AMITY INSTITUTE OF GEOINFORMATICS AND REMOTE SENSING (AIGIRS)

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The Institute conducts interdisciplinary research in the following areas of Remote Sensing & GIS Applications

  • Groundwater Resource Management
  • Groundwater Modeling
  • Watershed management and Modeling
  • Geophysics based Groundwater Survey
  • Groundwater Pollution and Prediction Modeling
  • GIS based decision support System for Solid Waste Management
  • River dynamics and Mapping
  • Web GIS based application in Resource Mapping
  • Geological / Mineralogical Studies
  • Urban Planning and Management
  • Glaciology
  • Landscape Evaluation
  • Flood Mapping and Monitoring
  • Drought Mapping and Monitoring
  • Climate Change Studies
  • Satellite Image Processing
  • Planetary and Radar Remote Sensing
  • Microwave and Hyperspectral Image Processing and Analysis
  • Pattern Recognition and Object Based Image Analysis
  • Urban Landscape Studies and Analysis for Smart cities
  • Location Analytics and Spatio-Temporal Data Analytics
  • Spatial Data Management and Revisualization
  • Renewable Energy, Energy Conservation, Conversion and Management

Research Projects Running in the Institute

  • Analysis of Urbanization and Its Impact on Climate Alteration and Environmental Pollution in Faridabad, Haryana, Sub-Region of NCR, India using Remote Sensing, GIS and In-Situ Measurement from Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India for duration 2017-21
  • Hybrid Urban Landscape Analysis for Green Smart Cities through Geospatial Technology sponsored from Science and Engineering Research Board (DST), Government of India under SERB DST Early Career Research Award to Dr Deepak Kumar for duration 2017-20.
  • Meta-sensing of urban footprint from airborne synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) data sponsored from Space Applications Centre (ISRO) Department of Space, Govt. of India under NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission to Dr Deepak Kumar for duration 2017-20.

Research Publications (Last 04 Years)

