• Prestigious ‘National Geospatial Award of Excellence-2016, by Indian Society of Remote sensing (ISRS)
• “Certificate of Merit” award-1996 under Young Scientist program of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
• ‘Certificate of Merit’ for 2nd Rank in University in M.Sc.( Tech.)-1991 and M.Sc.-1990
• Chair/Co-chair, technical sessions of various International and National Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Symposia
• Invited key note speaker and panelist in several Scientific & Technological events

• India Geospatial Excellence Award -2015 by Geospatial Media & Communications- an internationally accredited organization
• National Best Chapter Award for ISRS Ludhiana-2015
• ESRI Best Poster award, three years in a row- (2014,2015, &2016)
• First prize for organizing International GIS day-2017 by ESRI.

• Life Member, Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) And Patron Ludhiana Chapter of ISRS
• Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
• Life Member, Indian Water Resource Society (IWRS)
• Life Member, Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG) and Chairman, Ludhiana Chapter of ISG
• Member, advisory council of Indian Ecological Society (IES)
• Member, Association of Agrometeorologists
• Member, working group on ICT in Agriculture, Indian council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)

Organized, take charge professional with exceptional follow through abilities; able to plan and oversee projects from concept to successful conclusion. Demonstrated ability to efficiently prioritise a range of responsibilities in order to achieve maximum level of operative effectiveness. Excellent academic qualifications, technically proficient, with 29 years plus (since 1990) experience in the field of remote sensing and GIS applications.

• B.Sc. Agri (Hons.)
• M.Sc. (Soil Science – Pedology)
• PG Diploma in Remote Sensing Applications in Agriculture & Soils
• Ph.D (Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Science)

• Indian Council of Agricultural Research Scholarship throughout B. Sc. Agriculture, for 4 years University Merit Fellowship throughout M. Sc. (Soil Science).
• Distinction in PG Diploma in Remote Sensing Applications to Agriculture and Soils at IIRS Dehradun in 1993.
• Distinction in Geographic Information System Course (3 Mnths), IIRS Dehradun in 1998.
• Second Best Poster Paper Presentation Award at National Symposium on Resource Management with special reference to Geoinformatics & Decentralized Planning, held at Thiruvanthapuram, India (9-12 December, 2003).
• UNEP)/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship for short course in Germany in 2004
• First Best Poster Paper Presentation Award at ISPRS Symposium on Geospatial Databases for Sustainable Development held at Goa (September 27-30, 2006).
• UNEP)/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship for short course in Germany in 2012
• First Best Poster Paper Award at Natnl. Conf. at PRSC 2018

• International Course on Soil Management at Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM), Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany under UNEP)/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship (2004).
• International Course on Remote Sensing and Watershed Management at Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM), Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany UNEP)/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship (2012)

• Post Graduate Diploma in Remote Sensing-Applications to Agriculture and Soils (Specialisation in Soil Survey) - Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, India, 10 Months (1993) with Distinction.
• Geographic Information System(GIS) Training – Geoinformatics Division, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, India, 3 Months (1998) with Distinction.

• Head, Natural Resources & Environment Division w.e.f. 01 April 2012
• Chairman/Member of Selection Committees for Research Associates and Research Fellows
• Contributing in administrative framework and policy making. Overseeing the management and operations of staff as per instructions of the Director.
• Create scopes for getting newer project and funds. Liaising with partner institutions/State Development Departments. Developing and establishing partnerships with other user departments for the support of utilization of data base.
• Enhancing scopes of learning spaces by delivering lectures and attending conferences. Education and human resource development to students from various colleges/universities and officers from State Users Departments as well as promotion of remote sensing and GIS applications.
• Performing duties of Director PRSC during his absence/leave period.
• Member of Quality Assessment Team for various projects. Member of Committees for screening/selection of Scientists/Project Staff.

• Head, Natural Resources and Environment Division
• President- Ludhiana Chapter of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (2012-14)

• Monitoring and Evaluation of IWMP Watersheds – funded by Deptt. of Space (DOS), GOI
• Space based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SISDP) – Update – funded by Deptt. of Space (DOS), GOI

Under India Geospatial Education and Training programme funded by Department of Science & Technology at.

• JNTU Hyderabad, India
• University of Rajasthan, India
• MDU Rohtak

• M.Tech Course in RS GIS of Centre for Space Science & Technology Education in Asian and the Pacific (CSSTEAP) Dehradun.
• M.Tech Course in RS GIS (Agriculture and Soils) - IIRS, Dehradun.
• Masters Course (Soil Science) - CSK HP Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur
• Bachelors Course, College of Forestry Dr YPS Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry , Solan.
• External Expert for evaluation of M.Tech. Dissertation, IIRS Dehradun
• External Expert evaluation of Ph.D Thesis, JNTU, Hyderabad.
• External Expert for promotion review of Scientist SC, IIRS Dehradun

• Faculty for M.Tech (Remote Sensing and GIS) – A joint programme of Punjab Agricultural University(PAU) and Punjab Remote Sensing centre(PRSC), Ludhiana.
• Major Advisor - Three M.Tech students (Remote Sensing & GIS) PAU Ludhiana
• Advisory Committee member – Two Ph.D students, Four M.Sc students, One M.Tech (SWE) PAU
• Supervised 08 students Masters students for summer internship.
• Faculty for various training programmes conducted by PRSC.

1. Verma V.K., Setia, R.K. and Khurana M.P.S. (2013)Ugly Face of Urbanization and Industrialization: A Study of Water Pollution in Buddha Nala of Ludhiana City, India Journal of Environmental Conservation Research, JECR May 2013, 1(1):6-11
2. Setia Raj, Smith Pete, Marschner Petra, Gottschalk Pia, Baldock Jeff, Verma Vipan, Setia Deepika, and Smith Jo (2012) Simulation of Salinity Effects on Past, Present, and Future Soil Organic Carbon Stocks, Environmental Science & Technology 46(3) p.1624 .
3. Setia, Raj, Verma, Vipan and Sharma Pawan (2012) Soil informatics for evaluating and mapping soil productivity index in an intensively cultivated area of Punjab, India. Journal of Geographic Information System, 4:71-76.
4. Setia Raj, Marschner, Petra Baldock Jeff, Chittleborough David, Verma Vipan (2011) Relationships between carbon dioxide emission and soil properties in salt- affected landscapes, Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43 (2011) : 667-674.
5. Setia, R.K., Sharma, K.N., and Verma, V.K. (2006) Movement of nitrogen in a sandy loam soil under a continuous maize-wheat cropping system, Acta Agronomica Hungarica, 54(4):487-497
6. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K., Sharma, P.K., Singh, Charanjit and Kumar Ashok (2005) Pedospheric variations in distribution of DTPA- extractable micronutrients in soils developed on different physiographic units in central parts of Punjab, India. Intl. J. Agric. and Biology, 7(2): 243-246.
7. Verma, V.K., Patel, L.B., Toor G.S., and Sharma P.K., (2005) Spatial distribution of macronutrients in soils of arid tract of Punjab, India. Intl. J. Agric. and Biology, 7(2):295-297.
8. Verma, V.K., Patel, L.B., Toor, G.S., Sharma, P.K. and Vinay, Singh (2005) Dynamics and spatial distribution of soluble salts in ground waters with special reference to their suitability for irrigation in Faridkot district of Punjab, India, Ecol. Env. and Consv., 12(1):119-122.
9. Verma, V.K., Sharma, P.K., Singh, Vinay, Patel, L.B. and Toor, G.S. (2004) Hydrochemical facies of ground waters of southwestern Punjab, India in relation to their suitability for irrigation. Asian J. of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences, 6(3):379-381.
10. Patel, L.B., Verma, V.K., Toor, G.S., and Sharma, P.K. (2001) Ground water quality for irrigation: Its assessment and management in district Mansa, Punjab (India) Ecol. Env. and Consv. 7(3): 315-318.
11. Chopra, Rajiv, Verma V.K. and Sharma P.K. (2001) Mapping, Monitoring and Conservation of Harike Wetland (Punjab), India using Remote Sensing Technology. Intl. J. Remote Sensing, 22/1:89-98
12. Patel, L.B., Verma, V.K., Toor, G.S.and Sharma, P.K. (2000) Beneficial Plant Nutrient Supply from Ground Waters of Arid Tract of Punjab. Ecol. Env. and Cons., 6(1): 105- 108.
13. Verma, V.K., Patel, L.B., Sharma, P.K., Toor, G.S. and Singh Charanjit (2000) Integrated Approach for Evaluation, Characterisation and Management of Soil and Water Related Constraints in Arid Environment of Punjab, India. Asian J. Microbiol. Biotech & Env. Sci., 2(1-2): 43-50
14. Sharma, P.K.; Chopra, Rajiv; Verma, V.K. and Thomas, A. (1996) Flood Management using Remote Sensing Technology:The Punjab (India) Experience. Intl. J. Remote Sensing, 17(17): 3511-21.
15. Sawhney, J.S.; Verma V.K.; Sharma B.D. and Sharma P.K.. (1992) Pedogenesis of soils in relation to physiography in semi-arid and arid tract of Punjab - India. Arid Soil Research & Rehabilitation U.S.A. 6: 93-103.
16. Setia, R.K., Verma, V.K. and Sharma, P.K. (2012) Soil Informatics for Evaluating and Mapping Soil Productivity Index in an Intensively Cultivated Area of Punjab, India J. Geographic Information System, Vol.4 No.1(2012)

1. Ravinder Pal Singh, RK Setia, VK Verma, Sanjay Arora, Parmod Kumar and B. Pateriya (2017) Satellite Remote Sensing of Salt-Affected Soils: Potentials and Limitations, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 16(2):97-107
2. Surender Singh, Anil Bhardwaj and V.K Verma (2016) Hydrological Characterization of Dholbaha Watershed in Shivalik Foot-hills Using Remote Sensing and GIS, Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 53(2) April-June 2016.
3. Navaneet Kumar Das, V. K. Verma and Minakshi (2015) Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis of Hussainiwala Wetland Ecosystem Using Remote Sensing and GIS, Indian Journal of Ecology (2015) 42(2), 306-310
4. Minakshi and Verma, V.K. (2014) Land Resources Appraisal Using Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS: A Case Study of Rajni Devi Sub-watershed (District Hoshiarpur) Indian J. Ecol. (2014) 41(1) : 23-26.
5. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K., Sharma, P.K., and Harpinder Singh. (2008) Geoinformatics as a tool for the assessment of the impact of ground water quality of irrigation on soil health. J. Indian Soc. of Remote Sensing, 36 (3) : 273-21.
6. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K.and Sharma, P.K. (2008 ) Influence of Physiography and Soil Characteristics on Distribution of DTPA Extractable Micronutrients in Semi Arid Tract of Punjab Agropedology 18(1):58-65.
7. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K. and Sharma, P.K. (2007) Ionic Composition and Hazards of Poor Quality Waters for Irrigation in Southwestern Part of Punjab, Hydrology Journal, 30(3-4) : 91-101.
8. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K., Sharma, P.K., Khurana, M.P.S. and Kang, G.S. (2007) Pedospheric distribution of micronutrient cations in soils developed on various landforms in Northeast Punjab. J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci., 55(4) :515-520.
9. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K., Sharma, P.K., Singh, Charanjit, Kumar Ashok and Kang, G.S. (2007) Effect of Physiography on distribution of macronutrients in soils of Fatehgarh Sahib district, Punjab. Indian J. Agl. Res., 4 (41): 277-281.
10. Sharma, P.K., Mehra, D., Sood, Anil, Tur, N.S., Setia, R.K., Verma, V.K., and Singh, H. (2006). Mapping of N, P, K and S status in soils of Hoshiarpur district of Punjab, India. Indian J. Ecology, 33(2): 132-134.
11. Sharma, P.K., Sood, Anil, Setia, R.K., Verma, V.K., Mehra, Deepak, Tur, N.S. and Nayyar, V.K. (2006). Use of information technology for mapping of DTPA- extractable micronutrients in soils of Amritsar district, Punjab. J. Indian Soc. of Soil Science, 54(4): 465-475.
12. Bhatt, C.M., Verma, V.K., Singh, R.K., Sharma, P.K. and Litoria, P.K. (2006). Mapping and monitoring of waterlogged area in Muktsar block, Punjab. J. Ecology and Environment, 33(1):35-39.
13. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K., Sharma, P.K., Singh, Charanjit and Kumar, Ashok (2005). Micronutrient distribution in different physiographic units of Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab. Agropedology, 15(1): 70-75.
14. Chopra, Rajiv, Verma, V.K. and Sharma, P.K. (2005) Applications of remote sensing to establish relationship between geomorphology and flood prone areas in Sangrur district, Punjab. Bull. of Indian Geology Assoc. 37 (1-2):67-72.
15. Sood, A., Chhiba, I.M., Verma, V.K., Sharma, P.K. and Nayyar, V.K. (2002) Soil fertility in different physiographic units in arid tract of Punjab, J. Indian Agl. Sciences, 72(6): 329-33
16. Sawhney, J.S., Verma, V.K. and Jassal, H.S. (2000) Soil Physiographic Relationship in South-eastern Sector of Submontane Tract of Punjab. Agropedology, 10: 6-15
17. Verma, V.K., Chopra, Rajiv, Sharma, P.K. and Singh, Charanjit (1999) Mapping, Monitoring and Conservation of Ropar Wetland Ecosystem (Punjab) - A Remote Sensing Approach. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sensing, 26 (4): 185-195.
18. Sood, A., Verma, V.K., Thomas, A., Sharma, P.K. and Brar, J.S. (1998) Assessment and management of underground water quality in Talwandi Sabo tehsil of Bathinda district (Punjab). J. Indian Soc. Soil Sci., 46(3): 421-426.
19. Verma, V.K., Sood, A., Sharma, P.K., Singh, C. and Manchanda, M.L. (1996) Resource Constraint Mapping and Management in Arid Tract of Punjab. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sensing, 24: 11-23
20. Verma, V.K.; Sawhney J.S. and Jassal H.S. (1996) Clay mineral composition of soils from different physiographic zones of Ropar district (Punjab). Clay Research 13: 38- 43.
21. Thomas, A.; Verma V.K.; Sood A.; Litoria P.K.; Sharma P.K.and Ravindran K.V. (1995) Hydrogeology of Talwandi Sabo tehsil, Bathinda district - A Remote Sensing Approach. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sensing 23(2): 47-56.
22. Verma, V.K., Setia, R.K. and Sharma, P.K. (2010) Influence of Physiography, Soil Characteristics and Moisture Regime on Pedospheric Distribution of Forms of Potassium in South-western Parts of Punjab Annals of Arid Zone 49(1):17-22.

