Dr. Nitin K. Tripathi Postal Address: Street Address: Associate Professor P.O. Box 4 Km. 42 Paholyothin Highway Tel: (66-2) 524-6392 Remote Sensing and GIS Klong Luang Klong Luang Fax: (66-2) 524-5597 School of Engineering and Pathumthani 12120 Pathumthani 12120 E-mail [email protected] Technology Thailand http://www.rsgis.ait.ac.th
To: Professor S. Kumar 7 October 2013 VPAA From: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi,
Associate Professor, RS&GIS / SET
SUBJECT: Appeal in response to the letter from VPAA reg. my application for Promotion to the rank of full promotion
REFERENCE: VPAA/ AAF-78/ 2013/07-18/078
I have received the Memo from you informing the feedback from the School of Engineering and Technology (memo dated 11 September 2012). I am thankful to you for giving me a chance to explain and provide my input and perception and the concern of SPC about some points raised in SPC recommendation to VPAA. Mostly the evaluation is positive but there are few concerns as well. I would like to submit my reply and appeal in response to the School Evaluation with more facts and updated CV. Kindly find my appeal to consider my case in totality in the light of additional information provided and my updated CV. With best regards,
Nitin K. Tripathi
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Appeal to the VPAA on the concerns raised in School Promotion Committee report by Nitin Kumar Tripathi, PhD Associate Professor, Remote Sensing and GIS FoS / School of Engineering and Technology Asian Institute of Technology I have applied for my promotion to the rank of Professor in the year 2009. Process is extended due to various reasons including floods. Therefore, my CV has gone through several updates. I have submitted my updated CVs few times to the school informing new developments/ activities. I have received your Memo dated 19 September 2013 that recommendation from the school is not positive. In P&P: PA 1-‐2-‐2 (page 2/6) it is mentioned that in case of negative recommendation from the school, “Upon negative recommendation, the Dean communicates the result to the candidate, along with specific recommendations that will help the candidate progress towards promotion”. I would like to put on records that I have never received any such communication from the Dean-‐SET. On the other hand, I was informed verbally around September 2012 that recommendations from the school were alright and forwarded to the VPAA. Now, I am informed about the some points of concerns raised and also the result of voting by 4 committee members that it was For: 2 and Against: 2. I think voting was not negative but as stated not positive either. I would like to submit my explanation to the VPAA regarding points of concerns which have caused this neutral voting and also my updated CV. I will request the VPAA to consider my application in totality and special nature of my research which is largely application based and interdisciplinary in nature. Hereby, I will submit my explanation to all the points of concern and also a research profile and summary sheet related to it. I hope my response will be able to make my achievements much clear to the honorouable members of the FEP. My reply is in three parts: a) Part A: SET Promotion Committee’s Assessment/ Recommendation and my reply b) Part B: Highlights of achievements c) Part C: Updated CV
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Part A SET Promotion Committee’s Assessment/ Recommendation and my reply Teaching Assessment is positive as mentioned in the summary. I have been teaching more than the normal teaching load. In last 4 years, I have developed some new courses: Advance Application Development, Spatial Analysis Methods, Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Mitigation, Health GIS. I am very happy that most of the students have appreciated. I was very happy to develop the course on health GIS which is unique in this region. I also invited speaker from Faculty of Medicince and IRD France to offer variety from their field experience of using GIS for health. Course turned out to be really engaing and intersting. Assessment report suggests to look into the feedback from students and improve. I am thankful to the committee. Comments from students which are constructive relate to “adding new topics” and also make the question paper different than earlier years. Some students wanted to be exposed to more softwares. Some of the students who take my introductory course on GIS “Geographic Information Systems” are from other field of studies and they normally do not take my other courses in next semester. They feel that more advance topics or high technology developments should be included. Here, I also would like to state that I teach 4-‐5 courses in a year. Advance topics are included in the courses “Advance Application Development”, “Spatial Analysis Methods”, “Health GIS” and “Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Mitigation”. Some of the advance topics are being taught by my colleagues which I can not include in my curriculum. However, in every class, I start with some new development that is taking place or showcase a new application. However, I am sensitive to the suggestions by the students and have already taken the steps and added few new topics such as “Geprocessing”, “Cartographic Design”, “Ranking Techniques”. I also, add few topics as information every time when I see some new application or advancement in technology. I have also added two more topics in the miniproject that I give to students and made them free to choose even a new topic to carry out the miniproject. Policy of AIT on flexibility to modify curriculum is really very useful and has allowed me to incorporate few additions which have been very satisfying to me. Students have access to past many years of question papers therefore they feel the similarity. This job was challenging, but I have tried to address this issue as well and changed the question design, pattern and style. From 2013 August semester, I have added some exercises using open source software and Arc GIS 10.1. Some comments are very encouraging where students from other fields have appreciated the course and expressed that they have learned a lot. I am very happy that now many of the students who take GIS courses from other fields are using GIS in their
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Masters and Doctoral thesis work. I am also serving as committee members for some of them. Pedagogical Development Assessment is positive. Thank you. I have added 9 new courses and phased out few courses. I was Director for Academic
Quality and Accreditation for 2 years. During that time, I conducted “Research Bench
Marking Workshop” with the help of Elsevier. It went very well with hands on and
discussion sessions to monitor publication profile and link to other researchers working
on similar issues. I have co-‐authored a paper on “Writing and Publishing a Research
Paper in Professional Journals: A Systematic Approach”. This was intended to support
my students and other researchers. In addition, I try to attend workshops organised by
peer space agencies and other mapping organisations to improve my own knowledge. I
attended “Data Democracy Workshop on Climate Change” organised by Council of Earth
Observation Systems (CEOS) and Space agency of Thailand (GISTDA). These workshops
and programs offer knowledge on recent developments which I use for supporting my
research and course material.
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Publication Assessment is positive. I have added a summary sheet of latest citation/h-‐index and other accomplishments showing strength of my research work and its impact in terms of awards/ recognition and invitation to deliver Keynote speech and be part of reputed international committees (Part-‐B). Some key indicators are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Key research indicators
I am first author in 9 papers. These are normally from earlier years in IIT Kanpur, India (year 1989-‐2000) when I had no PhD student and these papers largely spinned off from my own PhD Thesis, projects and partly from Master Thesis guided. My research area is application of GIS/ Remote Sensing which demands a team research interm of database development, field work, laboratory testing, questionnaire survey and expertise in application areas. I normally work with my post-‐graduate students and many colleagues for my research work and follow the normal practice to include their names based on their involvement. Therefore, my papers will have two or more names. I have launched peer reviewed Asian Journal of Geoinformatics (AJG) in the year 2001 and later changed it into International Journal of Geoinformatics (IJG) in the year 2005. I did it to have a high quality journal in the field of Geoinformatics from Asian Soil and also thought that this will improve the research enviroenment and give visibility to AIT in the world where I am working. I formed an Association of Geoinformation Technology (AgIT) to support this journal. I am happy to inform that there are more than 600 members comprising of individual and several key organisations. I wish to inform that It was inducted in several databases and from 2011 into the Scopus. Now, it has SNIP from SCIMago as 0.275. This journal is listed as approved journal for publication in several universities including Mahidol University. Being Editor-‐in-‐Chief consumes lot of time but finally gives me satisfaction that I am cruising towards my mission to have a high quality journal in Geoinformatics from Asian soil.
PhD 21 Masters 93
Scopus H-‐Index 11 Citations 354
Google Scholar H-‐Index 15 Citations 652
Best Paper Awards DAE Young Scientist Award-‐ Govt of India OCU Distinguished Scientist Award
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I have published 8 papers in AJG/ IJG during 2001-‐2009. Later, I was informed that I will not get credit for publishing in Int. Journal of Geoinformatics for contract renewal and promotion therefore I have stopped publishing since 2009. Some committee members opined that Dr. Tripathi’s research work appears to be not focussed, which was also observed by one of the reviewers who commented that “he may need to be mentored to concentrate on developing a sharper focus for his research.” Reply This may be the concern from researchers working in science and technology development. They have to work in a narrow and deep research direction to explore something new. They are recognised by a close research fraternity working on same area. I was also doing the same to large extent in my earlier days in IIT Kanpur, India when I was working mainly on image processing, classification of remote sensing images and very little on application. I must state that my impact (H-‐index and Citations) from papers published that time till the year 1990-‐1999 was not high. Later, I joined AIT in the year 2000 and started teaching and conducting research in GIS/ GPS/ Remote sensing and its application. My citations and H-‐Index have started ever since rising. We have significant large number of PhD and Master students. We need to do research alongwith them. I also research and publish papers with project associates for my sponsored projects. This allows me very little time to do my personal research. Till date, I have published 71 papers in International journals. This includes 18 papers orginating from Master Thesis, 42 from PhD thesis, 9 from projects and 2 from personal research with colleagues from other institutions. However, I am thankful to committee and reviewer for this observation which are really important for basic science researchers and technology developers but not for the application scientists and researchers like me. I am presenting my research profile as follows to explain the why I am working in application research but trying to focus on fewer important critical issues such as impact of climate change on environemnt and its influence on human health.
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Research Profile Geoinformation Technology provides tools of Remote Sensing, GIS, Global Positioning Systems, and Photogrammetry. I use these tools for “application research” in the fields of environment, agriculture and health. This offers me tremendous scope to interact with experts from various fields and apply these tools for monitoring water quality in surface and sub-‐surface waterbodies, bathymetry, coastal erosion, land suitability for various crops and crop-‐substitution modeling, spatial/ temporal disease surveillance/ hotspot mapping, and other health related applications such as emergency response for trauma assistance. Geoinformation technology has been going through rapid advancements in terms of telecommunication, satellites, sensors, global navigation satellite systems, and powerful desktop/ laptop/ smartphones. I have also tried my best to keep track with these advancement in my last 25 years of academic and research work and developed indoor positioning systems using wLAN, RFID and Bluetooth and related it with supply chain and goods tracking. Currently, I am involved in an important and interesting research related to monitoring the errors in GPS signals due to ionospheric scintillations caused by extreme weather events and solar flares. This is very critical for safe air traffic navigation and also early prediction of extreme weather events. My research focus is on exploration of the impact of climate change on Earth environment and also on the relationship of environmental, climatic and social factors on human health using existing tools of geoinformation technology. In the line with the criteria, the committee agrees that candidate to the rank of Professor must demonstrate that their research achievements have had a recognised impact on the advancement of the knowledge in their subject area. Committee appreciates Dr. Tripathi’s Scopus Citation. Two reviewers commented on less citation in ISI web of science. Reply I have summarised in following sections my recognition / awards and impacts made in scientific community and research institutions. I am happy that my research contributions have made significant recognition in terms of Scopus and Google Scholar metrics as shown below. I am also in several advisory committees from National Space Agencies of Thailand and Pakistan. I have also participated in Japanese Aerospace Agency technical team on Japanese GNSS – QZSS which was organised in UN-‐ESCAP. UN-‐ESCAP has also invited me on several occassions to attend technical advisory meeting related to georeferenced information system for Disaster Risk Reduction. I have recently
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contributed in 2013 in theme study report of UN-‐ESCAP by providing some indicator maps for “Building Resilience to major Disasters and Economic Crises”. I have been invited by Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography, National University of Singapore, Osaka City University, United Group of Institutions India, IIIT Allahabad, India as Keynote Speaker or Distinguished Scientist which manifests my achievements and impacts in the field of application of geoinformation technology. Following section provides a summary and details are included in the updated CV. ISI web of science is mainly for science journals and has a limited coverage, therefore it may have less citations for my work. Journals related to my work are covered mainly by Scopus and Google Scholar. I have been publishing in high impact journals after I joined AIT therefore I hope citations and H-‐Index will rise further. Some of my papers have been highly downloaded or cited (Table in Part –B). I would like to add that my work related to Health GIS (started since 2005): disease surveillance/ emrgency response system/ online health information system is appreciated highly in this region. This topic is also my passion. I have been invited as keynote speaker on this topic in three International conferences. Student Research Supervision Satisfactory I have guided 21 PhD , 93 Masters and 2 Diploma students. Research evaluation is satisfactory. I always motivate them to do systematic research so that the work can be publishable. Sponsored Projects Satisfactory I have conducted several sponsored projects. Around 10 of them are major. Part-‐B lists these 10 projects which are significant in view of funding, exciting research opportunities and also multi-‐country joint research. Institute Service and Others Appreciated. I have some more updates: Worked as Acting Dean (1 July to 30 September 2013) and currently working as the Leader-‐ICT since November 2012. I accepted being the Dean on 1 July, in a critical period, when I was needed to work extra-‐hard to boost the admissions. I did my best in a limited time span and was able to increase the number of Post Graduate admissions to a much higher level than previous year. I was also satisfied that I could expedite contract renewal/ recruitment cases. I did several things such as new MoUs, initiated participatory approach in administration by
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starting the SET faculty meetings, initiating a group to boost number of projects, developing an online security surveillance system etc. Three months were very satisfying as I could achieve several things. Since last time when I updated my CV, I have conducted more trainings, workshops (projects) and conferences. I was also task force member for Flood Protection Dyke after floods. Dyke is now ready. There are several other institute and school wide committees and activties that I am involved like security surveillance systems, grants from Indian Government and unified masters and bachelor program. In past, I have worked in various committees or Institute services such as ADRC (4 Years), Faculty Relation Committee, Director-‐ Academic Quality and Accreditation, Coordinator-‐RS&GIS, Associate Dean –SET, Leader-‐ICT, and Actg. Dean. Financial Productivity Satisfactory I was able to generate cumulative surplus during last 4 years (2009-‐2012) and also in this year January-‐June 2013.
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Part B This section provides a summary of Key Achievments and highlights.
Summary of Publication/ Research Achievements Publication Metrics H-‐index Citations
(excluding self citations) Date Accessed
Scopus 11 354 October 1, 2013 Google Scholar 15 652 October 1, 2013 Important Achievements 1. Doctoral Thesis Guided
21
2. Masters Thesis Guided
93
3. Book
1
4. Book Chapters
11
5. Papers in Refereed International Journal
65
6 Papers in Refereed National Journal
6
7 Papers in International Conferences
54
8 External Examiner for PhD Thesis for other countries
32
9 Editor-‐in-‐Chief, International Journal of Geoinformatics
1
10. Reviewer for Journals
21
11. Training Courses Organised
34
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Awards Award Year Organisation/ Association DAE Young Scientist Award 1995 The Dept. of Atomic Energy, India AICTE Career Award for Young Teacher 1996
All India Council for Technical Education, India
OCU Distinguished Scientist Award
2007 Osaka City University, Japan
Best Paper Award
Year
3rd Map Asia 2004, Beijing, China
2004
25th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2004, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2004
Int. Conference on Information Science and Applications, Beijing, China,
2006
Int. Conference on Health GIS 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
2008
Int. Conference on GIT4NDM 2009, Bangkok, Thailand
2009
Int. Conference on HealthGIS 2009, Hyderabad, India,
2009
33rd Asian conference on remote sensing, Pattaya, Thailand, 26-‐30 November 2012
2012
Highly Cited/ Downloaded Papers Award Year Organisation/ Association Daniel KW, Tripathi, NK, Honda K, 2003, “Artificial neural network analysis of laboratory and in situ spectra for the estimation of macronutrients in soils of Lop Buri (Thailand)”. Aust. J. Soil Res. Vol. 41, 47-‐59.
2003 Cited (as of 1 October 2013) in Scopus: 32 Google Scholar : 47
Kanchana N. and Nitin Kumar Tripathi, 2005. An information value based analysis of physical and climatic factors affecting dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever incidence, International Journal of Health Geographics, 4(13), 1-‐13.
2005 Ranked 8th Top 25 downloaded paper in Science Direct (June-‐ August) Cited (as of 1 October 2013) in Scopus: 46 Google Scholar : 73
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Muttitanon W., and Tripathi N.K., 2005. “Land use/ land cover changes in the coastal zone of Ban Don Bay, Thailand using Landsat 5 TM data”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 26, No. 11, 2311-‐2323. Taylor and Francis. (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
2005 Cited (as of 1 October 2013) in Scopus: 36 Google Scholar : 71
Nakarin Chaikaew, Nitin K Tripathi and Marc Souris, 2009. Exploring spatial patterns and hotspots of diarrhea in Chiang Mai, Thailand, International Journal of Health Geographics. Vol. 8, No. 36, 1-‐10.
2009 Cited (as of 1 October 2013) in Scopus: 13 Google Scholar : 25
Keynote Addresses / Invited Papers (Since 2010) 2010 Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
Seoul, Korea 2010 Keynote, Forefront and Challenges of Geospatial Technologies for
Environmental and Disaster Management in Southeast Asia, 27th November, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand: JAXA, GISTDA, RNUS
2012 Int. Conf. on Health Sciences, Thai Traditional Alternative Medicine, 21-‐23 Nov. 2012, Mahasarakham, Thailand
2013 The International Congress on Advances in Citizen, Cyberspace & Environment Safety and Security (ACCESS) from the 5-‐7 June, 2013, National University of Singapore
2013 12th South East Asian Survey Congress (SEASC), June, 2013. Manila, Philippines
2013 IEEE Conf. on ICCCM-‐2013, 3-‐4 August 2013, Allahabad, India
Selected research grants and sponsored projects Year Title-‐ Project Remark 1999 Development of GIS based decision
support system for UP Government, UP Planning Department, India
Consulting Project Sponsored by Uttar Pradesh Province, India to create geospatial database and decision support for 5 givernment Departments for 5 districts (USD 250, 000 USD)
2003 Study of carrying capacity in Kandaleru Creek: A coastal creek in Andhra Pradesh, India. 2003.
Joint Project by AIT-‐NACA-‐MPEDA -‐ created mp of shrimp farm maps, determined carrying capacity and
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. prepared zoning maps. (Baht 600, 000)
2005 Real-‐time spatial data logging Device for Open GIS., 2005, RTG-‐AIT Report.
Project funded by RTG Developed Wireless Datalogger For online mapping using GPRS (1 million Baht)
2007 Water Storage Development Planning for Flood Water Retention for Dry Season Requirements in Chi River Basin, 2007, RTG-‐AIT Report.
