At LSI, research is carried out mainly in three broad areas:
Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) algorithms and system development including computational geometry, computer graphics.
Application of GIS techniques and RS data in a wide range of areas like agriculture, forestry, urban studies, etc
Integrated simulation and modeling related to global environmental change.
The postgraduate and undergraduate students of this lab are working on a diverse set of issues and problems, of which some are - urbanization modeling of Hyderabad, a web-GIS platform for the environmental data (national level), spatio-temporal data structures, auto-detection of roads from high resolution satellite imagery, land cover/use change modeling, geo-visualization of natural phenomena.
The lab is unique in providing a right platform for both computer science students and students from other domain areas to interact and work on problems that need an interdisciplinary approach.