• Verma,V.K., Litoria,P.K., Loshali, D.C.,and Sharma, P.K. (2000) Land Degradation in Siwaliks : Its Assessment and Management using Remote Sensing Technology, In : Fifty Years of Research for Sustainable Resource Management of Siwaliks, Central Soil & Water Conservation Research & Training Institute, Chandigarh.
• Verma, V.K.; Chopra Rajiv and Sharma P.K. (1995) Remote Sensing for appraisal of torrent erosion in Siwaliks. In: Torrent Menace: Challenges and Opportunities published by Central Soil & Water Conservation Research & Training Institute, Dehradun, p: 30-36.

• Sharma, P.K., Bhatt, C.M., Verma, V.K., Sood, Anil, Minakshi, Singh, N., Litoria, P.K., Choudhury, B.U. and Setia, R.K. (2008) Ground water resources development in Punjab. NNRMS (B), 32:56-65.
• Verma, V.K. and Sharma, P.K. (2004) Assessment and management of ground water quality for irrigation in Faridkot district, SLUB News. 2: 12/7.
• Sharma, P.K., Verma, V.K., Loshali, D.C., and Litoria, P.K. (2003) Land use planning for sustainable land management – Role of remote sensing and GIS. SLUB News 1: 7-9.
• Sood, A., Sharma, P.K., Manchanda, M.L, Verma, V.K. and Litoria, P.K. (2001) Impact Assessment of brackish ground water use on soil health in Bathinda district (Punjab). Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG) Newsletter. SAC, Ahemdabad 6 (2&3):16-18
• Verma, V.K., Sharma, P.K., Patel, L.B.,Loshali, D.C., and Toor, G.S.(2000) Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Development using Remote Sensing Technology- A Case Study. NNRMS (B) 24: 41-46.
• Chopra, R., Verma, V.K., Thomas, A. and Sharma, P.K. (1994). Extent and causes of floods in Punjab- A remote sensing approach. NNRMS Bulletin, 18: 38-42.

• Life Member of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun.
• Life Member of the Indian Society of Geomatics, Ahmedabad.
• Life Member of the Indian Society of Soil Science, New Delhi.
• Life Member of the Indian Science Congress, Kolkata.
• Life Member of the Association of Agrometerologists, Anand.
• Life Member of the Punjab Science Congress, Patiala.

• Three weeks training on Crop Modeling and Economic Analysis using CROPMAN Model at College Station, Temple, Texas and AMU, Texas (USA) from September 16, 2003 to October 08, 2003.
• Short course on soil management at Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM) at Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany from 21st November to 14th December 2006.

Project Incharge:


• PI of the project “Satellite Remote sensing based District-wise Crop Acreage and Crop Condition Monitoring in Punjab”.
• PI of the project “Evaluation of soil and water related constraints to productivity under different cropping systems”.
• PI of the project “Agro-Geo-Informatics for Analysis and Management of Natural Resources with respect to agricultural productivity”.
• PI of the project “Forecasting Agricultural Outputs using Space, Agrometeorology and Land based Observations (FASAL)”.
• PI of the project “Agro-Geo-Informatics for Analysis and Management of Natural Resources with respect to agricultural productivity”.
• PI of the project “Satellite Study to Monitor Burning of Paddy Straw in Agricultural Fields”.
• PI of the project “Satellite Study to Monitor Burning of Paddy Straw in Agricultural Fields”.
• PI of the project “Measurement of Vegetation and Biomass parameters under Vegetation-Carbon Pool Assessment (VCP) Sub-Project of the ISRO Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) National Carbon Project (NCP).

Administrative Responsibilities:


• Head, Agro-ecosystems and crop modeling
• Coordinator and Nodal Officer,M. Tech. (RS & GIS), A joint programme of PRSC and PAU
• Library In-charge, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre
• Associate Faculty, School of Climate Change and Agricultural Meteorology, PAU, Ludhiana.

Recent Publications \Presentations:


• Kaur, Samanpreet; Aggarwal, Rajan; Jalota, S. K. and Sood, Anil. 2015. Estimation of Fluxes across Boundaries for Groundwater Flow Model using GIS. Curr. Sci. 109 (3). 607-610
• Kaur, Ramanjit, Mahey R K and Sood, Anil. 2015. Derivation of weed intensity maps in wheat (Triticum aestivum) using spatial data with GIS in the central districts of Punjab, India. Indian J Agricultural Sciences 85 (5):640-44.
• Srivastva, Rajiv; Sarkar, Deepak, Mukhopahayay, S S., Sood, Anil; Singh Manjeet; Nasre, Ravinder A. and Dhale Sanjay. 2015. Development of hyper-spectral model for rapid monitoring of soil organic carbon under precision farming in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Punjab, India. JISRS 43 (4): 751-59.
• Kaur, Navreet; Singh Kanwar Vivek,; Sood Anil and Pateriya, Brijendra..2015. Open-source tools to customise web applications for agricultural resource management. Paper presented at National Conference on Geomatics for Natural Resources and Climate Change with special Reference to Rainfed Agriculture and Water Resources at MDS University, Ajmer 8 and 9 October, 2015.
• Kundu, Debjani, Sood, Anil and Pateriya Brijendra. 2015. Mapping Ground Water Quality in Sri Muktsar Sahib District, Punjab using Geo-statistics Proceedings: ISG National Symposium on Geomatics for Digital India held from 16-18 December, 2015 at Jaipur
• Singh, Harpinder, Sood, Anil and Pateriya Brijendra .2015. Agricultural data collection using an android mobile device. Proceedings: ISG National Symposium on Geomatics for Digital India held from 16-18 December, 2015 at Jaipur.
• Benipal, Amanpreet Kaur, Sood, Anil and Pateriya Brijendra. 2015. Classification of Zaid crops in Ludhiana District of Punjab using Multi-date and Multi-sensor Satellite data. Proceedings: ISG National Symposium on Geomatics for Digital India held from 16-18 December, 2015 at Jaipur.
• Singh Maninder, Kaur Samanpreet, Aggarwal Rajan and Anil Sood. 2015. Assessment of carbon emissions by groundwater pumping for central Punjab using geoinformatics. Proceedings: ISG National Symposium on Geomatics for Digital India held from 16-18 December, 2015 at Jaipur.

Project Reports:

1. District wise Acreage Estimation of Zaid crops (2015-16).
2. District wise Acreage Estimation for Kharif Maize in Major Maize Growing Districts of Punjab (2015-16).
3. District wise Acreage Estimation for Rice in Punjab (2015-16).
4. District wise Acreage Estimation of Winter Vegetables (2015-16).
5. District wise Acreage Estimation of Cotton in Major Cotton Growing Districts in Punjab (2015-16).
6. District wise Acreage Estimation of Wheat in Punjab (2015-16).
7. Evaluation of soil and water related constraints to crop productivity under different cropping system.Quarterly Report (April to June 2015)
8. Evaluation of soil and water related constraints to crop productivity under different cropping system.Quarterly Report (July to Septeber 2015)
9. Evaluation of soil and water related constraints to crop productivity under different cropping system.Quarterly Report (October to December 2015)
10. Monitoring Residue Burning through Satellite Remote Sensing 2015.

Organization of training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar etc.:


• ISRO- TRAINING OF TRAINERS NCERT Teachers Training Programme held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre from 27th July to 7th August 2015.
• NCERT Teachers held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre from 4th to 15th January, 2016.
• Three weeks training programme on application of remote sensing and GIS held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre from 18th January to 5th February, 2016.
• Participated state meet on promoting space technology based tools application in governance & development & launch of Bhuvan Punjab Portal at Chandigarh on April 18, 2016

Training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar attended


1. NISAR Science Workshop held at SAC, Ahmedabad from 19 to 20 November, 2015.
2. National Symposium on Geomatics for Digital India & Annual Conventions of jointly by ISRS and ISG at Jaipur, Rajasthan and Annual General Body Meeting of ISG & ISRS as EC Member from 16-18 December, 2015.
3. GeoSmart India 2016 & Geointelligence Asia, India Expo Centre & Mart Greater Noida from 2-4, March, 2016.
4. Attended state meet on promoting space technology based tools application in governance & development & launch of Bhuvan Punjab Portal at Chandigarh on April 18, 2016

Key technical achievements of the Division.


• Creation of digital data base for the major crops grown in the state
• Creation of digital database (spatial variability maps) for the nutrient status in soils.
• Creation of soil management zones for efficient fertilizer management
• Creation of spatial variability maps for ground water quality parameters for efficient water management
• Development of mobile applications using ODK for collecting soil water and crop related information
• Development of Webgis using open source tools for dissemination of data to the end user (farmers)
• Real Time mapping of the Fire incidence and area under paddy crop residue burning

• Coordinator- IIRSC Outreach Programme
• Secretary, ISG-Ludhiana Chapter
• Acting as Co-Advisor/Member of Advisory Committee of the M.Sc and Ph.D. Students of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
• Acting as External Examiner for conducting examination of students for various Universities.
• Evaluating Thesis and conducting oral examination for Post Graduate student of Various Universities.
• Acting as Reviewer for various National/International Journals to review the Research Articles.
• Delivering lectures in various faculty upgradation programmes and workshops organized by various universities and institutions and invited to be the member of various selection committees.
• Teaching Course RSGIS 503 (Digital Image Processing) offered to students of M. Tech. (RS&GIS) during second semester of the academic session 2014-15, a joint programme of , Ludhiana and PAU, Ludhiana
• Teaching Course RSGIS 591 (Seminar) offered to students of M.Tech (RS&GIS) during second semester of the academic session 2014-15, a joint programme of , Ludhiana and PAU, Ludhiana.
• Teaching Course SWE 510 (GIS and RS for Land and Water Resource Management) offered to students of M. Tech. (Soil and Water Conservation, COAE&T) during second semester of the academic session 2014-15, offered by Department of Soil and Water Engineering, COAE&T, PAU, Ludhiana.

