Dr. Ramji Dwivedi

Associate Professor
GIS Cell
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: ramjid[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 0532 227 1343(O) 9454142973(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:: Invited speaker in International Conference Chem Conflux20 organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad from February 14-16, 2020.; Delivered invited expert talk on "GNSS Meteorology for Extreme Rainfall forecasting: A case study from Uttarakhand CORS network" in UNWGIC PRE-EVENT-20TH -21ST JULY,2022 GEO-ENABLING THE GLOBAL VILLAGE ORGANIZED BY : SURVEY OF INDIA

Chair in Conferences:

VIII/1 - Disaster and Risk Reduction 2, XXIII ISPRS Congress 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, 12th – 19th July 2016

Chem-Conflux 2020, MNNIT Allahabad, 14-16 February 2020

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:: Visited Lausanne, Switzerland and Prague, Czech Republic to present research papers in IEEE JURSE 2015 and XXIII ISPRS Congress 2016 respectively.

Award and Honors:: Third Prize for Best Paper Award at ISPRS Symposium, Dehradun 2018.; DST International Travel award to attend XXIII ISPRS Congress 2016 (Not availed).; The ISPRS Foundation (TIF) award 2016.; GATE fellowship from MHRD (Govt. of India) for two years 2010-2012.; Meritorious scholarship at BIET Jhansi for standing first for two years.; Secured 10th position overall in University ranking for Civil Engineering, UPTU, 2010.; Best Poster Presentation Award (First Prize) at NICES, ISRO workshop titled "National Workshop & Brainstorming Meeting on Space based Information Support for Climate and Environment Studies: Road to future" held at RRSC, ISRO, New Delhi on 18-19 July 2022.

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:: Coordinator, NRMDS, DST sponsored 5-day short term course cum training programme titled InSAR: Theory, Processing and Applications, August 12-16, 2019.; Coordinator, one-week GIAN course titled GPS data processing using GAMIT/GLOBK with Prof. Thomas A Herring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA (GAMIT/GLOBK developer) as foreign expert, January 22-26, 2018.; Coordinator, A two-day National workshop on Environment and sustainable developed: Challenges and solutions, August, 4-5 2017.; Coordinator, A four Day training programme on GNSS Receiver and Total Station, MNNIT Allahabad, May 5-8, 2015.; Coordinator, a self financed training programme cum summer school, STIPGCE-2019; Coordinator, A two Day training programme on Handheld DGPS, MNNIT Allahabad, April 29-30, 2014.; Coordinator, NRMDS, DST sponsored 5-day short term course titled Training on InSAR: Theory, Processing and Applications, March 27-31, 2022; Coordinator, NRMDS, DST sponsored 5-day short term course titled Training on Geospatial Techniques for Disaster Mitigation, March 21-25, 2022.

On-going Projects:: Regional Center for Geodesy (RCG) at MNNIT Allahabad (PI) (Funding Agency: DST); (one of the six institutions in the country selected by DST under Hub-spoke model; Hub: National Center for Geodesy (NCG), IIT Kanpur); Landslide monitoring, strain mapping and landslide forecasting using ALOS (L-band SAR) acquisitions (PI) (Data support for ALOS-2) [Agency: JAXA under 3rd Research Announcement]

Projects Completed:: Multi-temporal SAR Interferometry studies for near-real time landslide monitoring (PI) (Funding Agency: NRSC, ISRO) [Rs. 45.43 lakhs]; Landslide inventory preparation using Multi- temporal SAR Interferometry (PI) (Funding Agency: NRDMS, DST) [Rs. 20.44 lakhs]; Multi-sensor approach for landslide monitoring (Co-PI) (Funding Agency: NRDMS, DST) [Rs. 36.66 lakhs] (Jointly with IIT Kanpur)

Expert Lectures:: Delivered expert lecture on GPS Technology and its applications at ATAL FDP, IET Lucknow, July 28, 2021; Delivered expert lecture on GPS Technology and its applications at ATAL FDP, AISA Polytechnic, Nagpur, June 22, 2021; Delivered two expert lecture on GPS: Introduction, Segments, Errors and Applications at TEQIP-III Sponsored Five days short term course on Recent Trends in Geoinformatics, Department of Civil Engineering, BIET Jhansi on 9th and 10th December 2020.; Delivered expert lecture on Study and Observation using GPS at TEQIP-III Sponsored FDP on Laboratory Experiments using Virtual Lab in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, MMUT Gorakhpur on 24th September 2020.; Delivered expert lecture in 21 days NRDMS-DST sponsored training programme on Geospatial Technologies from 10-30 May, 2019 at K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric & Ocean Studies, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.; Delivered invited lecture in Idea Conclave on Collaging futuristic skills for new India from March 7-8, 2019 at The Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, a Constituent Institute of the Central University of Allahabad, a premier research Institute in North India.; Resource person in DST initiated short term course titled Introduction to Landslide Site Mapping (organized by IIT Kanpur) from 24th – 28th October 2016 (at IITK Outreach center, Noida) and 2nd – 6th March 2017 (at IIT Kanpur campus) for various Principal Investigators (PI) and Junior Research Fellows (JRFs) of DST sponsored research project for better understanding of geospatial technologies in understanding Landslide phenomena and large scale mapping.; Delivered expert lectures in self-financed short-term course Numerical and Optimization Techniques (NOT)-2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 organized by CED, MNNIT Allahabad.; Delivered invited seminar at Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay on Optimization and design of Geodetic network for Natural Hazard Monitoring, August 2017.; Delivered invited seminar at Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi on Multi-temporal InSAR for estimating geophysical parameter of interest, March 2018.

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS); Remote Sensing Letters; Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS); Environmental Sustainability; Current Science; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment; ASCE Journal of Surveying Engineering; Arabian Journal of Geosciences; Survey review; Scientific Reports; Various International Conferences; Advance in Space Research; Geocarto International; Environmental Science and Pollution Research; Geomatics, Natural Hazard and Risk; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation; Journal of Cleaner Production

Other Significant Achievements:: Visited EOS, NTU Singapore under TEQIP-II International travel grant; Served as PhD thesis examiner for Center for Natural Resources and Engineering (CSRE), IIT Bombay; Served as M.Tech thesis examiner for BIET Jhansi; Served as PhD thesis examiner Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur; Served as BoAC member, Civil Engineering, BIET Jhansi; MOU between NRSC, Hyderabad and MNNIT Allahabad on Monitoring & Investigations on lightning phenomena and its associated processes using lightning detection systems (LDS) at Collaborating Institutes; Served as External Thesis Examiner at Tata Institute of Social Sciences