Civil Engineering Department

Garg Pradeep Kumar

Garg, Pradeep Kumar
Professor
Specialization : Geomatics Engineering
Room No : G02 (Geomatics Building)
p.garg[at]ce[dot]iitr[dot]ac[dot]in
(O) 91-1332-285462 (R) 91-1332-285026

Areas of Interest

Advanced Survey, GPS, UAV (Drone), LiDAR
Satellite and Digital Image Processing
GIS, Geospatial data science, Big Data
Use of AI, IoT, Machine Learning
Resource Mapping and Monitoring

Advanced Survey, GPS, UAV (Drone), LiDAR

Satellite and Digital Image Processing

GIS, Geospatial data science, Big Data

Use of AI, IoT, Machine Learning

Resource Mapping and Monitoring

Honors and Awards

Award	Awarding Organisation	Year
Member, Advisory Committee, CSSTEAP, Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and Pacific, Dehradun
Member, Board of Management, Bikaner Technical University, Bikaner, Rajasthan
Member of Advisory Board, United World School of Business, a constituent college of Karnavati University (KU)
Fellow of Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Fellow of Innovation Award	6th Conference on Good Governance, Y S Research Foundation of Public Administration, Dehradun	Aug 30, 2020
Best Research Award in Surveying & Mapping	Institute of Engineers, Dehradun Chapter	Sept 15, 2019
Y. S. Research Excellence Award	Y. S. Research Foundation of Public Administration, Dehradun	Aug, 2019
Eminent Engineers Award	Institution of Engineers, Local Chapter, Roorkee,	2018
Uttarakhand Ratan Award	All India Conference of Intellectuals	2016
Education Excellence Award	TV 100 Channel	2016
Faculty Star Performer	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	2005-2006
Faculty Star Performer	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	2004-2005
Rastriya Gaurav Award	India International Friendship Society	2004
Faculty Star Performer	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	2003-2004
ISRS SPECK Award	Indian Society of Remote Sensing Conference	2003
Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship	British Council	1998-1999
Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship	British Council	1987-1990
Gold Medal	University of Roorkee, Roorkee	1982

Professional Background

From	To	Designation	Organisation
2004	Continuing	Professor	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
2001	2004	Associate Professor	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
1996	2001	Assistant Professor	University of Roorkee, Roorkee
1982	1996	Lecturer	University of Roorkee, Roorkee

Educational Details

Degree	Subject	University	Year
Post Doctorate	Remote Sensing & GIS	University of Reading, U.K.	1999
Ph.D.	Remote Sensing	University of Bristol, U.K.	1991
M.E.	Advanced Surveying & Photogrammetry	University of Roorkee, Roorkee	1982
B.E.	Civil Engineering	University of Roorkee, Roorkee	1980

Journal Publication

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Garg, P. K., Sharma, K. P. and Jain, S. C. (1984). Monitoring Landuse and Landcover Changes using LANDSAT Imageries.. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing..

Garg, P. K., Sharma, K. P. and Jain, S. C. (1986). Spectral Reflectance Pattern Study of Some Indian Landuse and Landcover Features.. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing..

Garg, P. K, Sharma, K. P. And Chadha, S. K. (1987). Hydrologic Soil Classification of a Part of Narmada Catchment using Remote Sensing Data.. Journal of Indian Association of Hydrologist..

Garg, P. K., Sharma, K.P. and Kumar, Anil (1987). Land Suitability Classification for Irrigated Cultivation using Remote Sensing Data.. Journal of Institution of Engineers..

Sharma, K.P. and Kumar, Ravi. (1987). Remote Sensing for Highway Project Planning.. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing..

Garg, P. K. and Harrison, A. R. (1991). Satellite Evaluations of Vegetational Change in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Landscapes. In Remote Sensing for Hazard Monitoring and Disaster Assessment Marine and Coastal Applications in the Mediterranean Region.. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers..

Garg, P. K. and Harrison, A. R. (1992). Land Degradation and Erosion Risk Analysis in S. E. Spain: A Geographic Information System Approach.. CATENA International Journal..

Garg, P. K. and Arora, M. K. (1992). Role of Expert Systems in Remote Sensing.. Asian-Pacific Journal of Remote Sensing..

Garg, P. K. and Roy, Alak (1994). Role of Geographic Information System to Integrate Remote Sensing and Terrain Data.. Journal of GIS India..

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Garg, P. K. (1994). Geographic Information System as a Tool for Distributed Hydrologic Modelling.. GIS India..

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Garg, P. K., Sharma, K.P. and Shukla, R. K. (1995). GIS Based Landcover Study of Rural Area around Roorkee using ERDAS packages.. GIS India.

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Nigam, A. K., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (1995). Utility of IRS LISS II data for the extraction of Basin Characteristics. Indian Surveyor. Pages: 1-11 Month: July

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Garg, P. K., Gupta, R. D. and Arora, M. K. (2000). Use of Statistical Techniques for Inter-Block Disparities Analysis under GIS Environment.. Journal of GIS India..

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Tiwari, R. S., Garg, P. K., Govil, S. K. and Sarkis, Sonia (2001). A Modified Exterior Orientation Approach for IRS-1C Stereo Images.. Journal of Indian Surveyors..

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Mason, D.C. and Garg, P.K. (2001). Morphodynamic Modelling of Intertidal Sediment Transport in Morecambe Bay.. Journal of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.. DOI: 10.1006/ecss.2000.0618

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Garg, P. K., Sudarsanam, M. Sai. and Singh, Ranvir (2001). Mapping Water Logged Area.. GIS Development..

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Garg, P. K., Sudarsanam, M. Sai. and Singh, Ranvir (2001). Water Logged Area Analysis with ARC/INFO.. Arc Users Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Banerjee, Jaideep, Bhargava, Renu and Singhal, D. C. (2002). Waste Disposal Site Selection in GIS Environment.. GIS India..

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Garg, P. K. and Jain, Kamal (2002). Finite Element Method for Rectification in Façade Mapping.. CIPA E-journal..

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Garg, P. K., Sudarsanam, M. Sai. and Singh, Ranvir (2002). Integrated Remote Sensing and GIS Approach to Study Water Logged Area.. GIS India..

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Garg, P.K., Soni, Vipin, Ghosh, S. K. and Govil, S. K. (2003). GIS for Site Suitability in Urban Planning.. Geospatial Today..

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Garg, P. K. and Reddy, A. Pulla (2003). ARC/INFO helps Ground Water Mapping.. Arc Users Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Dubey, O. P. and Prasad, K. V. S. A. V. (2003). Remote Sensing & GIS for Urbanisation and Runoff Study.. Hydrology Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Dubey, O. P. and Prasad, K. V. S. A. V. (2003). Urban Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis through Remote Sensing & GIS.. Indian Surveyor Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Hari, Piyush and Singh, Praveen (2004). Development of a Software for Engineering Surveys.. Indian Surveyor Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, Deepak (2005). Integrated Water Management in Urban Areas: Ecological and Economic Advantages.. Journal of Indian Buildings Congress..