• Preparation of map under forest & other land use in village Nada & Karoran.
• Digitization of Cadastral map of Village Nada & Karoran.
• MPLAD
• National Carbon Poll Mapping (Vegetation Carbon Pool Assessment)- Co-PI
• Co-Ordinated Programme on Horticultural Assessment and Management- Using Geo-Informatics (CHAMAN)- Co-PI

• Head Forestry and Land Use Division
• Head Training
• Incharge Survey of India Toposheets
• Incharge Aerial Photographs
• Incharge Procurement and dissemination of satellite data (Analog and Digital)
• Incharge Supply of maps and GIS support on demand of user departments
• Incharge Guest House cum Training Hostel
• Incharge Chowkidar cum Mali
• Incharge Security

• Kumar, Parmod, Sunil Nehra, Simran kaur dhall, Dikesh Chandra Loshali and Brijendra Pateriya. 2015. Change matrix and Land use Land cover change analysis of Muktsar District, Punjab, India Using Multi Temporal Satellite Data. International Journal of Advancement in Remote Sensing, GIS and Geography Vol.3, No.2, 71-79.

• Interpretation of Forest cover in time series based on the digital Aks Shajra Map of the Village Karoran. Project Report submitted with Forest department, Punjab.
• Interpretation of Forest cover in time series based on the digital Aks Shajra t Report submitted with Forest department. Punjab.Map of the Village Nada. Project
• Interpretation of Forest cover based on the digital Aks Shajra Map of the Village Karoran using 1980 satellite data. Project Report submitted with Forest department.
• Interpretation of Forest cover based on the digital Aks Shajra Map of the Village Nada using 1980 satellite data. Project Report submitted with Forest department.

• Teachers Training Programme (Training of Trainers) in the field of Geospatial Technology (Capacity Building of Post Graduate Geography Teachers of Higher Secondary Stage) supported by Indian Space research Organization (ISRO) Department of Space; Govt. of India in collaboration with NCERT was hosted by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), Ludhiana from 27th July to 7th Aug 2015. Summary
• Teachers Training Programme (Training of Trainers) in the field of Geospatial Technology (Capacity Building of Post Graduate Geography Teachers of Higher Secondary Stage) supported by Indian Space research Organization (ISRO) Department of Space; Govt. of India in collaboration with NCERT was hosted by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), Ludhiana from 4th January to 15th January, 2016.
• Three weeks Training programme for University Faculty/Line departments under NNRMS-ST (ISRO) was organized at PRSC from 18th January to 5th February, 2016.
• Remote Sensing Awareness workshop on Satellite Remote sensing and GIS to School childerns was hosted at Govt. Girls Sdenior Secondary School Faridkot on 10th February, 2016. A total of 105 students participated in the same.
• One day Remote sensing awareness programme was organized students from LCET

• Participated in the ISRS Ludhiana Chapter workshop organized at PRSC Ludhiana.
• Participated in the ISRS – Ludhiana Chapter World Environment Day function at PRSC Ludhiana.
• Participated in the GIS Day function at PRSC Ludhiana in November 2015.
• Attended State Meet for one day at Chadigarh on 18th April, 2016.
• Organized and helped in different projects, workshops and training programmes organized at PRSC.
• Participation and presentation in the GIS Day function at PRSC Ludhiana in November 2015.

• The study will help in delineating forest boundary in the study area during 1980 and 1981. The encroachment if any can be delineated using different time series forest cover maps. The degraded forest areas and low density areas can be marked for plantations. The study will be helpful for State Forest Department to maintain forest cover.
• The maps were prepared as per requirements of different user departments. The same were supplied to user departments for further use. The database and maps prepared full filled the requirements of the different user departments.
• The training programmes conducted will make aware about remote sensing and its advantages.

• Attended court as and when required
• Procurement of satellite data from NRSC as and when required
• Dissemination of satellite data and Survey of India Topo Sheets to the scientists of PRSC as and when required.
• Interaction with the Professors of different colleges and explained the utility of remotely sensed data and GIS in various studies.
• Part of various departmental committees for purchase/repair of official various items and various interviews/reviews.
• Conducted Interviews and Reviews for JRF, RF and RA and other supporting staff from time to time at PRSC

• B. Tech. (Civil Engineering)
  
• ME (Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing)
  
• Ph.D (Remote Sensing)
  

• Gate scholarship-1991
• Commonwealth scholarship and fellowship-2002(U.K) for pursuing Ph.D at Southampton, U.K.
• Life member of Indian society of Remote Sensing(ISRS),Dehradun(India).
• Member of centre for spatial database management and solutions(CSDMS), New Delhi.
• Indian society of Geomatics(ISG), Ahmedabad(Life member)
• Associate member of Institute of Engineers(AMIE), Calcutte(Life member)

Project Incharge


• Single Building Extraction in Ludhiana Municipal limit for Municipal Corporation of Ludhiana.
• Revenue Based Masterplans
• Digitization of cadastral maps using satellite image and creation of digital database in GIS


Administrative Responsibilities


• Head Land Resources, Utilities & Infrastructure Division (LRUI)
• Incharge Vehicles
• Incharge Civil Works
• Convenor Remote Sensing and GIS Education promotion Committee
• Joint Secretary Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Ludhiana Chapter


Recent Publications \Presentations


• Ajay Mathur (2019) “Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in URBAN Planning” in ISRS-LC Newsletter Vol. –No 1, Jan-June, 2019
• Singh Lakhvir, SimerjitKaur, Sana, Ramandeep, Harmanpreet , Balwan Singh, Aman Kumar, PreetiKashmira, Tapati, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, BrijendraPateriya “Application of Geospatial Technology in Planning and Aqcuiring Land for Proposed Roads Under Masterplan---A Case Study Of SultanpurLodhi Local Planning Area.”published in Application of Geomatics in Civil Engineering, Page No. 357 - 364, Journal of Springer.
• Ajay Mathur, P K litoria and Brijendra Pateriya “A Comparative Study of Drone and High Resolution Satellite Data for Detailed Landuse /Land Cover Mapping” poster presentation in First International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG-2019, April 06-07, 2019, Greater Noida, India.
• Simerjit, Lakhvir, Ramandeep, Aman, Balwan Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Pateriya B (2018) “E-Governance for Ludhiana Municipal Corporation” in 38th INCA International Congress on Emerging Trends in Cartography, Hyderabad, October 29-31
• Sharma Reenu, Kusum, Singh Lakhvir, Kaur Simerjit , Singh Amardeep, Singh Harpinder, Mathur Ajay, Litoria P.K, Pateriya B (2018) “Diverse Application of Revenue Based Data for Large Scale Mapping and Monitoring: Use of Geo- Spatial Technology ” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, Delhi / NCR, September 10 - 11. (Best Poster Award)
• Lakhvir Singh, Simerjit Kaur, Sana, Ramandeep, Harmanpreet kaur, Balwan, Aman, Preeti kashmira, Tapati Baskey, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, Brijendra Pateriya “Application of Geospatial Technology in Planning and Acquiring Land for Proposed Roads under master Plan – A case Study of Sultanpur Lodhi Local Planning Area in ICGCE-2018, An International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering, April 05-06, 2018. (oral presentation)
• Simerjit, Balwan, Pardeep, Lakhvir, harmanpreet, ramandeep,Kashish, Aman, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, P K Litoria nd B. Pateriya (2018) “Election Management Using Geospatial Technology” oral presentation in National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide organized by PRSC in collaboration with ISG-Ludhiana chapter at Ludhiana, 21-23 Feb, 2018.
• Harmanpreet, Ramandeep, Lakhvir, Balwan, Simerjit, Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Litoria P.K., Pateriya B(2017) “Geospatial Technologies for the Mapping of Industrial Focal Points (IFPS) of Punjab” in regional conference on space technology for Sustainable development HARSAC, March 21 - 22, Hisar.
• Simerjit, Balwan, Kumar Pardeep, Lakhvir, Harmanpreet, Ramandeep, Kashish, Aman, Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Litoria P.K., Pateriya B(2017) “GIS in Election Management” in regional conference on space technology for Sustainable development HARSAC, March 21 - 22, Hisar.
• R.K. Setia, Parmod Kumar, Nitin Dhir, Himanshu Kumar,  Manish Uniyal, Randhir Singh, Simranjeet Singh, Shaveta Lamba, Sagar Taneja, K. Mohinder Singh, Ajay Mathur, Harvinder Singh, M.L.Sharma and B. Pateriya. GIS for e-Governance and Planning in Punjab. Paper presented at the ESRI conference held in New Delhi from January 19 - 20, 2017. (Ist Prize)
• Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Singh Amarinder, Pathania Pooja, Litoria P.K., Pateriya B, khosa Urmiljeet (2017) “Potential of GIS in Tourism and Heritage Mapping” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, January 19-20, 2017, New Delhi.(second prize)
• Paper presented at  National Symposium on. Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems. December 7 - 9, 2016. Dehradun (India)Richa Sharma, Manju Sharma, Maninder Singh, Himanshu Kumar, Mainsh Uniyal, Randhir Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Raj Setia, Ajay Mathur and Brijendra Pateriya “Assessment of farm scale soil health using GIS
• A talk on “Space technology in Urban Governance, Local Bodies and Development of Smart Cities” by Dr Ajay Mathur during Punjab State meet on promoting Space Technology based tools, applications in Governance & Development and launching of Bhuvan Punjab portal, Date: & Day 18 April 2016
• Paper published “Status of waterlogged areas in south West Punjab using RS and GIS Technology” JP Singh, Poonam, Ajay Mathur and Gurvinder Singh in Journal of Hydrology Vol37, Issue 1-4 Jan, 2016, PP 18-25
• Poster presented at ESRI Conference, 2015 at Delhi entitled “GeoSpatial Technologies for the preparation of Master Plan “Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Kumar Rajneesh, Kaur Rupinder, Pathania Pooja, Kaur Rupinder, Singh Amarinder, Litoria P.K., Pateriya B, Singh Harnek
• Poster presentation entitled “E-Governance for Bathinda Municipal Corporation” Balwan singh, Lakhvir Singh, Simerjit Kaur, Rashpal, Kamljit Kaur, Navdeep Singh, JP Sharma, Vardan Gupta, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur and B Pateriya during Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, March 17-18, 2015
• Poster Presentation entitled “Encroachment Mapping Using Remote Sensing and GIS- A Case Study of Bhangi Choe in Hoshairpur City of Punjab” Lakhvir Singh, Ajay Mathur and B Pateriya during Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, March 17-18, 2015
• Oral Presentation entitled “Remote Sensing and GIS for Tourism: A case Study of Sultanpur Lodhi Town, Punjab” Rashpal, Ajay Mathur and B Pateriya, during Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, March 17-18, 2015
• Reenu Sharma, Simerjit Kaur, Ajay Mathur and B. Pateriya (2014) "BASEMAP GENERATION USING CARTOSAT DATA" in User Interaction Meet 2014, January 20-21, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad.
• Poster presented at ESRI Conference, 2014 at Delhi entitled “Municipal GIS: A case Study of Ludhiana city , Punjab (India) Reenu Sharma, Lakhvir Singh, Vardan Gupta,Amardeep Singh, Ajay Mathur, P K Litoria, B. Pateriya, Arul Raj M, Sonal Aggarwal
• Amrinder Singh, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, P.K Litoria, B. Pateriya et.al (2013) "WebGIS FOR TOURISM : A CASE STUDY OF AMRITSAR CITY,PUNJAB, (INDIA) in ESRI User Conference, December 11-12, New Delhi.
• Reenu Sharma, B. Pateriya and Ajay Mathur (2013) “Decentralized Planning with Application of GIS: Issues and Options” in XXXIII INCA International Congress on Integrated Decentralized Planning: Geospatial Thinking, ICT and Good Governance, September 19-21, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. (Published in the journal of Indian cartographer, Vol. XXXIII, 2013, Pg no.26-33)


Organization of training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar etc.


• Organised stall at “National Conference on Geomatics for Natural Resources and Climate Change with Special Reference to Rainfed Agriculture and Water Resources 8 - 9 October 2015, MDS University ,Ajmer
• Organised International GIS day, 2015 at PRSC
• Organised International GIS day, 2014 at PRSC
• Organised International GIS day, 2013 at PRSC
• Organised International GIS day, 2011 at PRSC


Training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar attended


• Geospatial Caravan, Chandigarh, 16 sept, 2019.
• First International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG- 2019, April 06-07, 2019, Greater Noida, India.
• National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide organized by PRSC in collaboration with ISG-Ludhiana chapter at Ludhiana, 21-23 Feb, 2018.
• ICGCE-2018, An International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering, April 05-06, 2018. Roorkee
• Attended Golden Jubilee Celebration and Regional Conference on Space Technology for Sustainable Development 21-22 March, 2017, Hisar
• Participated in International GIS Day, November 16, 2016, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, Punjab.
• Space Technology In Urban Governance, Local Bodies And Development of Smart Cities” during state meet on promoting space technology based tools application in governance and development and launch of Bhuvan Portal on April 18, 2016 at Chandigarh.
• ESRI Conference, New Delhi, 2015
• Remote Sensing Day, the Birthday of Indian Space Scientist Dr.Vikram A. Sarabhai, was celebrated by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS)– Ludhiana Chapter in association with Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), Ludhiana on August 12, 2015 at PRSC, Ludhiana
• Indian Geospatial Forum, Geo Smart India 2016 from 1st March to the 3rd March 2016 at the Expo Centre in Greater Noida, India
• National Conference on Geomatics for Natural Resources and Climate Change with Special Reference to Rainfed Agriculture and Water Resources 8 - 9 October 2015, MDS University ,Ajmer”


Key technical achievements of the Division.