Funded by RTG Project. Worked with Faculty from Khon Kaen University, Thailand and created map for flood water retention sites (960,000 baht)
2008 Development of marine and coastal resources database of Thailand
UNEP Sponoserd project-‐ by DMRC Thailand Pis: Dr K. Ikejima and Dr. Nitin Tripathi Mapping Mangroves after tsunami (Baht 2,460, 000)
2007-‐09
Business Logistics Management using Integrated RFID and InternetGIS Year: 2007-‐2008
Sponsor: CaraCAD Services Co., Ltd., Thailand and RTG Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi Developed Emergency Response system for Trauma Assistance for accident victims using RFID/ GPS tracking of patients, equipment and vehicle. ( Baht 1.8 Million)
2008-‐09
SEAGAL Project, 2010, European Union, FP7 Project
Sponsored by Galileo Space Advisory, European Commission Amount: Euro 76, 000 Worked with Italy, France, Spain, Vietnam Counterparts on new GNSS System from Europe
2011 RISA Project
Monitoring of Ionospheric Scintillations using GPS and Total electron Content by VHF. The SCINDA Station wass
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established in RS&GIS FoS under this project. Two PhD and one Master studenst are working using the data from this project. Sponsored by AORD USA and Boston College, USD 47, 500 (for year 2011-‐14)
2012 SEAGAL Project stage 2, ISMB Italy Second phase sponsored by ISMB Italy, Euro 7500
Member of Committees in International Organisations 2010 External Evaluator MS Degree Program for Institute of Space Technology,
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission (SUPARCO), Pakistan
2012 Member of Expert Group of QZSS – GNSS application development team of JAXA-‐ Japanese Aerospace Agency. Participated in expert group meetings in ESCAP in March 2012.
2013 External Evaluator of MSc (Geoinformatics) programme structure and curriculum for TERI University, New Delhi, India
2013 Member-‐Technical Working Group-‐ Thailand Earth Observation System Satellite, Phase -‐2, Geoinformatics and Space Technology development Agency (GISTDA) Thailand
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Development of New Research Facilities I am very happy that I could develop in year 2010 : SCINDA Research Station in AIT and in Chiang Mai Univeristy with the help of AORD and Boston College. This is unique facility in Southeast Asia to research on Ionosphere Scintillations and their effect on global navigation system accuracy and also relate them with natural extreme events. I also developed the research facility of Kinematic Global Positioning System in year 2011 for centimeter level accuracy mapping in kinematic mode. This is rare in institutions in this regions and also opened many application research areas for students. We also procured in 2009 and developed facilities for terrestrial remote sensing using multi-‐spectro-‐photometer for spectral analysis of earth features. This facility is widely used in teaching and research by my colleagues and me. Recently in 2013, Boston College, USA and USAF have agreed to provide complete set of magnetometer and datalogger and computer system to process the data for augmenting the extreme events monitoring in Thailand and adjoining regions.
Publications in International Journals related to recent focus research areas
Since 2005, I have published 21 papers out of total of 39 papers in International Journals in the area of “Human Health Applications” and “Climate Change and its Impact on Agriculture and Water”. In future, I will like to focus more on these two areas as well. Human Health Applications:
1. Kanchana N. and Nitin Kumar Tripathi, 2005. An information value based analysis of physical and climatic factors affecting dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever incidence, International Journal of Health Geographics, 4(13), 1-‐13. (BioMed Central, ISSN 1476-‐072X, Impact Factor: 2.55)
2. Onprapha P., Tripathi, N. K., and Dutta, J. 2005. Air pollution monitoring and GIS modeling: a new use of nanotechnology based solid state gas sensors, Journal of Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Vol. 6, 251-‐255. (Elsevier, ISSN: 1468-‐6996, Impact Factor: 3.22)
3. Nakarin Chaikaew, Nitin K Tripathi and Marc Souris, 2009. Exploring spatial
patterns and hotspots of diarrhea in Chiang Mai, Thailand, International Journal
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of Health Geographics. Vol. 8, No. 36, 1-‐10. (BioMed Central, ISSN 1476-‐072X, Impact Factor: 2.34)
4. Jeefo, Phisarn, Tripathi, N.K., Souris, M. and Phonekeo, V., 2009. Exploring
Geospatial Factors Contributing to Malaria Prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. International Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 21-‐28. (Geoinformatics International, ISSN: 1686-‐6576, SNIP 0.27)
5. Diallo, M.B.C., A. J. Anceno, B. Tawatsupa, Tripathi, N.K., Shipin, O.V., 2009. A
GIS-‐based analysis of the fate of waste-‐related pathogens, Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum and E.coli in a tropical canal network. Journal of Water and Health, 7, 1, 133-‐143 (Published by International Water Association Publishing in collaboration with the World Health Organization. (WHO, ISSN: 1477-‐8920, Impact Factor 1.164).
6. Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M. (2011). Spatio-‐Temporal Diffusion Pattern and Hotspot Detection of Dengue in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 8(1), 51-‐74. (MDPI, ISSN: 1660-‐4601, Impact Factor: 0.515)
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-‐4601/8/1/51/
7. Sarfraz, M.S., Tripathi, N.K., Tipdecho, T., Thongbu, T., Kerdthong, P., Souris, M. 2012. Analyzing the spatio-‐temporal relationship between dengue vector larval density and land-‐use using factor analysis and spatial ring mapping, BMC Public Health, 12: 853. (9 October 2012) (ISSN: Impact Factor: 2.08)
8. Yongyoot Witheetrirong, Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Taravudh Tipdecho and Preeda Parkpian, 2011. Estimation of the Effect of Soil Texture on Nitrate-‐Nitrogen Content in Groundwater Using Optical Remote Sensing, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 8(8), 3416-‐3436, http://www.mdpi.com/1660-‐4601/8/8/3416/ (MDPI, ISSN: 1660-‐4601, Impact factor: 0.515)
9. Nakapan, S., Tripathi, N.K., Tipdecho, T., Souris, M., 2012. Spatial diffusion of
influenza outbreak-‐related climate factors in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9 (11), pp. 3824-‐ 3842. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-‐4601/8/8/3416/ (MDPI, ISSN: 1660-‐4601, Impact factor: 2.197)
10. Asif, M., Nitin K. Tripathi and Shabaz Ahmed, 2013. Towards Near Real Time Public Health Surveillance (A Decision Support System for Public Health Surveillance), International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 61, No. 21, 45-‐50, January 2013. Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA. BibTeX, DOI > 10.5120/10216-‐5083, online ISSN 0975-‐8887, Impact Factor: 0.83)
11. Md. Moqbul Hossain, Krishna Neaupane, Nitin Kumar Tripathi and Mongkut
Piantanakulchai, 2013. Prediction of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination using
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Geographic Information System and Artificial Neural Network. Environment Asia, Vol.6, No. 12, p. 38-‐44. (www.tshe.org/EA) (ISSN 1906-‐1714, Impact Factor 0.25)
12. Muhammad Sarfraz, Nitin Tripathi and Asanobu Kitamoto. 2013. Near real-‐time
characterization of urban environments: A holistic approach for monitoring dengue fever risk areasg, Journal of Digital Earth, (ID: 786144 DOI:10.1080/17538947.2013.786144, Impact Factor: 1.80)
Climate Change and its Impact on Agriculture and Water
1. Hung, N. Q., Babel, M. S., and Tripathi, N.K., 2008. An artificial neural network
model for rainfall forecasting in Bangkok, Thailand, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 5, 183-‐218. (European Geosciences Union, ISSN: 1027-‐5606, Impact Factor: 2.967)
2. Chalermchai, P., and Tripathi, N.K., 2008, AHP based Flood Water Retention
Planning in the Chi River Basin, Thailand, GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2008, 45, No. 3, p. 1–13. (Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1548-‐1603, Impact Factor: 1.433)
3. Hossain, M. Z., Tripathi, N.K., and Gallardo, W., 2008., Land Use Dynamics in a
Marine Protected Area System in Lower Andaman Coast of Thailand , 1990 -‐ 2005, Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1082-‐1095, (CEFR, ISSN 1551-‐5036, Impact Factor: 0.679)
4. C. Pawattana, N. K. Tripathi and S. Weesakul, 2008. Water Storage Development
by Floodwater Retention in the Chi River Basin, Thailand, Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development. Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 2008, PP 45-‐62. (CIRDAP, ISSN 1018-‐5291, Impact Factor: NA).
5. Srisurat, S., Routray, J.K., Preeda, P., and Tripathi, N.K., 2010. Methane gas
estimation by remote sensing modeling from irrigated paddy fields in Thailand”. International J. of Applied Environmental Sciences. 5(6)2010, pp.813-‐830. (Research India Pub, ISSN: 0973-‐6077, Impact factor: NA)
6. Plangoen, P.; Babel, M.S.; Clemente, R.S.; Shrestha, S.; Tripathi, N.K. Simulating
the Impact of Future Land Use and Climate Change on Soil Erosion and Deposition in the Mae Nam Nan Sub-‐Catchment, Thailand. Sustainability, 5, No. 8, 3244-‐3274. doi:10.3390/su5083244. www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability,
7. Diep Thi Hong Nguyena, Nitin Kumar Tripathia, Wenresti G. Gallardob and Taravudh Tipdecho, 2013. Coastal and Marine Ecological Changes and Fish Cage Culture Development in Phu Quoc, Vietnam (2001 to 2011), Geocarto International, Taylor and Francis. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2013.798358 (Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1010-‐6049, Impact Factor: 0.575)
8. Mishra, Bhogendra, Mukand S. Babel and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2013. Analysis of
climatic variability and snow cover in the Kaligandaki River Basin, Himalaya,
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Nepal, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI 10.1007/s00704-‐013-‐0966-‐1, Springer, ISSN: 0177-‐798X (Impact Factor: 1.759)
9. Reda AG, Tripathi NK, Soni P, Tipdecho T, Phalke A, 2013. Temporal climate trend of Ping Basin of Thailand and implications for Mekong Region, J Earth Sci Clim Change, Vol.4, Issue 4. 4:146, http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-‐7617.1000146 doi: 10.4172/2157-‐7617.1000146. (Impact Factor: 1.0)
In addition to my statements about my teaching and research, I would like to express that Institute community service is very important part for any faculty to make a good environment for research and academics and also supporting the institute towards sustainability. I am committed to this mission and have been working in one or other capacity to support FoS, School and Institute. Some of the committees and adminitrative duties that I took part and tried to contribute 100% with utmost sincereity are listed as follows: Significant institute committee service 1.
Field of Study
• Coordinator, Remote Sensing and GIS FoS (2009 onwards)
• Launched New Program “Online Masters and Prof. Diploma in Geoinformatics” in association with University of Salzburg, Austria
• Established 2-‐stage Masters Program in Vietnam (2003-‐2005),
• MoA signed for 5 yr Unified Bachelor-‐Masters Program in Geoinformatics Engineering jointly with Chiang Mai University, Thailand and Asian Institute of Technology, (19 Oct. 2010)
18-‐19
2. School
• SAT Forum Secretary in 2000, 2001, 2002 and
2003 • Dean’s Faculty Meeting Secretary 2003, 2004 • Member Task Force for Organising International
Summer Camp for Future Engineering Leaders on Climate Change, 2008
• Incharge, Promotion Activity in India • Representative, Iran Academic Cooperation • Curriculum Review of SET FoS -‐2009 • Initiated and got several Memoranda of
Understanding signed between Asian Institute of Technology and Other Organisations such as
• University of Salzburg, Austria for Joint Online Masters and Professional Diploma in GIScience (2007 for 5 years)
• University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia for Joint research, student exchange and faculty exchange (2009 for 5 years)
• P&T Vietnam for launching 2-‐stage Masters Program in Ho Chi Minh (2005-‐2007)
3. Institute • Member, ADRC, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 • Member, Steering Committee, ITCZM FoS • Election Officer for Representatives of Faculty Relations
Committee • Member, Task Force on Consulting and Sponsored
Research • Member, Task Force, Iran Cooperation • Member, Task Force, Malaysia Cooperation • Indian Faculty Representative, Indian Grant and
Secondment • Director, UNIGIS Online Masters Program • Director, Academic Quality Assurance and Accreditation,
Asian Institute of Technology. • Coordinator, Remote Sensing and GIS FoS • Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Technology
(since 1 February 2011) • Leader-‐ICT (1 Nov. 2013 onwards) • Actg. Dean, (1 July-‐ 30 September 2013)
1
19-‐19
Collaborating with other schools and Colleagues I have developed and taught courses for ITCZM program (SERD) and also for DPMM program. I have worked with many esteemed colleagues from SET/ SERD/ SOM in student thesis supervision. Their support is duly recognised and they are with me in the research papers published. I am also thankful that many of my colleagues include me in their thesis committee and we have a chance to publish together. Details of all the points expressed in Part A and Part B are included in Part C (Full Curriculum with appendix). With most sincere regards for your kind reading. CERTIFICATION: I, the undersigned, certify that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, these biodata correctly describe myself, my qualifications and my experience. I understand that any willful misstatement described herein may lead to my disqualification.
Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, 7 October 2013
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Curriculum Vitae Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Associate Professor Asian Institute of Technology
Thailand
Updated in October 2013
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Curriculum Vitae I. Biographical Data A. Name of candidate Nitin Kumar Tripathi B. Education
DEGREE YEAR INSTITUTION B. Tech. (Civil Engineering) 1984 National Institute of Technology,
Warangal, India M. Tech. (Remote Sensing) 1987 Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.)
Kanpur, India PhD (Remote Sensing and GIS) 1995 Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.)
Kanpur, India C. Positions held
Total Experience: 25 Years 7 Months (Since March 1988 till October 2013)
Year Organisation Designation Duties 2001 – onwards
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Associate Professor Teaching and Research
2000 – 01 Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Assistant Professor Teaching and Research
1999 (Jan – June)
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Visiting Faculty Teaching and Research
1994-99 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Assistant Professor Teaching and Research
1989-94 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Lecturer Teaching and Research
1988-89 National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India
Lecturer Teaching and Research
D. Special honors and awards
DAE YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD - 1994
The Dept. of Atomic Energy, India conferred this award.
OUTSTANDING TUTOR OF ENGINEERING GRAPHICS - 1996
The Director, I.I.T. Kanpur has conferred this certificate.
AICTE CAREER AWARD FOR YOUNG TEACHER - 1996
All India Council for Technical Education, India has conferred this
award based on teaching and research contribution in last five
years.
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP 1977
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By Government of Uttar Pradesh, India BEST PAPER AWARD, 3rd Map Asia 2004, Beijing, China, 2004. BEST PAPER AWARD, 25th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2004,
Chiang Mai, Thailand. BEST PAPER AWARD, Int. Conference on Information Science and
Applications, Beijing, China, 2006 Marquis Who’s Who in Asia, 2006 Marquis Who’s Who in World 2007 – (25th Silver Anniversary Edition) (The best known, most trusted biographical resource on global achievers) Ranked 8th Top 25 downloaded paper in Science Direct (June-August 2006) (Pl. see Appendix-D)
OCU Distinguished Scientist Award, 2007. Osaka City University, Japan award is in recognition of scientific contribution and includes a fellowship to visit OCU for 3 months and conduct joint-research and other academic activities with the scientists of OCU.
BEST PAPER AWARD, 2008. Int. Conference on Health GIS 2008, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008
BEST PAPER AWARD, 2009. Int. Conference on GIT4NDM, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009 BEST PAPER AWARD, 2009. Int. Conference on HealthGIS 2009, Hyderabad, India, 2009 BEST POSTER PAPER AWARD, 2010. Int. Conference on GIT4NDM 2010, Chiangmai, Thailand, 2010 BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD, 2010. Int. Conference on GIT4NDM 2010, Chiangmai, Thailand, 2010 BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD, 2012. Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2012, Pattaya, Thailand, 2012
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II. Pedagogy A. Experience as a teacher
1. Courses taught, including courses taught at partner institutions. Student enrollment in each course taught.
Courses taught
In AIT, Thailand
Courses Description Average Number of Students
Statistics in Remote Sensing and GIS
Statistical and mathematical methods in remote sensing and GIS
10
Principles of GIS Basic principles in GIS
50
Geographic Information Systems
Principles of GIS/ GPS and basic analysis
50
Advanced Technologies in GIS
Advance topics in GIS including programming
35
Remote Sensing and GIS for Coastal Zone Management
Introduction to remote sensing and GIS and its application in the coastal zone
25
GIS in Urban Planning and Management
Introduction to remote sensing and GIS and its application in urban mapping and management
10
Spatial Analysis Methods in GIS
New course developed to incorporate advance analysis methods in GIS (2009)
20
Advance Application Development
New Course developed with special emphasis on practical implementation of theoretical principles for diverse application using state of the art software and programming interface (2009)
20
Disaster Management using Remote Sensing & GIS
New course developed for basic skill development of remote sensing and GIS for Disaster Management application (2009)
25
Health GIS New Course developed for application of GIS in healthcare and disease surveillance
22
In IIT, Kanpur, India (1989-99)
a. Survey and Photogrammetry, b. Principles of Remote Sensing c. Remote Sensing for Civil Engineers d. Engineering Graphics
In NIT, Allahabad (1988-89)
e. Basic Survey and Building Materials f. Advance Surveying
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g. Introduction to Remote Sensing
B. Evaluation of Teaching
1. Copy of student teaching evaluation reports (Attached) 2. Copy of student research supervision evaluation reports. 3. Copies of peer teaching evaluation reports.
