Natpac Blog: 2025

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Commemorating Constitution Day

A celebration of democracy, justice, and equality for all

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

GIS Day 2025 celebrations

As part of the GIS Day 2025 celebrations, NATPAC organised a series of outreach programmes to promote geospatial awareness among students and academic institutions.

Following the first event held on 19 November 2025 at KMEA Engineering College, another technical session and hands-on workshop was conducted on 21 November 2025 at Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering, Kolenchery, Ernakulam.The sessions were handled by Mr. B. Anish Kini, Dr. Anila Cyril, and Ms. Ardra S. Krishna.

The training covered the basics of GIS, including its components, methods, and analytical tools. Participants were introduced to key software functions, starting with digitization and concluding with map preparation for visualisation.

The session helped students and faculty understand how GIS can support their academic work and future projects.

TransPedia Research Talk Series # 28 on 26th November 2025

TransPedia Research Talk Series # 28

The twenty-eighth talk in this series is to be held on 26th November 2025 at 3.00 PM IST through online mode.

Speaker: Dr Anjali Balan L, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Calicut.

Topic : "Bio-Bitumen from Algae: a Sustainable Alternative".

The link for attending the talk is : https://tinyurl.com/transpedia28.

Thursday, November 20, 2025

GIS Day 2025 @ CET Trivandrum on 20-11-2025

GIS Day 2025 @ CET Trivandrum

Organized by KSCSTE–NATPAC in association with College of Engineering Trivandrum

Theme: “The Geo-Generalist Era: Where Spatial Meets Everything”

🎙 Technical Talk:

“From Pixels to Policy: Harnessing Open GIS for Informed Decision-Making”

Speaker: Dr. Ramiya A M, IIST

GIS Day 2025

Delighted to share that NATPAC Scientists celebrated GIS day 2025 in association with KMEA Engineering College, Aluva with the conduct of One day workshop aimed at providing an Overview of GIS to both the students and faculty on 19.11.2025. It started off with a short quiz to guage the understanding of participants. Thereafter the technical sessions covered:

1. Basics of GIS

2. GIS - components, methods and applications

3. Data types and analysis

The afternoon session involved hands-on training to faculty which provided a basic understanding about the coordinate system, projected coordinate system, creation of layers by digitization, inputting data into attribute table etc. Creation of map and its elements were also practiced for better representation/ visualizations in reports/ documents. Overall it provided a basic understanding to the students and faculty on how to work with GIS. Hopefully this has sown the seeds for budding students to build upon that has the potential to assist them in their future endeavors.

Winning Esri India GIS Day

Received the trophy from Mr. Anand Jayan, Regional Manager, ESRI India, for the GIS Day – Celebrate and Win Contest 2024, exactly one year after conducting the program.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

TransTech Talk Series #33 on 24th Nov 2025

The 33rd talk in this series is to be held on Monday, 24th of November 2025 at 9:30 am IST through online mode. The speaker for the session is Dr. Anuj Sharma, Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University. He will be delivering the talk on the topic “ Leveraging CAV Data for Scalable Signal Retiming: The SignalIQ Framework ”.

The link for attending the talk is

https://tinyurl.com/33rd-TransTechTalk-24-Nov-

Celebrating GIS Day 2025

KSCSTE–NATPAC, in association with the College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET), is delighted to celebrate GIS Day 2025

📅 Date: 20 November 2025
📍 Venue: Seminar Hall–1, Department of Civil Engineering, CET,
Thiruvananthapuram
🎤Topic: “From Pixels to Policy: Harnessing Open GIS for Informed Decision-
Making”

Speaker - Dr Ramiya AM, Associate Professor,
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology,
Thiruvananthapuram

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e92jQNGUj1UdKG-BfQnt2nbefDNtYus9/view?usp=drive_link

Monday, November 10, 2025

NATPAC, in association with the IIHS and MoRTH, organised a training programme on “Best Practices and Case Studies in the Transport Sector” on 11 November 2025 at the NATPAC Head Office, Akkulam, Thiruvananthapuram.

The sessions highlighted the following topics:

Blackspot Management and Safe Corridor Demonstration Project (SCDP): Data-Driven Approaches for Road Safety

Comprehensive Mobility Planning and Smart Transport Systems

Technical Field Visit: Safe Corridor Demonstration Project and Automatic Emergency Vehicle Priority System

Two of our scientists, Dr. Praveen P S and Mr. Ashik K. Azad, represented KSCSTE-NATPAC at the 84th Annual Session of the Indian Road Congress, held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, from 7th to 10th November 2025.

Thursday, November 6, 2025

As part of its 50th Foundation Day celebrations, KSCSTE-NATPAC organised a medical camp for its employees on 6th November 2025. The camp was conducted in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Diabetes, Pulayanarkotta, in connection with the observance of World Diabetes Day 2025. The initiative aimed to promote health awareness and early detection of lifestyle diseases among employees.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

50th Foundation Day on 6th November 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

IIRS Outreach Programme (Course ID-173) through NATPAC as Nodal Centre

Current Course Open for Registration:

• Course ID-173: “Overview of Geocomputation and Geo-web services”

• Dates: November 03 - 07, 2025

• Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (tentative)

• Brochure: Course Schedule Attached

The training programmes will be conducted online through live and interactive sessions, as per the schedule published by IIRS-ISRO. Daily schedules will be made available on the ECLASS platform, and participants are expected to attend classes as per the published timetable.

Registration and Additional Information:

• More details: https://www.iirs.gov.in/EDUSAT-News

• Registration link: https://elearning.iirs.gov.in/edusatregistration/

(Select “NATPAC” as your nodal centre during registration.)

Key Guidelines:

• Participants must attend live sessions in groups at the nodal centre, strictly following the course schedule.

• Daily attendance will be recorded and submitted by the Nodal Centre Coordinator through the ECLASS CMS.

• Participants with a minimum of 70% attendance will be eligible to appear for the online examination.

• The examination schedule will be announced by IIRS-ISRO and must be attended under the supervision of the nodal centre coordinator.

• Participants securing a minimum of 50% in the examination will receive a "Merit Certificate" from ISRO.

For any further details or assistance, please contact:

Dr. Sabitha N. M.

Nodal Centre Coordinator – NATPAC

Journal Publication of Saran M S

DOI: https://doi.org/10.58825/jog.2025.19.2.221

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Prelude to the 38th Kerala Science Congress - P.K. Iyengar Memorial Lecture

Honouring Dr. P.K. Iyengar, the eminent nuclear physicist who played a pioneering role in advancing India’s nuclear programme and reactor design.

P.K. Iyengar Memorial Lecture

A tribute to his visionary leadership and lasting impact on Indian science.

Training on Road Safety for the Traffic Club students

Training on Road Safety for the Traffic Club students, The School of Good Shepherd - conducted at the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) on 29.10.2025.