• The GIS mapping of Ludhiana is one of the key reasons for including Ludhiana in the list of first twenty cities to be developed as “SMART CITY”
• The Masterplans being finalized under Base Map project is a legal document being used by Government of Punjab.
• The GIS database generated for Amritsar tourism for Punjab Heritage and Tourism promotion Board is hosted on BHUVAN website is generally receiving an average of 25000 clicks per month.

• B.Sc. (Hons.Chemistry)
• M.Sc. (Hons.Chemistry)
• Ph.D. (Chemistry)

1. Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun (Life Member No.L-1256)
2. Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists, Dehradun (Annual Member)
3. Punjab Academy of Sciences, Patiala (Annual Member)
4. Indian Ecological Society, Ludhiana (Annual Member)

1. Digital data base of drinking water sources and quality parameters in Punjab.
2. Space based information support for Decentralised Planning.
3. Remote Sensing and GIS Based Inventory of Orchards in Fazilka, Shri Muktsar Sahib, Bathinda and Hoshiarpur Districts (Punjab) for Better Management and Planning.
4. Short term action plan for Punjab GIS.
5. Remote sensing and GIS studies on Wetlands (Harike, Ropar and Kanjli) using high resolution data.
6. Evaluation of Soil and Water Related Constraints to Productivity under Different Cropping Systems in Punjab

• Incharge Soil and water Analysis Laboratory

1. Tur, N.S., Singh., Amardeep., Loshali, D.C., Mehra, Deepak., Minakshi., Singh, Harpinder., Kumar, Rajneesh and Sharma, P.K.(2011) Land transformation as a result of Urbanisation around Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab Indian J. Ecol.38(2):155-162.
2. Minakshi, Tur, N.S., Singh, Amardeep., Mehra, Deepak., Singh, Harpinder., Kumar, Rajneesh and Sharma, P.K.(2012) Land transformation and Urban Sprawl mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS technologies- a case study of Amritsar City,India .Indian J. Ecol.39(1):6-10.
3. Minakshi and Verma,V.K. (2014)Land Resources Appraisal using satellite Remote Sensing and GIS: A Case study of Rajni Devi sub-watershed (District Hoshiarpur).Indian J. Ecol.41(1):23-26.
4. Navaneet Kumar Das, V. K. Verma and Minakshi*Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis of Hussainiwala Wetland Ecosystem Using Remote Sensing and GIS.Indian Journal of Ecology (2015) 42(2): 306-310.
5. Morphometric Analysis of Patiari Sub-Watershed of Hoshiarpur District, Punjab Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques.Simranjeet Singh, J.P singh; Minakshi (Submitted in Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing)

1. Lecture ‘Agriculture and Climate Change’ by Dr Bijay Singh (INSA Senior Scientist) for celebrating World Environment Day on 8th June, 2015 at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana.
2. Special Guest Lecture “Remote Sensing for soil applications” by Dr K Sreenivas, Head, Soils & Land Resources Assessment Division, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad on Wednesday 8th July at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.
3. Remote Sensing Day on 12th August, 2015 at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana.

1. Attended the Programme of Launch of Punjabi Version of Bhuvan – Punjab State Geospatial Portal on 29th May, 2015 at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) Ludhiana.
2. Attended the Lecture ‘Agriculture and Climate Change’ by Dr Bijay Singh (INSA Senior Scientist) for celebrating World Environment Day on 8th June, 2015 organised by Ludhiana Chapter of Indian Society of Remote Sensing.
3. Attended the Special Guest Lecture “Remote Sensing for soil applications” by Dr K Sreenivas, Head, Soils & Land Resources Assessment Division, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad organised by Ludhiana Chapter of Indian Society of Remote Sensing on Wednesday 8th July at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.
4. Participated in the Remote Sensing Day on 12th August, 2015 organised by Ludhiana Chapter of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Ludhiana at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana.
5. Participated in the International GIS Day on 18th November, 2015 organised by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana.
6. Attended the Punjab State Meet on Promoting Space Based Tools,Applications in Governance & Development and Launching of Bhuvan Punjab Portal on 18 April 2016 at MGSIPA, Chandigarh organized by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.

1. Two week Teachers Training Programme (Training of Trainers) for Geography teachers of Kendriya Vidhialya Sangthan (KVS), Navodaya Vidhialya Samiti (NVS) and CBSE affiliated private Schools from 27th July to 7th August, 2015 on behest of ISRO (DOS), GOI
1. Data products, Principles of visual Interpretation of aerial photos and satellite imagery.
2. Elements and Interpretation keys for Visual Interpretation, Interpretation of Multispectral Imagery.
2. Two week Special course for NCERT Teachers Training Programme (Training of Trainers) for Geography teachers of Kendriya Vidhialya Sangthan (KVS), Navodaya Vidhialya Samiti (NVS)and CBSE affiliated private Schools from 4th January to 15th January, 2016 on behest of ISRO (DOS), GOI
1. Data products
2. Principles of visual Interpretation of satellite imagery
3. Three Weeks Training for University Faculty/Line Departments for NNRMS sponsored training from 18th January to 5th February 2016
1. Data products, Principles of visual Interpretation of satellite imagery
2. Elements and Interpretation keys for Visual Interpretation
3. Application of Remote Sensing in Mapping of Natural Resources

• M.Tech. (Applied Geology)
• M.Tech. (Engineering Geology)

Life Member:


• Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun
• Indian Society of Geomatics, Ahmedabad
• Indian Society of Engineering Geology, Kolkata
• GIS India, Hyderabad

Project Incharge


1. Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (Punjab & UT Chandigarh)
2. Creation of Digital Database of Water Sources and Quality Parameters in various Districts of Punjab
3. Mapping of Health Institutions in Punjab

Administrative Responsibilities :


1. Head (Geology, Water Resources & Geoinformatics Division)
2. Incharge (IT)

Recent Publications \ Presentations

Publications


• Litoria P.K., Singh Harpinder, Kumar P.and Pateriya Brijendra (2015) Creation of a Web GIS of Rural Drinking Water Sources in Punjab using FOSS tools. FOSS4G 2015 held at IIRS Dehradun, from June 8-10, 2015
• Sahoo, S., Litoria P.K., Pateriya, B., (2015). A comprehensive analysis of groundwater resources using Remote Sensing and GIS based multicriteria techniques. In ISRS-ISG National symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India”. December 16-18, 2015 at Jaipur (Rajasthan), pp. 25. (Conference Full Paper Published)
• Sahoo, S., Litoria P.K., Pateriya, B., (2015). Groundwater Prospects Evaluation based on Hydrogeomorphological Mapping: Integration with RS and GIS approach. In “National Dialogue on Clean and Sustainable Ground Water” at CGWB, Government of India, pp. 90. (Conference Full Paper Published)
• Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Kumar Rajneesh, Kaur Rupinder, Pathania Pooja, Kaur Rupinder, Singh Amarinder, Litoria P.K., Pateriya B, Singh Harnek (2015) “Geospatial Technologies for the preparation of Master Plan” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, December 3-4,New Delhi. (Won 1st Runner-up Prize).

Presentations


• In Punjab State Meet on "Promoting Space Technology Based Applications in Governance and Development" on April 18, 2016 at Chandigarh.
• In Two weeks Teachers Training Programme for NCERT Geography Teachers of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navoday Vidyalaya and CBSE affiliated Private Schools (July 17 - August 7, 2015 and January 4 – 15, 2016 at PRSC, Ludhiana.
• Litoria P.K., Singh Harpinder, Kumar P.and Pateriya Brijendra (2015) Creation of a Web GIS of Rural Drinking Water Sources in Punjab using FOSS tools. FOSS4G 2015 held at IIRS Dehradun, from June 8-10, 2015
• Sahoo, S., Litoria P.K., Pateriya, B., (2015). A comprehensive analysis of groundwater resources using Remote Sensing and GIS based multicriteria techniques. In ISRS-ISG National symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India”. December 16-18, 2015 at Jaipur (Rajasthan), pp. 25. (Conference Full Paper Published)
• Sahoo, S., Litoria P.K., Pateriya, B., (2015). Groundwater Prospects Evaluation based on Hydrogeomorphological Mapping: Integration with RS and GIS approach. In “National Dialogue on Clean and Sustainable Ground Water” at CGWB, Government of India, pp. 90. (Conference Full Paper Published)
• Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, Kumar Rajneesh, Kaur Rupinder, Pathania Pooja, Kaur Rupinder, Singh Amarinder, Litoria P.K., Pateriya B, Singh Harnek (2015) “Geospatial Technologies for the preparation of Master Plan” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, December 3-4,New Delhi. (Won 1st Runner-up Prize).

Organization of training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar etc.


• Arranged Stall of Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana at GeoSMART India - 2016, held during March 1-3, 2016 at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida.

Training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar Attended


• Attended Bhujal Manthan – A National Dialogue on Clean and Sustainable Ground Water at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra organized by Central Ground Water Board, Chandigarh on August 21, 2015.
• Attended National Symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India” & Annual Conventions of ISG & ISRS held at JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur from December 16-18, 2015. ISRS Ludhiana Chapter got Best Chapter Award on December 16, 2015 during this symposium.
• Attended the International GIS Day organized by PRSC, Ludhiana on November 18, 2015.
• Attended the 16th ESRI India User Conference - 2015 (December 3-4, 2015), New Delhi and Won 1st Runner Up Prize in Poster Paper Category.
• Attended GeoSMART India - 2016, held during March 1-3, 2016 at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida.

Key Technical Achievements of the Division.


• Under Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission Project, digital data base for various themes viz., Base layer, Hydrology, Lithology, Structures and Geomorphology has been generated for Punjab and UT Chandigarh. This information will be useful in establishing relationship between ground water and geomorphological features and narrow down the area of investigation for ground water targeting and selection of sites for recharge structures. Delineation and characterization of different landforms will serve as the basic input to ascertain the transformation for future land use planning and development of an area. In addition, the water quality layer will provide the first hand information to the planners before installing a new tubewell in any area and help in planning accordingly.
• The work carried out under Creation of Digital Database for Water Sources in Punjab Project is first of its kind and it has highlighted the pockets where water quality is not fit for drinking purpose. Based on the recommendations made, the DWSS Officials can adopt proper ameliorative measures to ascertain the potablity of the drinking water being supplied to the villagers. Further, the database will help the DWSS officials in planning the new sites in these districts in a scientific manner.
• The Launching of Punjab State Geoportal on Bhuvan Portal of National Remote Sensing Centre, Development of Web GIS / Desktop GIS / Mobile GIS Applications by Geoinformatics Division (Headed by self) made Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) a strong contender for India Geospatial Excellence Award. PRSC got “India Geospatial Excellence Award” on March 2, 2016 during GeoSMART India - 2016, held at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida.

Development of Web GIS / Desktop GIS & Mobile Applications By Geoinformatics Division/IT Team


• Development of Block Level Web GIS : Pakhowal Block
• Development of Village Information System for Faridkot District
• Development of Web GIS for Rural Drinking Water Supply Sources of DWSS
• Development of Village Information System for five villages each of Rupnagar and Fatehgarh Sahib districts.
• Development of Desktop GIS (School GIS)
• Development of Desktop GIS (Animal Husbandry GIS)
• Development of Mobile Application to Map Places of Tourist’s Interest.
• Development of Mobile Application for “Mapping Rural Drinking Water Supply Sources of DWSS”.
• Development of Mobile Application to “Know Your Patwari”.