C. Pedagogical Development
1. Publications: textbooks, laboratory manuals, articles in journals oriented toward pedagogy.
a. Textbooks Remote Sensing in Geosciences
Authors: Nitin Kumar Tripathi and V.N. Bajpai Publisher: Anmol Publications, New Delhi
Year: 1998
b. Laboratory instruction manuals • Engineering Graphics • Principles of GIS • Advanced GIS • Integrated Coastal Zone Management using Remote Sensing and GIS
b. Articles in journals oriented towards teaching
Singh, S.N. and Tripathi, N.K., 2001, Writing and Publishing a Research Paper in Professional Journals: A Systematic Approach”, Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 87-90.
2. Grants related to pedagogy and curriculum development. No 3. Initiation of new courses, degree programs, curricula (indicate the period delivered)
New courses developed in AIT § Statistics in Remote Sensing and GIS, Developed and offered during 1999
§ Principles of GIS, Developed and offered during 2000-2003
§ Advanced Technologies in GIS, Developed and offered during 2002-2008
§ Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for Coastal Zone Management -
Developed and offered during 2002-2004
§ GIS in Urban Planning and Management, Developed and offered during 2002
§ Geographic Information Systems, Developed and offered during 2004-2009
§ Spatial Analysis Methods – Offered in January 2009
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§ Advance Application Development - Offered in January 2009
§ Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Planning and Management – August 2009,
August 2010
Curriculum Developed Curriculum for RS&GIS Field of Study, AIT for Semester System
Revised course curriculum for Advance GIS Course (2008)
Revised curriculum for all the courses taught by me in January 2009 (launched
two new courses)
4. Development and introduction of innovative pedagogical techniques.
• Developed solid models for demonstration of Engineering Drawing, Indian Institute of Technology
• Interactive Laboratory Hands on Exercises – Institute wide GIS course, AIT, Thailand
• Interactive Laboratory Hands on Exercises – Advanced GIS course, AIT, Thailand
• Interactive Laboratory Hands on Exercises – Remote Sensing and GIS for Coastal Zone Management, AIT, Thailand
• Use of paper-less assignment submission by students and correction by
instructor
• Arrangement of expert lectures for GIS and Advance GIS classes.
• Conducted Internet Video Conference in association with Kyoto University, Japan.
• Use of Web Blog for interaction with PhD Students as a supervision aid
and seamless information bridge,
• Arranged workshop in association with Osaka City University in 2007/ 2008/ 2009 on Open Source GIS Software for students of GIS course taught by me. This gave wider and new incite in emerging issues related to open source software and resources.
• Developed mapAIT GIS group on LinkedIN and Twitter to link all AIT
GIS alumni for information and knowledge sharing. AIT students, alumni are joining this group and membership is everincreasing.
5. Participation in workshops, short courses, etc. relating to improvement of teaching.
Organised Research Evaluation Workshop, April 2009 (Jointly with
Elsevier , Scopus) for the faculty and research staff members of Asian Institute of Technology. (90 people attended).
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III. Student Research Supervision
A. Theses supervised. Number of master and doctoral students graduated each year, on which the faculty served as committee chair or co-chair.
3.A.1 Summary of student research supervision at AIT (August 2001 – June 2013)
At I.I.T. Kanpur, India
M. Tech. 14 (Completed)
At AIT, Thailand M. Tech. 79 (Completed); PhD 21 (Completed);
Total Masters thesis completed: 93
Total PhD thesis completed: 21
(List of PhD and Masters Students supervised: Please see the Appendix-B)
COMPLETED IN-PROGRESS
Doctoral 21 15 Master’s 79 10
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3B. Doctoral students. Doctoral Students completed: 21
1. Daniel Kassahun Waktola, 2003, “Analysis of the spectral signature of soils and prediction of nutrients through remote sensing and GIS based models” (Degree awarded in 2003)
• Daniel KW, Tripathi, NK, Honda K, 2003, “Artificial neural network
analysis of laboratory and in situ spectra for the estimation of
macronutrients in soils of Lop Buri (Thailand)”. Aust. J. Soil Res. Vol.
41, 47-59.
• Daniel K .W., Tripathi, NK, and Honda K, 2004, “Analysis of the
VNIR (400-1100 nm) spectral signatures for predicting soil organic
matter on the tropical soils of Thailand”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 25, No. 3,
• Daniel K .W., Tripathi, NK, and Honda K, 2006, Development of
Spectral Band Cloning Techniques for Estimating Soil Nutrients,
International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 27, Nos. 18-20, 4213-
4225
• Daniel, K., Tripathi, N.K., Honda, K. and Apisit, E., 2001, Analysis of
Field Spectral Reflectance pattern of soil fertility parameters”, 22nd
Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, November 5-9, Singapore, Vol.
1, pp 742-747.
2. Sutat Dansagoonpon, 2005. Crop Substitution Modeling using Remote Sensing and GIS, 2006 (Degree awarded in 2006)
• Sutat Dansagoonpon and Nitin K Tripathi, 2006. Modeling Site
Suitability of Oil Palm Plantations in Southern Thailand, GIScience &
Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 3, 1-6.
• Sutat, D. and Tripathi, N.K., 2004.A multiagent evaluation for crops
suitability modelling using GIS. Proc. 4th Int. conf. on Asian Federation
of Information Technology (AFITA). Bangkok. 589-595.
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3. Kanchana Nakhapakorn, 2006. Influence of Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors using GIS in Dengue Epidemic in Thailand (Degree awarded in 2006)
• Kanchana N. and Nitin Kumar Tripathi, 2005. An information value
based analysis of physical and climatic factors affecting dengue fever
and dengue haemorrhagic fever incidence, International Journal of
Health Geographics, 4(13), 1-13.
• Tripathi, Nitin K., and Kanchana, N ., 2005. Finding spatial
relationship of environmental and climatic factors with dengue
epidemic using GIS. Proc. Int. Symposium on Area Informatics 2005,
24 March 2005, AIT, Thailand, 69-74.
4. Ornprapa Pummakamchana, 2006. Real Time Air Pollution Monitoring in Urban Environment using Internet GIS (Degree awarded in 2006)
• Onprapha P., Tripathi, N.K., and Dutta, J. 2005. Air pollution
monitoring and GIS modeling: a new use of nanotechnology based
solid state gas sensors, Journal of Science and Technology of Advanced
Materials, Elsevier, Vol. 6, 251-255.
• Pummakarnchana, O. and Tripathi, N.K., 2006. A real time air
pollution monitoring using portable semiconducting gas sensors and
Internet GIS. Trans. on Information Science and Applications. Vol. 3,
Issue 7, ISSN 1790-0832, 1273-1280.
5. Roongrasamee Boondao, 2006. An Integrated Internet Geographic Information System for Crime Control (Degree awarded in 2006) • Roongrasamee, B., and Tripathi N.K. 2006. Social Implications and Challenges
of E-Business, Book Editor: Dr. Feng Li, Idea Group Publishing. PA 17033-1240,
USA (Book Chapter)
• Roongrasamee, B., Vatcharaporn E., Tripathi N.K, 2004, Telocate: A wireless
GIS for Crime control in e-Policing, WSEAS Transactions on Information
Science and Applications, Volume 1, No. 9, 1365-71. • Roongrasamee B., Vatcharaporn E., Tripathi N.K., 2004, A Bayesian network
model for analysis of the factors affecting crime risk. WSEAS Transactions on Issue 9, Volume 3, No. 9, 1895-1900.
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6. Chalermchai Pawatna, 2008. Remote Sensing and GIS Based Sustainable
Water Management Modeling in Chi River Basin.
(Degree Awarded in 2008)
• Chalermchai, P., and Tripathi, N.K., 2008, AHP based Flood Water
Retention Planning in the Chi River Basin, Thailand, GIScience & Remote
Sensing, 2008, 45, No. 3, p. 1–13.
• C. Pawattana, N. K. Tripathi and S. Weesakul, 2008. Water Storage
Development by Floodwater Retention in the Chi River Basin,
Thailand, Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development. Vol. XVIII, No.
2, 2008, ISSN 1018-5291, PP 45-62.
• Chalermchai, P. and N. K. Tripathi. 2007. Siting Potential Water Harvesting
Zones using Remote Sensing and GIS: a case study in Chi River Basin,
Thailand. Regional Conference on Environmental Planning and Management
Issues in Souhteast Asian Countries, Hanoi Agricultural University, Hanoi:
Vietnam, 6-8 March 20007. P. 6.
• Chalermchai, P., N. K. Tripathi, and S. Weesakul 2007. Application of DEM
and hydrodynamic modeling in GIS environment for floodwater retention in
the Chi River Basin, Thailand. 2nd International Conference of GIS/RS in
Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment (ICGRHWE’07), Guangzhou:
China, 7-9 September. P. 12.
• Chalermchai, P., N. K. Tripathi, and S. Weesakul 2007. Floodwater
retention planning using GIS and hydrodynamic model: a case study for the
Chi River Basin, Thailand. Symposium on Water Resource Management &
Planning for the 21st Century, University of Regina, United Nations
Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok: Thailand, 21-23 November. P. 9.
7. Anujit Vansarochana, 2008. A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach for
Mudslide Modeling in Mae Cham Basin, Thailand
(Degree Awarded in 2008)
• Anujit Vansarochana, Nitin. K. Tripathi and Roberto Clemente, 2008.
Finding Appropriate Interpolation Techniques for Topographic Surface
Generation for Mudslide Risk Zonation, Geocarto International, Taylor &
Francis. United Kingdom. 81.
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• Vansarochana, A., Tripathi, N. K., and Clemente, R. 2004. "Synthetic
Interpolative Facies Mapping Model for Landslide Susceptibility Map".
Proceedings of the 25th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Vol. I, 612-
617, ISBN: 974-229-698-7.
• Anujit Vansarochana, Nitin. K. Tripathi, and Roberto Clemente, 2009.
“Investigating Mudslide Phenomenon in Mae Cham Basin, Thailand”. Proc.
of 2nd Int. Conference on Geoinformation Technology for Natural Disaster
Management (GIT4NDM), Bangkok, Thailand. P.206-209.
8. Wutjanun Muttitanon, 2008. An Indoor Positioning System (IPS) using
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
(Degree Awarded in 2008)
• Muttitanon, W., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M. 2008. An Indoor Positioning
System (IPS) using Grid Model, Journal of Computer Science, 3 (12): 907-
913; ISSN 1549-3636 • Muttitanon, W., and Tripathi, N.K., 2007. An Indoor Position System (IPS)
Using Wireless LAN (WLAN), Proc. of Location Asia 2007 Conference,
Hong Kong, 2007
9. Dang Quang Tinh, 2009. Use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information
Systems For Management and Protection Against Extreme Floods in the Red River
Basin Of Vietnam
(Degree Awarded in 2009)
• Dang Quang Tinh , Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Marshall L. Silver, 2009. Coping
with Extreme Floods using Karst Caves in Limestone Areas in the Red River
Basin, Viet Nam, Journal of Disaster Advances, October, Vol. 2, Number 4,
5-14.
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10. Zakir Hossain, 2009. Ecological and socio-economic assessment of Thai
Andaman Coast for designing a marine protected area network
(Degree Awarded in December 2009)
• Hossain, Z. M., Tripathi, N.K., and Wutjanun, M., 2002, “Determining
Shrimp Farming Development using IRS-data at Kandleru creek, India”, GIM
International, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp 68-71.
• Hossain, M.Z., Tripathi, N.K. and Phillips M.J., 2005. Environmental
Carrying Capacity for Sustainable Shrimp Farming – an assessment of
Kandaleru Creek in Andhra Pradesh, India. Aquaculture Compendium
– CAB International, Wallingford, OXON, OX10 8DE, UK.
• Hossain, M. Z., Tripathi, N.K., and Gallardo, W., 2008., Land Use
Dynamics Due to Natural and Human Induced Factors in a Marine
Protected Area System During 1976 - 2005 in Lower Andaman Coast
of Thailand, Journal of Coastal Research.
• Hossain, M. Z. and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2009. Monitoring Near-shore
and Insular Marine Protected Area Network using Landsat, ASTER
and IKONOS Images, Int J of Imaging, Vol. 3, No. S10, pp 58-75,
(CESER Publications , ISSN 0974-0627).
11. Suwisa Mahasandana, 2009. Spectral Modelling for Marine Water Quality
Estimation in Bangpakong Estuary, Thailand
(Degree Awarded in December 2009)
• Suwisa M., Tripathi, N. K. and Honda, K., 2009. Sea surface
multispectral index model for estimating chlorophyll-a of productive
coastal waters in Thailand, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.
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12. Nakarin Chaikaew, 2009. Disease Patterns, Hotspots and Diffusion in Chiang
Mai, Thailand
(Degree Awarded in December 2009)
• Nakarin Chaikaew, Nitin K Tripathi and Marc Souris, 2009. Exploring
spatial patterns and hotspots of diarrhea in Chiang Mai, Thailand,
International Journal of Health Geographics. Vol. 8, No. 36, 1-10.
• Nakarin, C., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2008. Point pattern
analysis of Malaria Incidence in Chiang Mai, Thailand,
Geoinformation Technology for Better Health, Published by:
Geoinformatics International, ISBN: 978-974-1369-768, P. 137-140.
• Nakarin Chaikaew and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2008. Exploring spatial and
spatio-temporal clusters of malaria in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Proc. of
GIS Ideas Conf., Dec. 4-5, 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam.
13. Nguyen Quang Hung, 2010. Rainfall forecasting and a real time
hydrologic information system for Bangkok, Thailand
(Degree Awarded in 2010)
• N. Q. Hung, M. S. Babel, S. Weesakul, and N. K. Tripathi, 2010. An
artificial neural network model for rainfall forecasting in Bangkok,
Thailand., Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Vol. 8, No. 36, 1-10.
14. Phaisarn Jeefoo, 2011. Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Risk Zonation of
Dengue Fever (DF), Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF), and Dengue Shock
Syndrome (DSS) in Chachoengsao, Thailand
(Degree in 2011)
• Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M. (2011). Spatio-Temporal
Diffusion Pattern and Hotspot Detection of Dengue in Chachoengsao
Province, Thailand. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 8(1), 51-74.
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/8/1/51/
• Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Shoichiro Hara, 2008. Analytical
Hierarchy Process Modeling of Malaria Risk Zone in Kanchanaburi,
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Thailand; Proc. International Symposium on Geoinformatics for
Spatial Infrastructure Development in Earth and Allied Sciences 2008.
GIS Ideas2008, 3-5 December 2008; Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2008. Exploring Geospatial
Factors Contributing to Malaria Prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
In: Geoinformation Technology for Better Health, the 2nd
International Conference on HealthGIS 2008, 14-16 January, Bangkok,
Thailand.
• Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2009. Dengue Fever and
Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Risk Zonation in Thailand using
Analytical Hierarchy Process (APH). In: The 3rd International
Conference on HealthGIS 2009, 24-26 July, 2009, Hyderabad, India.
15. Hamid Mehmood, 2012. Real time Hybrid Positing System (HYPOS)
(Degree in January 2012)
• Hamid Mehmood, Nitin K. Tripathi and Taravudh Tipdecho,
Indoor Positioning System Using Artificial Neural Network,
Journal of Computer Science 6 (10): 1219-1225, 2010, ISSN
1549-3636 (IF = 0.8)
• Hamid Mehmood and Nitin K. Tripathi, Optimizing artificial
neural network-based indoor positioning system using genetic
algorithm, 2011, International Journal of Digital Earth
DOI:10.1080/17538947.2011.606337 (IF = 1.453)
• Hamid Mehmood, and Tripathi, N.K., 2013. Cascading
artificial neural networks optimized by genetic algorithms and
integrated with global navigation satellite system to offer
accurate ubiquitous positioning in urban environment,
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Ms. Ref. No.:
CEUS-D-11-00079R2, p 35-44, vol. 37, Acceptance Letter
Attached (Elsevier, ISSN 0198-9715, Impact Factor: 1.913)
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• Hamid Mehmood and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2009. Real Time Self
Mapping Hybrid Positioning System. GI_Forum, Ed. Dr. J.
Strobl and Dr. A. Kar., Published by Herbert Wichmann
Verlag, Heidelberg. Austria. Pages: 130-139
• Hamid Mehmood, Nitin K. Tripathi , Ubiquitous Positioning
for Location Based Services, Proceedings of Map Asia 2010,
26-28 July, 2010, Malaysia, Available at:
mapasia.org/2010/proceeding/pdf/137.pdf
16. Muhammad Asif, 2012. An OpenID Enabled and Secured Web GIS
Based Disease Reporting and Surveillance System
(Degree in July 2012)
• Asif, Muhammad and Nitin, Tripathi (2012). Evaluation of
OpenID-Based Double-Factor authentication for preventing
session hijacking in web applications. Selected for publication
in Journal of Computers Academy Publisher Finland, (JCP,
ISSN 1796-203X) 7(11), Impact Factor: 0.656)
• Asif, Muhammad, Nitin, Tripathi, Raphael, Duboz and M.S.
