Dr. Brijendra Pateriya - Director
Punjab Remote Sensing center (Govt. of Punjab)

Dr. Brijendra Pateriya Dr. Brijendra Pateriya, is holding the position of the Director of Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), Ludhiana since May, 2011. He is a multidisciplinary expert and key interests are in applied research in natural sciences, Geospatial & ITES technological applications for a wide range of user communities. A versatile and seasoned professional having over three decades of professional experience, possessing a rich and unique combination of academia, industry and senior government administrative cum management skills. He was a post doctoral researcher in IIT Mumbai for UNDP-DST program of pioneering work of development of spatial decision support system (SDSS) for energy planning at micro level.

Dr. Pateriya has been conferred with National Geospatial Award for Excellence by Indian Society of Remote Sensing. He has been awarded ISCA, “Certificate of Merit” under Young Scientist program. Under his leadership PRSC has receives many awards and accolades at national level. Currently he is also holding positions of Chairman of Ludhiana Chapter of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) and Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG) widely promoting use of Geospatial among masses in Punjab and northern region. He is also serving as Chair/members of various national and state level committees and boards constituted by government in different ministries and departments. He is an expert member of technical committees of academic institutions and supervising PhD scholars of IITs and Universities as co-supervisor in area of Geospatial and Natural Sciences. Dr. Pateriya has about two hundred research papers published in international and national peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has provided leadership and managed several international, national and state level mission projects of multilateral funding agencies such as The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, JICA, UNDP, USDA, FAO in addition to assignments of Navratna organizations, ISRO, DST, ministries of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Local Government Bodies, Environments & Forest, Water Resources of Govt of India and state governments and other leading industries of the country and abroad.

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"Our Quality Policy specifies the Degree of Excellence as all activities of the Punjab Remote Sensing Center(PRSC) will be carried out in a systematic manner in accordance with define and documented Policies and Procedures, meet applicable legislative requirements, be visible and auditable, and meets the needs of stackholders, learners and staff."

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