• Soil organic carbon dynamics
• Quantification of soil properties from multispectral and hyperspectral data using machine learning techniques
• Soil moisture assessment using microwave data
• Crop growth monitoring using remote sensing techniques and crop yield modelling
• Impact of climate change on agriculture
• Water quality evaluation and monitoring using remote sensing techniques
• Application of remote sensing and GIS in natural resource management, G- governance and planning

• Australian Society of Soil Science Inc. Publication Medal, Soil Science Australia
• CG Stephens Award for the best PhD in Soil Science, Soil Science Australia
• Francis and Evelyn Clark Soil Biology Scholarship, Soil Science Society of America
• NAAS Associate, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India
• Gold Medal from Soil Conservation Society of India
• President Appreciation Medal from Indian Society of Remote Sensing
• Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship by The University of Adelaide, Australia
• The University of Adelaide Scholarship by The University of Adelaide, Australia
• Best Paper Award, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• Best Student Award, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
• Junior Scientist of the Year Award, National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi, India
• Merit Certificate, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
• Second Best Thesis award, Indian Society of Soil Science, North Zone, India
• Bhamashah Award, Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur
• University Gold Medal, Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner

• Indian Society of Soil Science
• Soil Conservation Society of India
• Indian Society of Remote Sensing
• Indian Society of Geomatics

• Leader of Advanced Geospatial Application Group (AGAG)

• Supervisor of MSc and PhD students of Punjab Agricultural University
• Supervisor of PhD students of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Panjab University and Lovely Professional University
• Teaching the courses related to soil science, remote sensing and GIS to Trainees, Bachelors and Masters students

• Developing spectral algorithms to predict soil properties and the fractions of soil organic carbon using remote and proximal soil sensing systems
  
• Assessment of water quality parameters over Satluj river and Harike wetland in Punjab
  
• Detection of water and nutrient stresses in crops using remote and proximal sensing
  
• Development of active-passive algorithms for high resolution soil moisture over bare and vegetation covered soil
  
• Mapping Punjab’s Future : A Short-term Action Plan for Punjab GIS
  
• A study of ground water behaviour in Punjab using classical statistics and GIS

• Peer reviewed journals : 60
• Book Chapter : 6

1. Majumder A, Kingra P K, Setia R, Singh S and Pateriya, B (2019). Influence of land use/land cover changes on surface temperature and its effect on crop yield in different agro-climatic regions of Indian Punjab. Geocarto International, https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2018.1520927
2. Forouzangohar M, Setia R, Wallace D D, Nitschke C R and Bennett L T (2016). Predicted consequences of increased rainfall variability on soil carbon stocks in a semiarid environment. Climate Research 67:61-69
3. Singh, K V, Setia R, Sahoo S, Prasad A and Paeriya B (2014). Evaluation of NDWI and MNDWI for assessment of waterlogging by integrating digital elevation model and ground water level. Geocarto International. 30, 650-61
4. Setia R, Lewis M, Marschner P, Raja Segaran R, Summers D and Chittleborough D (2013). Severity of salinity accurately detected and classified on a paddock scale with high resolution multispectral satellite imagery. Land Degradation & Development. 24, 375-384
5. Setia R , Gottschalk P, Smith P, Marschner P, Baldock J, Setia D and Smith J (2013). Soil salinity decreased global soil organic carbon stocks. Science of the Total Environment 465, 267-72
6. Setia R , Smith P, Marschner P, Gottschalk P, Baldock J, Verma V, Setia D and Smith J (2012). Simulation of salinity effects on past, present and future soil organic carbon stocks. Environmental Science and Technology 46, 1624-1631
7. Setia R , Verma S and Marschner P (2012). Measuring microbial biomass carbon by direct extraction- Comparison with chloroform fumigation-extraction. European Journal of Soil Biology 53, 103-106
8. Wang Y, Hasbullah, Setia R, Marschner P, Zhang F (2011) Potential soil P mobilisation capacity– method development and comparison of rhizosphere soil from different crops. Plant and Soil 354, 259-267
9. Setia R , Marschner P, Baldock J, Chittleborough D and Verma V (2011). Relationships between carbon dioxide emission and soil properties in salt affected landscapes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 667-674
10. Setia R , Marschner P, Baldock J and Chittleborough D (2010). Is CO 2 evolution in saline soils affected by an osmotic effect and calcium carbonate? Biology and Fertility of Soils 46, 781-92.
11. Verma VK, Setia R, Sharma PK, Singh H (2008) Geoinformatics as a tool for the assessment of the impact of ground water quality for irrigation on soil health. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 36, 273-281.

Life Member:
• Indian Society of Geomatics
• Indian Society of Remote Sensing
• Computer Society of India
• The Indian Science Congress Association
• Punjab Academy of Sciences

• Systems and Network Administration. Troubleshooting and rectifying hardware, software, peripherals and network related issues. Coordinating with the AMC, Hardware and Software vendors in the service and repair of the computer systems and peripherals.
• Coordinating in the implementation and management of the PRSC Website, Blog, Biometric attendance system, Security cameras system, E-Tendering system, ISO 9001:2015, Server Based Anti Virus system, Firewall and Purchase of various IT related products from time to time.
• Web GIS development using open and proprietary tools.
• Mobile data collection using open source tools.
• Training to Students, teachers and officials of government departments on GIS technology.

• Taught GIS subject to M.Tech(RS & GIS) to the students of Punjab Agricultural University.
• Co-Guide to three M.Tech(RS & GIS) Students.
• Treasurer: Indian Society of Geomatics (Ludhiana Chapter).
• Internal Auditor and Project Team Member of ISO 9001:2015.

• Systems and Network Administration. Troubleshooting and rectifying hardware, software, peripherals and network related issues. Coordinating with the AMC, Hardware and Software vendors in the service and repair of the systems. Coordinating in the purchase of various computer related products from time to time.
• Revenue based Master plans by DTCP, Punjab.
• Development of Web based GIS application for PSIEC (Focal Points)
• Preparation of Parliamentary constituencies and District Maps – Department of Elections, Punjab.
• Training to Students, teachers and officials of government departments on GIS technology.

1. Minakshi, Deepak Mehra, P K Sharma, N S Tur, Harpinder Singh and G S Kang (2006). Assessment, management and spatial distribution of ground water for irrigation in Rupnagar district of Punjab (India). J. Environ. Sci. Engg., 48(2) ,91-96.
2. Sood, A., Mehra, D., Tur, N.S., Setia, R.K., Verma, V.K., Singh, H. and Sharma, P.K (2006) A GIS Approach for Mapping of N P K and S in the soils of Hoshiarpur district (Punjab). Indian J. Ecology 33(2), 132-134.
3. Tur, N S., Minakshi, P K. Sharma, Anil Sood, R K Setia, Harpinder Singh and V K Nayyar. (2008). Mapping of macronutrient status and multi-macronutrient deficiency in Patiala district using frontier technologies. Journal of Soils and Crops. 18(1), 1-6.
4. Sharma, P K., Sood, Anil, Setia, R K., Tur, N S., Mehra, D and Singh, H. (2007). Mapping of macronutrients in soils of Amritsar district (Punjab) - A GIS approach. J. Indian Soc. Soil Science.56(1):pp 34-41.
5. Bal, S.K., Choudhury, B.U., Sood Anil, Jalota, S.K., Singh, H.(2008). Evaluation of the Climgen Model to generate weather parameters under different climatic situations in Punjab. Journal of Agro meteorology, 10(1): 39-45
6. Verma, V K, Setia, R K, Sharma, P K and Singh Harpinder (2008) Geoinformatics as a tool for assessing impending impact of ground water quality for Irrigation on soil health. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sensing, vol. 36, pp 273-281.
7. Tur, N.S., Singh Amardeep, Mehra Deepak, Singh Harpinder, Minakshi, Kumar Rajneesh and Devaser Virrat. (2011) Mapping of Urban Sprawl around Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar. Indian J. Ecology, 38(2), 155-162.
8. Singh Harpinder, Kumar Rajneesh, Singh Amardeep, Litoria, P.K. (2012) Cloud GIS for Crime mapping. International Journal of Research in Computer Science, 2(3), 57-60.
9. Singh Harpinder, Singh Karamjeet and Kumar Rajneesh (2012) Emergency Response planning for road accidents in Ludhiana district using Google Maps. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 3(2), 872-874.
10. Minakshi,, Tur, N.S., Singh Amardeep, Mehra Deepak, Singh Harpinder, Devaser Virrat. and Kumar Rajneesh (2012) Land Transformation and Urban Sprawl mapping using Remote Sensing and GIS technologies – A case study of Amritsar City, India. Indian J. Ecology, 39(1), 6-10.
11. Singh Harpinder (2013) Mobile Data Collection using an Android device. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 4(1), 200-202.
12. Singh Harpinder (2013) Creation of a Crowdsource web application using open source Ushahidi platform. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 4(2), 54-56.
13. Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya Brijendra (2013) Creation of Inventory of Wetlands in Gurdaspur district using Remote Sensing and GIS, India. Indian J. Ecology, 40(1), 33-36.
14. Gambhir Dheeraj and Singh Harpinder (2014) Creation of an Intranet Website for an Educational Institute Using Open Source Joomla CMS. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 5(1), 40-42.
15. Singh Harpinder and Gambhir Dheeraj (2014) An Open Source Approach to Build a Web GIS Application. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 5(1), 50-52.
16. Gambhir Dheeraj and Singh Harpinder (2014) An Open Source Approach to Build a Desktop GIS. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 5(2), 323-325.
17. Dhawan, A.K., Mukherjee Joydeep, Kang, G.S. and Singh Harpinder (2014) Fertilizer Unsuitability Index for assessing fertilizer induced contamination risk in soils of Cotton-Wheat system of South Punjab districts.. Indian J. Ecology, 41(2), 262-268.
18. Singh Harpinder, Setia R.K., Litoria P.K. and Pateriya Brijendra (2014) Study of Spatial and Temporal variations in surface air temperature using Spatial data mining. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 5(4), 171-174.
19. Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep, Gambhir Dheeraj and Taneja Sagar (2015) Popular FOSS Tools, Apps and Data Sources in the Geoinformatics Releam. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 6(3), 44-47.
20. Sekhon H.K., Jain A.K., Harpinder Singh (2016) Creation of Inventory of water bodies in Hoshiarpur district using Remote Sensing and GIS. International Journal of Advancement in Remote Sensing, GIS and Geography, 4(1), 32-41.
21. Harpinder Singh and Lakhvir Singh (2017) Utilizing Story Maps for Tourism. International Journal of Scientific & Technological Development (ISSN: 2348-4047) , 3(2), 137-140.
22. Sekhon R.K., Jain A.K., Harpinder Singh (2018) Development of village information system.
23. Singh Taranjot, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2018) Web GIS Development using Open Source Leaflet and Geoserver Toolkit. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 9(3), 29-33.
24. Singh Taranjot, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2019) Web GIS Development using Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS Server and Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 10(1), 43-47.
25. Singh Taranjot, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2019) Development of a Web GIS Application using Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition). International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 10(2), 33-38.
26. Grewal K. Inderpreet, Singh J.P., Singh Harpinder (2019). Selection of Suitable Landfill Site for Solid Waste Dumping for Ludhiana City using Geoinformatics. International Journal of Applied Information Systems , 12(22), 8-13.
27. Singh Taranjot, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2019) GIS based Dashboard Development using Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS. International Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 10(4), 24-26.