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Garg, P. K., Shankar, K. Ravi and Parida, M. (2005). GIS Based Study for Automated Route Alignment.. Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Namdeo, A. K. and Jain, S. K. (2005). Migration of Kosi River – a Remote Sensing Approach.. GIM International Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Sankhua, R. N. and Sharma, Nayan (2005). Use of Remote Sensing and ANN in Assessment of Erosion Activities in Majuli-the World’s Largest River Island.. International Journal of Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K, Garg, R. D. and Govil, S. K. (2005). Generation of Decision Rules for Route Alignment using Satty’s Pairwise Comparison.. ITPI Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Sankhua, R. N., Sharma, Nayan and Pandey, A. D. (2006). Topological Indices for Study of Spatio-Temoral Changes in the Planform of the Bramhaputra River.. Journal of Indian Water Resources Society..

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Garg, P.K., Sankhua, R. N. and Sharma, Nayan (2006). Development and Performance Evaluation of New Fluvial Landform Indicators in the Brahmaputra River.. Journal of ISH..

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Garg, P. K., Sankhua, R. N., Sharma, Nayan and Pandey, A. D. (2006). Taming the Moving Ocean the Brahmaputra.. Times of India..

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Garg, P. K., Dhore, K. A., Khare, D. and Chaube, U. C. (2006). Decision Support System Applications in Watershed Planning and Management: an Overview.. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, USA..

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Garg, P. K., Sankhua, R.N., Sharma, Nayan and Pandey, A. D. (2006). Morphology of the River Brahmaputra – a Case Study.. .

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Garg, P. K., Sharma, Nayan, Sankhua, R. N. and Pandey, A. D. (2006). Morphological Study of the River Brahmaputra using Remote Sensing Technique.. .

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Garg, P. K., Singh,S.K. and Nagarajan, B. (2006). Optimizing Gravimetric Geoid Solution.. Coordinates Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Katiyar, Reetesh and Jain, S. K. (2006). Watershed Prioritization and Reservoir Sedimentation using Remote Sensing Data.. Geocarto International..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, Deepak (2006). Assessment of Groundwater Recharge using Water Level Fluctuation Methodology in GIS Environment.. Indian Journal of Power and River Valley Development..

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Garg, P.K., Singh, S. K. and Nagarajan, B. (2006). Local Gravimetric Geoid from Dense Gravity Anomaly Data.. Geospatial Today..

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Garg, P. K., Dhore, K. A. and Khare, Deepak (2006). Conceptual Framework of Decision Support System for Watershed Management in India. Earth & Life: an International Web-based Journal of Geosciences (http://www.geofinds.com)..

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Garg, P. K., Dhore, K. A., Khare, Deepak and Chaube, U. C. (2006). Development and Application of Decision Support System for Water Resources Planning in a Watershed.. Journal of Water Resources Management, Springer..

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Garg, P. K., Dhore, K. A., Khare, Deepak and Chaube, U. C. (2006). Development of GUI for Morphometrical Characterization of Watershed using Vector Data.. Computer and Geosciences, Elsevier Publications, The Netherlands..

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Garg, P. K., Dhore, K. A., Chaube, U.C. and Khare, Deepak (2006). Integration of Rainfall Runoff Models for Decision Support Framework.. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama and S.K. Ghosh (2006). Evaluation of Radiometric Resolution on the Estimation of Leaf Area Index of Agricultural crops GIScience & Remote Sensing.. .

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Rama Rao, N., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2006). Estimation and comparison of Leaf Area Index of agricultural crops using LISS – III and EO – 1 Hyperion images. Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1007/BF02990748

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Rama Rao, N., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2007). The Effect of Radiometric Resolution on the Retrieval of Leaf Area Index from Agricultural Crops. GIScience & Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.43.4.377

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Rama Rao, N., Garg, P.K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2007). Evaluation of radiometric resolution on land use/land cover mapping in an agricultural area. International Journal of Remote Sensing.. DOI: 10.1080/01431160600733181

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama and S.K. Ghosh (2007). Development of Cultivar based Crop Spectral Library and Classification of Crop Cultivars using Hyperspectral Data.. International Journal of Precision Agriculture..

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama, Ghosh, S.K. and Dadhwal, V.K. (2007). Estimation of Leaf Chlorophyll and Nitrogen Concentration of Agricultural Crops using EO-1 Hyperion Hyperspectral Imagery.. International Journal of Agricultural Science..

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama and Ghosh, S.K. (2007). Remote Sensing Based Estimation of Cotton Canopy Cover using Linear Mixture Modelling Approach.. International Journal of Applied Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama and Ghosh, S.K. (2007). Potential use of Hyperspectral Imagery to Eliminate Saturation Effect of NDVI at High Canopy Density of Vegetation.. International Journal of Applied Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Singh, S.K. and Nagarajan, B. (2007). Determination of Local Gravimetric Geoid.. Coordinates..

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Garg, P. K., Khare, D., Carandang, R. H. and Verma, Shailza (2007). Planning of Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting using GIS- A Case Study for Mussoorie.. Asian Journal of Geoinformatics..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2007). Classification of Spectrally Mixing Landuse Classes: A Case Study of an Urban Fringe.. International Journal of Applied Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2007). Modelling of Urban Growth using Spatial Analysis Techniques: a case study from Ajmer city (India).. Int Journal of Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2007). Selection of Optimum Canal Alignment using GIS: river interlinking perspective.. Indian Journal of Power and River Valley Development..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2008). Cost Models/Functions for Waste Water Treatment.. Journal of Indian Water Works Association..

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama and Ghosh, S.K. (2008). Development of an Agricultural a Crop Specific Spectral Library and Discrimination of Various Agricultural Crop Varieties using Hyperspectral Data.. International Journal of Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Rao, N. Rama and Ghosh, S.K. (2008). Land use/Land Cover Mapping using Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery in an Agricultural Dominated Area.. Journal of Environmental Science..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2008). Remote Sensing and GIS Based Assessment of Urbanisation and Degradation of Watershed Health.. Urban Water Journal..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2008). Monitoring and Modelling of Urban Sprawl using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques.. Int. Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2009). Urbanisation and its Impact on Groundwater: a remote sensing and GIS based assessment approach.. The Environmentalist..

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Garg, P. K., Singh, S.K. and Nagarajan, B. (2009). Development of High Resolution Gravimetric Geoid for Central India.. Journal of Surveying Engineering..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2009). Integrated Conjunctive use Modelling of Water Resources for Water Deficient Urban Areas.. Journal of Hydrology..

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Garg, P. K., Jat, M. K. and Khare, D. (2009). Discrimination of Spectrally Overlapping Landuse/landcover Classes in an Urban Fringe.. Int. Journal GIScience and Remote Sensing..

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Garg, P. K., Mondal, M. S., Sharma, Nayan , Bohm, B., Flugel, W. A., Garg, R. D. and Singh, R. P. (2009). Water Area Extraction using Geocoded High Resolution Imagery of TerraSAR-X Radar Satellite in Cloud Prone Brahamaputra River valley.. Journal of Geomatics..

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Garg, P. K., Kandwal, R. and Garg, R. D. (2009). GIS in HIV/AIDS studies: Perspective and Retrospective.. Journal of Biomedical Informatics..

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Garg, P. K., Kandwal, R. and Garg, R. D. (2009). Correlation of the HIV/AIDS prevalence with Social, Economic and Demographic measures: a case study of Andhra Pradesh, India.. International Journal of STD & AIDS..

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Garg, P. K., Ghosh, S.K., Garg, R. D. and Agarwal, R. (2010). Development of a Bridge and Culvert Information System in GIS.. Indian Surveyor..

