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Sanjay Kumar Ghosh

Professor, Civil Engineering Department · Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Portrait of Sanjay Kumar Ghosh
Institution
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Country
India
Qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K.

Areas of interest

Inter disciplinary application of Remote Sensing and GIS with special emphasis in Water resources planning, surface water management, irrigation practises, landuse and landcover changes and its impact on climate change, urban growth pattern and its assessment, land surface temperature, Crop and Forest Biomass Estimation, Carbon emission due crop stubble burning and forest fire, algorithm development

Biography

Professor Sanjay Kumar Ghosh, has more than 37 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Remote Sensing and GIS with inter disciplinary application to Water resources planning, surface water management, irrigation practises, landuse and landcover changes and its impact on climate change, urban growth pattern and its assessment, land surface temperature, Crop and Forest Biomass Estimation, Carbon emission due crop stubble burning and forest fire, algorithm development in image processing.

He has 72 international and National research paper in high impact factor journal with nearly 800 citations overall. He has guided 21 Ph.D. theses, 9 are in progress and 70 Master’s theses and has carried out 14 research projects out of which 4 are international collaborative in nature. He has published 2 books in the area of Remote Sensing & GIS and Digital Image Processing. He is an expert panel members for many Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India Committees and has acted as expert committee member of NBA and Chairman, Expert Committee of National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and also AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), Govt. of India for more 100 institutions.

Research Project

Development of Building attributes using high resolution remote sensing data set

Hydrological & Topographical Survey of Taj Expressway.

Key Publications/Reports

Joshi, N., Ojha, C. S. P., Sharma, P. K., and Madramootoo, C. A. (2015). “Application of non-equilibrium fracture matrix model in simulating reactive contaminant transport through fractured porous media.” Water Resources Research, 51(1), 390-408

Upreti, H. and Ojha, C.S.P. (2017), “Estimation of relative humidity and dew point temperature using limited meteorological data”, ASCE Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 143(9), 05017005

C. Sharma, C.S.P. Ojha, A.K. Shukla, Q.B.Pham, N.T.T. Linh, C.M.Fai, H.H.Loc and T.D.Dung (2019) Modified Approach to reduce GCM Bias in Downscaled Precipitation: A study in Ganga River Basin, Water, 11(10), 2097, pp 1-31, https://doi.org/10.3390/w11102097

S. Swetapadma and C.S.P. Ojha (2020). Selection of a basin‑scale model for flood frequency analysis in Mahanadi river basin, India, Natural Hazards, April, Springer, pp 1-34, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03936-7

C. Sharma, and C.S.P.Ojha (2020), Modified Signal-to-Noise Ratio Method for Early Detection of Climate Change, ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, in press, pp. 1-15