Sarfraz . Towards Near Real Time Public Health Surveillance
(A Decision Support System for Public Health Surveillance).
International journal of Information Technology and Decision
Making (IJIDM) Online ISSN: 1793-6845, SCI Impact factor
3.139 .
• Asif, M., Nitin K. Tripathi and Shabaz Ahmed, 2013.
Towards Near Real Time Public Health Surveillance -A
Decision Support System for Public Health Surveillance,
International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 61, No.
21, 45-50, January 2013. Published by Foundation of Computer
Science, New York, USA. BibTeX, DOI >
• Asif, Muhammad, Nitin, Tripathi and Kifayat, Ullah. Efficient
Use of Health Surveillance Data for Near Real Time Public
Health Surveillance. Accepted for publication in The 3rd
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International Conference on Internet Technology and
Applications (iTAP 2012) Wuhan China. IEEE Catalog
Number: CFP1214I-CDR.
• Asif, Muhammad, Nitin, Tripathi and Kifayat, Ullah. 2012. A
Two Factor Based Anti Phishing Method in OpenID. Human-
centric Computing and Information Sciences(HCIS) ISSN:
2192-1962, Springer Open Access Journal [Accepted with
minor revision].
• Asif, Muhammad, Kifayat, Ullah and Nitin, Tripathi. Efficient
Use of Health Surveillance Data for Near Real Time Public
Health Surveillance. Accepted for publication in The 3rd
International Conference on Internet Technology and
Applications (iTAP 2012) Wuhan China. IEEE Computer
Society Catalog Number: CFP1214I-CDR.
• Asif, Muhammad, Nitin, Tripathi, Kifayat, Ullah and M.S.
Sarfraz (2012). A web based Disaster Management-Mitigation
Framework Using Information and Communication
Technologies and Open Source Software. Journal of
Information Technology [Accepted in June 2012].
• Asif, Muhammad, Nitin, Tripathi and M.S. Sarfraz.
Information And Communication Technology (ICT) Based
Disaster Management-Mitigation Framework Using Smart
Phone”, 3rd International Conference on Geoinformation
Technology for Natural Disaster Management & Rehabilitation
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
17. Yongyoot, W. 2012. Geospatial Analysis of the Influence of Soil Texture
and Land Use on Nitrate-Nitrogen Concentration in Groundwater in Nakhon
Pathom Province, Thailand
(Degree in December 2012)
• Yongyoot Witheetrirong, Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Taravudh
Tipdecho and Preeda Parkpian, 2011. Estimation of the Effect
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of Soil Texture on Nitrate-Nitrogen Content in Groundwater
Using Optical Remote Sensing, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public
Health, 8(8), 3416-3436, http://www.mdpi.com/1660-
4601/8/8/3416/ (MDPI, ISSN: 1660-4601, Impact factor:
0.515)
18. Sarfaraz, M. 2012. Influence of Urban and Peri-Urban Habitat Dynamics
on Dengue Vector Larval Density and its Epidemic Implications: A
Geoinformatics Based Holistic Analysis for Dengue Risk Zonation
(Degree in December 2012)
• Sarfraz, M.S., Tripathi, N.K., Tipdecho, T., Thongbu, T.,
Kerdthong, P., Souris, M. 2012. Analyzing the spatio-temporal
relationship between dengue vector larval density and land-use
using factor analysis and spatial ring mapping, BMC Public
Health, p. 853. Article in Press.
• Muhammad Sarfraz, Nitin Tripathi and Asanobu Kitamoto.
2013. Near real-time characterization of urban environments: A
holistic approach for monitoring dengue fever risk areasg,
Journal of Digital Earth, (ID: 786144
DOI:10.1080/17538947.2013.786144)
19. Vasan, C. 2012. Visual Attention based Geographic Information System
using Open Geospatial Standards
(Degree in December 2012)
• Vasan Choengsa-ard, Nitin K. Tripathi and Paul Janecek,
2012. Effective Graphic Features for Multivariate Symbol
Mapping, The Cartographic Journal, (the British Cartography
Society, Maney Publisher, ISSN: 00087041, Online ISSN:
1743-2774, Impact Factor: 0.59)
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20. Naruemon, P. 2012. Geospatial land suitability modeling for biofuel crops
using Fuzzy AHP (Degree in December 2012)
• Naruemon Phongaksorn, Nitin K Tripathi, S. Kumar and
Peeyush Soni. 2012, Inter-Sensor Comparison between THEOS
and Landsat 5 TM Data in a Study of Two Crops Related to
Biofuel in Thailand, Remote Sensing, doi:10.3390/rs402000x.;
4 (2), 354-376 EISSN: 2072-4292, Impact Factor: 1.832)
www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing,
21. Supachai, N. 2013. Spatial analysis and association of Influenza
epidemics with climate factors in Chiang Mai province, Thailand” submitted
(Degree in May 2013)
• Nakapan, S., Tripathi, N.K., Tipdecho, T., Souris, M. Spatial
diffusion of influenza outbreak-related climate factors in
Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, 2012. International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health, 9 (11), pp. 3824-
3842.
• Supachai, N, and Tripathi, N.K., 2013. Comparing Analytical
Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy-Analytical Hierarchy Process
Approach for Influenza Risk Mapping in Chiang Mai Province,
Thailand, Archives Des Sciences Journal, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp
329-351. http://www.archiveofscience.com/
(ISSN: 1661-464X, Impact Factor: 0.47)
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IV. Research
A. Publications
Summary of publications
Total Publications: 142
Books 1 Chapters in a Book 11 Papers in Refereed International Journal 66 Papers in Refereed Regional/ National Journal
6
Papers In Conference Proceedings 58 Total 142
1. Books and monographs Book
1. Remote Sensing in Geosciences Authors: Nitin Kumar Tripathi and V.N. Bajpai Publisher: Anmol Publications, New Delhi
Year: 1998 2. Books chapters
2. Tripathi, N.K., 1988, Morphological Image Processing:
Introduction and Lineament Enhancement, “Remote
Sensing in Geosciences”, Anmol Publications, New
Delhi. 109-126.
3. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Farah Aziz and Ole Mark
(2003). To alleviate flood disasters by integrating the
hydrodynamic model MIKE 11 and Geographical
Information System. In: Eds. : Roy, P.S. ,
Geoinformatics for tropical assessment, Bishen Singh
Mahendra Pal Singh, Delhi, India pp 613 - 624.
4. Tripathi, N.K., and Vasan, C. 2005, “Open GIS based
wireless data logger for flood mitigation”, Role of water
sciences in trans-boundary river basin management, Ed.
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By Dr. S. Herath, Dr. Dusmantha Dutta, Dr. A.
Dasgupta. Published by: United Nations University,
Asian Institute of Technology, 75-80.
5. Roongrasamee, B., and Tripathi N.K. 2007. Electronic
Policing: A Framework for Crime Control and Citizen
Services, Social Implications and Challenges of E-
Business, Book Editor: Dr. Feng Li, Idea Group
Publishing. PA 17033-1240, USA
6. Sharma, A., Gupta, A., Tripathi, N.K., 2007, Urban
Sprawl Assessment an Entropy Approach, Geospatial
Crossraods@GI_Forum, Published by Herbert
Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg. Austria. ISBN: 978-3-
87907-461-7, P. 168-175.
7. Tripathi N.K. 2007. GIS Applications for
Environmental Planning and Management,
Environmental Management Tools, Editor: Dr. J.K.
Routray, Published: AIT, Thailand, ISBN: 978-974-
8257-43-3, P. 47-62.
8. Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2008.
Exploring geospatial factors contribution to Malaria
prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Geoinformation
Technology for Better Health, Published by:
Geoinformatics International, ISBN: 978-974-1369-768,
P. 130-133.
9. Nakarin, C., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2008.
Point pattern analysis of Malaria Incidence in Chiang
Mai, Thailand, Geoinformation Technology for Better
Health, Published by: Geoinformatics International,
ISBN: 978-974-1369-768, P. 137-140.
10. Mehmood, H. and Tripathi, N.K., 2009. Real Time
Self Mapping Hybrid Positioning System. Ed. Dr. J.
Strobl and Dr. A. Kar., Published by Herbert
Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg. Austria.
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11. Nitin Kumar Tripathi and Aung Phey Khant, 2010.
Landscape Biodiversity Characterization in Ecoregion 29
using MODIS, Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity
Modeling: Applications and Perspectives IGI Global
Publications. PA, USA.
12. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Nakarin Chaikaew and Phisan
Jeefoo, 2011. Impact of Climate Variability on Human
Health, Geoinformatics for Climate Change Studies. The
Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Press, New Delhi,
India, 259-281
3. Refereed journal articles 3.A Summary of journal articles published
Refereed International Journals
Refereed Regional Journals
66 6
3.B Articles in Refereed International journal
13. Srivastava, Ajay, Tripathi, Nitin and Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1997, “Mapping Ground Water Salinity using IRS - 1B LISS-II Data and GIS Techniques”, International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 18, No. 13, pp 2853 – 2862 Taylor and Francis. (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
14. Tripathi, N. K., Venkobachar, C., Singh, R. K. and Singh, S.P., 1998, “Monitoring the pollution of river Ganga by Tanneries using the Multiband Ground Truth Radiometer”, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 53, pp 204-216. (Elsevier, ISSN: 0924-2716 , Impact Factor: 2.158)
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15. Srivastava, A., Tripathi, N.K. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K.,
1999 “Basement topography and Aquifer geometry around
Ken Graben, India”, International Journal of Remote
Sensing. Vol. 20, No. 11, pp 2295 – 2305. Taylor and
Francis. (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
16. Tripathi, N.K., Siddiqi, M.U. and Gokhale, K.V.G.K.,
2000, “Directional morphological image transforms for lineament extraction from remotely sensed images”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 21, No. 17, pp 3281-3292. Taylor and Francis. (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
17. Tripathi, N.K. and Singh, P., 2000, “Integrated GIS and Remote Sensing Approach to Map Pollution in Upper Lake, Bhopal, India”, Geocarto International, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp 49-55. (Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1010-‐6049, Impact Factor: 0.575)
18. Tripathi, N.K. and Rao, A. M., 2001, “Investigation of
Erosion on Hope Island using IRS-1D LISS III Data”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp 883-888. Taylor and Francis. (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
19. Tripathi, N.K. and Rao, A. M., 2001, “Bathymetric Mapping in Kakinada Bay, India, using IRS-1D LISS-III Data”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp 1013-1025. (Taylor and Francis, ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
20. Patil, A.A., Annachchatre, A.P., and Tripathi, N.K., 2002, “Comparison of conventional and geo-spatial EIA- A shrimp farming case study”, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 22, 361-375. (Elsevier, ISSN: 0195-‐9255, Impact Factor 1.944).
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21. Rajapakse, R.M.S.S., Tripathi, N.K., and Honda, K., 2002,
“Spectral Characterization and LAI Modeling for the Tea (Camellia sinensis (L) O. Kuntze) Canopy”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 23, No. 18, 3569-3578. (Taylor and Francis, ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
22. Hossain, Z. M., Tripathi, N.K., and Wutjanun, M., 2002, “Determining Shrimp Farming Development using IRS-data at Kandleru creek, India”, GIM International, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp 68-71. (Geodetical Information & Trading Centre, ISSN: 1566-‐9076, Impact factor: 0.079)
23. Aziz, F. Tripathi, N.K., Mark, O., and Kusanagi, M., 2002 “Combining a hydrodynamic computer model with a GIS- Flood warning in Bangladesh”, GIM International, Vol. 16, No. 12, 77-79. (Geodetical Information & Trading Centre, ISSN: 1566-‐9076, Impact factor: 0.079)
24. Daniel KW, Tripathi, NK, Honda K, 2003, “Artificial neural network analysis of laboratory and in situ spectra for the estimation of macronutrients in soils of Lop Buri (Thailand)”. Aust. J. Soil Res. Vol. 41, 47-59. (CSIRO, Impact Factor 1.236).
25. Tripathi, NK and Patil, A. A., 2004. “Spectral
characterization of aquatic nutrients and water quality parameters in marine environment”, Geoinformatics. Japan Soc. of Geoinformatics, Vol. 15, No. 1. 25-31.
26. Daniel K .W., Tripathi, NK, and Honda K, 2004, “Analysis of the VNIR (400-1100 nm) spectral signatures for predicting soil organic matter on the tropical soils of Thailand”, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 25, No. 3, (Taylor and Francis, ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
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27. Tripathi, N.K., Rajapakse, S.S., and Honda, K., 2004. “Tea yield modeling based on satellite derived LAI”, Geocarto International, Vol. 19, No. 3, 51-54. (Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1010-‐6049, Impact Factor: 0.39)
28. Muttitanon W., and Tripathi N.K., 2005. “Land use/ land
cover changes in the coastal zone of Ban Don Bay, Thailand
using Landsat 5 TM data”, International Journal of Remote
Sensing, Vol. 26, No. 11, 2311-2323. Taylor and Francis.
(ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
29. Onprapha P., Tripathi, N.K., and Dutta, J. 2005. Air
pollution monitoring and GIS modeling: a new use of
nanotechnology based solid state gas sensors, Journal of
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Vol. 6,
251-255. (Elsevier, ISSN: 1468-‐6996, Impact Factor: 3.22)
30. Kanchana N. and Nitin Kumar Tripathi, 2005. An
information value based analysis of physical and climatic
factors affecting dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic
fever incidence, International Journal of Health
Geographics, 4(13), 1-13. (BioMed Central, ISSN 1476-
072X, Impact Factor: 2.34)
31. Hossain, M.Z., Tripathi, N.K. and Phillips M.J., 2005.
Environmental Carrying Capacity for Sustainable Shrimp
Farming – an assessment of Kandaleru Creek in Andhra
Pradesh, India. Aquaculture Compendium – CAB
International, Wallingford, OXON, OX10 8DE, UK.
32. Daroonwan Kamthonkiat, Kiyoshi Honda, Hugh Turral,
Nitin K. Tripathi, Vilas Wuwongse, 2005. Discrimination
of Irrigated and Rainfed Rice in a Tropical Agricultural
System using SPOT-VEGETATION NDVI and Rainfall
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Data:: International Journal of Remote Sensing , Vol. 26,
No. 12, pp.2527-2547. (Taylor and Francis, ISSN: 1366-‐
5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
33. Sutat Dansagoonpon and Nitin K Tripathi, 2006.
Modeling Site Suitability of Oil Palm Plantations in
Southern Thailand, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Vol. 43,
No. 3, 1-6. (Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1548-‐1603, Impact
Factor: 1.433)
34. Daniel K .W., Tripathi, NK, and Honda K, 2006,
Development of Spectral Band Cloning Techniques for
Estimating Soil Nutrients, International Journal of Remote
Sensing. Vol. 27, Nos. 18-20, 4213-4225. Taylor and
Francis. (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
35. Haque, A. A. M., H. P. W. Jayasuriya, V. M. Salokhe, N.
K. Tripathi, and P. Parkpian, (2007). “Assessment of
Influence and Inter-Relationships of Soil Properties in
Irrigated Rice Fields of Bangladesh by GIS and Factor
Analysis”. Agricultural Engineering International: The
CIGR E-journal. Manuscript LW 07 022, December, 2007.
(CIGR, ISSN: 1682-‐1130, Impact Factor: 0.17)
36. Muttitanon, W., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M. 2008. An
Indoor Positioning System (IPS) using Grid Model, Journal
of Computer Science, 3 (12): 907-913; (Science
Publications, ISSN: 1549-‐3636, Impact Factor: 0.814)
37. Hung, N. Q., Babel, M. S., and Tripathi, N.K., 2008. An
artificial neural network model for rainfall forecasting in
Bangkok, Thailand, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 5, 183-218.
(European Geosciences Union, ISSN: 1027-‐5606, Impact
Factor: 2.967)
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38. Chalermchai, P., and Tripathi, N.K., 2008, AHP based
Flood Water Retention Planning in the Chi River Basin,
Thailand, GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2008, 45, No. 3, p.
1–13. (Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1548-‐1603, Impact Factor:
1.433)
39. Hossain, M. Z., Tripathi, N.K., and Gallardo, W., 2008.,
Land Use Dynamics in a Marine Protected Area System in
Lower Andaman Coast of Thailand , 1990 - 2005, Journal
of Coastal Research, Vol. 25, No. 5, 1082-1095, (CEFR,
ISSN 1551-‐5036, Impact Factor: 0.679)
40. C. Pawattana, N. K. Tripathi and S. Weesakul, 2008.
Water Storage Development by Floodwater Retention in the
Chi River Basin, Thailand, Asia Pacific Journal of Rural
Development. Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 2008, PP 45-62.
(CIRDAP, ISSN 1018-5291, Impact Factor: NA).