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Kandwal, R., Augustijn, E-W, Stein, A., Miscione, G., Garg, P. K. and Garg, R. D. (2010). Geospatial movement modeling for data quality of females registered for HIV testing.. International Journal of Health Geographics..

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Agarwal, E., Agarwal R., Garg, P. K. and Garg , R. D. (2010). Groundwater status of Unnao district.. Uttar Pradesh using Remote Sensing and GIS. Journal of Current Science..

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Kandwal, R., Augustijn E-W., Stein A., Miscione, G., Garg, P. K. and Garg, R. D. (2010). Geospatial analysis of HIV-Related social stigma: A study of tested females across mandals of Andhra Pradesh in India.. International Journal of Health Geographics..

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Mondal, M. S., Garg, R. D. and Garg, P. K. (2010). Site Suitability analysis of Future Development for a new Township using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques.. Journal of Geomatics..

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Mondal, M.S., Sharma, Nayan, Kappas, M. and Garg, P. K. (2011). Modelling of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Landuse & Landcover – A Review and Assessment.. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering..

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Srivastava, V., Garg, P.K. and Garg, R. D. (2011). An approach for (semi) automatic extraction of finding individual tree canopies from H-R satellite images.. Journal of Water and Land Use Management..

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Singh, D and Garg P. K. (2011). Preliminary Analysis of MiniRF Data onboard LRO for identification of Water/Ice.. Journal of Indian Surveyors..

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Agarwal, R., Garg, R. D. and Garg, P. K. (2011). Morphometric Analysis and Prioritization of Sub-watersheds in the Loni Watershed.. Uttar Pradesh Using Spatial Information Technology. Journal of Indian Water Resources Society..

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Budhwar, P. and Garg, P. K. (2011). Open Source Desktop GIS Software and Data Products for GIS Research Community.. On a Sustainable Future of the Earth's Natural Resources..

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Dahiya,S., Garg, P. K. and Jat, M. K. (2011). Building Extraction from High resolution Satellite Images.. TECHNIA – International Journal of Computing Science and Communication Technologies..

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Agarwal, R, Agarwal, E., Garg, P. K. and Garg, R. D. (2012). A GIS Based Study Of Water Pollutants , Characteristics and Their Affects In Hilauli Block, India.. Imanager’s Journal on Civil Engineering..

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Thakur, P. K., Aggarwal, S. P., Garg P. K., Garg, R. D., Snehmani, P. A. and Kumar, S. (2012). Snow physical parameter estimation using space based SAR.. GEOCARTO International.. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2012.672477

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Thakur, P.K., Garg R.D. and Garg, P. K. (2012). Snow wetness and density estimation using space based synthetic aperture radar data.. I-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering (JCE)..

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Choudhary S. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2012). Mapping of Agriculture Drought using Remote Sensing and GIS.. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology..

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Padaliya, S. K. and Garg P. K. (2012). Approaches for Extraction of Buildings from High Resolution Satellite Images.. International Journal of Engineering and Science Research..

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Vishnoi, D. A., Padaliya, S. and Garg, P.K. (2012). Enhancement of manmade objects using seeded region and neural network approaches in high Resolution satellite images.. Journal of Science..

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Dahiya, S., Garg, P. K. and Jat, M. K. (2012). Content Based Object Extraction From High Resolution Satellite Images.. International Journal of Engineering and Science Research..

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Srivastava, V. and Garg, P. K. (2012). An approach for evaluating the success of Information Extraction Procedures on Area Features.. International Journal of Geoinformatics..

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Verma, A. K., Garg, P. K. and Dadhwal, V. K. (2012). Crop Yield Forecasting Using Geospatial Techniques.. International Journal of Engineering and Science Research..

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Dahiya, S., Garg, P. K. and Jat ,M. K (2013). A comparative study of various pixel-based image fusion techniques as applied to an urban environment.. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, Taylor & Francis..

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Chaurasia, K. and Garg, P. K. (2013). A Brief Review on Texture Analysis Methods.. International Journal of Studies in Surveying and Mapping Sciences..

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Agarwal, E., Agarwal, R., Garg, P. K. and Garg, R. D. (2013). Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zone: An AHP/ANP approach.. Journal of Earth System Sciences..

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Agarwal, R., Garg P. K. and Garg, R. D. (2013). Remote Sensing and GIS Based Approach for Identification of Artificial Recharge Sites.. Water Resources Management..

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Gupta, S. , Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2013). Use of Geospatial Tools for Development of Road Information System (RIS) for Dehradun.. I-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering..

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Vishnoi, D. A., Padaliya, S. and Garg, P. K. (2013). Use of mathematical morphological filtering and band operators to highlight building features from IKONOS satellite image.. International Transaction in Applied Sciences..

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Verma, A. K., Garg, P. K. and Dadhwal, V. K. (2013). Crop Identification and Discrimination Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery.. International Journal of Science and Technology..

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Johar, A., Jain, S. S. and Garg, P. K. (2013). Optimization Techniques in Transportation Engineering.. Journal of Road Transport..

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Gupta, S. , Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2013). Use of Geospatial Techniques for Development of a Road Information and Management System (RIMS) of Dehradun City.. The Indian Journal of Technical Education..

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Vishnoi, D. A., Padaliya, S. K. and Garg, P. K. (2013). An approach of building detection using spectral and spatial enhancement techniques from high resolution satellite images.. International Transaction in Applied Sciences..

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Vishnoi D.A., Padaliya S. K. and Garg P. K. (2013). Various segmentation techniques for extraction of buildings using high resolution satellite images on a Sustainable Future of the Earth's Natural Resources.. Springer Earth System Sciences.. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32917 3_14

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Johar, A., Jain, S. S. and Garg, P. K. (2013). Application of GIS–T in Network Planning.. International Journal of Engineering and Science Research..

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Johar, A., Jain, S. S. and Garg, P. K. (2013). Land Suitability Analysis for Industrial Development Using GIS.. Journal of Geomatics..

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Mondal, M. S., Sharma, N., Kappas, M. and Garg, P. K. (2013). Modeling of spatio-temporal dynamics of land use and land cover in a part of Brahmaputra River basin using Geoinformatic techniques.. Geocarto International..

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Shukla, G. and Garg, P. K. (2014). Assessment of Surface Soil Moisture through Classical Method and Optical Thermal Remote Sensing Techniques.. Journal of Indian Water Resource Society..

