The remote sensing group has five faculty members pursuing research on diverse areas in this field. The group is involved in the development of advanced research and laboratory facilities in the field of Remote Sensing. Projects on the anvil include remote sensing and GIS applications for mangrove wetland management, automated hyperspectral data classification and a joint project with solid earth science group on understanding the origin of Anorthosites in the Earth and Moon using geological and remote sensing approach.

The Remote Sensing group plans to carry out research in (i) SAR image processing for retrieval of geophysical parameters, (ii) Geospatial technologies for coastal zone management with special emphasis on integration of Optical, Hyperspectral and LIDAR data, (iii) Development of image classification algorithms, (iv) Image fusion techniques for biophysical characterization, and (v) Near real time data acquisition of satellite data and pre-processing.