  1. Kumar Ranjan, Vipasha Sharma, Swagata Ghosh* (2022). Assessment of Urban Growth and Variation of Aerosol Optical Depth in Faridabad District, Haryana, India. Pollution, 8 (2), 447-461. https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_85961_4e7e75bbb7eb77e122f86c6bdd526e07.pdf. ESCI, WoS and Scopus indexed. ISSN: 2383-4501.
  2. Sunil Kumar, Kousik Midya, Swagata Ghosh* and Sultan Singh (2021). Pixel-Based vs. Object-Based Anthropogenic Impervious Surface Detection: Driver for Urban-Rural Thermal Disparity in Faridabad, Haryana, India. Geocarto International. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.2002429. SCI and Scopus indexed (Impact Factor: 4.889). ISSN: 1752-0762.
  3. Sunil Kumar, Swagata Ghosh* and Sultan Singh (2021). Polycentric urban growth and identification of urban hot spots in Faridabad, the million-plus metropolitan city of Haryana, India-A zonal assessment using spatial metrics. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01782-6. SCI, WoS and Scopus indexed (Impact Factor: 3.219) ISSN: 1573-2975.
  4. Vipasha Sharma Swagata Ghosh*, Muhammad Bilal, Sagnik Dey and Sultan Singh (2021). Performance of MODIS C6.1 Dark Target and Deep Blue Aerosol Products in Delhi National Capital Region, India: Application for Aerosol Studies. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 12 (3), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2021.01.023. SCI, WoS and Scopus indexed (Impact Factor: 4.352) ISSN: 1309-1042.
  5. Sunil Kumar, Swagata Ghosh*, Ramesh Singh Hooda and Sultan Singh (2019). Monitoring and prediction of land use land cover changes and its impact on land surface temperature in the central part of Hisar district, Haryana under semi-arid zone of India. Journal of Landscape Ecology, 12 (3), 117-140. DOI: 10.2478/jlecol-2019-0020. Scopus indexed. ISSN:1805-4196.
  6. Amarjeet Kaur, Swagata Ghosh* and Sanjay K. Das (2019). Satellite Image-Based Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics and Forest Cover Change Analysis (1996-2016) in Odisha, India. Asian Journal of Water Environment and Pollution, 16 (1), 25-39. DOI: 10.3233/AJW190004. ESCI and Scopus indexed. ISSN:1875-8568.
  7. Ridhima Malik, Swagata Ghosh*, Sunil Dhar, Prafull Singh and Madhulika Singh (2016). GIS-based Landslide Hazard Zonation along National Highway-58, from Rishikesh to Joshimath, Uttarakhand, India. International Journal of Advancement in Remote Sensing, GIS and Geography, 4(2), 41-55. ISSN: 2321-8355.
  8. Kumar, Deepak*; and Kumar, Aman (2020). Evaluating Filter Properties for Urban Feature Identification from DualPol SAR Images, Modelling Earth Systems and Environment (Springer), 7, pages 1337–1352 (2021), ISSN 2363-6203/ Electronic ISSN: 2363-6211 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 2363-6203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-020-00981-w, WoS/ Scopus Indexed
  9. . Misra, Mandvi; and Kumar, Deepak* (2020). A hybrid indexing approach for sustainable smart cities development, Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (Springer), 48, pages1639–1643 (2020), Electronic ISSN: 0974-3006 (Online) / Print ISSN: 0255-660X. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01171-y , Impact Factor- 1.563, WoS/ Scopus Indexed.
  10. Kumar, Deepak* (2020). Urban energy system management for enhanced energy potential for upcoming smart cities, Energy Exploration & Exploitation (SAGE Publishing), Volume: 38, Issue: 5, Page (s): 1968-1982, Print ISSN: 0144- 5987/ Electronic ISSN: 2048-4054 (Online). https://doi.org/10.1177/0144598720937529, Impact Factor-2.139, WoS/ Scopus Indexed.
  11. Ghosh, Sukanya; Kumar, Deepak*; and Rina Kumari (2022). Assessing spatiotemporal variations in land surface temperature and SUHI intensity with a cloud-based computational system over five major cities of India, Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) (Elsevier), ISSN: 2210-6707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104060, Impact Factor10.696, Scopus/SCI Indexed.
  12. Kumar, Ashwani; Kumar, Deepak*; and Veerabhadrappa, S. M. (2022). Analysing Effects on Ground Water Levels Due to Conversion of Rural to Urban Landscapes, Journal of Landscape Ecology (Sciendo), Electronic ISSN: 1805-4196 (Online). Cite Score: 1.3, Scopus Indexed– Accepted.
  13. Ghosh, Sukanya; Kumar, Deepak*; and Rina Kumari (2022). Assessing Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Land Surface Temperature and Satellite-Derived Indices for New town development and suburbanization planning, Urban Governance (Elsevier), ISSN: 2664-3286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2022.05.001, Peer Reviewed.
  14. Kikon, Noyingbeni; Kumar, Deepak*; and Ahmed, S. A. (2022). Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) earth observations for surface deformation analysis and mapping, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer). Electronic ISSN-1866-7538/ Print ISSN-1866-7511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10370-5, Impact Factor- 1.985, Scopus/SCI Indexed.
  15. Ghosh, Sukanya; Kumar, Deepak*; and Rina Kumari (2022). Google earth engine based computational system for the earth and environment monitoring applications during the COVID-19 pandemic using thresholding technique on SAR datasets, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C (Elsevier). ISSN: 1474-7065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2022.103163, Impact Factor- 3.311, Scopus/SCI Indexed.
  16. Kumari, Maya; Kumar, Deepak*; and Vaishnavi (2022). Dynamic drought risk assessment and analysis with multisource drought indices and analytical hierarchy process, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (IJEST) (Springer). Electronic ISSN: 1735-2630 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 1735-1472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04041-x, Impact Factor - 3.083, Scopus/SCI Indexed.
  17. Ghosh, Sukanya; Kumar, Deepak*; and Rina Kumari (2022). Assessing the influence of floods over selected states of eastern India with cloud-based geo-computing platforms, Geocarto International (Taylor & Francis), Electronic ISSN: 1752-0762 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 1010-6049. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.2047230, Impact Factor- 4.889,