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Kuldeep and Garg, P. K. (2014). The role of texture information and data fusion in topographic objects extraction from satellite data.. Geodesy and Cartography.. DOI: 10.3846/20296991.2014.962814

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Mondal, M. S., Sharma, Nayan, Kappas, M., Garg, P. K. and Erasmi, S. (2015). Critical assessment of dynamics of LULC using multi-temporal satellite images in Kamrup metropolitan district of Assam State.. India. European Journal of Remote Sensing.. DOI: 10.3390/environments2010061

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Johar, A., Jain, S. S. and Garg, P. K. (2015). Prediction of Bus Travel Time Using Artificial Neural Network. International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (IJTTE) . DOI: 10.7708/ijtte.2015.5(4).06

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Nijhawan, R., Garg, P. and Thakur, P. (2016). A comparison of classification techniques for glacier change detection using multispectral images. Perspectives in Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.080

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Nijhawan, R., Garg, P. and Thakur, P. (2016). Monitoring of Glacier in Alaknanda Basin using Remote Sensing Data. Perspectives in Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.pisc.2016.04.081

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Shukla, G., Garg, R. D., Srivastava, H. S. and Garg, P. K. (2016). Performance analysis of different predictive models for crop classification across an aridic to ustic area of Indian states. Geocarto International, Taylor & Francis . DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2016.1240721

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Agarwal, R. and Garg, P. K. (2016). Remote Sensing and GIS based Groundwater Potential & Recharge Zones Mapping using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique. Water Resources Management. DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1159-8

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Srivastava, V., Garg, P. K. and Garg, R.D. (2016). An approach for semi-automatic extraction of individual tree canopies from H-R satellite images.. Journal of Water & land-Use Management..

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Johar A, Jain S. S., Garg P. K. (2016). Transit Network Design and Scheduling using Genetic Algorithm –A Review. An International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Application. DOI: 10.11121/ijocta.01.2016.00258

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Srivastava, V., Stein, A., Rossiter, D. G., Garg, P. K. and Garg, R. D. (2016). Simulated annealing with variogram-based optimization to quantify spatial patterns of trees extracted from high-resolution imagery. IEEE Geoscience And Remote Sensing Letters. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2565743

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Modal, S., Sharma, N., Garg, P. K. and Kappas, M. (2016). Statistical independence test and validation of CA Markov land use/land cover (LULC) prediction results. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2016.08.001

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Verma, A. K., Garg, P. K. and Prasad, K. S. H. (2017). Sugarcane crop identification from LISS IV data using ISODATA, MLC and indices based decision tree approach. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. DOI: 10.1007/s12517-016-2815-x

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Shukla, G., Garg, R. D., Srivastava, H. S. and Garg, P. K. (2017). Implementation of random forest algorithm for crop mapping across an aridic to ustic area of Indian states. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.11.026005

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Shukla, G., Garg, R. D., Kumar, P., Srivastava, H. S. and Garg, P. K. (2018). Using multi-source data and decision tree classification in mapping vegetation diversity. Spatial Information Research. DOI: 10.1007/s41324-018-0200-4

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Sharma, R., Garg, P. K. and Dwivedi, R. K. (2018). Analysis of Uncertainty Ratio in classified imagery using independent indicator Entropy. The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2018.04.007

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Shukla, G., Garg, R. D., Kumar, P., Srivastava, H. S. and Garg, P. K. (2018). An Effective Implementation and Assessment of Random Forest Classifier as a Soil Spatial Predictive Model. International Journal of Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1430399

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Kumar, M., Kumar, P. K. and Srivastav, S. K. (2018). A Spectral Structural Approach for Building Extraction from Satellite Imageries. International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS. DOI: 10.23953/cloud.ijarsg.338

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Garg, P. K. (2018). Geoinformatics–A Versatile Tool for Planning and Management of Infrastructure and Resources. American Journal of Earth Sciences. Volume: 5 Number: 3

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Barmhe, V. S., Ghosh, S. K. and Garg, P. K. (2018). Extraction of Built-Up Area by Combining Textural Features and Spectral Indices from Landsat-8 Multispectral Image. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-727-2018

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Barmhe, V. S., Ghosh, S. K. and Garg, P. K. (2018). Extraction of Built-Up Areas Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning From Sentinel-2 Satellite Images. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-79-2018

125.

Barmhe, V. S., Ghosh, S. K. and Garg, P. K. (2019). Extraction of Built-up areas from Landsat-8 OLI data based on spectral-textural information and feature selection using Support Vector Machine method. Geocarto International. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1566406

126.

Verma, A. K., Garg, P. K., Prasad, K. S. H. and Dadhwal, V. K. (2019). Modelling sugarcane yield using LISS-IV data based on Ground LAI and Yield Observations. Geocarto International. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2018.1544291

127.

Sharma, R., Garg, P. K. and Dwivedi, R. K. (2019). A Design Entropy based hybrid soft classifier algorithms for improving classification performance of a Satellite data. Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Modelling. DOI: 10.33187/jmsm.459653

128.

Tayal, S., Garg, P. K. and Vijay, S. (2019). Optimization Models for Selecting Base Station Sites for Cellular Network Planning. Applications of Geomatics in Civil Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-7067-0_52

129.

Garg. P. K. (2020). Geospatial Technology for a Better Tomorrow. Journal of Geotechnical Studies. Volume: 5 Number: 1 Pages: 1-14

130.

Yadav, B. C., Thayyen, R. J. and Jain, K. (2020). Topoclimatic zones and characteristics of the upper Ganga basin, Uttarakhand, India. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.6562

131.

Dahiya, S., Garg, P. K. and Jat, M. K. (2020). Automated Extraction of Slum Built-up Areas from Multispectral Imageries. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1007/s12524-019-01066-7

132.

Verma, A. K., Garg, P. K., Hariprasad, K. S. and Dadhwal, V. K. (2020). Modelling of sugarcane yield using LISS-IV data based on ground LAI and yield observations. Geocarto International. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2018.1544291

133.

Mondal M. S., Sharma, N., Kappas, M. and Garg, P. K. (2020). Cellular Automata (CA) Contiguity Filters Impacts on CA Markov Modeling of Land Use Land Cover Change Predictions Results. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2020-1585-2020

134.

Tasgaonkar, P. P., Garg, R. D. & Garg, P. K. (2020). Vehicle Detection and Traffic Estimation with Sensors Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems. Sens Imaging. DOI: 10.1007/s11220-020-00295-2

135.

Mondal, S. M., Sharma, N., Garg, P. K., Kappas, M. and Grover, H. (2020). Land use Land Cover (LULC) Mapping - A Case Study. In: Methods and Applications of Geospatial Technology in Sustainable Development. Academic Social Research, India. Pages: 1-33

136.

Mondal, M. S., Sharma, N., Kappas, M., and Garg, P. K. (2021). CA Markov Modeling of Land Use Land Cover Change Predictions and Effect of Numerical Iterations, Image Interval (Time Steps) on Prediction Results. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2020-713-2020

137.

Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2021). Mapping the Spatiotemporal Changes of Land Use/Land Cover on the Urban Heat Island Effect by Open Source Data: A Case Study of Lucknow, India. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1007/s12524-021-01421-7

138.

Kumar, P., Parida, M. and Garg, P. K. (2021). Applicability of Multi Criteria Decision Making for Prioritization of Indian Roads. Highway Research Journal. DOI: -

139.

Verma, A. K., Garg, P. K., Hari Prasad, K. S., Dadhwal, V. K., Dubey S. K. and Kumar, A. (2021). Sugarcane yield forecasting model based on weather parameters. International Journal of Sugar Crops and Related Industries. DOI: 10.1007/s12355-020-00900-4

140.

Tian, B. Chen, C., Zhang, C., Christian, S., Jiang, W., Wu, W. Garg, R., Garg, P., Aleksandr, A., Mikhail, S. and Zhou, Y. (2022). Mapping three-dimensional morphological characteristics of tidal salt-marsh channels using UAV structure-from-motion photogrammetry. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108235

141.