41. Anujit Vansarochana, Nitin. K. Tripathi and Roberto
Clemente, 2008. Finding Appropriate Interpolation
Techniques for Topographic Surface Generation for
Mudslide Risk Zonation, Geocarto International, Taylor &
Francis. (Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1010-‐6049, Impact
Factor: 0.39)
42. Diallo, M.B.C., A. J. Anceno, B. Tawatsupa, Tripathi,
N.K., Shipin, O.V., 2009. A GIS-based analysis of the fate
of waste-related pathogens, Giardia lamblia,
Cryptosporidium parvum and E.coli in a tropical canal
network. Journal of Water and Health, 7, 1, 133-143
(Published by International Water Association Publishing in
collaboration with the World Health Organization. (WHO,
ISSN: 1477-‐8920, Impact Factor 1.164).
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43. Ramli, F., M., Tripathi, Nitin; Yusof, Nurhakim; Shafri,
Helmi; Ali Rahman, Zulfahmi 2009. Lineament mapping in
tropical environment utilizing Landsat imagery,
International Journal of Remote Sensing, pp 1-41. Taylor
and Francis, (ISSN: 1366-‐5901, Impact Factor 1.182).
44. Pirasteh, S., Sirous, R., Tripathi, N.K., Pradhan, B.,
Mansour, S., Ramli, M.F., 2009. Landscape rendition in
Zagros Mountain, Iran using Geoinformation Technology,
Journal of Geomatics, Vol. 3, No. 1, 23-27.
45. Nakarin Chaikaew, Nitin K Tripathi and Marc Souris,
2009. Exploring spatial patterns and hotspots of diarrhea in
Chiang Mai, Thailand, International Journal of Health
Geographics. Vol. 8, No. 36, 1-10. (BioMed Central, ISSN
1476-‐072X, Impact Factor: 2.34)
46. Suwisa M., Tripathi, N. K. and Honda, K., 2009. Sea
surface multispectral index model for estimating
chlorophyll-a of productive coastal waters in Thailand,
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. (MDPI, ISSN: 1712-‐
7971, Impact factor: 1.156)
47. Hossain, M. Z. and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2009. Monitoring
Near-shore and Insular Marine Protected Area Network
using Landsat, ASTER and IKONOS Images, Int J of
Imaging, Vol. 3, No. S10, pp 58-75, (CESER Publications ,
ISSN 0974-0627).
48. Dang Quang Tinh , Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Marshall L.
Silver, 2009. Coping with Extreme Floods using Karst
Caves in Limestone Areas in the Red River Basin, Viet
Nam, Journal of Disaster Advances, October, Vol. 2,
Number 4, 5-14. (ISSN: 0974-‐262X, Impact factor: 0.407)
49. Srisurat, S., Routray, J.K., Preeda, P., and Tripathi, N.K.,
2010. Methane gas estimation by remote sensing modeling
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from irrigated paddy fields in Thailand”. International J. of
Applied Environmental Sciences. 5(6)2010, pp.813-830.
(Research India Pub, ISSN: 0973-‐6077, Impact factor: NA)
50. Hamid Mehmood, Nitin K. Tripathi and Taravudh
Tipdecho, 2010. Indoor Positioning System Using Artificial
Neural Network, Journal of Computer Sciences, Vol. 6,
Number 10, 1219-1225. (Science Publications, ISSN: 1549-‐
3636, Impact Factor: 0.814)
51. Ravi, V., Ravishankar, Tripathi, N. K., 2010. Evaluation of
market scenarios in automobile reverse logistics: a system
dynamics approach, Int. J. Logistics Systems and
Management, (In Press). (Inderscience, ISSN: 1742-‐7975,
Impact factor: 1.38)
52. Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2011. Spatio-
Temporal Diffusion Pattern and Hotspot Detection of
Dengue in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand. Int. J.
Environ. Res. Public Health, 8(1), 51-74. (MDPI, ISSN:
1660-‐4601, Impact factor: 2.197)
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/8/1/51/
53. S. Qasim, R. P. Shrestha, G. P. Shivakoti, N. K. Tripathi,
2011, Socio-economic determinants of land degradation in
Pishin sub-basin, Pakistan. International Journal of
Sustainable Development & World Ecology, (Taylor and
Francis., ISSN: 1350-‐4509, Impact factor: 1.213)
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t908394
088
54. Hamid Mehmood, and Tripathi, N.K., 2011. Optimizing
artificial neural network based indoor positioning system
using genetic algorithm International Journal of Digital
Earth, DOI:10.1080/17538947.2011.606337,
(Taylor and Francis, online ISSN: 1753-8955, IF = 1.43)
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55. Yongyoot Witheetrirong, Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Taravudh
Tipdecho and Preeda Parkpian, 2011. Estimation of the
Effect of Soil Texture on Nitrate-Nitrogen Content in
Groundwater Using Optical Remote Sensing, Int. J. Environ.
Res. Public Health, 8(8), 3416-3436,
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/8/8/3416/ (MDPI, ISSN:
1660-‐4601, Impact factor: 2.197)
56. Naruemon Phongaksorn, Nitin K Tripathi, S. Kumar and
Peeyush Soni. 2012, Inter-Sensor Comparison between
THEOS and Landsat 5 TM Data in a Study of Two Crops
Related to Biofuel in Thailand, Remote Sensing,
doi:10.3390/rs402000x.; 4 (2), 354-376 EISSN: 2072-4292,
Impact Factor: 1.832)
www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing,
57. Asif, Muhammad and N.K., Tripathi, 2012. Evaluation of
OpenID-Based Double-Factor Authentication for
Preventing Session Hijacking in Web Applications, Journal
of Computers (Finland), 7 (11), pp. 2623-2628. (Academy
Press, JCP, ISSN 1796-203X, I.F. 0.656)
58. Nakapan, S., Tripathi, N.K., Tipdecho, T., Souris, M.
Spatial diffusion of influenza outbreak-related climate
factors in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, 2012.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health, 9 (11), pp. 3824- 3842. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-
4601/8/8/3416/ (MDPI, ISSN: 1660-‐4601, Impact factor:
2.197)
59. Hamid Mehmood, and Tripathi, N.K., 2013. Cascading
artificial neural networks optimized by genetic algorithms
and integrated with global navigation satellite system to
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offer accurate ubiquitous positioning in urban environment,
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 37(1), 35-44.
(Elsevier, ISSN 0198-9715, Impact Factor: 1.183)
60. Vasan Choengsa-ard, Nitin K. Tripathi and Paul Janecek,
2012. Effective Graphic Features for Multivariate Symbol
Mapping, The Cartographic Journal, (the British
Cartography Society, Maney Publisher, ISSN: 00087041,
Online ISSN: 1743-2774, Impact Factor: 0.59)
61. Sarfraz, M.S., Tripathi, N.K., Tipdecho, T., Thongbu, T.,
Kerdthong, P., Souris, M. 2012.
Analyzing the spatio-temporal relationship between dengue
vector larval density and land-use using factor analysis and
spatial ring mapping, BMC Public Health, 12: 853. (9
October 2012) (ISSN: Impact Factor: 2.08)
62. Md. Moqbul Hossain, Krishna Neaupane, Nitin Kumar
Tripathi and Mongkut Piantanakulchai, 2013. Prediction of
Groundwater Arsenic Contamination using Geographic
Information System and Artificial Neural Network.
Environment Asia, Vol.6, No. 12, p. 38-44.
(www.tshe.org/EA) (ISSN 1906-1714, Impact Factor 0.25)
63. Asif, M., Nitin K. Tripathi and Shabaz Ahmed, 2013.
Towards Near Real Time Public Health Surveillance (A
Decision Support System for Public Health Surveillance),
International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 61,
No. 21, 45-50, January 2013. Published by Foundation of
Computer Science, New York, USA. BibTeX, DOI >
10.5120/10216-5083, online ISSN 0975-8887, Impact
Factor: 0.83)
64. Muhammad Sarfraz, Nitin Tripathi and Asanobu Kitamoto.
2013. Near real-time characterization of urban
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environments: A holistic approach for monitoring dengue
fever risk areasg, Journal of Digital Earth, (ID: 786144
DOI:10.1080/17538947.2013.786144, Impact Factor: 1.80)
65. Reda AG, Tripathi NK, Soni P, Tipdecho T, Phalke A,
2013. Temporal climate trend of Ping Basin of Thailand and
implications for Mekong Region, J Earth Sci Clim Change,
Vol.4, Issue 4. 4:146, http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-
7617.1000146 doi: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000146. (Impact
Factor: 1.0)
66. Kritsana Kityuttachai, Nitin Kumar Tripathi , Taravudh
Tipdecho , Rajendra Shrestha, 2013. CA-Markov Analysis
of Constrained Coastal Urban Growth Modeling: Hua Hin
Seaside City, Thailand, Sustainability, 5, 1480-1500;
doi:10.3390/su5041480;
www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability,
67. Plangoen, P.; Babel, M.S.; Clemente, R.S.; Shrestha, S.;
Tripathi, N.K. Simulating the Impact of Future Land Use
and Climate Change on Soil Erosion and Deposition in the
Mae Nam Nan Sub-Catchment, Thailand. Sustainability, 5,
No. 8, 3244-3274. doi:10.3390/su5083244.
www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability,
68. Diep Thi Hong Nguyena, Nitin Kumar Tripathia, Wenresti G. Gallardob and Taravudh Tipdecho, 2013. Coastal and Marine Ecological Changes and Fish Cage Culture Development in Phu Quoc, Vietnam (2001 to 2011), Geocarto International, Taylor and Francis. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2013.798358 (Taylor and Francis, ISSN 1010-‐6049, Impact Factor: 0.575)
69. Mishra, Bhogendra, Mukand S. Babel and Nitin K.
Tripathi, 2013. Analysis of climatic variability and snow
cover in the Kaligandaki River Basin, Himalaya, Nepal,
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, DOI
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10.1007/s00704-013-0966-1, Springer, ISSN: 0177-798X
(Impact Factor: 1.759)
70. Supachai, N, and Tripathi, N.K., 2013. Comparing
Analytical Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy-Analytical
Hierarchy Process Approach for Influenza Risk Mapping in
Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Archives Des Sciences, Vol.
66, No. 5, pp 329-351. . http://www.archiveofscience.com/
(ISSN: 1661-464X, Impact Factor: 0.47)
Articles in Refereed International journal (Papers in Asian Journal of Geoinformatics
(2001-2004); Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi; and International Journals of
Geoinformatics (2005 onwards - Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Peer
Reviewed Journals, cited in all major databases such as SCOPUS, EBSCO, SWETS,
GEOSCIENCE Australia, British Library)
71. Singh, S.N. and Tripathi, N.K., 2001, Writing and
Publishing a Research Paper in Professional Journals: A
Systematic Approach”, Asian Journal of Geoinformatics,
Vol. 1, No. 3, 87-90.
72. Aziz, F. Tripathi, N.K., Mark, O., and Kusanagi, M., 2003,
“Flood warning and evacuation system using MIKE 11 and
GIS”, Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, 31-39.
73. Ahmad, A., Tripathi N.K., Weesakul S. and Mark O., 2004.
Calibration of weather radar for accurate rainfall spatial
database in Bangkok City, Asian Journal of Geoinformatics,
Vol. 4, No. 1, 61-68.
74. Pirasteh S., Tripathi, N.K. and Ayazi, M.H., 2006.
Localizing ground water potential zones in parts of Karst
Pabdeh Anticline, Zagros Mountain, Southwest Iran using
geospatial techniques, International Journal of
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Geoinformatics, Vol. 2, No. 3, 35-42. (Geoinformatics
International, ISSN: 1686-6576, SNIP 0.27)
75. Sarawut, N. and Tripathi, N.K., 2007, Mapping of coral
reef condition in Phi Phi Island, Thailand using image
fusion and Mahalanobis distance classifier, International
Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 3, No. 1, 67-74.
(Geoinformatics International, ISSN: 1686-6576, SNIP 0.27)
76. Tripathi, N. K., and Soomro, A. S., 2007. A GIS Approach
to Tsunami Disaster Risk Zonation, Krabi, Thailand,
International Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, 70-
79. (Geoinformatics International, ISSN: 1686- 6576, SNIP
0.27)
77. Tripathi, N. K., Minh T. B, Berg H., Noumi Y. 2008.
Mapping Changes in the Benthic Community of the Marine
Environment of Phu Quoc Island, Viet Nam, International
Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1-11.
(Geoinformatics International, ISSN: 1686-6576, SNIP 0.27)
78. Jeefo, Phisarn, Tripathi, N.K., Souris, M. and Phonekeo,
V., 2009. Exploring Geospatial Factors Contributing to
Malaria Prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
International Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 21-
28. (Geoinformatics International, ISSN: 1686-6576, SNIP
0.27)
3.B Articles in Refereed Regional/ National journal 79. 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, pp 32 – 36.
80. Tripathi, N.K. and Singh P., 1998, “Mapping Chlorophyll -
a in Upper Lake Bhopal using IRS-1C Data”, GIS
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Development, pp. 21-25. (GIS Development, ISSN: 0971-‐9377)
81. Keola, S., Tokunaga, M., Tripathi, N.K., and Wisa, W.,
2002 “Spatial surveillance of epidemiological disease- a
case study in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand”, GIS
Development, Vol. VI, No. 2, pp 41-44. (GIS Development,
ISSN: 0971-‐9377)
82. Roongrasamee B., Vatcharaporn E., Tripathi N.K., 2004,
A Bayesian network model for analysis of the factors
affecting crime risk. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and
Systems, Issue 9, Volume 3, No. 9, 1895-1900. (WSEAS,
ISSN: 1109-2734, E-ISSN: 2224-2678, Impact Factor: 0.4)
83. Roongrasamee, B., Vatcharaporn E., Tripathi N.K, 2004,
Telocate: A wireless GIS for Crime control in e-Policing,
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and
Applications, Volume 1, No. 9, 1365-71. (WSEAS, ISSN:
1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402, Impact Factor: 0.51)
84. Pummakarnchana, O. and Tripathi, N.K., 2006. A real time
air pollution monitoring using portable semiconducting gas
sensors and Internet GIS. WSEAS Trans. on Information
Science and Applications. Vol. 3, Issue 7, (WSEAS, ISSN:
1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402, Impact Factor: 0.51)
4. Papers in conference proceedings
85. 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.
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86. 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.
87. 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.
88. Tripathi, N.K., Gokhale, K.V.G.K., 1993, “Image
Classification using Artificial Neural Networks and
Supervised Classifiers: A Comparative Assessment”, Proc.
14th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, October 1993,
Tehran, Iran, I-5-1 to I-5-5.
89. Tripathi, N.K., Venkobachar, C. and Manish K., 1993,
“Monitoring Suspended Solids in Narrow Surface Streams
using Portable Radiometer”, Proc.1993 International
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’93),
VOL. II,(IEEE), Aug. 17-21, 1993, Tokyo, Japan, 703-705.
90. 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. 17-21, 1993, Tokyo, Japan, 905-907.
91. 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.
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92. 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
93. 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.
94. Tripathi, N.K., Brijesh K. Rai, and Praveen Dwivedi, 1997,
“Spatial Modelling of Soil Alkalinity in 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.
95. Tripathi, N.K. and Rampal, K.K., 1990, “Comparative
Appraisal of Classifiers in Remote Sensing”, Proc. National
Symposium on Computer Applications, April 1990,
Amravati, Maharashtra, India, pp. 1.6.1-1.6.8.
96. Tripathi, N.K., Rai, B.K. and Dwivedi, P., 1996,
“Determination of soil alkalinity using digital enhancement
and GIS”, Proc. of National symposium on Remote Sensing
for natural resources, Dec. 4 - 6, Pune, pp. 164 - 166
97. Tripathi, N.K., Prakash, C., and Guduru, S. K., 1999,
“Landslide hazard zonation in hilly terrain using GIS and
remote sensing ”, Proc. Of National Conf. on
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Environmental hazards and sustainable development, 22-23
Nov. 1999, Hamirpur, India, pp. 7-11.
98. Tripathi, N.K., Annachchatre, A., and Patil, A.A., 2000,
“Role of remote sensing in environmental impact analysis
of shrimp farming”, Proc. of Map India 2000, 10-11 April
2000, New Delhi, India, pp. 14 –16.
99. Kampanart, P. and Tripathi. N.K., 2000, “Dynamic spatial
modelling for tourism carrying capacity: An example from
Phuhin-LongKhla National Park”, Proc. of 6th Annual Geo
Asia Pacific Conference, October 2-5, 2000, Bangkok,
Thailand.
100. Rajapakse, R.M.S.S. and Tripathi. N.K., 2000,
“Modelling tea (Camellia (L) O. Kuntze) yield using
satellite derived LAI, landuse and meteorological data”,
Proc. of 21st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing,
December 5-8, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp 1-6.
101. Kampanart, P. and Tripathi, N.K., 2000, “Dynamic
spatial modelling for tourism carrying capacity
implementation”, Proc. of 21st Asian Conference on Remote
Sensing, December 5-8, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp
323-328.
102. Daniel, K., Tripathi, N.K., Honda, K. and Apisit,
E., 2001, Analysis of Field Spectral Reflectance pattern of
soil fertility parameters”, 22nd Asian Conference on Remote
Sensing, November 5-9, Singapore, Vol. 1, pp 742-747.
103. Aziz, F. Tripathi, N.K., Mark, O., and Kusanagi,
M., 2002, “Development of flood warning system”, Proc. of
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Map India 2002, Feb 6-8, 2002, New Delhi, India, pp 433-
436.
