CAREERS

Career Potential

The development of a capable workforce is of major concern for continued growth of Geoinformatics industry (Reference: 10 Years Industry Forecast carried out by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). The surveyors who carried out above study say the following:

Government & Private sector leaders declared a strong need for properly educated and trained entry level employees.
Corporate officers cited the shortage of trained workers emerging from educational institutes and lack of the required skill sets among many graduates.

Background

SIG has designed the course based on in-depth discussion with industries, academia and extensive study of websites hosting job requirements of Geoinformatics industry.
India is a leading country in Geo-spatial technology with prominent niche in Space Science developed by ISRO and sister organizations: Space Applications Center and National Remote Sensing Agency.

There are giant corporate sectors that have further enhanced applications of Geoinformatics to cater to the requirements of government and public sectors. Few prominent names in GIS industries functioning in India are ESRI (NIIT – GIS), Magnasoft Consulting Services, Reliance Digital World, Rolta India Limited, RMSI Ltd, Cybertech, Fugro Survey, Intergraph, HOPE, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), InfoTech Enterprises, Erdas India, Speck Spatial Technologies, Sierra Atalantic, Siemens, Oracle Inc., L&T Satyam, Huges, Lepton Softwares, Simplex Technologies, Geographis, Geofiny, Lavasa Corporation, Riding Consultants Engineers, INCA, Scicom, DSM Systems and so on, to name a few.