Vohra, D. S., Garg, P.K. and Ghosh, S.K. (2022). Problems and Prospects of Flying Rotor Drones Particularly Quadcopters. Turkish Journal of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. DOI: 10.51534/tiha.1068613

142.

Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2022). Usage of UAVs/Drones Based on their Categorization: A Review. Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies. Volume: 74 Number: 2 Pages: 90-101 Month: May

143.

Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2022). Multi-temporal urban growth analysis with expansion indicators in Lucknow constituency by open-source data, India. Journal of Urban Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2022.07.001

144.

Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2022). Real-time vehicle detection for traffic monitoring by applying a deep learning algorithm over images acquired from satellite and drone. International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems. DOI: 10.1108/IJIUS-06-2022-0077

145.

Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2023). Bringing revolution through quadcopter technology in the field of supplying medicine in the Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand: Case example of Pithoragarh. Irish Journal of Medical Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11845-023-03400-y

146.

Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2023). Communication via quad/ hexa-copters during disasters. International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems. DOI: 10.1108/IJIUS-03-2023-0023

147.

Verma, R., Zawadzka, J. E., Garg, P. K.and Corstanje, R. (2024). The relationship between spatial configuration of urban parks and neighbourhood cooling in a humid subtropical city. Landscape Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-024-01818-y

Research Projects

Sort by Year (Ascending)

1. Title:- Earthquake Impact Study using Remote Sensing Techniques
Sponsor: AICTE	Sanctioned Year: 1994 -95	Amount: ₹ 10.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

2. Title:- Integration of GIS with Remote Sensing Data for Natural Resources and Engineering Applications.
Sponsor: AICTE	Sanctioned Year: 1994 -95	Amount: ₹ 10.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

3. Title:- Landform Analysis in GIS
Sponsor: DRIL, UOR	Sanctioned Year: 1994-95	Amount: ₹ 0.10 Lakhs	Role: PI

4. Title:- Rainfall-Runoff Modelling using Digital Elevation Model and Remote Sensing Data in GIS Environment
Sponsor: Ministry of Water Resource	Sanctioned Year: 1994-95	Amount: ₹ 5.60 Lakhs	Role: PI

5. Title:- Development of Utility Maps in GIS for UOR Campus
Sponsor: DRIL, UOR	Sanctioned Year: 1996-97	Amount: ₹ 0.10 Lakhs	Role: PI

6. Title:- Environmental Impact Assessment of River Valley Projects using Remote Sensing & GIS Technique
Sponsor: UGC	Sanctioned Year: 1997-98	Amount: ₹ 5.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

7. Title:- Development of Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development
Sponsor: AICTE	Sanctioned Year: 1997-98	Amount: ₹ 12.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

8. Title:- Remote Sensing and GIS : Technology Forecasting
Sponsor: AICTE	Sanctioned Year: 1997-98	Amount: ₹ 3.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

9. Title:- Integrating Remote Sensing & GIS Technology for Land Suitability and Erosion hazard Assessment
Sponsor: AICTE	Sanctioned Year: 1998-99	Amount: ₹ 5.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

10. Title:- Remote & GIS Application for Ground Water Management
Sponsor: UGC	Sanctioned Year: 2001-02	Amount: ₹ 0.50 Lakhs	Role: PI

11. Title:- State-of-art in Optical Surveying Equipment
Sponsor: DST	Sanctioned Year: 2002-03	Amount: ₹ 1.66 Lakhs	Role: PI

12. Title:- Development of an Operational Methodology For slope map generation using Cartosat images
Sponsor: SAC Ahmedabad	Sanctioned Year: 2003-04	Amount: ₹ 5.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

13. Title:- Data Fusion for Improving Image Quality and Classification
Sponsor: ISRO	Sanctioned Year: 2003-04	Amount: ₹ 5.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

14. Title:- Development of a Knowledge based/ ANN for Soil Mapping from Satellite Images
Sponsor: DRDO	Sanctioned Year: 2004-05	Amount: ₹ 24.90 Lakhs	Role: PI

15. Title:- Development of a Critical Information System for Bridges/Culverts on National/State Highways
Sponsor: DST, Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2007-08	Amount: ₹ 8.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

16. Title:- Development of Hydro-information System for Ramganaga Catchment, Uttarakhand State
Sponsor: DST, Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2008-09	Amount: ₹ 27.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

17. Title:- Development of Geo- visualization tools for ground water resource management
Sponsor: DST, Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2009-10	Amount: ₹ 25.39 Lakhs	Role: PI

18. Title:- Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-learning
Sponsor: MHRD, New Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2009-10	Amount: ₹ 3.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

19. Title:- Institutional Capacity reinforcement of Hanoi University in education and research in remote sensing and GIS applied to monitoring and management of natural resources
Sponsor: DST, Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2009-10	Amount: ₹ 7.07 Lakhs	Role: PI

20. Title:- Development of Virtual Lab for Geomatics Engineering
Sponsor: MHRD, New Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2009-10	Amount: ₹ 30.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

21. Title:- Thematic Mapping, Hazard Zonation and Publication of ATLAS of Landslides along Tanakpur-Lohaghat-Pithoragarh-Malpa Routes of Uttarakhand
Sponsor: DRDO, Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2009-10	Amount: ₹ 14.57 Lakhs	Role: PI

22. Title:- Study of earth’s moon for water ice with miniSAR onboard Chandrayaan-1
Sponsor: PLANEX , PRL Ahemdabad	Sanctioned Year: 2010-11	Amount: ₹ 28.16 Lakhs	Role: PI

23. Title:- NPTEL Phase-II project for development of web based course on ‘Global Positioning System
Sponsor: MHRD, New Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2010-11	Amount: ₹ 2.50 Lakhs	Role: PI

24. Title:- Hydro-meteorological feedbacks and changes in water storage and fluxes in Northern India,(in collaboration with Imperial College, London, Univ. of Reading, U.K., IISc Bangalore, IITK)
Sponsor: NERC (U.K.)-MOES (India)	Sanctioned Year: 2011-12	Role: PI

25. Title:- Study of earth’s moon for water ice with miniSAR onboard Chandrayaan-1 and 3D modelling
Sponsor: PLANEX , PRL Ahmedabad	Sanctioned Year: 2012-13	Amount: ₹ 12.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

26. Title:- Development of methodology to compensate effect of topography, contamination and adjacency factors
Sponsor: DST, New Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2018-19	Amount: ₹ 36.80 Lakhs	Role: PI

Administrative Background

Designation	Organisation	From Period	To Period
Vice Chancellor	Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun	Jan 04, 2015	Jan 04, 2018
Vice Chancellor (Addl Charge)	HNB Uttarakhand Medical Education University, Dehradun	Nov, 2015	June , 2016
Vice Chairman, Advanced JEE 2015	IIT Roorkee Zone	2015
Head, Civil Engg Deptt	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee	2014	2015
Members of Executive Council/BOG	NIT Hamirpur, MoEF, NBA, AICTE	2007	2009
Professor Incharge Alumni Affairs (equivalent to Dean)	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee	2004	2006
Members of Academic Council/Senate	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee	2004
Coordinator, Geomatics Engg (thrice)	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee
O.C. Dairy	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee
Co-cordinator, STEP	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee
Co-Coordinator/Coordinator, Centre for Remote Sensing,	Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee

Membership

S. No.	Membership
1.	Bhoo Vigyan Vikas Foundation, Delhi, Fellow Member
2.	Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata, Fellow Member
3.	Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee, Fellow Member
4.	Institutions of Surveyors, New Delhi, Fellow Member
5.	Society for Computer Awareness , Patron Life Member
6.	Indian Geotechnical Society, Life Fellow Member
7.	Indian National Cartographic Association, Hyderabad, Life Fellow Member
8.	Society for Sciences, Hony. Fellow
9.	Institute of Urban Transport, Delhi, Life Member
10.	Geo Map Society India, Hyderabad, Life Member
11.	IIT Roorkee Alumni Association, Life Member
12.	Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee, Life Member
13.	Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservation, Dehradun, Life Member
14.	Indian Society for Continuing Engg. Education, Roorkee, Life Member
15.	Indian Society for Construction Materials & Structures (ISCMS), Roorkee, Life Member
16.	Indian Society of Geomatics, Ahmedabad, Life Member
17.	Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, Life Member
18.	Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi, Life Member
19.	Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Technology, Life Member
20.	Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Life Member
21.	Indian Society Agricultural Engineers, Life Member
22.	IAHS, U.K., Member
23.	Indian Society for Training and Development, Life Member
24.	Institute of Technical Teachers (ITT), Life Member
25.	Centre for Geodesy, IIT Kanpur, PMMC Member
26.	Bikaner Technical University, Board of Management Member
27.	Geography Deptt., CCSU Meerut, BOS Member

Book / Book Chapters

Garg, P. K. and Nirupama (1998). Monogram on Water Resources Investigations using Remote Sensing Techniques.

Garg, P. K. and Agarwal, C. S. (2000). Book on Remote Sensing for Natural Resources Inventory & Management.. Wheeler Publishing House, Delhi

Garg, P. K., Jain, P. C., Saini J. S. and Gairola, A. (2002). Edited for a Conference Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power.

Chauhan, D S., Kumar, Anil; Garg, P K, Gupta, Subhash C., Dubey, Sanjiva, Bali, Kamalendu Bali (2017). Edited book on: Environmental Studies, Centre for Education Growth and Research, New Delhi.

Garg, P. K. (2019). Book on Theory and Principles of Geoinformatics, Khanna Book Publishing House, New Delhi.

Sharma, L. and Garg, P. K. (2019). Edited Book : From Visual Surveillance to Internet of Things . Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), London

Garg, P. K., Garg, R. D., Shukla, G. and Srivastava, H. S. (2020). Digital Mapping of Soil Landscape Parameters- Geospatial Analyses using Machine Learning and Geomatics. . Springer

Garg, P. K. (2021). Introduction to UAV. 9781683927099 New Age International Publishers

Kuldeep, Garg, P. K., Garg, R. D. (2021). Texture-Based Riverine Feature Extraction and Flood Mapping Using Satellite Images. 9781119616016

10.

Garg, P. K. (2021). Book on: Digital Land Surveying and Mapping. New Age International Pvt Ltd, Delhi

11.

Garg, P. K. and Sharma, L. (2021). Edited Book on Artificial Intelligence: Technologies, Applications, and Challenges. 9781003140351 Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), London

12.

Garg, P. K. (2021). Role of Geospatial Technology for Atmanirbhar Bharat, ENGINEERS FOR ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT. State Project Implementation Unit - Uttar Pradesh Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University Agra

13.

Garg, P. K. (2022). Surveying and Geomatics. AICTE

14.

Garg, P. K., Tripathi, N. K., Kappas, M., and Gaur, L. (2022). Geospatial Data Science in Healthcare for Society 5.0. 2730-9061 Springer

15.

Gaur, L. and Garg, P. K. (2023). Emerging Trends, Techniques, and Applications in Geospatial Data Science. 1668473194 IGI Global Publishers

B. Tech. Projects

S. No.	Project Title	Student Name	Co-Supervisor	Degree	Year
1.	A large number of B. Tech. projects have been supervised as Survey & Mapping is the first component of their project	A Large number of Students		UG
2.	Development of Software for Engineering Surveys	Mr. Piyush Hari Singhal and Mr. Praveen Singh		UG	2002
3.	GIS-based information System to enhance industry Institute Interaction	Mr. Rahul Kumar, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Sinha and Mr. Su		UG	2003
4.	GIS-based Virtual 3D Information System of Central Library	Ms. Priyanka Jain and Ms. Eaishvarya Sharma		UG	2003
5.	Widening and Strengthening of NH-58 Between Military Hospital (Km. 172.4) and Solani River (Km. 175.0)	Mr. Bajrangbali Gupta, Mr. Akhilesh Kumar, Mr. Dev	Prof. S. S. Jain	UG	2007
6.	GIS based emergency system for 108 service	NA	Prof. S. S. Jain and Prof. M. Parida	UG	2009
7.	Design of a sewerage system for the campus	All B.Tech Civil Engg students		UG	2013
8.	Design of a DAM and Power House	All B.Tech Civil Engg Students		UG	2014

M. Tech. Dissertations

Sort by Year (Ascending)

S. No.	Project Title	Student Name	Co-Supervisor	Degree	Year
1.	73 M.Tech. thesis have been supervised.	73 Students		PG
2.	Detection of Linear Features Using Various Filters on Satellite Images	Vijay Veer		PG	1993
3.	A Study on The Feasibility on Selection of Training Data for Image Analysis	Ajay Mathur	Prof. P. K. Garg and Mr. Manoj Arora	PG	1993
4.	A Study on Various Change Detection Techniques Using Digital Remote Sensing Data	Ganedi Tata Rao		PG	1993
5.	A Study of Various Feature Selection Techniques in Digital Remote Sensing Analysis	Deepak Kumar Jha		PG	1994
6.	Haridwar Tourist Information System	Anurag Ohri	Prof. Pradeep Kumar Garg	PG	2002
7.	Haridwar Tourist Information System	Anurag Ohri	Prof. S. K. Ghosh	PG	2002
8.	GIS Base Feasibility Study For Airship Travel In a Part of Uttaranchal State	Ravi Kumar Duddukuri		PG	2003
9.	Tourism GIS for Uttaranchal State	Venkateswarlu Kandimalla		PG	2003
10.	GIS-Based Modeling For Rural Infrastructural Planning	Polamreddy Sreenu		PG	2004
11.	Seismic Micro zonation of an Urban Area in GIS Environment	Subrahmanyam A. V.		PG	2005
12.	Evaluation of Geometric and Radiometric properties of AWiFS image	Nisha Verma		PG	2008
13.	DSS for identification of Special Economic Zones using Geoinformation Techniques	Mohit Mitta		PG	2009
14.	Integration of geospatial based conceptual approach in a landslide warning system	Yogesh Mukhi		PG	2010
15.	Impact of Climatic Change on Drought Using Geospatial Technology	Surendra Singh Choudhary		PG	2012
16.	Crop mapping for insurance by using remote sensing and GIS	Mr Prince Kumar		PG	2020
17.	Use of geomatics engineering in green building	Ms Subhansha Atray		PG	2020

Research Scholars

Sort by Year (Ascending)

