South Asian Orient: Colonial Epistemological Inquiry and its Modern Connections

As analysts assume that the South Asian regional political environment is difficult to comprehend due to its ethnic divisions and lingual bifurcations as the region hosts more than one and half billion inhabitants divided into India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Geographic diversity makes this region unique from all other regions in the world as it is bordered off the Persian Gulf and Arab world through the Indian ocean and opened up from Central Asia to the northern hemisphere. Such a racial, geographic, cultural, lingual and religious diversification had undergone epistemological inquiry during the colonial period in order to devise a central administrative system of regulating Raj’s affairs for the upcoming global world. Therefore, there emerged a unique sense of exploring the unfathomability and multiplicity of the scattering communalities. Through employing Edward W. Said’s critical framework, the present study exposes main theoretical Orientalist formulations by deconstructing major Western theories on South Asian cultures, geography and societies along with its connectivity to the overlapping of global power interests in the present world.

A Methodology for Developing Remote Sensing Applications

Remote Sensing Application (RSA) is important as one of the critical enabler of e-systems such as e- government, e-commerce, and e-sciences. In this dissertation, we argue that owning to the specialized needs of RSA such as volatility and interactive nature, a customized Software Engineering (SE) approach should be adapted for their development. Based on this argument we have also identified the shortcomings of the conventional SE approaches and the classical Waterfall software development life cycle model. In this research work, we have proposed a modification to the classical Waterfall software development life cycle model and then using this modified classical Waterfall software development life cycle model as a framework we have proposed a customized software development methodology for RSAs. The proposed development methodology works in two steps, the first step works when a RS application is being developed from scratch, and the second step operates when a change occurs to an already developed RS application. We have identified four (4) different types of changes that may occur to an already developed RS application, the proposed methodology is capable to incorporate all four types of changes. We have successfully demonstrated the applicability of our proposed methodology through three case studies.