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Prof. Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Position: Professor
Special Degree Programs (SDP)
Country of Origin: India
Email: nitinkt@ait.ac.th


Ext: 6392

Academic Affiliation

Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
School of Engineering and Technology

Areas of Expertise (Keywords)

Digital Photogrammetry
GIS
Ocean
Remote Sensing, Environment
Socio-economic Impact

Education

Doctor of Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India 1995.
Master of Technology, Remote Sensing, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India 1987
Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Warangal, 1984

Professional Experience

January 1999 term, Visiting Faculty, SERD/STAR
1995 -present : Assistant Professor, I.I.T. Kanpur, India.
1989-95 : Senior Lecturer, I.I.T. Kanpur, India
1988-89 Lecturer, M.N.R.E.C. Allahabad, India

Present Research Involvements

Environmental pollution monitoring of surface water bodies using remote sensing
Remote sensing and GIS applications in Landslide studies
Sea Depth mapping using remote sensing
Digital photogrammetry and DTM
Morphological Image Processing applications in remote sensing
Applications of GIS in socio-economic impact assessment in Land Aqcuisition
Soil properties investigations using remote sensing

Doctoral Research Supervision

Mapping soil properties using remote sensing
Applications of Remote Sensing Data in Marine applications

Selected Publications

Tripathi, N.K. and Venkobachar, C., 1992 "Pollution Monitoring of Small River Streams using Remote Sensing Techniques", National Natural Resource Management Systems, Nov. 1992, NNRMS(B)-16, Indian Space Research Organization.
Srivastava, Ajay, Tripathi, Nitin and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1996, "Mapping Ground Water Salinity using IRS - 1B LISS-II Data and GIS", International Journal of Remote Sensing., September, 1997
Tripathi, N. K., Venkobachar, C., Singh, R. K. and Singh, S.P., "Monitoring the pollution of river Ganga by Tanneries using the Multiband Ground Truth Radiometer", ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,1998, 53, pp 204-216.
Srivastava, A., Tripathi, N.K. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., "Basement topography and Acquifer geometry around Ken graben in Banda District, U.P., India", International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted for publication by February 1999).
Tripathi, N.K., Siddiqi, M.U. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., "Lineament enhancement using morphological image processing", International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted for publication by April 1999).
Tripathi, N.K. and Rajan, E.G., 1992, "High-throughput Cellular Logic Array Processing of Remotely Sensed Imageries", Proc. International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Feb. 1992, Hyderabad, pp. 437-441.
Tripathi, N.K. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1992, "Feature Extraction from Remotely Sensed Data using Modified Homomorphic Filtering Approach", Proc. 13th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Oct. 1992, Mongolia, Vol. I, H-1-5 to H-1-6.
Tripathi, N.K. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1992, "Geomorphological feature extraction using adaptive high pass filtering - A case study", The world space congress, Washington, DC, USA, Aug., 1992, 296.
Tripathi, N.K., Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1993, "Image Classification using Artificial Neural Networks and Supervised Classifiers: A Comparative Assessment", Proc. XIV Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, October 1993, Tehran, Iran.
Tripathi, N.K., Venkobachar, C. and Manish K., 1993, "Monitoring Suspended Solids in Narrow Surface Streams using Portable Radiometer", Proc. of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Aug 17-21, Tokyo, Vol. II, 703-705.
Tripathi, N.K. and Tripathi, A., 1993, "Feature extraction from multispectral digital images using artificial neural networks and Bayesian classifier", Proc.1993 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'93), VOL. II,(IEEE), Aug., 1993, Tokyo, Japan, 905-907.
Tripathi, N. K. and Kant, A., 1994, "Estimation of Soil Properties using Remote Sensing Techniques", Proceedings of International Conference of Remote Sensing and GIS, Hyderabad, Dec., 1994, pp. 278 - 282.
Srivastava, Ajay, Tripathi, N.K. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1996, "Hydrogeological Investigations in Gangetic Basin using Remote Sensing and Basement DEM - A case study", Proc. of 17th Asian Conference in Remote Sensing, Nov., 1996, Colombo, Sri Lanka., J-2-1 to J-2-6
Tripathi, N.K.,Gokhale, K.V.G.K. and Siddiqui, M.U., 1997, "Design of directional morphological image transforms for lineament extraction from remotely sensed images", International Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS / GPS, June 18 -23, 1997, Hyderabad, India, pp 565 - 569.
Tripathi, N.K., Brijesh K. Rai, and Praveen Dwivedi, 1997, "Spatial Modelling of Soil Alkalinityin GIS ENVIRONMENT using IRS Data", Proc. of 18th Asian Conference in Remote Sensing, October, 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp A-8-1 to A-8-6.
Tripathi, N.K., B. K. Rai, and V. Bharadwaj, 1997, Proc. of ISPRS Workshop on Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for Sustainable Development, November, 1997, Hyderabad, India.

Books

Remote Sensing in Geosciences, Anmol Publishers, India, 1998.

Memberships/Credentials

Memberships Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Indian society of Technical Education
Institution of Engineers (India)
Indian Society of Geomatics
American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Awards And Recognition NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP, From 1979 to 1984
DAE YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD - 1994 (Dept. of Atomic Energy, India)
AICTE CAREER AWARD FOR YOUNG TEACHERS - 1997, (All India Council For Technical Education)