104. Hossain, M. Z., Tripathi, N.K., and Wutjanun, M.,
2003, “Carrying capacity Study of Kandaleru Creek: an
integrated approach for sustainable shrimp farming in
Andhra Pradesh, India, for minimizing shrimp disease risk”,
Proc. Nat. workshop on Shrimp Disease Control and
Management, Chennai, India, 13-28.
105. Tripathi, N.K., and Khant, A.P., 2003, “Core
habitat zonation for selected endangered species using
remote sensing and GIS”, Proc. of 24th Asian Conference on
Remote Sensing, Busan, Korea, November 3-7, 2003.
106. Ninsawat, S. and Tripathi, N.K., 2003, “Mapping
coral reefs of Phi Phi Island using remote sensing and GIS
for integrated coastal zone management”, Proc. of
conference on Digital GMS, Bangkok, 26-28, Feb. 2003,
AIT, 38-43.
107. Tripathi, N.K., Aziz, F., Ole, M. and Kusanagi, M.
2003. “Flood warning system based on hydrodynamic
spatial modeling in GIS”. September 15-19, Chiangmai,
Thailand.
108. Keaw, Nualchawee, and Tripathi, N. K., 2000,
“Strengthening GIS Development in Thailand”, Geo Asia
Pacific, August / September 2000, pp. 21-22.
109. Tripathi, N. K., and Keaw, Nualchawee, 2000,
“The Role of Thailand in Asian Remote Sensing and GIS”,
Geo Asia Pacific, August / September 2000, pp. 23-24.
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110. Tripathi, N. K., 2003. “Thailand- visually beautiful
and digitally amazing”. GIS Development, Vol. 7, Issue 6,
pp. 24-29.
111. Sutat, D. and Tripathi, N.K., 2004.A multiagent
evaluation for crops suitability modelling using GIS. Proc.
4th Int. conf. on Asian Federation of Information
Technology (AFITA). Bangkok. 589-595.
112. Vansarochana, A., Tripathi, N. K., and Clemente, R.
2004. "Synthetic Interpolative Facies Mapping Model for
Landslide Susceptibility Map". Proceedings of the 25th
Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Vol. I, 612-617,
ISBN: 974-229-698-7
113. Tripathi, Nitin K., and Vasan, C., 2005. Open GIS
based wireless spatial datalogger for flood mitigation. Proc.
Int. Symposium on Role of water sciences in transboundary
river basin management, 10-12 March 2005, Thailand, 75-
81.
114. Tripathi, Nitin K., and Kanchana, N ., 2005.
Finding spatial relationship of environmental and climatic
factors with dengue epidemic using GIS. Proc. Int.
Symposium on Area Informatics 2005, 24 March 2005, AIT,
Thailand, 69-74.
115. Teerawong, L., Tripathi, N.K., 2007. Potentiality
of data fusion techniques for flood identification. Proc. of
USPAM Conference, 6-8 March, 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam
116. Chalermchai, P. and N. K. Tripathi. 2007. Siting
Potential Water Harvesting Zones using Remote Sensing
and GIS: a case study in Chi River Basin, Thailand.
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Regional Conference on Environmental Planning and
Management Issues in Souhteast Asian Countries, Hanoi
Agricultural University, Hanoi: Vietnam, 6-8 March 20007.
P. 6.
117. Chalermchai, P., N. K. Tripathi, and S. Weesakul
2007. Application of DEM and hydrodynamic modeling in
GIS environment for floodwater retention in the Chi River
Basin, Thailand. 2nd International Conference of GIS/RS in
Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment
(ICGRHWE’07), Guangzhou: China, 7-9 September. P. 12.
118. Chalermchai, P., N. K. Tripathi, and S. Weesakul
2007. Floodwater retention planning using GIS and
hydrodynamic model: a case study for the Chi River Basin,
Thailand. Symposium on Water Resource Management &
Planning for the 21st Century, University of Regina, United
Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok: Thailand,
21-23 November, P. 9.
119. Valens Mwumvaneza, H. P. W. Jayasuriya* and
Nitin K. Tripathi, (2007). Evaluation of agricultural
mechanization potential in Rwanda: A multi-location spatial
approach by GIS techniques. Presentation and in
proceedings of the 2nd Asian conference on Precision
Agriculture, 2-4, August 2007, Pyeongtaek, Korea.
120. Laosuwan, T., Tripathi, N. K., Kusanagi, M. and
Kibe, S., 2007. The study and comparison of data fusion
techniques of satellite imgaries for monitoring earth surface
features. Annual GISTDA conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
121. Irum Memon, Nitin K. Tripathi, Saksin
Chongolnee, 2008. Hospital Emergency Response System
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using Internet GIS, Vehicle Tracking System and RFID,
Location Asia 2.0, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14-16 June,
2008.
122. Ton Binh Minh, Nitin K. Tripathi, Seishiro Kibe
and Wenresti Gallardo, 2008. Mapping Changes in Marine
Environment of Phu Quoc Island, Viet Nam., Proc. of 7th
Annual Map Asia 2008, Kuala Lumpur, 18-20 August, 2008.
123. Tripathi, N.K., Arthit, L. and Perera, R. 2008.
Geospatial modeling of urban growth pattern in
Pathumthani, Thailand. Proc. International Conf. on
Sustainable Urban Environmental Practices, Oct. 28-31,
2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
124. Nakarin Chaikaew and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2008.
Exploring spatial and spatio-temporal clusters of malaria in
Chiang Mai, Thailand, Proc. of GIS Ideas Conf., Dec. 4-5,
2008, Hanoi, Vietnam.
125. Phaisarn Jeefoo, Nitin Kumar Tripathi, and
Shoichiro Hara, 2008. Analytical hierarchy process
modeling for malaria risk zonation in Kanchanaburi,
Thailand, Proc. of GIS Ideas Conf., Dec. 4-5, 2008, Hanoi,
Vietnam. ISBN: 978-4-901668-37-8.
126. Nguyen K. Thanh, Nitin K. Tripathi and Gallardo,
W,. 2008. GIS-based Planning for Sustainable Shrimp
Farming in Thanh Phu District, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam.
Proc. of GIS Ideas Conf., Dec. 4-5, 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam.,
ISBN: 978-4-901668-37-8, 225-229.
127. Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2008.
Exploring Geospatial Factors Contributing to Malaria
Prevalence in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. In: Geoinformation
Technology for Better Health, the 2nd International
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Conference on HealthGIS 2008, 14-16 January, Bangkok,
Thailand.
128. Anujit Vansarochana, Nitin. K. Tripathi, and
Roberto Clemente, 2009. “Investigating Mudslide
Phenomenon in Mae Cham Basin, Thailand”. Proc. of 2nd
Int. Conference on Geoinformation Technology for Natural
Disaster Management (GIT4NDM), Bangkok, Thailand,
P.206-209.
129. Nakarin, C., Tripathi, N.K., Souris, M., 2009. A
space time permutation scan statistics for diarrhea outbreak
detection in Chiangmai, Thailand. Volume of 3rd Int. Conf
on HealthGIS 2009, Hyderabad, India, 216-219.
130. Pimple, U., Tripathi, N.K., Kibe, S., Hossain, Z.,
2009. Mapping Green House Gases to alleviate the impact
on human health., Volume of 3rd Int. Conf on HealthGIS
2009, Hyderabad, India, 225-230..
131. Siriwan, H., and Tripathi, N.K., 2009. Geospatial
Overview of Swine Flu Outbreak in Mid 2009, Volume of
3rd Int. Conf on HealthGIS 2009, Hyderabad, India, 231-
236.
132. Jeefoo, P., Tripathi, N.K., and Souris, M., 2009.
Dengue Fever and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Risk
Zonation in Thailand using Analytical Hierarchy Process
(APH). In: The 3rd International Conference on HealthGIS
2009, 24-26 July, 2009, Hyderabad, India.
133. Abbadi Girmay Reda and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2010.
Climate change adaptation through environmental
rehabilitation in Ethiopia, Proceedings of third
International Conference on Geoinformation Technology
for Natural Disaster Management, 19-20 October, 2010,
Chang Mai, Thailand, 9-13.
134. Bhogendra Mishra and Nitin K. Tripathi, 2010.
Winter agricultural drought detection by usuing MODIS
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Imagery: The case of Nepal. Proceedings of third
International Conference on Geoinformation Technology
for Natural Disaster Management, 19-20 October, 2010,
Chang Mai, Thailand, 14-18.
135. Sanit Arunpold, Nitin K. Tripathi and Hamid
mehmood. 2010. Geoinformatiion technology Integration
and supply Chain Management for Disaster Mitigation
Management. Proceedings of third International
Conference on Geoinformation Technology for Natural
Disaster Management, 19-20 October, 2010, Chang Mai,
Thailand, 194-196.
136. Shahzad Ahmed, Mohammad Shahzad Sarfraz and
Nitin K. Tripathi. 2010. Disaster Management systems and
role of wireless technology for faster and secure
communication. Proceedings of third International
Conference on Geoinformation Technology for Natural
Disaster Management, 19-20 October, 2010, Chang Mai,
Thailand, 223-225.
137. Hamid Mehmood, Nitin K. Tripathi , 2010.
Ubiquitous Positioning for Location Based Services,
Proceedings of Map Asia 2010, 26-28 July, 2010, Malaysia,
Available at: mapasia.org/2010/proceeding/pdf/137.pdf
138. Sanit, A., Mehmood, H., and Tripathi, N.K., 2011.
An architecture for web based realtime monitoring of
infants at hospital nurseries using RFID and Sensor
Network. Proc. of 4th Int. Conf on HealthGIS, 5-6 August
2011, New Delhi, India, pp 213-215.
139. Mozumder, C. Tripathi, N.K. (2011) “Climatic
Factors on Wetland Dynamics Of Deepor Beel In India: A
Remote Sensing And GIS Based Approach”. Proceeding
32nd Asian conference on remote sensing: sensing for
Green Asia, Taipei, Taiwan, 3-7 October 2011.
140. Mozumder, C., Tripathi, N.K. and Tipdecho, T.
(2011) “Geospatial Technologies In Wetland Dynamics Of
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Deepor Beel, India”. Proceedings 10th International
symposium on new technologies for urban safety of mega
cities in Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 12-14 October, 2011.
141. Mozumder, C. Tripathi, N.K. (2012) “Use of
Multiple Satellite Images In Multiple Scales For Feature
Extraction And Image Classification: A Case Study Of
Ramsar Wetland In North East India”. Proceedings 33rd
Asian conference on remote sensing: Aiming Smart Space
Sensing, Pattaya, Thailand, 26-30 November 2012. 288-294.
142. Mozumder, C. Tripathi, N.K. (2012) “Impact of
Monsoon Flooding On Ramsar Wetland In North East
India”. Proceedings 4th International Conference on Geo-
Information Technology for Natural Disaster Management.
Colombo, Sri Lanka. 7-8 November, 2012.
10. Invited Lectures and Keynote Addresses
Invited Lecture, Map World Forum, 21-24 January, 2007, Hyderabad, India Invited Speech, GIS Ideas Conference, November, 2006, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Invited Lectures on GIS for Environmental Application, 2005, KMUTT, Bangkok, Thailand Key Note Lecture, CARGIS, 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam Key Note Lecture, GIS NET, 2006 Annual GIS Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Invited Lecture in Editor’s Forum in Map World Forum 2006. Invited Lecture, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, November 2007. Key Note Lecture, GIS NET, 2008 Annual GIS Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Invited Lecture, Centre for Advance Land Management and Information Technology (CALMIT), University of Nebraska, USA. July 2008 Invited Lecture on HealthGIS, ITC Netherlands, Enschede, The Netherlands, March 2009.
Key Note, International Conf. 8th Int. Symposium and Ex. on Geoinformation ISG 2009, 10-11 August 2009, Int. Soc. Of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing WG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2009. Invited Lecture on Geoinformatics Research in AIT, Faculty of Geography, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand, August 2009. Keynote Speech, National Convention of Architect Association of India, Surat, Gujarat, India, February 2010. Keynote in National Geoinformatics Conference, Phitsanulok, Thailand, September, 2010 Invited Speaker, Workshop on Health of Livestock, Dept of Vetenary Science, Kasetsat Univ., October 2010, Thailand Keynote, Forefront and Challenges of Geospatial Technologies for Environmental and Disaster Management in Southeast Asia, 27th November, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand: JAXA, GISTDA, RNUS Invited Speaker, Nobel Laureate Convention, Indian inst. of Information Technology, Allahabad, India, 7-14, December, 2010 Keynote Speaker, 2012. The 6th Multi- Disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence held on December 25-27, 2012 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Invited Speaker, he Asian-based Congress on Citizen & Environment Safety and Security (ACCESS), NUS Singapore, 5-7 June 2013
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11. Total number of citations to the faculty member’s published work, as
shown by SCOPUS (excluding self citations).
On September 27, 2013:
SCOPUS Citation report:
Total Citations in Scopus: 354
H-Index: 11
(Print citation overview attached from SCOPUS)
On September 27, 2013:
Google Scholar Report:
H-Index: 15
Total Citation: 652
Report Attcahed.
5. Project Reports
In AIT Tripathi, N.K., Study of carrying capacity in Kandaleru Creek: A coastal creek in Andhra Pradesh, India. 2003. AIT-NACA-MPEDA Report. Tripathi, N.K., Phaisarn, S., Pakorn, A., Real-time spatial data logging Device for Open GIS., 2005, RTG-AIT Report.
Tripathi, N.K., Sa-nguan, P., Water Storage Development Planning for Flood Water Retention for Dry Season Requirements in Chi River Basin, 2007, RTG-AIT Report.
Tripathi, N.K., Chongkolnee Saksin, Business Logistics Management using Integrated RFID and InternetGIS , 2009, RTG-AIT-CaraCAD Report.
Povero, Gabreilla, Belforte, Gustavo, Tripathi, N.K., SEAGAL Project Report , 2010, European Union, FP7 Project
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B. Research Projects 1. Brief descriptions of projects
Title: Real-time Spatial Data Logging Device for OpenGIS
Year: 2003-2004,
Sponsor: RTG Budget-Joint Research Project Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi Amount: Baht 970000
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a vital technology for
the implementing e-government. OpenGIS enables spatial data
sharing and system interoperability which leads to data integrity,
timeliness and hinder data replication. User can access updated
data from authorized custodian in real-time. In this research a
low-cost or off-the-shelf data logging devices will be developed
based on mobile phone and handheld computer. Digital camera
and GPS receiver will be integrated into a single device for field
data collection. Spatial data and its attributes can be conveniently
logged and updated into a map server. Updating can be done in
real-time and by synchronization depending on the network
availability. Open Source Software and free software packages
downloadable from Internet e.g. Minnesota MapServer, Java
version 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), PHP will be used. The develop
system will demonstrate rapid and reliable spatial data updating
for many tasks e.g. base map, tourism, environment, agriculture
and livestock.
Status: Completed and Report submitted in 2005
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Title: Development of marine and coastal resources database of Thailand
Sponsor: UNEP Dr. K. Ikejima, Principal Investigator Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Co-investigator
Amount: Baht 2,460, 000
ABSTRACT
To develop the fundamental GIS database for key
components of marine and coastal resources in Thailand,
namely coral reefs, mangrove forests, seagrass beds,
aqnimals for conservation (e.g. turtles, dugong) and threats
e.g. coastal erosion.
The database will be stored on the server computer for
National Coastal and Marine Information Centre under
DMCR to be shared by many potential users such as
governmental, non-government and researchers to help in
the conservation and coastal zone management.
Title: Water Storage Development Planning for Flood Water Retention for Dry Season Requirements in Chi River Basin
Sponsor: RTG (2006) Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi Amount: Baht 970, 000
ABSTRACTS
Northeast Thailand has always been subjected to floods and
droughts problem and the problems are getting more severe
with increasing water demands, land use change,
deforestation, etc. The Chi river basin is one main river
basin of this region that suffers flood during rainy season
and drought during dry season. This research proposal aims
to develop a methodology to alleviate the floods and
droughts problems of the Chi river basin. A water budget
model for the basin will be developed to find the water
availability and demand. The scarcity of the water during
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the drought is the main issue that will be addressed by
finding the locations for the rainwater harvesting structures
using the digital terrain model and the remote sensing data.
Planning the water retention structures will be modelled by
integrating hydrologic model, hydraulic model, remote
sensing and GIS and hierarchy optimisation techniques.
Status: Completed
Title: Business Logistics Management using Integrated RFID and InternetGIS
Year: 2007-2008
Sponsor: CaraCAD Services Co., Ltd., Thailand and RTG Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi Amount: Baht 1800000 (1.8 Million)
ABSTRACTS
Industries involved in manufacturing, warehousing their
products and later distributing to the customers have their
conventional way. The most difficult part is locating the
product at different stages and in most of the cases it
involves manual interference. The conventional process
results in average 60 percent traceability as mentioned in
several cases. This causes delays and inefficiency in product
identification and supply. Few organizations have been
using the bar code method and found it better than prevalent
manual identification. Bar code method also needs human
aided scanning of each product and involves huge time.
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) has offered a new
approach where the information will be written digitally on
RFID tags (RFID chips) and accessed by RFID Reader.
This is done without scanning each product tag individually.
A whole bunch of products are passed through the RFID
sensors and all the information from each of the tags is read
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simultaneously. Not only it is read but also recorded in
computer database.