  18. Scopus/SCI Indexed.

    Kikon, Noyingbeni; Kumar, Deepak*; and Ahmed, Ashfaq (2022). Analysing transition of land surface temperature and derived indices with respect to elevation values in Kohima Saddar, GeoJournal (Springer). Electronic ISSN: 1572-9893 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 0343-2521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10580-0, Scopus/SCI Indexed.
  19. Ghosh, Sukanya; Kumar, Deepak*; and Rina Kumari (2022). Evaluating the impact of flood inundation with the cloud computing platform over vegetation cover of Ganga Basin during COVID-19, Spatial Information Research (Springer). Page 5 /17 Electronic ISSN: 2366-3294 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 2366-3286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41324-022-00430-z, Scopus/SCI Indexed.
  20. Sunita; Kumar, Deepak*; and Sulochana Shekhar (2021). Spatial distribution analysis of urban blue-green spaces for mitigating excessive heat with Earth Observation Systems, Environmental Challenges (Elsevier), Volume 5, December 2021, 100390, Electronic ISSN: 2667-0100 (Online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100390, WoS/Scopus Indexed
  21. Monika Rawat, S. M. Veerabhadrappa, Application of Regionalization Technique to Assess Hydrological Behavior of an Ungauged Urban Catchment of Doon Valley
  22. Monika Rawat, S. M. Veerabhadrappa, R. P. Pandey, and D.R. Sena, Urban Sprawl Over a Lotic Ecosystem of Doon Valley: Trend and Future Implications
  23. Manuj Dev, S. M. Veerabhadrappa, Manas Kumar Jha, Terrestrial Photogrammetry as Low-cost Viable Option for Large Scale Corridor Mapping
  24. Upreti, Manjari; and Kumar, Deepak* (2021). Investigating Capability of Open Archive multispectral and SAR datasets for Wheat Crop Monitoring and Acreage Estimation, Earth Science Informatics (Springer). Electronic ISSN: 1865-0481 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 1865-0473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-021-00656-9, Impact Factor- 2.878, WoS/Scopus Indexed.
  25. Rawat, Seema; Kumar, Deepak*; Kumar, Praveen; and Khattri, Chaya (2021). A Systematic Analysis Using Classification Machine Learning Algorithms to Understand Why Learners Drop Out of MOOCs, Neural Computing and Applications (Springer). Electronic ISSN: 1433-3058/ Print ISSN: 0941-0643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021- 06122-3, Impact Factor- 5.606, WoS/Scopus Indexed.
  26. Kumar, Praveen; Jain, Rishabh; Kumar, Deepak*; and Rawat, Seema (2021). Interdisciplinary Implementation of Supervised Real-Time Waste Management, SN Computer Science (Springer). Electronic ISSN: 2661-8907(Online). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00651-3 , ProQuest/ EBSCO Indexed.
  27. Rawat, Seema; Rawat, Aakankshu; Kumar, Deepak*; and Sabitha A. Sai (2021). Application of machine learning and data visualization techniques for decision support in the insurance sector, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights (Elsevier). Electronic ISSN: 2667-0968 (Online), Volume 1, Issue 2, November 2021, 100012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjimei.2021.100012 , WoS/ DOAJ Indexed.
  28. Kumar, Deepak* (2021). Urban objects detection from C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite images through simulating filter Properties, Scientific Reports (Nature), Electronic ISSN: 2045-2322 (Online). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85121-9, Impact Factor- 5.133, WoS/Scopus/DOAJ Indexed.
  29. Kumar, Deepak (2021). Spatial variability analysis of the solar energy resources for future urban energy applications using Meteosat satellite-derived datasets, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (Elsevier), Electronic ISSN: 2352-9385 (Online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100481, CiteScore: 4.0, WoS/Scopus Indexed.
  30. Kumari, Pooja; Kumari, Rina*; and Kumar, Deepak (2021). Geospatial approach to evaluate the morphometry of Sabarmati River Basin, India, Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer) 14, Article number: 206 (2021), Electronic ISSN 1866-7538 (Online)/ Print ISSN: 1866-7511, 14, 206 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-06577-7, Impact Factor1.827, WoS/Scopus Indexed.