1. Verma V. K, Setia R. K., Sharma P.K., Harpinder Singh and P.K.Litoria (2006) Geoinformatics support for information based agriculture: A case study of arid tract of Punjab. International symposium on Geospatial Databases For Sustainable Development held at Goa, from September 27-30, 2006.
2. N. S. Tur, Anil Sood, P K Sharma and Harpinder Singh (2006). Land Use/ Land Cover mapping in Amritsar district of Punjab using multi date IRS-P6 LISS III data. International symposium on Geospatial Databases For Sustainable Development held at Goa, from September 27-30, 2006.
3. Setia, R K , Verma, V K, Sharma, P K, Singh Harpinder and Bansal, R L. (2006) Spatial distribution of forms of potassium using geostatistics and geoinformatics. Proc. International Symposium on Balanced Fertilization for Sustaining Crop Productivity, held at PAU, Ludhiana from 22-25 November, 2006.
4. Singh Harpinder, Krishan Kewal, Litoria, P.K. (2009). Creation of a Village Information System of Moga district in Punjab using Geoinformatics. National Conference on Recent Developments in Computing and its Applications, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi from August 12-13, 2009.
5. Singh Harpinder, Loshali, D.C., Singh Narinder, Mehra Deepak (2010). Solid Waste dumping site selection around Barnala city in Punjab using Geoinformatics. National Conference on Smart Energy-Generation, Promotion & Conservation 2010, Chitkara Institute of Engineering, Rajpura from January 15-16, 2010.
6. Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep, Litoria P.K. (2011). Creation of Wetland Inventory of Kapurthala district in Punjab using Geoinformatics. International Conference on emerging trends in Computer Science and Information Technology, Gulzar Group of Institutes, Khanna on 26th February, 2011.
7. Grewal K. Inderpreet, Singh J.P., Singh Harpinder (2015). Selection of Suitable Landfill Site for Solid Waste Dumping for Ludhiana City using Geoinformatics. Conference: 49th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) and Symposium on Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Processing, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab on 23-25, Feb, 2015.
8. Singh Banjeet, K. Samanpreet, Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep and Litoria P.K. (2015) GIS Services on Cloud. Proc. Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana from 17-18 March, 2015.
9. Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep, Gambhir Dheeraj, Taneja Sagar and Litoria P.K. (2015) QR Codes and Maps. Proc. Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana from 17-18 March, 2015.
10. Singh Harpinder, Gambhir Dheeraj, Singh Amardeep, Litoria P.K, Shrivastav and Pateriya Brijendra (2015) Road Condition Monitoring using a Smartphone. Proc. Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana from 17-18 March, 2015.
11. Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep, Gambhir Dheeraj and Taneja Sagar (2015) FOSS Tools, Apps and Data Sources in the Geoinformatics Releam. Proc. Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana from 17-18 March, 2015.
12. Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep, Gambhir Dheeraj and Litoria P.K. and Pateriya Brijendra (2015) A Crowd Sourcing approach to Map the Road Accidents in Punjab. Proc. Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana from 17-18 March, 2015.
13. Grewal K. Inderpreet, Singh J.P. and Singh Harpinder (2015) Suitable Landfill Site Selection for Solid waste dumping for Ludhiana city using a Geoinformatics. Proc. Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana from 17-18 March, 2015.
14. Litoria P.K., Singh Harpinder, Kumar P.and Pateriya Brijendra (2015) Creation of a Web GIS of Rural Drinking Water Sources in Punjab using FOSS tools. FOSS4G 2015 held at IIRS Dehradun, from June 8-10, 2015.
15. Singh Harpinder, Sood Anil, Pateriya Brijendra (2015) Agricultural Data Collection using an Android Mobile device. National Symposium on Geomatics for Digital India and Annual Conventions of ISG and ISRS, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur from December 16-18, 2015.
16. Singh Harpinder, Gambhir Dheeraj and Taneja Sagar, Singh Amardeep (2016) Use of Cloud, Multimedia and QR Codes to enhance print maps. Proc. National Conference on Advances in Science and Technology (NCAST-2016), RIMT Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mandi Gobindgarh from 03-04 March, 2016.
17. Singh Harpinder and Singh Lakhvir (2017) Utilizing Story Maps for Tourism. Proc. International Conference on Sustainable Development Challenges and Prospects, Desh Bhagat University, Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, India from 06-07 October, 2017.
18. Singh Harpinder and Gambhir Dheeraj (2017) Use of a Smartphone to Map Noise Pollution. Proc. International Conference and 18th AGP meet Re-Envisioning Globalization Development and New World Order, Perspectives From Developing Countries, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India from 27-28 October, 2017.
19. Singh Harpinder (2018) Preparing storymaps by mining information from books. Proc. 21st Punjab Science Congress on Scientific Advances for Inclusive Development and Environmental Protection, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India from 07-09 Feb, 2018. Poster Presentation.
20. Gupta Hitesh, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2018) Applications of Blockchain for Land Record Management. Proc. National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, Punjab, India from 22-23 Feb, 2018.
21. Singh Amardeep, Gupta Hitesh, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2018) Cryptocurrency and its effect on the Environment. Proc. National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, Punjab, India from 22-23 Feb, 2018.
22. Dhir Nitin, Lamba S., Singh Simranjeet, Taneja S., Singh Harpinder, Setia R.K. and Pateriya B. (2018) TechGIS: A Web based GIS for Technical Education in Punjab. Proc. National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, Punjab, India from 22-23 Feb, 2018.
23. Singh Harpinder, Gupta Hitesh, Litoria P.K. and Pateriya B. (2018) IoT based framework for Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring. Proc. National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, Punjab, India from 22-23 Feb, 2018. Poster Presentation.
24. Kusum, Singh Lakhvir, Kaur Simarjit, Singh Amardeep, Singh Harpinder, Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay, litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2018) Diverse Application of Revenue Based Data for Large Scale Mapping and Monitoring, Use of Geo-Spatial Technology in Bringing Revolution. ESRI India User Conference 2018, Gurugram, 10-11 Sept 2018(Poster).
25. Singh Harpinder, litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2019) UAV Based Framework for Air Pollution Monitoring. 1st International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System In Geomatics (April 06-07, 2019) at IIT Roorkee Extension Campus, Greater Noida (India) (Poster).
26. Singh Taranjot, Singh Harpinder, Sharma Rahul, Monalisa Bariq, Litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2019) Punjab Election Web GIS. ESRI India User Conference 2019, Gurugram, 28-29 Aug 2019(Poster).
27. Singh Taranjot, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2019) Essential Geospatial Libraries. National Conference on Big Geospatial Data: Analytics, Modelling & Applications, PRSC, Ludhiana, 25-26 Sept. 2019.
28. Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2019) Google Earth Engine – A Planetary Scale Geospatial Data Analysis Tool. National Conference on Big Geospatial Data: Analytics, Modelling & Applications, PRSC, Ludhiana, 25-26 Sept. 2019.
29. Sambyal Munish, Singh Amardeep, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2019) An Android based automated solution for Urban Planning. National Conference on Big Geospatial Data: Analytics, Modelling & Applications, PRSC, Ludhiana, 25-26 Sept. 2019.
30. Singh Amardeep, Singh Harpinder, Verma Sonam, Gulati T.S., Litoria P.K., Sharma Reenu, Mathur Ajay and Pateria B. (2019) e-CLU: An e-governance initiative for Land use Change Management. National Conference on Big Geospatial Data: Analytics, Modelling & Applications, PRSC, Ludhiana, 25-26 Sept. 2019.
31. Sambyal Munish, Singh Amardeep, Singh Harpinder, Litoria P.K. and Pateria B. (2019) Implementation of Different Maps API along with Android. National Conference on Big Geospatial Data: Analytics, Modelling & Applications, PRSC, Ludhiana, 25-26 Sept. 2019. (Poster).

1. Taneja Sagar, Gambhir Dheeraj, Singh Harpinder, Singh Amardeep (2016) Complete methodology to create Web-GIS using free and open source tool: OpenGeo Suite. Geospatial Science, 2(1), 11-15.

1. Singh, Harpinder, Dheeraj Gambhir, Sagar Taneja and Amardeep Singh. "Use of Cloud, Multimedia, and QR Codes to Enhance Print Maps." Emerging Trends in Open Source Geographic Information Systems. IGI Global, 2018. 218-223. Web. 10 May. 2018. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-5039-6.ch009.

1. Sharma P.K. , Chopra R, Sood A, Verma V.K, Minakshi, Bhatt C.M, Bansal N, Singh Harpinder , Dhiman R, Kaur A. (2005) : Wastelands Atlas of India (2005) Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Land Resources, Govt. of India. Prepared by National Remote Sensing Agency. (Dept. of Space) Hyderabad.
2. Sharma P.K., Verma V.K., Minakshi, Singh Charanjit, Litoria P.K., Kumar Ashok, Singh Harpinder, Shalley V. (2005): Resource Atlas – Ludhiana District, Punjab. Information Technology for Sustainable Agriculture in Punjab (IT-SAP) sponsored by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Technology Information Forecasting Assesment Council (TIFAC)
3. Sharma P.K., Verma V.K. , Loshali D.C., Singh Charanjit, Kumar A, Chopra R, Bhatt C.M, Singh Harpinder , Anand J.R., Kang G.S. (2006): Resource Atlas – Hoshiarpur District, Punjab. Information Technology for Sustainable Agiculture in Punjab (IT-SAP) sponsored by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC)
4. P.K. Sharma, Rajiv Chopra, P.K.Litoria, C.M.Bhatt, Anil Sood, B.U.Choudhary, Rameshwar Kumar, Narinder Singh, R.K.Setia, V.K. Verma, Ajay Mathur , D.C.Loshali, Minakshi, Harpinder Singh (2006) Digital Database of Drinking water sources and quality parameters in Moga District - Department of Water Supply & Sanitation (DWSS), Punjab Govt.
5. P.K. Sharma, Rajiv Chopra, C.M.Bhatt, D.C.Loshali, Ajay Mathur, Rameshwar Kumar, Anil Sood, Meenakshi, B.U.Choudhury, Narinder Singh, R.K. Setia, V.K. Verma, P.K. Litoria, Harpinder Singh, Gurcharan Singh (2007) Digital Database of Drinking water sources and quality parameters in Patiala & Part of SAS Nagar District - Department of Water Supply & Sanitation (DWSS), Punjab Govt.
6. P.K. Sharma, Rajiv Chopra, P.K. Litoria, Anil Sood, Harpinder Singh, R.K. Setia, D.C.Loshali, Ajay Mathur, Rameshwar Kumar , Meenakshi, C.M.Bhatt, B.U.Choudhury, Narinder Singh, V.K. Verma, Gurcharan Singh (2007) Digital Database of Drinking water sources and quality parameters in Sangrur District -Department of Water Supply & Sanitation (DWSS), Punjab Govt.
7. Sharma, P.K., Loshali, D.C., Minakshi, Singh., Narinder, Sood, Anil., Singh. Harpinder, Litoria, P.K., Verma, V.K., Sharma, K.P., Sondhi, A.K., Saini, S.S. and Manchanda, M.L. (2008) “Land Use Atlas of Punjab”, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.
8. Sharma, P.K., , Sood, Anil, Setia, R.K., Singh., Narinder, Minakshi, Verma., V.K., Mehra Deepak, Choudhury., B.U., Kang ., G.S., Litoria. P.K., Singh. Harpinder, Bhatt., C.M., Singh S.p., Walia C.S., Sharma J.P., Tandon Sunil, Pandit Neeraj, and Singh Jaswant (2010) “Ground Water Quality for Irrigation in Punjab”, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.

1. Winner of the ESRI India Story telling with Map Contest at ESRI India User Conference 2018. A Storymap series about Undivided Punjab and Punjabi Language. http://bit.ly/2O2cWTk.
2. Winner of the ESRI India Story telling with Map Contest at ESRI India User Conference 2017. Mapping noise pollution in a part of Ludhiana city (Punjab) using a simple smartphone. http://arcg.is/2wGDpBW.

• Successfully completed the Distance education EDUSAT course "Microwave (SAR) Remote Sensing for Natural Resources" by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) from 3rd February - 31st March 2014.
• Successfully completed Online Course: “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing“ MOOC by University of Minnesota, on www.coursera.org, November 2014.
• Successfully completed the Distance education EDUSAT course “"IIRS Outreach Program on Basics of RS, GIS & GNSS" by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) from August - November 2014.
• Completed a five day course by ESRI India at Noida from 28th June till 1stJuly 2016. ArcGIS 4: Sharing Content on the Web (2-days) and ArcGIS for Server: Site Configuration and Administration (3-Days).
• Successfully completed Online MOOC "Principles of Project Management" from http://www.open2study.com platform from Sept 2016 - Oct 2016.
• Successfully completed Online Course "ITIL Foundation" from http://www.cybrary.it platform in Oct 2016.
• Successfully completed Online Course "Six Sigma Fundamentals" from https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ platform in Oct 2016.
• Successfully completed Online Course "Introduction to Ehical Hacking" from https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ platform in Oct 2016.
• Successfully completed Online MOOC "Introduction to Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF)" from http://www.open2study.com platform from Oct 2016 - Nov 2016.
• Completed Online Course "Core Spatial Data Analysis: Introductory GIS with R and QGIS" from UDEMY platform in May 2017.
• Completed Online Course "The Complete Web Developer Course- Build 14 Websites " from UDEMY in July 2017.
• Completed Online Course "Do-It-Yourself-Geoapps" from ESRI & UDEMY in Sept 2017.
• Completed Online Course "Explore Enhanced Interfaces with Geoserver" from UDEMY platform in March 2018.
• Completed Online Course "The Ultimate Guide for Land Surveying with Drones – Part 1" from UDEMY platform in April 2018.
• Completed a two day course by ESRI India at PRSC in July 2018. Introduction to ArcGIS Server.
• Completed a three day course by ESRI India at Noida from 26th September till 28th September 2018. ArcGIS 4: Sharing Content on the Web.
• Completed Online Course "The Ultimate Guide for Land Surveying with Drones – Part 2" from UDEMY platform in December 2018.
• Completed Online Course "The Ultimate Guide for Land Surveying with Drones – Part 3" from UDEMY platform in December 2018.
• Successfully completed Online Course: “AI for Everyone“ MOOC by Deeplearning (Andrew Ng), on www.coursera.org, March 2019.
• Completed Online Course "The Python 101 for Data Science" from IBM (Cognitiveclass.AI) platform in July 2019.
• Completed Online Course "Data Analysis with Python" from IBM (Cognitiveclass.AI) platform in July 2019.
• Completed Online Course "Machine Learning Regression Masterclass" from UDEMY platform in August 2019.

