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.