Jadavpur University-Virtual CampusSAMRAT BISWAS Jr.GIS Engineer RMSI Pvt Ltd, India Email: gis_professional@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Education is an important aspect of the society and the University is the highest altar where the future of the society is shaped up. Jadavpur University is one of the pioneering institutions among 274 deemed universities of India, which became a statutory university on December 24th 1955. In the recent years, there has been an enormous change in the way information is collected, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed and displayed. A recent development in information technology has prompted both government and non-government organizations to rethink their operational aspects.GIS is a systematic integration of hardware,software and data, for collecting, storing, displaying, manipulating, and analysis, which can be used for solving a project work. The potential for application Geographic Information System(GIS) and relevant technologies is almost endless. In order to provide a complete information insight to the details of Jadavpur University, the project to prepare a Virtual GIS of Jadavpur University has been taken up by the final semester students of the P.G. Diploma in Applied GIS and Remote Sensing, CAD Centre, Jadavpur University. The pilot project is being undertaken under the able guidance and coordination of Mr. Basudeb Bhatta and Mr. Biswajit Giri. The project of Jadavpur University would be a towering example of the increasing importance of GIS as a significant component of education related projects. This project will deal with the effective utilization and management of infrastructural facilities available in Jadavpur University by using GIS Software. It is the first attempt to make a Virtual GIS of the University, which will be enable a user to move around without the need of special equipment. The size of the university campus, its relative location, its various departments along with other amenities make it an ideal topic to create a campus GIS. The main aim of the study is to develop an integrated GIS to manage the facilities and trap better potentialities of the campus Area. The resulting project would come in handy for a complete planned management of the university campus. The spatial and non-spatial data are required to consider the real facts and figures, which is to be drawn. The map has to be scanned and exported to GIS software for digitization. Then to analyze the various themes (such as polygon, line, point features): Introduction There are approximately 274 Universities and National institutions deemed as Universities, in India. Jadavpur is one of them, yet it is different in its history, tradition and culture. Jadavpur University is primarily a unitary University having only three affiliated colleges- Smt. Jawahari Devi Birla Institute, Jadavpur Vidyapith College of Education and Institute of Business Management under the National Council of Education, Bengal.Jadavpur became a statutory University only on December 24, 1955. At the time of Independence in 1947, the College of Engineering and Technology, Bengal was virtually functioning as a University. The Government of West Bengal with the concurrence of the Government of India enacted the necessary legislation for the establishment of a University at Jadavpur under the name of JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, which came into being on 24 December 1955. The University adopted for its seal and emblem a design of three lamps encircled in lotus petals, executed under the direction of Nandalal Bose. The lamp represents knowledge, while the three flames are emblematic of intellectual training, integration of emotion and imagination of spiritual development. The petals of the lotus in the periphery represent philosophy, the fine arts and culture. The University Library is housed in a three-storied building on the campus. The total floor space is 36,720 square feet and extended to the Annex building. The three reading rooms, carrels and an alcove for bound volumes of journals, provide sitting accommodation for 500 readers. At present the central library has 5, 03,027 volumes, including textbooks, books of reference and books of general interest. In addition, there are 28 departmental libraries functioning independently. At present, the University has 13 hostels (4 for women and 9 for men) with provisions for accommodating over 1400 students including research scholars. Of the men’s hostels, two are for postgraduate students, one for postgraduate and research students, five for undergraduate students and one exclusively for students of the Physical Education Department There is a health centre located in the campus within easy reach of all students. It is attended by a full-time Medical Superintendent and part time qualified specialists in general medicine, eye, E.N.T, skin, dental and a part-time woman doctor for the girls’ hostels. The centre also has ultrasonography facilities. Jadavpur University has a spacious playground offering round-the-year facilities for sports, games and athletics. Besides football, cricket and hockey, there are grounds for basketball and lawn tennis. There is also an indoor stadium for games like badminton and a well-equipped gym. The University organizes state-level competitions such as the Vidyasagar Tournament, Elliott Shield, Ajoy Ghosh Memorial Cricket Tournament, and Wathoo Memorial volleyball Tournament for men. Various programmes are regularly undertaken, from running a literacy centre to the construction of road in rural areas. NSS cadets are also trained in first aid, adult literacy work, fire fighting etc. A unique feature of the academic structure of Jadavpur University is the presence of a number of interdisciplinary schools and centres of research. PROJECT OBJECTIVE The objectives behind applying Geographic Information System for creating a Virtual Campus were:
STUDY AREA The Jadavpur University stands on 58 acres of land on Raja Subodh Chandra Mallik Road at Jadavpur in south Kolkata. It is 8 km. by rail from Sealdah station, 15 km. by road from Howrah station, 25 km. by road from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport, and 3 km. by road from the Metro railway station at Tollygunge. The campus is close to the Jadavpur railway station and is approachable by public transport from all parts of Kolkata. Various other research and academic institutions have grown up around the university, creating a belt of scientific and academic activity. Among these centres are the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, The Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute(both CSIR laboratories), The Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, The academic complex of the National Council of Education, Bengal, The Regional Institute of Printing Technology, The Acharya P.C. Ray Polytecnic and other organizations of repute. The campus itself houses the Eastern Regional Computer Centre and the headquarters of The Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. METHODOLOGY The spatial and attribute data has been collected from Jadavpur University to create the Jadavpur University - Virtual Campus project. A full fledged map of the university duly showing the details of the infrastructure facilities and potentials, available from the office of the university engineer has been collected and scanned with a resolution of 300 dpi in JPEG format. The raster image of the Jadavpur Campus is then pre-processed in CAD Overlay 2000i to achieve greater accuracy in lesser time and to correct errors that may occur during the scanning process. There are several pre-processing methods, but only three of them are used here. Inversion of image from Gray Scale to Bitonal. Bitonal Filters to clean the image, by removing unnecessary speckles from the edges of raster objects, fill holes in raster lines etc. De- speckle to remove speakles, which appeared in the image while scanning the hard copy map. The cleaned map then converted into a Tiff image format. Arc GIS Desktop has been used to create the georeferencing and entire vector data. A GPS survey has been conducted, using Garmin eTrex, to collect the tics for georeferencing the image. The gray scale image then georeferenced with 6 GCP using second order polynomial as image to ground rectification. Then the bitonal image georeferenced with the help of the georeferenced Gray scale image as image-to-image rectification. R2V-conversion is, completed in Arc Map in personal geodatabase files. The various themes included in this study area are Linear, Area & Point Features. As Linear features, Road and Drainage has two subtypes. Road has metal and nonmetal, and Drainage has Pucca and under Ground drainage. As area feature Buildings, gardens, ponds, Water logged area, swamp, playground has been digitized. Taps, Electric Poles have been digitized as point features. Gates have been digitized as point feature, and Fencing has been digitized as linear feature, but for further processing in ERDAS Imagine, area feature of both has been created. Utilities were digitized both as point feature and area feature, as area feature, Utilities consists of ghats near the pond and a rifle shooting range, where as point features it consists – VAT, Exchange boxes etc. A field survey was then conducted to collect the spatial data of Buildings, Roads, Road width, Electric poles; Tap, other feature, Gates, Boundary height, fencing height, waterlogged area, garden, etc., and the attribute data for number of departments, number of schools, centres, total number of teaching staff and names of courses offered, Doctors in health center, courses for different faculties, Building information etc., The data collected during the survey was then used to create the database in MS-Access. Separate tables have been created for Building information, Course information, Department information, Information about professors, University health center information, Road information. These tables are then joined with their respective spatial objects. Building information table and Road information table were joined with the buildings and roads spatial data. Then a relation of tables such as course information, department information, professor information, University health center information, was created with the help of building table. Data collected during survey for boundary height and fencing height was later used to create the 3D effect in ERDAS Imagine. Road buffer was created with road width collected during survey, Electric pole buffer, Tap buffer, waterlogged area buffer, were created to show the effected area. Finally to create the virtual environment ERDAS Imagine has been used. To do this a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) was created in Arc GIS and all the feature class of the spatial objects were converted into shape file from Arc Catalog. Then the DEM and the shape files were exported to ERDAS virtual environment. A movie was created in this software as *.avi file and then processed using ADOBE Premier and sound recording was done using Cool Edit to finish the movie, for presentation. The project would prove to be one of its first kinds, if made online. Online GIS, better known, as Web-GIS would ensure access to Jadavpur University’s geographic information, including graphics, images, texts, digital data etc. Web GIS would provide a worldwide access to the university’s information, at faster and cheaper rate.  LAND USE DETAIL ROAD: At present not all roads of Jadavpur University are metaled. Mostly roads around staff quarters are non-metaled.  Map2: - Roads of Jadavpur University a) metaled b) non-metaled ANALYSIS & QUERIES EXECUTED From the GIS of the Jadavpur University we can analyze the spatial features and attributes present in the Virtual Campus and can perform queries by locations and attributes. Textual information related to the Departments, courses offered in individual departments, teaching staffs of the each department, doctors available with their visiting time in the University health centre, etc.
CONCLUSION As already stated, the main aim of this project is to provide a complete and extensive infra structural database of the university to assist campus development and its management that would prove to be economic both in terms of cost and time. On a detailed analysis of the mapped area, few aspects have been highlighted that need to be catered if not urgently. Solving these issues would result in a better-endowed campus. The resulting project would come in handy for a complete planned management of the university campus. This project will deal with the effective utilization and management of infra structural facilities available in Jadavpur University by using GIS software. It is the first attempt to make a virtual GIS of the University, which will enable a user to move around and gain ample information without the need of special equipment’s.  Map 11: 3D View of the Jadavpur University Virtual Campus REFERENCE
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