• Masters in Geoinformatics from ITC, The Netherland. (Specialization: Geo-Informatics & GeologicalHazards)
• M.Sc. in Geology and B.Sc. in Geology (Hons.) with Distinction.

• Life member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun.
• Member of GIM - International, The Netherlands.

• Involvement in ongoing projects in Geology, Water Resources and Geoinformatics division.
• Interacting with team of scientists of various divisions of ISRO and GSI under various collaborative projects.

Project Incharge (as Co-Principal Investigator):


• Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM) for Punjab (Phase III-B & IV) & Chandigarh (Phase-IV) (Sponsored by DOS & MoRD, Govt. of India).
• Phase - III (B): Ground Water Prospects Mapping of Chandigarh.
• Phase - IV: Ground Water Quality Mapping of Punjab.
• National Geomorphological and Lineaments Mapping (NGLM) on 1:50,000 scale for Punjab state under National (Natural) Resources Census (NRC) (Sponsored Project of NNRMS, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India).
• Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Program (AIBP) for UBDC project (Sponsored by DOS & MoWR, Govt. of India).
• Mapping of Health Institutions in Punjab (Sponsoredby Govt. of Punjab).
• Irrigation (Canal) GIS under short term action planof Punjab GIS (Sponsored by Govt. of Punjab).
• Impact assessment of heavy metal contamination in Satluj River and its tributaries on soil, water and crops in Punjab using geospatial technology (Approved by DST, Govt. of India).
• National Wastelands Change Analysis for Punjab State.

Administrative Responsibilities:


• Assist the HOD, GWG for various geology and water resources related works.
• Faculty member of M. Tech. Course (RS and GIS) and other training programmes conducted in PRSC.
• Treasurer of ISRS Ludhiana Chapter.
• Member for various purchasing and store committee at PRSC and any other administrative duties given by PRSC.
• Committee member for the recruitment and review of Research Associates, Research Fellows and Junior Research Fellows.

Recent Publications (2010 onwards):


• Das, I., Sahoo, S., Westen, C. V., Stein, A., Hack, R. (2010). Landslide susceptibility assessment using logistic regression and its comparison with a rock mass classification system, along a road section in the northern Himalayas (India), Geomorphology. 2010; 114(4): 627-637
• Sahoo, S., Litoria, PK., Pateriya, B., (2015). A comprehensive analysis of groundwater resources using Remote Sensing and GIS based multicriteria techniques. In ISRS-ISG National symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India”. 16-18 December 2015 at Jaipur (Rajasthan).
• Sahoo, S., Litoria, PK., Pateriya, B., (2015). Groundwater Prospects Evaluation based on Hydrogeomorphological Mapping: Integration with RS and GIS approach. In “National Dialogue on Clean and Sustainable Ground Water” at Kurukshetra University organized by CGWB, MoWR, Government of India.
• Singh, K.V., Setia, R., Sahoo, S., Prasad, A., Pateriya, B., (2014). Evaluation of NDWI and MNDWI for assessment of water logging by integrating digital elevation model and groundwater level. Geocarto International. 2014; 30: 650-661.
• Das, I., Sahoo, S., Westen, C. V., Stein, A., Hack,R. (2010). Landslide susceptibility assessment using logistic regression and its comparison with arock mass classification system, along a road section in the northern Himalayas (India), Geomorphology. 2010; 114(4): 627-637.
• Sahoo, S., Kaur, A., Litoria, P.K. and Pateriya, B.(2014) Geospatial modelling for groundwater quality mapping: a case study of Rupnagar district,Punjab, India, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XL-8, 227-232.
• Sahoo S., Litoria, P.K. and Pateriya, B. (2012). Ground water prospects mapping in Punjab, India using Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. In International Symposium of BVS held at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, India.

Organization of training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar etc.


• State Meet on Promoting Space Technology Based Tools, Applications in Governance & Development and Launching of Bhuvan Punjab Portal on 18 th April 2016 at Chandigarh.
• As Joint Organising Secretary, organized Regional Seminar in collaboration with Indian Society of Remote sensing, Ludhiana Chapter on “Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management” on 17-18 March, 2015.
• Organised two days state level workshop at Punjab University, Chandigarh for various user/line departments of Govt. of Punjab on “Usage of Remote Sensing and GIS based Groundwater Prospects Maps – Punjab” held on 15 & 16, October, 2014.
• Organized two days state level training program for State DWSS officials (Including Senior & Junior Engineers) of Govt. of Punjab about the “Applications of RS & freeware GIS software in related to water resources management”.
• Three weeks training program for University/ College Lecturers and Professors under “Remote Sensing Awareness/Training Courses under ISRO-NNRMSprogramme of 2014-15 & 2015-16”.
• Two week Teachers Training Programme for NCERT Geography teachers of KVS, NVS and CBSE affiliated private Schools under ISRO-NNRMS programme of 2015-16”.
• One day training program for School teachers under “Remote Sensing Awareness/ Training Courses under ISRO-NNRMS programme of 2014-15”.
• Organised one day training program to school children in Moga and Jalandhar District under “Remote Sensing Awareness/Training Courses under ISRO-NNRMS programme of 2014-15”.
• Organized two days training program on “Basics of RS and GIS” with hands-on training for Professors from PAU and various govt. organizationsin PRSC, Ludhiana on 7th and 8th July, 2014.
• Exhibit the Geology and Water Resources related Project outcomes in India Geospatial Forum 2014 at Hyderabad organized by Geospatial Media.
• World Environment Day, Remote Sensing Day, International GIS Day and special guest lecturers for the ISRS Ludhiana chapter.
• Workshop on Bhuvan and basics of RS & GIS was organized for villagers and school students at Govt. Senior Secondary Schools in Punjab.

Training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar attended:


• Attended and Presented full paper at “ISPRS Technical Commission VIII Symposium, Operational RS Applications: Opportunities, Progress and Challenges, 09-12 December 2014, Hyderabad, India”.
• Attended and Presented full paper at Geomatics for Digital India & Annual Conventions of ISG & ISRS held at Jaipur on December, 2015.
• Attended and Presented full paper at Bhujal Manthan – A National Dialogue on Clean and Sustainable Ground Water at Kurukshetra University,Haryana organized by CGWB, Government of India.
• Attended the two days residential training cum workshop program organized by EA Water on “24*7 Water Supply” in August, 2014 at Rajasthan.
• Attended the “State level one day workshop for the stake holders using Bhuvan-NUIS” held at PRSC, Ludhiana.
• Attended one day Seminar on “Geo-enabling in State Government Departments” by ESRI India In 2014 at Chandigarh.
• Attended the workshop on “Updated Environment Framework and Social Development Assessment” organized by DWSS, Govt. of Punjab at Chandigarh in 2014.

Key technical achievements of the Division:


• First time generated the Groundwater potential zones for the whole state on 1:50,000 scale according to the current scenario and distributed the Groundwater prospect maps of all district DWSS and Water resources departments of Govt. of Punjab for planning and further feedbacks.
• Mapping the ground water quality for drinking waterpurpose for the entire state using RS and GIS is in progress. This will help in assessing theportability of water for the people of the state in general in the coming year.
• The mapping of flood extent and water logging areas for the year 2013 was carried out in collaboration with NRSC, Hyderabad for Fazilka, Firozpur, Kapurthala, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur districts.

• M.Sc. (Geography)
• M.Tech (Urban Planning)
• Bachelor of Education
• Diploma in Computer Application & Programming

• Life Member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing(ISRS), Dehradun, India
• Indian society of Geomatics(ISG), Ahmedabad (Life member)
• Associate member of Institutes of Town Planners, New Delhi, India.

Key Projects


• Revenue Based Master Plans for Towns of Punjab (Department of Housing & Urban Development)
• Digitisation of Cadastral Maps using Satellite Imagery. ( Department of Revenue)
• Single Building Extraction in Ludhiana Municipal limit for Municipal Corporation of Ludhiana.
• Preparation of GIS Maps and Atlas for Election Department (CEO, Punjab)
• Preparation of Base Maps of Planning Areas of Various Towns in Punjab for PUDA, Mohali.
• Mapping of Individual property Using Remote Sensing and GIS for Bathinda Municipal for Municipal Corporation Bathinda.
• Base Map Preparation of Lalru and Kharar Local Planning Area.
• Demarcation of Industries using High Resolution satellite data for Punjab Small Industries Export Corporation, Chandigarh


Administrative Responsibilities


• Managing Stores PRSC; as a Co-Scientist Incharge.
• Treasurer Indian Society of Remote Sensing(ISRS), Ludhiana Chapter
• Internal Auditor for ISO certification
• Organising Committee member for the events held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.
• Training to Students, teachers and officials of government departments on GIS technology.
• Faculty member for the teaching Courses offered to students of M.Tech (RS & GIS)
• Organising Member of Various Awareness Programme held at different school.


Recent Publications \Presentations

Articles published in journals :


• Singh Lakhvir, Simerjit Kaur, Sana, Ramandeep, Harmanpreet , Balwan Singh, Aman Kumar, Preeti Kashmira, Tapati, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, Brijendra Pateriya “Application of Geospatial Technology in Planning and Aqcuiring Land for Proposed Roads Under Masterplan---A Case Study Of Sultanpur Lodhi Local Planning Area.”published in Application of Geomatics in Civil Engineering, Page No. 357 -364, Journal of Springer.
• Sharma Reenu (2017) “Remote Sensing and GIS an Instant Tool to Restructure Master Plans” published in Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, Page No. 1-4, Vol. 14 No.3, India.
• Sharma Reenu (2014) “Urban Renewal: Sustainable and Inclusive Development” published in proceedings of 62nd National Town and Country Planners Congress on Urban Renewal, Redevelopment and Regeneration: Challenges and Options, Page No. 288 – 291, Journal of Institute of Town Planner, New Delhi.
• Sharma Reenu, B. Pateriya andAjay Mathur (2013) “Decentralized Planning with Application of GIS: Issues and Options” in XXXIII INCA International Congress on Integrated Decentralized Planning: Geospatial Thinking, ICT and Good Governance, September 19-21, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
• Sharma Reenu (2013) "Impact of MRTS: Case Study Delhi” published in Spatio- Economic Development Record, Vol. 20 No. 6, New Delhi.


Organization of training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar etc.


