
ELECTIVE RG 715 Image Classification Techniques Dr. Sajid Ghuffar MS Course Advanced Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing Course Outline
RG 754 Data Analysis for the Earth Sciences Dr. Waqas A. Qazi MS Course Advanced Research Methods Course Outline
RG 732 Geostatistics Dr. Asad Ali MS Course  - Course Outline
RG 755 Spatial thinking: Monitoring and Mapping Natural Resources Dr. Saleem Ullah MS Course Advanced Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing Course Outline

 

SPRING 2016 UNDERGRADUATE COURSE DETAILS
COURSE FACULTY COURSE TYPE
TYPE CODE TITLE    
Core  SS-151 Environmental Sciences  Ms. Palwasha Khattak BS Course
MAT-121 Calculus - II Mr. FarhatUllah BS Course
CSP-121 Computer programming Ms. Madiha BS Course
SS-131 Fundamentals of GIS Ms. Syeda Hira Fatima BS Course
ENG-121 English II Communication/Presentation Ms. Ausima BS Course
Phy-121 Physics II - ELectricity and Magnetism Ms. Huma Uzair/ Mr Ahmed Waqas Zubairi BS Course
SS-131L Fundamentals of GIS Lab Ms. Syeda Hira Fatima BS Course
CSP-121L Computer programming Lab GTA BS Course
SS-242 Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr Fazeel Khan BS Course
PHY-213 Classical Mechanics Dr Sajjad Sarwar BS Course
PHY-214 Space Plasma Physics Dr Hamid Saleem BS Course
SS-252 Meteorology Dr Imran Shahid/ Mr. Rana Usman BS Course
PHY-212 Electromagnetic Waves Dr Sajjad Sarwar/Dr Hamid Saleem BS Course
MAT-341 Numerical Analysis Mr Naseer Ahmed BS Course
SS-242L Astronomy and Astrophysics Lab Mr. Ahmed Waqas ZUbairi/ Dr Fazeel Khan BS Course
SS-341 Geostatistics Dr Asad Ali BS Course
SS-253 Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology Mr. Rana Usman/Prof Farrukh Chistie BS Course
SS-461 Research Methodology/Technical Writing Prof Farrukh CHishtie/Dr Rizwan BUlbul/ Dr Waqas Qazi BS Course
SS-322 Space Mission Design Mr. Faran Mehmood BS Course
SS-321 Fundamentals of  Communications Dr. Farrukh Bhatti BS Course
MAT-252 Mathematical Methods for Space Science   BS Course
SS-421 Space System Project Management  Ms. Zainab Saleem/ Ms. Zainab Rizvi BS Course
SS-462 Project /Thesis   BS Course
Electives  SS-464  Quantum Mechanics  Prof Farrukh Chistie BS Course
SS-463 Introduction to Cosmology  Dr. Fazeel Khan BS Course
SS-465 Applied Remote Sensing  Mr. Naeem Shehzad BS Course
SS-465L Applied Remote Sensing Lab SS-151 BS Course

 

FALL 2015 GRADUATE COURSE DETAILS
COURSE FACULTY COURSE TYPE PRE-REQUISITES COURSE OUTLINE
TYPE CODE TITLE        
CORE RG 701 Advanced Research Methods Dr. Asad Ali MS Course    
RG 711 Advance RS and DIP Dr. Saleem Ullah MS Course    Course Outline
ELECTIVE RG 713 Photogrammetry  Dr. Sajid Ghuffar MS Course    Course Outline
RG 712 Radar Remote Sensing Dr. Waqas A. Qazi MS Course    Course Outline
RG 741 Environmental Sciences Dr. Imran Shahid MS Course    Course Outline
RG 723 Advanced Spatial Databases Dr. Rizwan Bulbul MS Course    Course Outline

 

SPRING 2015 GRADUATE COURSE DETAILS

COURSE

FACULTY

COURSE TYPE

PRE-REQUISITES 

COURSE OUTLINE

TYPE

 CODE 

TITLE

CORE

 

 RG 721

 Advance GIS

Dr. Hamid Mahmood

 MS course -  
RG 701

 Research Methods

Dr. Rizwan Bulbul

Dr. Farrukh Chishtie

Dr. Waqas Qazi

Dr. Hamid Mahmood

Dr. Asad Ali

 MS course  -  

 ELECTIVE 

 RG 723

Advance Spatial Databases

Dr. Rizwan Bulbul

 MS course Advance GIS  
RG 715

Image Classification Techniques

Dr. Sajid Ghuffar

 MS course Advanced Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing Download 
RG 732

