Subject(s): Environmental issues -- Rural planning -- Urban planning -- Natural resources mapping -- Recent trends in geoinformatics : Advanced digital image processing for analysis of high resolution images, enhancing pulse production in dryland areas- perspective based in geoinformatics applications, use of high resolution LISS III images for capacity assessment of reservoirs in Maharashtra, high resolution satelite imagery in site identification for telecommunication networks, estimation of crop evapotranspiration using remote sensing and GIS case study from Tarafeni Command, Orthomap accuracy evaluation with various stereo restitution models and matching techniques, GIS and health management, LISS III data of IRS - 1D and IRS - P6, elephant movement in Karra C.D block a GIS analysis -- Geoinformatics for environmental Issues : Geoinformatics for natural hazards mapping with focus on seismotectonic in Haryana, study on environmental degradation through high resolution imagery in eastern part of Assam, role of geoinformatics in hazard management for better governance, role of geoinformatics in micro level planning for natural resources and environmental management, agroclimatic regions of Jharkhand state, ecotopic changes due to human pressure on an ecosystem- geoinformatics approach -- Geoinformatics for rural and urban planning : Role of geoinformatics in biomass management for resolving energy crisis in rural sector in Jharkhand, GIS/LIS in land use planning and rural development, geoinformatics system of Uttaranchal using indigenous GIS tool, use of GIS for natural resources and environmental planning for sustainable rural development, geo-information system for rural development, application of remote sensing and GIS in rural planning in Ranchi district, GPS-GIS integrated system for dynamic route guidance, geoinformatics in decentralized planning, application of radar data and interferometry with optical data in Urban growth sprawl measurement in and around Kolkata, GIS- based drug survey- case study within Ranchi municipal limits, enterprise GIS for decentralized planning, urban land use pattern and change detection studies in Jaipur city using remote sensing and GIS -- Geoinformatics for natural resources mapping : Natural resources database management in margajo watershed, upper barakar basin, Hazaribagh using GRAM++ GIS, land use/ land cover mapping of Itanagar circle, papumpare district, Arunachal Pradesh, using remote sensing techniques, land use/ land cover assessment and change detection analysis in a part if outer Garhwal Himalaya using multi temporal satellite images, water resources development in hard rock terrain- geoinformatics approach, water management system using GIS, characterization soil slope of drought-prone residual chota Nagpur plateau, topographic analysis of a hydrocarbon bearing folded sedimentary terrain around Assam using remote sensing and GIS, soil informatics and degraded land management, application of geoinformatics in quantifying water supply status and its futuristic demand in and around Ranchi city, geomorphological mapping in parts of Dikrong Basin, papumpare district, Arunachal Pradesh, using IRS IC/ID PAN data