This proposed project is aimed at furthering this advantage
by integrating it with GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
to enhance the capability in terms of adding “the location”
of product to its inventory record in real time. This will
enable in better traceability and management of inventory,
supply chain and business logistics. The efficacy is
proposed to be enhanced further by putting the information
on intranet or internet by developing the internet GIS based
system. This will be achieved by developing open source
software instead of commercial software.
Title: SOUTH-EAST ASIA CENTRE ON EUROPEAN GNSS FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT (SEAGAL)
Year: 2009-2010
Sponsor: Galileo Space Advisory, European Commission Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi Amount: Euro 76, 000
ABSTRACTS
The main objective of the project is the definition of an
implementation plan for a European GNSS Collaboration Centre in
support of educational, commercial and technical needs in South-
East Asia that “will increasingly be one of the most dynamic
growth engines of the world economy”.
Project will provide an opportunity to investigate the existing use
of GNSS in various Southeast Asian countries. Finding out the
emerging applications such as mobile mapping, vehicle tracking,
fleet management, logistics and supply chain etc. Organise
meetings with stake holders on creation of GNSS facilities and
augmenting the use of GNSS technology.
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The plan for the creation of the Collaboration Centre foresees also
accompanying awareness actions (2 workshops; Centre Opening
Ceremony) to facilitate the start-up of the Centre and its visibility
as well as to link it to European institutions in order to ease
continuing cooperation and sustainability. The Collaboration
Centre should be set up within this project and start its operation at
the end of the project. Centre will be setup in Hanoi Univ of Tech.
Vietnam. AIT will prepare a status report of GNSS and assist in
various aspects of project implementation along with partner
institutions. AIT shall be organising a workshop in first half of
2010 to spread awareness and also discuss progress and feedbacks.
AIT will also participate in dissemination plans at various fora.
Partners in this project are from different countries:
• ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA, ITALY
• POLITECNICO DI TORINO, ITALY
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA,
SPAIN
• UNIVERSITE DE FRANCE-COMPTE, FRANCE
• HANOI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, VIETNAM
• ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THAILAND
Title: Research of Ionospheric Scintillation in Asia (RISA)
Year: 2011-2014
Sponsor: AOARD of US Govt. Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi Amount: USD 47, 500 (for year 2011-14)
Key Researchers
1. Nitin Kumar Tripathi 2. Durairaju Kumaran Raju 3. Rui Manuel da Silva Fernandes
Affiliation & Address of Key Researcher:
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1. School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, THAILAND Phone: +66 (0) 2524-6392, Fax: +66 (0) 2524-5597; Email: [email protected] 2. Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore 18, Kent Ridge Road, 119227, Singapore Phone: +6565165691; Fax: +6568721455; Email: [email protected] 3. Space & Earth Geodetic Analysis Laboratory, University of Beira Interior, R. Marquês d’Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.Phone: +351275319891; Fax: +351275319891 Email: [email protected]
Abstract
The RISA (Research of Ionospheric Scintillation in Asia) project
intends to contribute for the development of Ionospheric studies in
South-East Asia by using space-geodetic systems, in particular by
analyzing data acquired using dedicated or available GNSS (Global
Navigation Satellite Systems) networks.
This proposal intends to contribute directly for the current activities
carried out in the framework of the SCINDA (Scintillation Network
Decision Aid) project, which is being implemented by AFRL (Air
Force Research Laboratory) in South-East Asia. RISA will
investigate the effects of scintillation in dense GNSS networks and
the potential correlation with extreme events. Additionally, RISA
will contribute to densify and maintain the network of SCINDA
GNSS stations being currently installed in the region. Finally,
RISA intends to improve the scientific knowledge on ionosphere
research and GNSS data processing of the partners that are
collaborating with AFRL in the region.
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Title: Summer Education Camp and Study Tour- 2013
Sponsor: United Group of Institutions Project Investigator: Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi
Amount: Baht 950, 000 (2013)
ABSTRACTS To develop technical orientation program for awareness on higher advance technologies and innovations in the field of Engineerinh and integrating it with the concepts of efficient project management. Candidates of various branches of engineering are targeted to benefit by innovative apprach of blending participatory apprpach in impartimg intricate concepts of higher education in a short span of 2 weeks. Advance technologies selected are remote sensing, GIS, computer graphics using open sources, RFID, Robotics, Climate Change and impact on water, Energy, Nanotechnology, Urban Safety, Project Management and corporate Social Responsibility. In addition a spiritual blend is provided to embed art of living concept in focusing on innovations for serving the need of society based on self sufficiency concept.
Status: In Progress
C. Research grants and sponsored projects
List of research grants and sponsored projects. For each grant and project specify the project duration, overhead and faculty time income to the institute. (See Appendix)
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V. Service/Outreach Professional Service
1. Leadership in policy and program development in professional organizations.
a) Executive Committee Member of Geoinformatics Association of Malaysia
2. Participation in organizational responses to policy, practice, or structural issues, which affect the field.
a) Appointed by Chiang Mai University as Expert Member of Curriculum Draft committee, International Unified Bachelor and Masters Degree Program in Geoinformatics Engineering between Asian Institute of Technology and Chiang Mai University.
3. Significant elective or appointed offices held.
a. Member, Executive Committee, Indian Society of Geomatics (1999-2003)
b. Member, Executive Committee, Asian Association on Remote Sensing
(2001-03)
c. Advisor, Green Eminent Consultant, India (1995-1998)
d. Chief Warden, Indian Institute of Technology, India (1996-1998)
e. Member, Committee of Council of Wardens, Indian Institute of
Technology (1997)
f. President, Association for Geoinformation Technology (AgIT)
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4. Organization of training courses, conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Training Courses Organised: SN Title of Training Course Period Venue 1 Natural Resource Monitoring using
Remote Sensing June, 1995 (one week)
Kanpur, India
2 Advanced Data Processing Techniques in Remote Sensing
July 1996 (two weeks)
Kanpur, India
3 Introduction to Geographic Information System
January, 1998 (one wk)
Kanpur, India
4 Geographic Information System May, 1998 (one wk)
Kathmandu, Nepal
5 Geographic Information System December, 1998, (one wk)
Vadodara, India
6 GIS in Planning and Management July, 1999 (one wk)
AIT, Bangkok, Thailand
7 RS / GIS for coastal zone applications December, 2000 (two wk)
Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
8 Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Geologic Studies for Oil Exploration
June 4 – July 13, 2001 (six wk)
For Korea, AIT, Thailand
9 GIS and Remote Sensing for Environmental Impact Assessment Urban and Land Management
Nov. 19-30, 2001
Nepal, Continuing Education Centre
10 Basic Geographic Information Systems 2002 One Week
AIT-CV, Hanoi
11 Advance Geographic Information Systems 2003 One Week
AIT-CV, Hanoi
12 Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Forestry
Jan 2003 Two Weeks
Forest Management Centre, Peshawar, Pakistan, Venue: AIT, Thailand
13 Development of coastal resources database using GIS
October 2005, One Week
Department of Marine Resources, Thailand.
14 Remote Sensing and GIS for Development February, 2007; One Week
Iran, (AIT, Thailand)
15 GIS for Planners and Decision Makers March, 2007; One Week
Iran, (AIT, Thailand)
16 Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Natural Resources Management
25 June – 13 July 2007
Forest Dep. Cambodia Coordinator, Under AIT Extension
17 GIS for solid waste disposal and Internet GIS
20 – 30 August, 2007
MNNIT, Allahabad, India
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18 Overview of Remote Sensing and GIS and Safer Buildings
10-13, January, 2008
Iran, (AIT, Thailand)
19 Geoinformation Tech for Coastal Zone Management
15-26 September 2008
FAO, Iraq and FAQ Indonesia, FRIN, Nigeria, GISTDA, Thailand
20 Orthorectification of High Resolution Satellite Data
November 24-28, 2008
6 Participants from UN- Office on Drugs and Crime, Afghanistan
21 Integrated Coastal Zone Planning & Management using Geoinformation Technology
November 23- 4 Dec. 2009
Participants from SEAFDEC, Royal Forestry Department, GISTDA and other countries
22 Creating Geologic Maps using GIS Oct 15-November 5, 2010
Under AIT Consulting, Balkh Univ, Afghanistan
23 Open source GIS, ARC GIS - Basic and Advance
Oct 25 – November 12, 2010
SUNTAC, Mayanmar
24 Advance Techniques in Arc GIS 9-13 May 2011
NAMARIA, Philippines, Consulting Company, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia
25 Remote Sensing and GIS for Irrigation Planning
June 6- July 1, 2012
FAO Afghanistan
26 Advance ArcGIS 29 August – 3 September 2011
Department of Census and Statistics, Colombo. Sri Lanka
27 Advance Techniques in Landuse and Landcover Mapping
March 26- April 14, 2012
Bhutan Land Survey and Mapping Commission and Druk Power., Bhutan
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Organisation of Conferences/ Seminars/ Workshops
Programme Committee Member, ICORG 1998, India Organizing Secretary, Map Asia 2002, August 6-8, 2002, Bangkok Programme Coordinator, Map Asia 2003, Kuala Lumpur Programme Coordinator, Map Asia 2004, Beijing, China Programme Coordinator, Map Asia 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia Programme Coordinator, HealthGIS 2005, Bangkok, Thailand Organising Secy., National Seminar on Open Source Software in Geoinformatics; September 8, 2006, Bangkok Member, Organising Committee, Natural Disaster Mangament 2007, Esfahan, Iran, 8-9May 2007. Member, Organising Committee, GI_Forum, University of Salzburgh, Austria,, June 2007. Organising Secretary, Second International Conference on HealthGIS 2008, 14-16 January 2008, Bangkok, Thailand Member, Organising Committee, GI_Forum, University of Salzburgh, Austria,, July 2008. Orgainsing Secretary, Second Int. Conf. on Geoinformatics for Natural Disaster Mangament 2008, AIT, Thailand, January 2009 Orgainsing Secretary, Third Int. Conf. on HealthGIS 2009, Hyderabad, India, 24-26 July, 2009. Member, Organising Committee, GI_Forum, University of Salzburgh, Austria,, July 2009. Member, Organising Committee, GI_Forum, University of Salzburgh, Austria,, June 2010. Organiser, Workshop on GNSS Collaborating Centre, Hanoi, FP7 European Union Project., Hanoi, Vietnam. 27 September- 1 October 2010. Orgainsing Secretary, 3rd Int. Conf. on Geoinformatics for Natural Disaster Mangament 2010, Empress Convention Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 19-20 October 2010
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5. Editing or serving on advisory boards of journals
Editor-in-Chief, Asian Journal of Geoinformatics 2000-2004 Member Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Remote Sensing 2006-2008 Guest Editor Special Issue on Coastal Remote Sensing International Journal of Imaging 2008 Guest Editor Special Issue on GIT4NDM International Journal of Remote Sensing 2008 Member of the Editorial Board Chemistry of Environment 2009-onwards Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geoinformatics Since January 2005
6. Government or international organization panels, expert witness, reports to government or international agencies
UN-Disaster mitigation workshop (UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, 2002)
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B. Significant institute committee service 1. Field of Study
1. Coordinator, Remote Sensing and GIS FoS (2009 onwards)
2. Organiser of RS&GIS Seminars as a routine event
3. Supported RS&GIS Coordinator in admission and other works
4. Promotion activities – regular in India, Thailand, Vietnam,
China, Cambodia.
5. Launched New Program “Online Masters and Prof. Diploma in
Geoinformatics” in association with University of Salzburg,
Austria
6. Established 2-stage Masters Program in Vietnam (2003-2005),
7. MoA signed for 5 yr Unified Bachelor-Masters Program in
Geoinformatics Engineering jointly with Chiang Mai
University, Thailand and Asian Institute of Technology, (19
Oct. 2010)
2. School
1. SAT Forum Secretary in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003
2. Dean’s Faculty Meeting Secretary 2003, 2004
3. Member Task Force for Organising International Summer
Camp for Future Engineering Leaders on Climate Change, 2008
4. Incharge, Promotion Activity in India
5. Representative, Iran Academic Cooperation
6. Curriculum Review of SET FoS -2009
7. Initiated and got several Memoranda of Understanding signed
between Asian Institute of Technology and Other Organisations
such as
a. University of Salzburg, Austria for Joint Online
Masters and Professional Diploma in GIScience
(2007 for 5 years)
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b. University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia for Joint
research, student exchange and faculty exchange
(2009 for 5 years)
c. P&T Vietnam for launching 2-stage Masters
Program in Ho Chi Minh (2005-2007)
3. Institute 1. Member, ADRC, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
2. Member, Steering Committee, ITCZM FoS
3. Election Officer for Representatives of Faculty Relations
Committee
4. Member, Task Force on Consulting and Sponsored Research
5. Member, Task Force, Iran Cooperation
6. Member, Task Force, Malaysia Cooperation
7. Indian Faculty Representative, Indian Grant and Secondment
8. Director, UNIGIS Online Masters Program
9. Director, Academic Quality Assurance and Accreditation,
Asian Institute of Technology.
10. Coordinator, Remote Sensing and GIS FoS
11. Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Technology (since
1 February 2011)
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E. Community service
1. Consulting Activities
Period Organisation Title of Project / nature of work
1988 M/S Raymonds Polyester Yarn, Naini, Allahabad
Detailed mapping of industrial site at Naini, Allahabad
1992 M/S Continental Float Glass Ltd,, Banda
Precision alignment survey for installation of boilers and tank
1993 N.T.P.C. Unchahar Contour mapping survey for ash corridor from plant area to ash pond stage-II
1994 N.T.P.C. Unchahar Contour Mapping for Ash Pond
1995 GAIL Contour Mapping near Kali River, Farrukhabad
1996 N.T.P.C. Unchahar Fixation of boundary coordinate for 800 Acres Ash Pond
1999-2000
UP Spatial Decision Support System
Development of GIS based decision support system for UP Government (US $ 200, 000)
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2. Serving on program committees
1. Expert Selection Committee, Union Public Service
Commission, India
2. For PhD Thesis from SIIT, Thailand
3. Several students for Masters and PhD Thesis KMUTT,
Thailand
4. Doctoral student, Joint graduate school of Engineering and
Environment (JGEE), KMUTT, Thailand
5. For PhD thesis from University of Queensland, Australia
3. Refereeing of journal articles, books, grant proposals, etc. Refereeing of Journal Articles:
1. Int. Jour. of Applied earth Observation and Geoinformation
(ITC Journal)
2. Asian J. of Geoinformatics
3. Indian J. of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry
4. Journal of Prince of Songkhla University
5. West Indian Journal of Civil Engineering
6. International Journal of Geoinformatics
7. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
8. International Journal of Remote Sensing – Taylor and Francis
9. International Journal of Imaging
10. J. of Chemistry and Environment
11. Geojournal – Springer
12. Disaster Advances
13. Natural Hazards
14. International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Grant Proposals:
Reviewer for Grant Proposals, Department of Science and Technology, India
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4. Serving as External Examiner for Doctoral Thesis:
a. For PhD Thesis from Bharatidasan University, India
b. For PhD Thesis from M.L.S. University, Rajasthan, India
c. For PhD Thesis from Kanpur University, India
d. For PhD Thesis from Andhra University, India
e. For PhD Thesis from Forest Research Institute, India
f. For PhD Thesis from I.I.T. Kharagpur, India
g. For PhD thesis from Vidyasagar University, India
h. For PhD thesis in SIIT, Thailand
i. For PhD thesis in KMUT, Thonburi, Thailand
j. For PhD thesis in Sirindhorn International Inst. of Technology,
Thailand
k. For PhD thesis in University of Pune, Maharashtra, India
l. For PhD thesis from Hong Kong Poly University, Hong Kong
m. For PhD thesis from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
n. For PhD thesis from NIT, Surathkal, India
o. For PhD thesis from University of Queensland, Australia
p. For PhD thesis from Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia
D. Promotion and Marketing (Briefly describe role or involvement)
Organised Promotion Trip to India for a delegation from School of Advance Technology for Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Calicut and Chennai. (2002-3) Organised Promotion Trip to India for Delhi and Chandigarh for School fo Advance Technology (2004) Participated in several Promotion Mission in Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi Arranged visit of AIT President to GISTDA (Geoinformatic and Space Technology Development Agency, Thailand) to discuss collaboration. GISTDA has agreed to send their employees for training and education, they also committed free data for Student Research
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Arranged Meeting of AIT President with Chief Secretary of Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt. of India in 2007. MHRD agreed to enhance financial assistance to AIT, send around 300 senior level officers for training and capacity building to AIT] Continue sending Visiting Faculty for Teaching courses in AIT. Initiated and facilitated signing MoU between AIT and SJCE, Mysore, India for launching joint education, research and conferences. (2008) Visited Several Thai Universities and delivered Research and Promotion Seminar – Khon Kaen University (2005, 2006. 2008 and 20011); – Burapha University (2009, 2011) Promotion Trip to India in early April 2010 with Coordinator, CSIM, to South India (Bangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad: 7 institutions and organisation) Promotion trip to India in late April 2010 with Dean, SET (Organised exhibition, seminars in Guwahati (Assam) and NEHU (Shillong).
VI. Ability to Cooperate AIT attaches great significance to the ability to co-operate. This includes the capacity to work jointly with colleagues and superiors. 1. Joint research activity.