• Singh Balwan, Rashpal, Navdeep Singh, J.P. Sharma, Simerjit Kaur, Lakhvir Singh, Reenu Sharma , Ajay Mathur and B. Pateriya (2018) “Land Information System: A Case Study of Mundian Village, Punjab” in National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, February 21-23.
• Singh Lakhvir, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur and B. Pateriya (2018) “Issues in Cadastral Mapping” in National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, February 21-23.
• Kaur Simerjit, Balwan Singh, Pardeep Kumar, Lakhvir Singh, Harmanpreet, Ramandeep, Kashish, Aman, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, P.K. Litoria and B. Pateriya (2018) “Election Management using Geo-Spatial Technology” in National Conference on Role of Geospatial Technologies to Bridge the Rural and Urban Divide, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana, February 21-23.
• Harmanpreet, Ramandeep, Lakhvir Singh, Balwan Singh, Simerjit Kaur, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur, P.K. Litoria and B. Pateriya (2017) “Geospatial Technologies for Mapping the Ground Reality of Industrial Focal Points (IFPS) of Punjab” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, December 13-14,New Delhi.
• Sharma Reenu, Ajay Mathur, Amarinder Singh, Pooja Pathania, P.K. Litoria, B. Pateriya and Urmiljeet Khosa (2017) “Potential of GIS in Tourism and Heritage Mapping” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, January 19 -20, New Delhi.
• Harmanpreet, Ramandeep, Lakhvir Singh, Balwan Singh, Simerjit Kaur, ReenuSharma, Ajay Mathur, P.K. Litoria and B. Pateriya(2017) “Geospatial Technologies for the Mapping of Industrial Focal Points (IFPS) of Punjab” in Regional Conference on space technology for Sustainable development HARSAC, March 21 - 22, Hisar.
• Kaur Simerjit, Balwan Singh, Pardeep Kumar, Lakhvir Singh, Harmanpreet, Ramandeep, Kashish, Aman, ReenuSharma, Ajay Mathur, P.K.Litoria and B. Pateriya(2017) “GIS in Election Management” in Regional Conference on space technology for Sustainable development HARSAC, March 21 - 22, Hisar.
• Singh Balwan, Lakhvir Singh, Simerjit Kaur, Rashpal, Kamaljit Kaur, Navdeep Singh, J.P. Sharma, Vardan Gupta, Reenu Sharma, Ajay Mathur and B. Pateriya (2015)“Egovernance for Bathinda Municipal Corporation” poster presentation in Seminar on Geospatial Technology in Natural Resource Management, March 17- 18,Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana.
• Sharma Reenu, Ajay Mathur, Rajneesh Kumar, Rupinder Kaur, PoojaPathania, Rupinder Kaur, Amarinder Singh, P.K. Litoria, B. Pateriya and Harnek Singh (2015) “Geospatial Technologies for the Preparation of Master Plan” poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, December 3-4,New Delhi.
• Sharma Reenu (2014) “Urban Renewal: Sustainable and Inclusive Development” in 62nd National Town and Country Planners Congress on Urban Renewal, Redevelopment and Regeneration: Challenges and Options, January 10-12, Kothrud, Pune.
• Sharma Reenu, Simerjit Kaur, Ajay Mathur andB. Pateriya (2014) “Base Map Generation Using Cartosat Data” in user interaction meet – 2014, January 20-21, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad.
• Sharma Reenu, Lakhvir Singh, Vardan Gupta, Amardeep Singh, Ajay Mathur, P.K. Litoria, B. Pateriya,M. Arulraj and Sonal Aggarwal (2014) “Municipal GIS: A Case Study of Ludhiana City, Punjab, (India)”poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, December 10-11,New Delhi.
• Singh Amrinder, ReenuSharma, Ajay Mathur, P.K. Litoria and B. Pateriya (2013) “WebGIS for Tourism: A Case Study of Amritsar City, Punjab, (India)”poster presentation in ESRI User Conference, December 11-12, New Delhi.
• Sharma Reenu (2006) “JNNURM and City Development Plan: Features and Issues”, proceeding in SOUVENIR – 2006, 8th National Annual NOSPLAN convention at GRD School of Planning, April 6-9, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjab.
• Sharma Reenu, et.al (2010) “Landuse, Soil and Water Pollution Studies in Kanjli Wetland Ecosystem - 2010” under National Wetland Conservation Programme, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, Ludhiana in technical collaboration with Department of Soils, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.


Training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar attended


• Distance Learning Programme on “Basics of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System and Global Navigation System” August 2014 to November 2014, IIRS, Dehradun.
• Distance Learning Programme on “Geospatial Technologies for Urban Planning” February 11 to March 15, 2016, IIRS, Dehradun.
• 2-week course on “Advances in GIS” at National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, June 20 th to July 1 st , 2016.
• Distance Learning Programme on “UAV Remote Sensing and application” July 03 to July 07, 2017, IIRS, Dehradun.
• Three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have been completed from ESRI Inc. o 4 weeks course on “Do it yourself with Geo Apps” September 30, 2018 o 6 weeks course on “Cartography” October 10, 2018. o 6 weeks course on “Earth Imagery at work” December 12, 2018.
• Participation in Remote Sensing Day, the Birthday of Indian Space Scientist Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai, was celebrated by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) – Ludhiana Chapter in association with Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), Ludhiana on August 12, 2016 at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar
• Participation in state meet on promoting space technology based tools application in governance and development and launch of Bhuvan Portal on April 18, 2016.
• Participation in Consultation Workshop on Use of GIS in Informed Planning & Decision Making, March 29-30, 2016 Organised by centre for innovations in Public Systems.
• Participation in state level workshop on “Usage of Remote Sensing and GIS based Ground Water Prospects Map” October 15-16, 2014, Panjab University, Chandigarh.


Other


• Leading the Department of Housing and Urban Development Project for Revenue Based Master Plans for Towns of Punjab which is a keen initiative of Hon’ble Chief Minister and transformed Master Plan digitally into GIS platform. The successfully transformed GIS based Master Plans are available at Website.
• Lead the project with P.K.Litoria for Enabling the Election Department CEO for State Assembly Election by GIS based information in the form of Maps and Atlas for various polling activities to be carried out at 117 Assembly Constituencies (A.C) of Punjab State. The GIS data generated for Election department was immensely used in the state assembly elections held recently at Punjab.
• The GIS database of Mapping of Industrial Focal Point is a asset to PSIEC as it provides updated information of the IFP based on ground reality and help in planning as well to deal with the problem of encroachments.
• Leading the various other major projects for the state from GIS perspective – o Digitisation of Cadastral Maps using Satellite Imagery. (Department of Revenue) o Single Building Extraction Project of Municipal Corporation Ludhiana

• International GIS Day
• National Science Day
• World Environment Day
• Regional Seminar of Indian society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.
• National Seminar of ISG and ISRS and other activities held at Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.
• Organizing committee member of the State Level Workshop for Stake Holders “On Master Plan Formulation Using Bhuvan – NUIS” April 24, 2014
• Imparted around 24 Technical Sessions to various State Line Department officials as a part of GIS enabling Capacity building plan for the state. And more than 600 officials of Agricultural Department of Punjab updated with mobile app to collect the data for soil health card.


Representation of PRSC at various International and National forms and won awards of recognition


• Attended National Symposium on “Advancements in Geospatial Technology for Societal Benefits” at SAC Ahmedabad, December 5 – 7, 2018.
• Best poster award in ESRI user conference held on September 10 – 11, Delhi / NCR entitled Diverse Application of Revenue Based Data for Large Scale Mapping and Monitoring: Use of Geo-Spatial Technology.
• Participation at ACRS 2017- 38 th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing on October 23-27, 2017, New Delhi.
• GIS Day PRSC Activity Summary Presentation Prepared and submitted a copy of the same to for ESRI India, the active sponsors of the programme. And received Award for the same.
• Best poster award in ESRI conference held on 13-14 December 2017, New Delhi entitled Geospatial Technologies for Mapping the Ground Reality of Industrial Focal Points (IFP’S) of Punjab (India).
• 2 nd prize in poster presentation “Geospatial Technologies for the preparation of Master Plan” in ESRI User Conference held on December 3-4 2015, New Delhi (India).
• 1 st Prize in poster presentation in ESRI conference held on 10-11 December 2014, New Delhi entitled “MUNICIPAL GIS: A case study of Ludhiana city, Punjab (India)”
• 1 st Prize in poster presentation in ESRI conference held on 11-12 December 2013, New Delhi entitled “WebGIS for Tourism: A Case Study of Amritsar City, Punjab, (INDIA)”

• M.Sc. (Geo-Informatics)

• Life Member: Indian Society of Geometics

Professional Interest



Development of Spatial Technologies, Web GIS, Image Processing Techniques, Open Source Technologies in Geo-informatics, Natural Resource Management, Disaster Management, Vegetation Monitoring and Analysis, Development of Web Based Spatial Decision Support System, and Remote Sensing etc.



Projects


• Development of Web-GIS using Open source technologies for various themes.
• Involvement in ongoing projects of division.
• Member of various committees of PRSC.
• Assisting Head of Division (HOD) in various divisional activities.
• Training to Students, teachers and officials of government departments on GIS technology.


Recent Publications \Presentations


• Patel, S., Joshi, J.P. and Bhatt, B. (2017), “An assessment of Spatio-Temporal Variability of Land Surface Temperature Using MODIS Data: A study of Gujarat State, India”, Geography Compass, DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12312, Wiley online library.
• Ajwaliya, R. J., Patel, S. and Sharma, S.A. (2017), “Web-GIS based Application for Utility Management System”. Journal of Geomatics, Volume -11, Issuue-1.
• Technical Report: Patel, S., Khopkar, P.S., Mishra, S., Sharma, S.A., Chaudhary, K.N., and Oza, M.P. (2016). Web GIS based Vegetation Monitoring System (WGVMS). Technical Report. Space Applications Centre–ISRO: SAC/EPSA/VRG/CGD/TR_02/ July- 2016.
• Patel, S., Prakash, S., Bhatt, B. (2015). An Assessment of Kalpana-1 rainfall product for drought monitoring over India at meteorological sub-division scale. Water International. ISSN: 0250-8060. DOI:10.1080/02508060.2015.1072784.
• Bushair, M.T., Prakash, S., Patel, S., Gairola, R.M. (2015). Assessment of Kalpana-1 Rainfall Product over Indian Meteorological Sub-Divisions During Summer Monsoon Season. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. ISSN:0255-660X. DOI: 10.1007/s12524-015-0465-1.
• Ajwaliya, R.J., Patel, S. (2014). Design and Development of GIS Based Utility Management System at DOS Housing Colony, Vikramnagar, Ahmedabad. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications. ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 9 (Version 6), pp.56-73.
• Udani, P.M., Patel, S. (2012). Food Security Analysis Using Participatory GIS. Indian Society of Geomatics Newsletter. ISSN: 0972-642X, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 25-27.


Organization of training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar etc.


• Patel, S., Pandey, D., Bodani, P., Chaurasiya, S. and Misra, A. (2016), “Geo-Visualization of Soil Moisture (SM) and Soil Wetness Index (SWI) using Web-GIS”, National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems, December 7-9, 2016 Dehradun (India).
• Joshi, J. P., Patel, S., Bhatt, B. (2016), “Urbanisation trends and assessment of the urban Greenspace in Vadodara.”, “National Seminar on Remote Sensing: Enabling our Future”, October 7-8, 2016.
• Patel, S. (2016), “Vegetation Monitoring Using Remote Sensing and Web-GIS”, National Workshop cum Training on Recent trend and development in applied geology mining and Geo-informatics technology in nation building, MGCGVV, Chitrakoot, February 22-24, 2016.
• Ajwaliya, R.J., Patel, S. and Udani, P.M. “Design and Development of Customized GIS Application Shell for Electrical Power Distribution System”, “National Symposium on Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment with special emphasis on Marine and Coastal Dynamics” (December 4-6, 2013).
• Joshi, J. P., Patel, S. and Bhatt, B. (2013), Climate Change: A Human Health Perspective, National Seminar on “Climate Change in the Indian Context”, the Maharaj Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat India, December14, 2013.
• Patel, S. and Maroo, D. (2012), “Development of visualization tool for Weather forecast using GIS”, National symposium on “Space Technology for Food and Environment Security” ISRS Delhi.


Training/Workshop/Symposia/Seminar attended


• Delivered Training and Lectures on IGiS technology at Gujarat Vidyapeeth Ahmedabad as a part of GIS course sponsored by Scanpoint Geomatics Limited.
• Delivered a Lecture at H&HB KOTAK Institute of Science (Rajkot, Gujarat), on “GIS technology and Open Source Software”, as a part of “3S Space Technology and Applications” Workshop on 18 February 2017.
• Delivered a lecture at M.G. Science Institute Ahmedabad on “GIS technology and Applications”, as a part of training for Trainers Programme.
• Delivered Special lectures at Institute of Science and Technology for Advanced Research (Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujrat), on “GIS technology and Software”, as subject specialist.
• 5. Delivered Special lecture and hands-on at national conference on Geomatics for Natural Resource and Climate change with Special Reference to Rain-Fed Agriculture and Water Resources, Organized by: Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer (Rajasthan), on GIS and Image Processing. (October8-9,2015)


Book Chapters



Janak P. Joshi, Shashikant Patel, Bindu Bhatt: Demographic Change and age structure Transition: A Case Study of Vadodara District. Gender Discrimination: A Geographical Perspective, 2015 edited by Dr. G. N. Gadhavi, Prof. Kalpana R. Malvat, 02/2015: chapter Demographic Change and age structure Transition: A Case Study of Vadodara District.: pages 36-40; Brick Publisher., ISBN: 978-93-83047-13-0



Awards and Achievements


• Best paper presentation award for “Vegetation Monitoring Using Remote Sensing and Web-GIS” at “National Workshop cum Training on Recent trend and development in applied geology mining and Geo-informatics technology in nation building, MGCGVV, Chitrakoot, February 22-24, 2016”.
• Best paper presentation award for “Urbanisation trends and assessment of the urban Greenspace in Vadodara.”, “National Seminar on Remote Sensing: Enabling our Future”, October 7-8, 2016