AMITY INSTITUTE OF GEOINFORMATICS AND REMOTE SENSING (AIGIRS)

Research & Publications


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.
  1. Hydrological Inferences from Watershed Analysis for Water Resource Management using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences. 17 (2),111–121 (2014)
  3. Swarm Intelligence Inspired Classifiers - A case study with Remote Sensing Perspective.Journal of Indian Society of Geomatics. 8(2), 195-199. (2014)
  4. Landslide Susceptibility Mapping of North Sikkim Himalaya using Geospatial Techniques. 15th Esri India User Conference, NOIDA (2014).
  5. Regional Groundwater Prospect Assessment: Role of Hydrogeomorphological and Lithological Indicators using Geoinformation. 15th Esri India User Conference, NOIDA (2014).
  6. Temporal Analysis of Land use Pattern Changes of Noida, NCR Using Geospatial Tools. 15th Esri India User Conference, NOIDA. (2014)
  7. Groundwater Resource Assessment in a Basaltic Terrain of Chhidwara, M.P. India: An Integrated Approach. IAMG, 16th Conference held on 17-20 October, 2014 at JNU , New Delhi, India. (2014)
  8. Assessment of Groundwater Prospect zones of a hard rock terrain using Geospatial tool. Hydrological Science Journal (58: 213-223). (2013)
  9. Morphometric analysis of Morar River Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India, using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Environmental Earth Science ( 68:1967–1977) (2013)
  10. Geochemical modelling of fluoride concentration of hard rock terrain of Madhya Pradesh, India. Acta Geologica Sinica. ( 87: 1421-1433). (2013)
  11. Terrain Analysis System: A supplementary tool for hydrogeomorphic evaluation of Gwalior Basin. South Asian Journal of Economic Geology. 2013
  12. Spatio-Temporal Changes on Land use / Land Cover: A Case Study of Semi-Arid Region of Central India using Remote Sensing and GIS. 18th Convention of Indian Geological Congress & International Symposium on “Minerals and Mining in India-The way forward, inclusive of cooperative mineral –based industries in SAARC countries” 27th -29th April 2013
  13. Assessment of Land Use/Land Cover Using Geospatial Techniques in a Semi-arid Region of Madhya Pradesh, India Geospatial Techniques for Managing Environmental Resources. Volume I, ISBN: 978-94-007-1857-9, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany. (2012)
  14. A GIS based Hydrogeomorphological Mapping of Basaltic Terrain: Implications for Water Resource Evaluation and Management.12th ESRI India User Conference. (2012)
  15. Groundwater resource evaluation in the Gwalior area, India, using satellite data: an integrated geomorphologic and geophysical approach. Hydrogeology Journal(19: 1421–1429). (2011)
  16. Landuse Pattern Analysis Using Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Mau District, India. Archives of Applied Science Research (3:10-16). (2011)
  17. Water Resource Assessment and Management of Morar River Basin, Using GIS Advances in Earth Sciences. Volume-2, ISBN: 81-89304-92-5) Satish Serial Publishing House, New Delhi. (2011)
  18. Carbon Sequestration Status, Rate and Economic value in community forest of Kathmandu, Nepal. GEO-Carbon Conference: Carbon in a changing world 24-26 October 2011, Rome. (2011)
  19. Hydrogeomorphological zonation through remote sensing techniques and its implications in water resource management. National seminar on Management of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development in India. Morena, India. (2011)
  20. An Approach for Drainage Network Delineation from Digital Elevation Data. National Seminar on Water & Environment, MVM College Bhopal M.P. India, on March 12-13. (2011)
  21. Kumar, Deepak (2019). Hyper-temporal variability analysis of solar insolation with respect to local seasons, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, (Elsevier), ISSN: ISSN: 2352-9385 (Online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2019.100241
  22. Kumar, Deepak (2018). Mapping solar energy potential of southern India through geospatial technology, Geocarto International, (Taylor & Francis), ISSN: 1010-6049 (Print) 1752-0762 (Online). DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2018.1494759
  23. Kumar, Deepak, Tewary, Tavishi and Shekhar, Sulochana (2018). Enhanced Adaptive Technique for surface Temperature Variability Analysis, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transactions A: Science (Springer), Volume 42, Issue 3, pp 1309–1316. DOI: 10.1007/s40995-017-0469-5. ISSN 1028-6276.
  24. Kumar, Deepak (2018). Surface temperature variability analysis of an urban area using Landsat ETM+ thermal images, Asian Geographer (Taylor & Francis), Volume 34, Issue-1, page 25-37,    https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2017.1322992
  25. Kumar, Deepak and Shekhar, Sulochana (2016). Linear Gradient Analysis of Kinetic Temperature through Geostatistical Approach, Modelling Earth Systems and Environment (Springer) ISSN 2363-6203, DOI 10.1007/s40808-016-0198-3.
  26. Kumar, Deepak (2016). Adaptive Hierarchical Cell Sub-Division (AHCS) Method For Enhanced Surface Radiance Temperature Variability Analysis, Modelling Earth Systems and Environment (Springer) ISSN 2363-6203, DOI 10.1007/s40808-016-0194-7