Prof. Malcolm Afonso attended, DST-NRDMS sponsored National Level Summer School on Geospatial Technologies held at Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur.

Prof. Malcolm Afonso attended, DST-NRDMS sponsored National Level Summer School on Geospatial Technologies held at Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur. The programme was an intensive course of 21 working days aimed at providing adequate exposure to geospatial technology in line with the guidelines of DST-NRDMS. For more details click on his personal blog link 

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