S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Registration Year	Co-Supervisor
1.	Automatic Extraction of Building Footprints using Geospatial Tools	Dolonchapa Prabhakar	2019
2.	Accuracy Assessment of Large Scale Maps from Geospatial Data	Leena Dhruwa	2019
3.	Use of multi miniature UAVs for short recce and intelligence gathering missions for situational awareness	Dara Singh Vohra	2020
4.	Development of a crop insurance assistance system using geospatial tools	Prince Kumar	2020
5.	Multisource remote sensing data for drought mapping, monitoring and management	Hempushpa Sahu	2021	Prof. Saurabh Vijay,
6.	Snow Cover Mapping from Hyperspectral Imagery using Linear and Non – Linear Spectral Unmixing Techniques	Balla Vivek	2021
7.	Analysis of Concrete Using Hyperspectral Data	Ishtiaq Ahmed	2021	Prof. Pradeep Kumar Garg,

Ph.D. Supervised

Sort by Year (Ascending)

S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Status	Awarded Year
1.	Rainfall – Runoff modelling using digital elevation model and remote sensing data	Anjani Kumar Nigam	Awarded	1997
2.	Rainfall-runoff Modelling using Digital Elevation Model and Remote Sensing Data	A. K. Nigam	Awarded	1998
3.	Generation of Digital Elevation Data from Space Imageries	Sonia Sarkis	Awarded	2001
4.	Remote Sensing and GIS Based Decision Support System for District Level Planning	Rajan Dev Gupta	Awarded	2002
5.	Development of a Method for Digital Rectification of Images	Kamal Jain	Awarded	2003
6.	GIS Based Decision Support System for Identification of Route Corridors	R. D. Garg	Awarded	2004
7.	ANN based Spatio-temporal Morphological Model of the River Brahmaputra	R. N. Shankhua	Awarded	2005
8.	Development of Decision Support System for Water Resources Planning in a Watershed	Kishore Anil Dhore	Awarded	2006
9.	Drought Assessment using Remote Sensing & GIS Techniques	Shiva Prakash P. H.	Awarded	2006
10.	Evaluation of Spectral Biophysical Parameters For a Few Agricultural Crops	N. Rama Rao	Awarded	2006
11.	Integrated Water Management Modelling in Urban Fringe using Remote Sensing & GIS	Mahesh Kumar	Awarded	2007
12.	Development of a High Resolution Gravimetric Geoid for Central	S. K. Singh	Awarded	2007
13.	Evaluation of spectral biophysical parameters for a few agricultural crops	Nidamanuri Rama Rao	Awarded	2008
14.	Multicriteria Based Route Alignment in Hilly Terrain Using GIS	K. Venkateshwarlu	Awarded	2008
15.	Development of a GIS based Health Information System	Rashmi Kandwal	Awarded	2011
16.	Landuse/Landcover Modelling Using Spatio-Temporal Satellite Images	S. Mondol	Awarded	2012
17.	Snowmelt Runoff Modelling Using Remote Sensing & GIS	Praveen Thakur	Awarded	2012
18.	Spatio-Temporal Ground Water Modeling in 3D Environment	Rajat Agarwal	Awarded	2015
19.	Automated Extraction of Various Types of Buildings from High Resolution Satellite Images Using Various Mathematical and Computational Techniques	Deepak Anand Vishnoi	Awarded	2015
20.	Development of an Approach for Building Detection from Satellite Images	Susheela Dahiya	Awarded	2016
21.	Development of a 3D model for studying water-ice from Chandrayaan Data	Deepak Singh	Awarded	2017
22.	GIS based Optimization of Transport System using Genetic Algorithm	Amita Johar	Awarded	2017
23.	Object Identification from Texture based Satellite Images	Kuldeep	Awarded	2018
24.	Estimation of Sugarcane Crop Yield from Satellite Images	Amit Kumar Verma	Awarded	2018
25.	Predictive Approach to Retrieve Some Soil Landscape Parameters Using RS Tools	Gaurav Shukla	Awarded	2018
26.	Deep Learning Techniques for Automatic Extraction of Build-up areas using Satellite Data	Vijendra Singh Brahme	Awarded	2019
27.	Pavement Surface Condition Evaluation and Classification using Geospatial Tools.	Pradeep Kumar	Awarded	2019
28.	Pilgrim vehicle tracking and location based services using Remote Sensing and GIS	Tasgaonkar Pankaj Prakash	Awarded	2024
29.	Modelling of Urban Dynamics Using Urban Green Space and Multi-Sensor Data	Ravi Verma	Awarded	2024

Teaching Engagements

S. No.	Course Name	Course Code	Class Name	Semester & Year
1.	Geomatics Engineering-II	CEN-203	B. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2020-21
2.	Geomatics Engineering – II	CEN-203	B. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2023-24
3.	B. Tech. Project	CEN-400A	B. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2020-21
4.	Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing	CEN-513	M. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2023-24

Visits To Outside Institutions

S. No.	Visiting Institute	Purpose of Visit	Start Date	End Date
1.	Very large number of Technical / Research /National & International Institutions / Industries Etc.	Academic Activity	01/Jan/1982	31/Dec/2018

Special Lectures Delivered

S. No.	Title	Organisation	Date
1.	A large number of invited lectures delivered in Institutions/Organisations and Conferences.	So many National & International Reputed Institutions.
2.	Technology on Smart Transportation	CIDC and Engineering Council of India
3.	Sustainable Transport for Smart Cities, AICTE Sponsored Short Term Training Programme on Sustainable Transport for Smart Cities	St. Peter’s College of Engineering and Technology Avadi, Chennai
4.	Smart Cities – Role of Govt., Citizens and ICT	EDUROUTES
5.	Role of Geoinformatics in Dam Site Selection, Short Course on Hydraulic and Structural Design of Dams	IIT Roorkee
6.	Sustainable Smart City, Faculty Development Programme on Sustainable Smart City	Institute of Technology, Chennai
7.	Innovation in Engineering & Technology	Vikas Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow
8.	Together we build Nation	K. N. Modi University, Newai
9.	Innovations in Engineering	K. N. Modi University, Modinagar
10.	Application of Geospatial technology in Smart City	Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai
11.	Advances in Surveying equipment and job opportunities	Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
12.	e-Education and Governance	6th Conference on Good Governance, Y S Research Foundation of Public Administration, Dehradun
13.	Urban environment and their Signature extraction through satellite image analysis	Francis Xavier Engineering College Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu State
14.	Applications of Geospatial Technologies in Water Resource Engineering, Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineerin	NIT Surat	24-Dec-2021
15.	Geotechnical Investigation In Civil Engineering	Vishwavidyalaya Engineering College, Lakhanpur, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh	21-Apr-2021

Conference Publication

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Varshney, N., Garg, P. K. and Ahmad, Z. (2015). Morphological Study of River Mandakini Using Geospatial Tools. International Conference HYDRO 2015. Place: Roorkee, India

Garg, P. K. (2015). Application of Wavelet Based Texture Features in Context of Object Extraction from High Resolution Satellite Images. 36th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing. Place: Manila, Philippines

Garg, P. K. (2015). Assessment of Geophysical Parameters through GNSS Reflectometry and future prospects in India with IRNSS. 8th workshop on GNSS reflectometry (GNSS+R 2015). Place: Potsdam

Garg, P. K. (2015). The Role of Satellite Derived Data for Flood Inundation Mapping using GIS. 10th International conference on Geo-information for Disaster Management. Place: La Grande Motte, France

