National Geographic Education

Education plays a very important role in bringing the standard of the students high up. Good quality education has direct and positive relationship with the out come of the qualified students. It provides a basis for fundamental learning. The education strengthens the foundation of basic intelligence among each individual student.

Information System is a vast subject with a wide scope of specializations with in it. There have been many approaches to the field of decision making, ranging from strictly quantitative as typified by the methods of operations research – to those based on human and organizational behavior. Decision making is an essential part of management. The process by which one arrives at decision is quite complex: in fact no one process can be applied to all the decisions.

Geography influences our everyday lives. Where we live, work, and play defines 'place' for us. GIS is a comprehensive tool that inventories, analyzes, and reports geographic relationships so that communities can provide the best environment for their clients - the residents, businesses, and visitors of the community.

Geographical (Geospatial) Information System is recent addition to our vocabulary. It does a complex analysis of spatial data and non spatial information. The analysis is related to a geographic location. Computer cartography and GIS methodology using digitized maps is now changing the way digital spatial data are used, revised and assessed.

What We Can Do with a Geospatial Information System (GIS)? In addition to making maps and maintaining the database, GIS also makes it possible to ask questions that are typically difficult to ask in absence of a computer? Where are the properties whether the assessed value has increased or Decreased? Is their value consistent with those of similar properties in the neighborhood? What vacant properties are larger than 100,000 square feet, are zoned commercial, and are within a half-mile of the interstate interchange? What school students are eligible for bussing based on their distance from the school? What properties above a certain elevation will be affected by shutting down this water tower for maintenance? Given requirements for response time, which is a function of street distance and driving speed, what is the best location for the new fire station? Is there a spatial pattern (clustered location, time of day, how the crime was conducted) in the recent outbreak of house burglaries? And so on.

It is important to note that only trained manpower can achieve the best results. There are few academic institutes which impart training and offer degree course in Remote Sensing and GIS. In comparison to the available manpower, the professional work available in the market is very much. Thus an imbalance is observed in the supply segment. Here two questions emerge: one, how to increase the quantity of the qualified manpower? and second how to increase the quality of the qualified manpower? These questions take us further to look in to the need of a standard curriculum development.