City engineering college partners with Japanese UAV firm

In order to establish a Centre of Excellence for UAV and Geospatial researech application, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College here has partnered with SAKURA GSR, a Japane based UAV firm.
The center through various programmes and workshops will train both the faculty and students towards handling sophisticated survey equipment, remote sensing techniques and GIS in alignment with the smart city requirements and Digital India vision, a College release said.
As part of inauguration of the center, a one-day workshop on Survey Grade UAV Revolution was organised.
SAKURA - GSR, Director, Dr B Babumadhavan, said that this workshop will benefit the students in the application of UAV Technology.