Garg, P. K. (2015). Development of an approach for Municipal GIS. 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (ICCEUP'15). Place: Dubai

Garg, P. K. (2016). A literature survey of fuzzy Based soft classification technique and uncertainty Estimation. Fifth International Conference on System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) 2016. Place: TMU, Moradabad

Garg, P. K. (2016). Random Forests applied as a soil spatial predictive model across an aridic to ustic area of Indian States. 35th International Geological Congress (IGC 2016), Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). Place: Convention Square,Cape Town, South Africa

Garg, P. K. (2016). Classification of LISS IV Imagery Using Textural Based Decision Tree Methods. 23rd ISPRS Congress 2016, Organized by Int. Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Place: Prague Czech Republic

Garg, P. K. (2016). Geospatial Techniques for Flood Inundation Mapping. IGARSS-2016. Place: Beijing, China

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Garg, P. K. (2016). A Review of Various Crop Yield Forecasting Models. National Conference on “Role of Civil Engineering in National Buildings, RCNB-2016. Place: Quantum Global Campus, Roorkee, India

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Garg, P. K. (2016). Study of Land Cover Classes and Retrieval of Leaf Area Index Using Landsat 8 OLI data. 10th SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium on “Remote Sensing for Weather and Climate Monitoring. Place: SPIE, New Delhi

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Garg, P. K. (2017). A Review: Contextual based Hybrid Classifiers in Satellite Imagery. 6th International Conference on System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends, SMART–2017. Place: TMU, Moradabad

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Garg, P. K. (2017). Performance analysis of FCM and PCM soft classifiers for satellite data.. Sixth International Conference on System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) 2017.

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Garg, P. K. (2017). Performance analysis of FCM and PCM soft classifiers for satellite data,. Sixth International Conference on System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) 2017.

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Garg, P. K. (2017). Deep Learning Techniques for Remote Sensing Studies: A Review. 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS-2017): Space Applications: Touching Human Lives. Place: New Delhi

16.

Garg, P. K. (2017). Spectral analysis of EO-1 Hyperion data for snow grain size mapping in a part of Himalayan region. 38th ACRS Conference on Remote Sensing. Place: New Delhi

17.

Garg, P. K. (2017). Site Suitability Analysis for Locating Optimal Mobile Towers in Uttarakhand Using GIS. 38th ACRS Conference on Remote Sensing. Place: New Delhi

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Garg, P. K. (2017). Analysis of a Lunar Crater using LOLA and SAR data of LRO for water-ice. ICMARS-2017. Place: Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

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Garg, P. K. (2017). Study of Lunar Surface Using LOLA and SAR Data of LRO. 2nd International conference on Microwaves, Antenna, Propagation and Remote Sensing. Place: Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

20.

Garg, P. K. (2017). Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Analysis using Dimensionality Reduction Techniques. 18th ESRI India User Conference. Place: New Delhi

21.

Garg, P. K. (2017). Optimization Models for Selecting Base Station Sites for Cellular Network Planning: A Review. NGCT Conference.

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Garg, P. K. (2018). Accuracy of Classified Imagery without using Reference Data Set. 7th International Conference on System Modeling & Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) 2018. Place: TMU, Moradabad

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Garg, P. K. (2018). Evaluation of Covariates to Understand the Interactive Feedback Between Soil-Landscape Parameter and Changes of Soil- Climatic Conditions. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8518348. Place: Valencia

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Verma, R., Subrahmanya, K. and Garg, P. K. (2019). Modeling of Residential Neighbourhood Green Index using Urban Green Space. International Conference on Future Cities. Place: IIT Roorkee.

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2019). Remote Sensing Based Building Indexing Approach in Relation to Urban Heat Island,. 53rd International Conference of Architectural Science Association. Place: Architecture and Planning Department, IIT Roorkee

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Shukla, G., Garg, R. D., P. K., Srivastava, H. S., Kumar, P. and Mohanty, B. (2019). Exploring the capabilities of Sentinel-2 data in vegetation health/stress mapping. IGARSS 2019. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898052 Place: Yokohama, Japan

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Garg, P. K., Rangnekar, S. N., Kumar, N. and Pal, K. (2019). Digital Pedagogy: Experimentation, Exploration and Innovation. Ist International Conference on Digital Pedagogy. Place: AICTE, New Delhi

28.

Singha, S., Mishra, K., Garg, R. D., Garg, P. K., Badenko, V., Min Liu, and Fedotov, A. (2019). Assimilation of airborne laser survey data into multi-criteria decision model for landslide investigatory mapping in Eel River basin. AGU Fall Meeting. Place: San Francisco

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Mondal, M. S., sharma, N., Kappas, M. and Garg, P. K. (2019). CA Markov Modeling of Land Use Land Cover Dynamics and Sensitivity Analysis to Identify Sensitive Parameter(S). The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. DOI: 5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-723-2019 Place: The Netherlands

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2019). Remote sensing based building indexing approach in relation to urban heat island. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Architectural Science Association. Page No: 665-674

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2020). Multi-Temporal Land Use Patterns In Lucknow, India: 41st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing. ACRS 2020: Remote Sensing For Digital Economy. Place: Asian Association on Remote Sensing Page No: 984-993

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2020). Urban Green Space and Land Surface Temperature in Lucknow. AGUFM 2020. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10506196.1

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2021). Spatio-temporal land use change analysis in directional zones of Lucknow city, India. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-M-3-2021-181-2021 Page No: 181-186

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2021). Multi-Temporal LU/LC Correlation in Lucknow City, India. IGARSS 2021, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Page No: 6665-6668

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2021). ANALYSIS OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL URBAN DYNAMICS IN 11 SMART CITIES OF UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-557-2021, Place: (Virtual) Safranbolu, Turkey

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2021). Analysing Spatio-temporal change in LST over 11 Smart Cities of Uttar Pradesh, India. AGU 2021 Fall Meeting. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10510362.1 Place: New Orleans, LA and virtual

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Verma, R., Zawadzka, J., and Garg, P. K. (2022). INSIGHTS TO 11 SMART CITIES OF UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA THROUGH SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS OF LAND USE/ LAND COVER. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W3-2022-253-2022 Page No: 253–260

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Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2022). Usage of drones as a resilience tool using deep learning. 35th National Convention of Aerospace Engineers (NCAE) hosted by IEI (India) in association with AeSI and PEC. Place: Chandigarh Page No: 8-12

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Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2023). Power Management of Drones. International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems in Geomatics (UASG) 2021: Wings 4 Sustainability, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19309-5_37 Place: Roorkee Page No: 555-569

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Verma, R. and Garg, P. K. (2023). Identifying spatial attributes of LULC classes affecting urban area LST in districts of India. Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments VIII. DOI: 10.1117/12.2685083 Place: Amsterdam, Netherlands Page No: 22-28

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Kundal, S., Chowdhury, A., Bhardwaj, A., Garg, P. K. and Mishra, V. (2023). GeoBIA-based semi-automated landslide detection using UAS data: A case study of Uttarakhand Himalayas. SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2023. DOI: 10.1117/12.2666770 Place: Yokohama, Japan Page No: 321-329

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Vohra, D. S., Garg, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2024). Drones as an Alternate Communication System during Calamities. International Conference on Developments and Applications of Geomatics (DEVA 2022), Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8568-5_9 Place: Warangal, India

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