Geostatistics

 Dr. Asad Ali

 MS course -  
RG 754

Data Analysis for the Earth Sciences

Dr. Waqas Qazi

 MS course - Download
 RG 714  Atmospheric Remote Sensing  Dr. Imran Shahid MS course

Environmental Science

Advanced Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing

  

 

 

FALL 2014 GRADUATE COURSE DETAILS

COURSE

FACULTY

COURSE TYPE

 

PRE-REQUISITES

 

COURSE OUTLINE

TYPE

 CODE 

TITLE

CORE

  RG 711

 Advanced Remote Sensing & Digital Image Processing

Dr. Waqas Qazi

Mr. Mirza Waqar

 MS course -  Download

 ELECTIVE 

  RG 734

Web GIS

Dr. Hamid Mehmood

 MS course Intro to GIS  
RG 741

Environmental Science

Dr. Imran Shahid

 MS course -  
 RG 731

Advanced Programming & Customizing GIS

 Dr. Rizwan Bulbul

 MS course Intro to GIS  
RG 732

Photogrammetry

Dr. Sajid Ghuffar

 MS course -  Download

Latest@GREL

 

Faculty Positions Open: GREL is actively on the lookout for qualified PhD faculty in RS & GISc. If you are interested to apply to be part of this vibrant faculty, just contact Dr. Rizwan Bulbul or Dr. Sajid Ghuffar.

(04-05-17) GREL is launching the 3rd Summer School on Earth Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), from 10 - 18th July, 2017. This summer school will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi. Detailed course info and registration is available here. The summer school is open for both national and international participants. Last date for registration: 21st May for international participants, 3rd July for national participants.

(8th March, 2017) GREL faculty member Dr. Waqas A. Qazi won a SATHA Innovation Award for technology innovation during the 6th Invention to Innovation Summit at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

(Feb. '17) GREL faculty and students' research on studying upwelling and physical oceanography in the Arabian Sea was higlighted and presented as a poster at the 10th Coastal Altimetry Workshop, held in Florence, Iraly. This research is being led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, and is supported by IFS and JAXA. 

(16-01-17) GREL is launching the 2nd Workshop on Workshop on Data Analysis Techniquesfor Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science using MATLAB . This course will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, from 30th Jan. - 3rd Feb., 2017. Detailed course info and registration is available here. Last date for registration: 18th Jan., 2016.

(11-12-16) The ISNET / NARSS Seminar & Hands-on Training Workshop on Earth Remote Sensing with SAR has been successfully held at NARSS (National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences), Cairo, Egypt, from 27th Nov. - 1st Dec. The hands-on training workshop was conducted by GREL faculty member Dr. Waqas A. Qazi.

(20-10-16) Dr. Waqas A. Qazi delivered a guest talk at Dept. of Meteorology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, on "SAR Remote Sensing Applicatons" during their monthly seminar series.

(04-07-16) GREL faculty member Dr. Rizwan Bulbul and MS student Ahsan Abbas recently completed formal scientific and technical review of the book "GeoProcessing with Python." This included testing the code, identifying / removing bugs, and identifying / installing required libraries.

(23-06-16) GREL is launching the 2nd Summer School on Earth Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). This course will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, from 1-5th Jan., 2016. Detailed course info and registration is available here. Last date for registration: 20th July, 2016.

(12-05-16) Dr. Majid Nazeer, recent PhD graduate from Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, will be delivering a guest talk on Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Imagery and Coastal Water Quality Applications at GREL Lab, tomorrow, 13th May, from 10:30 AM to 12 PM.

(22-04-16) Forest ground survey was conducted by GREL team from 18-20th April for undergrad Final Year Project. The survey team was led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi and Mr. Naeem Shahzad, and included 1 MS and 2 BS students. The survey was conducted in Ghora Ghali forest, Murree Forest Division, with the support of Forest Dept., Govt. of the Punjab. Plot survey methodology was used and tree DBH / height were measured. These surveyed plots will be used for regression modeling with remote sensing data for forest AGB estimation.

 (23-12-15) GREL is launching its 1st Workshop on Workshop on Data Analysis Techniquesfor Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science using MATLAB . This course will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, from 25-29th Jan., 2016. Detailed course info and registration is available here. Last date for registration: 18th Jan., 2016.

