Bhaskar Award conferred on Prof Manoj

SRM University-AP Vice-Chancellor Prof. Manoj K Arora has been honoured with the Bhaskar Award, the highest recognition presented by the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. The award comprises a medal, citation and Rs 2,00,000. The award was conferred on Prof . Arora by Dr Shailesh Naik, former Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and Dr Prakash Chauhan, Director-National Remote Sensing Centre and president of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, during the ISG-ISRS Annual Convention and National Symposium on the theme ‘GeoDiscover: Unravelling India’s Spatial Frontier’ held in Pune.
The award was given in recognition of his outstanding contributions and achievements in the fields of Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, Land Cover Mapping, Earth Sciences, and Civil Engineering applications.
Prof Manoj Arora said he was thrilled to receive the coveted Bhaskar Award and to be in the league of fellow Bhaskar Awardees who have contributed immensely to the Indian Space Programme.