History
Following members, who signed the petition, are instrumental in forming this chapter:
- Behara Daya Sagar (Senior Member)
- Garudachar Raju (Senior Member)
- Hesaraghatta Rajashekara (Member)
- Letchumanan Chockalingam (Senior Member)
- Meher Saroj (Senior Member)
- Nidumolu Rajesh (Member)
- Ramakrishnan Balasubramaniam (Member)
- Sanda Ashok Vardhan (Member)
- Syed Awase Khirni (Member)
- Viswanathan G (Senior Member)
- Kushwaha Deendayal (Member)
- M. Thiruchelvi (Member).
These members under the leadership of chapter founder and founding chapter chair, Prof. Daya Sagar, ISI Bangalore, have been instrumental to the birth of this chapter. Thus, on 24 December 2012, Bangalore Section Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Chapter was formed with an intention to bring like-minded members of IEEE, who have interest in the research areas related to remote sensing, geoscience, and GISci under one umbrella.
All India IEEE GRSS Meet was held on 12 December 2013 at Jodhpur. This meeting was well-attended by IEEE GRSS Headquarters include Prof. Melba Crawford President, IEEEE GRSS, Prof. Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Dr. David Kunkee. It is at this meeting, Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS activities for 2012-13 were briefed by Chair of the Chapter. The presentation slides can be seen at: BS-IEEE-GRSSC-Activities-2012-2013-Brief-Presentation-12-Dec-2013