Worked with Dr. Phisan S., Chula Longkorn, Univ. on joint RTG Project (2003-2005)
Worked with Dr. Pakorn A., GISTDA, Thailand (Thai Space Agency) on joint RTG Project (2003-2005)
Co-PI on Joint project for UNEP with Dr. Kou Ikejima, Assistant Prof., ITCZM. (2006-7)
Worked with Prof. Sa-nguan, Khon Kaen Univ. on Research Project (2006-8)
Worked on joint project with Dr. Marc Souris, Visiting Faculty, Asian Institute of Technology (2007-8)
CO-Chair, Doctoral Student with Dr. Kiyoshi Honda, STAR Program, AIT
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CO-Chair, Doctoral Student with Dr. Vatcharaporn E., Computer Science and Information Management, AIT CO-Chair, Doctoral Student with Dr. M.S. Babel, Water Engg and Management, CO-Chair, Doctoral Student with Dr. Paul Janecek, Computer Science and Information Management, AIT Co-Chair, Master student with Dr. W. Gallardo, ICZM, AARM, AIT Co-Chair, Doctoral student with Dr. W. Gallardo, ICZM, AARM, AIT
2. Joint pedagogical activity.
Co-Chair in PhD Thesis in CSIM, SET, AIT
Co-Chair in PhD Thesis in WEM, SET, AIT
Co-Chair in PhD Thesis in ITCZM, SERD, AIT
Chair in Masters Thesis in ITCZM, SERD, AIT
Co-Chair in Masters Thesis in WEM, SET, AIT
Co-Chair in Masters Thesis in WEM, SET, AIT (2)
Co-Chair in Masters Thesis in ITCZM, SERD, AIT
Developed course for ITCZM FoS: RS&GIS for Coastal Zone Management
(Taught 4 times) Developed course for Human Settlement Div., SERD: GIS application in Urban Planning and Management
Developed course for Disaster Planning, Monitoring and Management FoS: RS& GIS application in Disaster Planning and Management (Taught 2 times)
3. Interaction with the public and private sectors.
Working with Geoinformatics and Space Technology Development Agency, Thailand in joint project and organizing workshops Delivered Invited Lectures for Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, King Mongkut Univ. of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand (2006) A Joint Sponsored Project with Cara CAD Service Co. Ltd., Thailand for development of solution for Supply Chain and Logistics Management, using RFID, Vehicle Tracking System and Internet GIS, 2007-08.
Delivered Invited Lectures for Dept. of Veterinary Science, Public Health, Kasetsat Univ. Thailand (2010)
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VII. PERSONAL STATEMENT I was working in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT K), India for almost a decade (1989-98). IIT K being one of the top institutes was always very satisfying to work and conduct research alongwith a group of very bright students. In 1999, I visited STAR Program, SERD, AIT as the seconded faculty from Government of India. I was involved in teaching a course and conducting a training program alongwith other colleagues. The experience was really great to work in an International Environment and showed me scope to do diverse research to solve various global and regional issues of sustainable development using space technologies. This would have not been possible in a Bachelor Level teaching intensive institute like IITs. Therefore, I joined AIT in the year 2000. Since then, it is a saga of wonderful academic, research and social experience in my life. This has given me chance to work with colleagues not only in technology side but also in application related to real life issues – agriculture, aquaculture, water quality, erosion, disaster, supply chain and logistics using RFID/ Internet GIS, Nano Gas Sensors for air-pollution monitoring an so on. I see challenges of using GIS / Remote Sensing in various sectors and coming out with innovative solutions. All this was possible only because AIT offers the flexibility required in forming interdisciplinary alliances and encourages working in a team. Remote Sensing and GIS Field of Study is having a role of interdisciplinary teaching and research as the students come from varied background such as civil engineering, survey, mapping, forestry, agriculture, health, geography, computer science, and so on. Faculty has to offer research study and thesis topics matching with the students area of expertise. This has given many new exciting applications of geoinfomation technology in various fields and resulted in solutions for sustainable development of the region. I was able to nurture and debelop an entirely new application area such as healthGIS. I have guided several Masters and PhD thesis into this area and published papers. Anotehr area owhich is emerging is the GNSS (Global Navigation and Satellite Systems) and its application. I have completed one project witb Galileo Space Advisory (European Union) and another started recently with United States AOARD. These deal with global positioning systems available from USA and Europe such as GPS and Galileo. In future, we are going to work on QZSS (positioning and navigation system) from Japan. Till recently only GPS was available with 24 satellites but by 2013 there will be 140 satellites from GALILEO (EuroPean Union), GLONASS (Russia), Beidou (China), Gagan (India) and QZSS (Japan). This will iprove the accuracy and options in positioning and navigation and result into many more exciting new applications.
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Another exciting opportunity that AIT provided was to get International Projects quite easily than any National Institute. I could conduct several International projects for UNEP, IRD-France, European Union, AORD-USA, SIDA, NACA, RTG etc. My dream is to make AIT as the number one education centre for GEOINFORMATICS (remote sensing, GIS, GPS) education and research. There are challenges but there also exist numerous hidden opportunities. I am sure with new alliances and support of my colleagues my dream will be realized in near future to build a top level Asian Centre for Geoinformatics – offering world class education and research opportunities and serving Asia effectively. As a coordinator, I was able to initiate and launch two new innovative education programs in Remote Sensing and GIS Field of Study: 5 year Unified Bachelor and Masters Program in Geoinformatics with Chiang Mai University (3 Yrs in Chiang Mai Univ and 2 Yrs in Asian Institute of Technology; students: 50 per year) and another with J.N.T.U. Kakinada, India ((3 Yrs in JNTU and 2 Yrs in Asian Institute of Technology; students: 25 per year). Partner Institute will offer Bachelor Degree and AIT will offer Masters. We are also working on offer of collaboration with other organisations on Professional Masters program and 2-stage Masters Program. We are also working on modular system of teaching to introduce more topics in curricula to expose styudents more knowledge on ever developing Geoinformation Technology. Research Profile Geoinformation Technology provides tools of Remote Sensing, GIS, Global Positioning Systems, and Photogrammetry. I use these tools for “application research” in the fields of environment, agriculture and health. This offers me tremendous scope to interact with experts from various fields and apply these tools for monitoring water quality in surface and sub-surface waterbodies, bathymetry, coastal erosion, land suitability for various crops and crop-substitution modeling, spatial/ temporal disease surveillance/ hotspot mapping, and other health related applications such as emergency response for trauma assistance. Geoinformation technology has been going through rapid advancements in terms of telecommunication, satellites, sensors, global navigation satellite systems, and powerful desktop/ laptop/ smartphones. I have also tried my best to keep track with these advancement in my last 25 years of academic and research work and developed indoor positioning systems using wLAN, RFID and Bluetooth and related it with supply chain and goods tracking. Currently, I am involved in an important and interesting research related to monitoring the errors in GPS signals due to ionospheric scintillations caused by extreme weather events and solar flares. This is very critical for safe air traffic navigation and also early prediction of extreme weather events.
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My research focus is on exploration of the impact of climate change on Earth environment and also on the relationship of environmental, climatic and social factors on human health using existing tools of geoinformation technology. CERTIFICATION: I, the undersigned, certify that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, these biodata correctly describe myself, my qualifications and my experience. I understand that any willful misstatement described herein may lead to my disqualification.
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ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
POLICY AND PROCEDURE STATEMENT
Reference PA Issued By PRESIDENT
Section 1 Responsible Officer VPAA
Personnel Affairs Serial No. 2-5 Date Issued 14 June 2006
No. of Pages 7 Date Revised 12 September 2012
TITLE: FACULTY EVALUATION CRITERIA
I. PURPOSE
1. To set forth the evaluation criteria for faculty evaluation and the conditions and qualifications for appointment and promotion to the various ranks.
2. The evaluation process at AIT serves the purposes of advising the Institute on
the suitability of candidates for promotion and contract renewal and of providing feedback to the candidate on his/her performance in research, pedagogy, and service. The Institute uses the evaluation process to encourage and reward academic excellence and to rectify mediocrity and marginal contribution in a fair and constructive manner.
II. CONDITIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT AND
PROMOTION
A. Lecturer
1. A faculty member is appointed to the rank of Lecturer if he/she
possesses a doctoral degree with professional knowledge and two
years’ experience in the related field. He/she should have good
communication skills in English both in written and spoken. A
candidate for this rank must be creative with an ability to adapt to a
multi-culture setting in order to handle students of different
nationalities.
2. A Lecturer is appointed in order to participate in the educational and
research programs of the Institute. A Lecturer will be expected to
teach, advise students and serve as a member or chairperson of master
degree student program committees. A Lecturer may also serve as a
member of a doctoral program committee, but not as a chair.
3. A Lecturer must serve at least two years in the rank of Lecturer
before he/she is considered for the rank of Assistant Professor. He/She
will be evaluated by the Faculty Evaluation Panel and will be required
to give a seminar.
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B. Professorial Ranks
1. An earned doctoral degree from a reputable institution is required for
all professorial ranks.
2. The three ranks can be thought of as a continuum of performance from
potential to actual – potential at the Assistant Professor level to actual
at the Professor level.
3. Assistant Professor
i. A member of faculty is appointed to the rank of Assistant
Professor if there is promise of his/her development toward the
rank of Associate Professor. A strong academic record should
be present and there should be a clear indication that he/she has
the aptitudes of a successful faculty member and will grow in
stature and eventually qualify for the rank of Associate
Professor. A candidate for this rank must have at least, two
years of teaching/research experience and must show promise
of successful research and scholarship. At least two research
papers in refereed international journals, including publications
resulting from his/her doctoral dissertation, may be accepted as
evidence of such promise.
ii. A faculty member may not serve more than eight years at the
rank of Assistant Professor.
4. Associate Professor
An Associate Professor should demonstrate mature and independent
scholarship. Research and pedagogy should indicate creativity,
significance and effectiveness. It should be emphasized that in all
cases the candidate for promotion must have publications in
internationally recognized refereed journals of high stature or have
published one or more textbooks with a leading press. The required
number of publications shall be a function of their quality and
significance.
5. Professor
The rank of Professor at AIT is given only to those having made
significant internationally recognized contributions in research,
pedagogy, or their profession and who have demonstrated leadership in
the Institute, their profession, or their field. Candidates to this rank
must demonstrate that their research, pedagogical, or professional
contributions have had a significant impact on the advancement of
knowledge. Isolated contributions are not sufficient; rather candidates
must show evidence of significant sustained contribution.
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III. EVALUATION CRITERIA
1. Candidates for promotion and contract renewal are evaluated in the three
broad areas of research, pedagogy, and service. To be considered for
promotion, a faculty member must demonstrate above average competence
and professional accomplishments in all three areas and must excel in at least
one of pedagogy, research, or service to the candidate’s profession.
2. In all three areas, AIT attaches great significance to the ability to co-operate.
This includes the capacity to work jointly with colleagues. In this regard, it is
important for faculty members to be present on campus for a sufficient amount
of time each week to allow for interaction with colleagues. A faculty member
may also show ability to cooperate in interaction with the public and private
sectors.
3. In addition, the financial well-being of the Institute demands that each faculty
member contributes sufficiently to the generation of revenue. This is
primarily in the form of tuition from teaching and overhead from sponsored
projects, including research, training, and consulting.
A. Research
In general, quality is more important than quantity, although there must be
sufficient quantity to provide evidence of a significant level of scholarly
productivity.
Several factors serve as measures of the quality of a scholarly record.
a) The impact of research can be measured by the number of citations to a
candidate’s published work.
b) The quality of the journals in which the individual publishes can be
measured by the impact factors of the journals. For books the quality
of the publisher and particularly the popularity as indicated by the
number of editors/reprints is important.
c) An important measure of the significance of research comes in the
form of comments from external evaluators who are internationally
recognized scholars in the candidates’ field. External evaluators play a
key role by providing a degree of objectivity, independent of any
institutional, political, or financial factors, and expert assessment of the
significance and impact of a faculty member’s work.
d) Outside funding of research from prestigious foundations and institutes
can be viewed as a significant part of the research record, depending
on the relative size of the grant and the significance of the questions
posed.
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e) The composition of the portfolio of published works also matters. A
collection of good, but unconnected articles, may not produce the same
sense of impact that a set of articles advancing a coherent line of
scholarship would. It is not unprecedented, though, for faculty to shift
scholarly areas of focus. The personal statement provided by the
candidate is, therefore, a very important guide to the significance of
each scholarly piece and their connection to each other.
f) Another issue is the connection of published work to the dissertation.
Highly regarded articles from the dissertation do count, but not as
much as highly regarded articles reflecting scholarship beyond the
dissertation.
g) The scholarly record should provide clear evidence of independent
thinking and research. Thus, although many junior scholars continue
to do some collaborative work with a former Ph.D. or postdoctoral
advisor, it is important to establish a record of growing independence
from former advisors.
h) Invitations to talk at other universities and prestigious events add to the
scholarly record but generally play a relatively minor role independent
of other measures of the scholarly record.
i) AIT values the ability to collaborate, so coauthored articles are an
important factor. It is, however, necessary to identify the contributions
of the candidate to these articles. A significant portion of the overall
research record should include articles and works to which the
candidate has made the primary conceptual contributions.
B. Pedagogy
Pedagogy includes teaching/learning, student research supervision,
pedagogical development, and publications of a pedagogical nature.
The following factors are considered in evaluation of pedagogical
performance:
a) Teaching/learning effectiveness. In the area of teaching/learning, the
candidate should demonstrate mastery of knowledge in the areas
taught, competency in organization and presentation of course
materials, conscientiousness and fairness in relationships with students,
skill in instruction, and commitment to developing better approaches to
teaching/learning.
b) Teaching load. This includes the number of courses taught and their
enrollments.
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c) Student research. The number and quality of student research study
projects, theses, and dissertations supervised.
d) Student course evaluations. At a minimum, candidates are expected to
have numeric scores above 3.0 on the typical 5-point scale. Special
interest is placed on evaluations of the instructor’s contribution to the
class, the overall quality of the class, and, especially, the amount
students learned.
e) Peer teaching evaluations. It is best if the file includes peer reviews
from several different faculty colleagues. Especially in cases of
interdisciplinary courses, it may be useful to have peer reviews by
faculty in different disciplines.
f) Courses co-taught with other instructors from either within or outside
AIT.
g) Mentoring record. A very important part of our teaching/learning
responsibilities takes place outside of any specific course. The
advising of students is a significant contribution to the teaching/
learning mission of the Institute.
h) Initiation and participation in curriculum development (e.g. new
courses, new programs, flexible degree programs).
i) Demonstrated effectiveness in the development and use of innovative
methods in teaching/learning.
j) Publications of a pedagogical nature (e.g. textbooks, articles on
pedagogical techniques).
k) Formal personal pedagogical development. This includes participation
in workshops and short courses on pedagogy.
C. Service
Communities thrive when all members contribute to the common good. Thus
we expect that candidates will have been involved in the life of the Institute, of
the local and regional community, and of their professional associations.
a) Professional Service. Impact on and acceptance in the profession as
measured by dissemination in scholarly and professional journals.
Leadership in policy and program development in professional
organizations. Participation in organizational responses to policy,
practice, or structural issues, which affect the field. Holding
significant elective or appointed offices. Receipt of awards or citations
for professional contributions. Organization of training courses,
conferences, seminars, and workshops.
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b) Community Service. Serving on program committees. Consulting
activities. Refereeing of journal articles, books, grant proposals, etc.
Serving as external examiner.
c) Institute Service. Committee service. Administrative service.
Promotion and marketing.
D. Personal Statement. The personal statement is a self-reflection by a faculty
member of his/her work. The reflective statement should indicate what the
faculty member thinks of his/her most important accomplishments and the
significance of the accomplishments in achieving Field of Study, School,
institutional, and/or professional goals. The faculty member may organize
his/her reflective statement under these categories: pedagogy, research, and
service and outreach, and indicate time spent on each activity and specify
which activity or activities he/she has excelled. The faculty member should
also explain how he/she integrated pedagogy, research, and service and
outreach to achieve synergy and balance. The faculty member may illustrate
how his/her one activity has benefited other activity/activities; for example,
how research has benefited pedagogy and teaching/learning and vice versa.
The faculty member may state how the earlier feedback from the Faculty
Evaluation Panel/President helped him/her to improve quality of his/her work.
The faculty member should indicate a plan of his/her future portfolio of
activities and the expected impact.
The personal statement should not exceed two pages in length.
IV. CRITERIA FOR CONTRACT RENEWAL
Contract renewal requires a continued level of performance consistent with that
required for promotion to the faculty member’s current rank. In addition, each faculty
member is expected to have generated sufficient revenue over the previous contract
period to at least equal his/her salary cost over that period. This includes revenue
from teaching and overhead from sponsored projects, including research, training, and
consulting.
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Modification History:
1st Revision 20 June 2012
Reviewed By:
AIT Management Team (12 September 2012, 20 June 2012, 13
June 2012, 16 May 2012)
Academic Senate (25 July 2012)
2nd
Revision
Related Policies
PA-1-1-1 – Employment of Faculty: General Work Regulations
PA-1-2-1 – Procedure for Recruitment and Appointment of Direct-Hire Faculty
PA-1-2-2 – Procedure for Evaluation of Faculty for Promotion
PA-1-2-3 – Procedure for Evaluation of Faculty for Contract Renewal
Keywords
Rationale for Revisions:
(20 June 2012 / 13 June 2012 / 16 May 2012, AITMT)
Discontinue the position of Instructor.
Developed criteria for the rank of Lecturer linked with the professorial ranks
as a continuum of performance.
Required a more comprehensive personal statement.