Facilities

Hostel 

The University of Jammu has three boy’s hostels and three girl’s hostels to meet the needs of students who seek hostel accommodation. Depending upon the availability of hostel seats, limited number of candidates shall be accommodated in the hostel according to the merit which shall be determined by the University.

Library 

University has Central Library having over 3 lakh titles and over 300 serial subscriptions. In the central Library EDUSAT facility through Consortium for Education Communication (CEC) is one of the node of UGC sponsored information display by hub at IIRS Dehradun and Library Network (NFLIBNET) programme also. Beside that the Remote Sensing and GIS Library has rich collection of books and journals which can provide a window to look into the course details and its applications.

RSGIS Lab 

The Remote Sensing and GIS lab. has been established with all the basic facilities required for Remote sensing and GIS work. The Remote Sensing and GIS lab. to provide hands-on-training to its postgraduate students in Digital Image processing, GIS, GPS, Satellite Navigation and Image Interpretation. This lab. is equipped with server, workstation and Pentium IV computers with Gobal Positioning System (GPS), A0 Scanner, Mirror Stereoscopes. The department has installed various latest software for GIS and Digital Images processing such as Arc GIS, ERDAS Imagine ERDAS Virtual GIS, ERDAS IMS, ILWIS 3.3 ROCK WORKS 2006 etc.

The department also conducts certificates programs in RS& GIS through EDUSAT which has been transmitted through hub at IIRS, DOS Dehradun. The department is also engaged in various R&D projects funded from ISRO, DST, NRSC such as Evaluation ofGroundwaterpotentialzones usingRemote Sensing and GIS Techniques in the Hill Terrain ofDevak and Rui Watershed, Jammu District, J&K State funded by the Deptt. of Space, Govt. of India, Bangalore. Establishing the Natural Resources Digital Database District Centre at Jammu and Creation of an integrated database for Development Planning funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Groundwater Prospect Mapping Work of Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM) Phase III of J&K State” coordinated by National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad funded by Ministry of Rural Development.

The NRDMS, a multi-disciplinary programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India aims at technological and institutional capacity building of the Line Departments in Spatial Technology-Remote Sensing and GIS operationalise the Decentralized Planning for economic development. The NRDMS DST District centre Lab. has been generated maps in GIS environment on various aspects such as natural resources, socio-economic and various infrastructure facilities available at the village level in Jammu district. Such maps will go a long way in facilitating the concerned departments to undertake the micro-level planning in a more effective manner to ensure balanced development of various blocks of the district. The spatial technology being promoted under this project has wider application in areas such as infrastructure planning.

The layout of University of Jammu has been also prepared in the GIS environment. In addition to that a lot of Research and Development (R&D) activities are going on in different Remote Sensing and GIS areas. The various maps of Jammu District have been prepared with the help of satellite image, toposheets and ground truth information. Information created under this helped various line departments of Jammu District for effective presentation of data like socio-economic, horticulture and agriculture data, etc. at village level, block level, constituency level or tehsil level. The aims of NRDMS DST centre to train various line departments to access and update this data through GIS software.

Name Designation Qualification Specialization Contact Info.
Prof. A.S. Jasrotia Professor & Head M.Sc., M.Phil, Ph.D & P.G. Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS Remote Sensing & GIS E-mail: asjasrotia@yahoo.co.ukEPABX: Mobile No.: 9419133793
Dr. Ajay Kumar Taloor Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D & P.G. Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS Remote Sensing & GIS E-mail: ajaytaloor@gmail.comEPABX: Mobile No.: 9419116573