 (27-11-15) ESA has accepted a Cat-1 research proposal by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi to study and analyse landslides and slope stability in KPK post-2005 Kashmir earthquake. ESA has granted a quote of 180 SAR images from Envisat ASAR for the research. As part of this research, repeat-pass InSAR processing will be developed and implemented in-house at GREL.

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Events

  

  

 

2nd International QGIS User & Developer Conference, Girona, Spain, 24-29th May, 2016.

ESA offers a free 5-week online course on Monitoring Climate from Space in support of upcoming COP21 Climate Summit. Start date: 30th Nov. See details here.

  More

Latest@GREL

 

Faculty Positions Open: GREL is actively on the lookout for qualified PhD faculty in RS & GISc. If you are interested to apply to be part of this vibrant faculty, just contact Dr. Rizwan Bulbul or Dr. Sajid Ghuffar.

(04-05-17) GREL is launching the 3rd Summer School on Earth Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), from 10 - 18th July, 2017. This summer school will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi. Detailed course info and registration is available here. The summer school is open for both national and international participants. Last date for registration: 21st May for international participants, 3rd July for national participants.

(8th March, 2017) GREL faculty member Dr. Waqas A. Qazi won a SATHA Innovation Award for technology innovation during the 6th Invention to Innovation Summit at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

(Feb. '17) GREL faculty and students' research on studying upwelling and physical oceanography in the Arabian Sea was higlighted and presented as a poster at the 10th Coastal Altimetry Workshop, held in Florence, Iraly. This research is being led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, and is supported by IFS and JAXA. 

(16-01-17) GREL is launching the 2nd Workshop on Workshop on Data Analysis Techniquesfor Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science using MATLAB . This course will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, from 30th Jan. - 3rd Feb., 2017. Detailed course info and registration is available here. Last date for registration: 18th Jan., 2016.

(11-12-16) The ISNET / NARSS Seminar & Hands-on Training Workshop on Earth Remote Sensing with SAR has been successfully held at NARSS (National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences), Cairo, Egypt, from 27th Nov. - 1st Dec. The hands-on training workshop was conducted by GREL faculty member Dr. Waqas A. Qazi.

(20-10-16) Dr. Waqas A. Qazi delivered a guest talk at Dept. of Meteorology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, on "SAR Remote Sensing Applicatons" during their monthly seminar series.

(04-07-16) GREL faculty member Dr. Rizwan Bulbul and MS student Ahsan Abbas recently completed formal scientific and technical review of the book "GeoProcessing with Python." This included testing the code, identifying / removing bugs, and identifying / installing required libraries.

(23-06-16) GREL is launching the 2nd Summer School on Earth Remote Sensing with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). This course will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, from 1-5th Jan., 2016. Detailed course info and registration is available here. Last date for registration: 20th July, 2016.

(12-05-16) Dr. Majid Nazeer, recent PhD graduate from Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, will be delivering a guest talk on Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Imagery and Coastal Water Quality Applications at GREL Lab, tomorrow, 13th May, from 10:30 AM to 12 PM.

(22-04-16) Forest ground survey was conducted by GREL team from 18-20th April for undergrad Final Year Project. The survey team was led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi and Mr. Naeem Shahzad, and included 1 MS and 2 BS students. The survey was conducted in Ghora Ghali forest, Murree Forest Division, with the support of Forest Dept., Govt. of the Punjab. Plot survey methodology was used and tree DBH / height were measured. These surveyed plots will be used for regression modeling with remote sensing data for forest AGB estimation.

 (23-12-15) GREL is launching its 1st Workshop on Workshop on Data Analysis Techniquesfor Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science using MATLAB . This course will be led by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi, from 25-29th Jan., 2016. Detailed course info and registration is available here. Last date for registration: 18th Jan., 2016.

 (27-11-15) ESA has accepted a Cat-1 research proposal by Dr. Waqas A. Qazi to study and analyse landslides and slope stability in KPK post-2005 Kashmir earthquake. ESA has granted a quote of 180 SAR images from Envisat ASAR for the research. As part of this research, repeat-pass InSAR processing will be developed and implemented in-house at GREL.

More >>>

 

Events

  

  

 

2nd International QGIS User & Developer Conference, Girona, Spain, 24-29th May, 2016.

ESA offers a free 5-week online course on Monitoring Climate from Space in support of upcoming COP21 Climate Summit. Start date: 30th Nov. See details here.

  More