Geospatial and Soft Computing Techniques

Drought Monitoring using Satellite Soil Moisture Data over Godavari Basin, India.- An Ecohydrological and Geospatial Assessment for Urban River System: A Case Study in the Bhogdoi River, India.- Assessment of Reservoir Sedimentation using Geospatial Tools: A Case Study of Kadana Reservoir.- Water Quality Estimation using Remote Sensing Technique: A Case Sttudy of Bhadra Reservoir, Karnataka.- Impact Assessment of Water Conservation Planning using RS and GIS Techniques - A Case of "Buldhana Project".- Application of GIS and RS for Morphometric and Hypsometric Analysis of Pargaon Watershed: A Case Study.- Hypsometric Analysis of Brahmani Baitarani Basin using ArcGIS.- Climate Change Impact and Adaptive Measures for Green Cover Assessment at District Level.- Analysis of Land Use Land Cover Changes in the Netravati Basin, Karnataka, India.- Spatiotemporal Land use Land Cover Change Impacts on Groundwater Table in Surat District, India.- Evolution in Application of Satellite Data for Land use/Land Cover Classification and Change Detection: A Review.- Land Use/Land Cover Monitoring and Change Detection of Sabarmati River Basin using GIS and Remote Sensing.

P. V. Timbadiya is an Associate Professor in the Water Resources Engineering section, Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He secured his doctoral degree and post-graduation in Water Resources Engineering from SVNIT Surat in 2012 and 2004, respectively. He did his under graduation in Civil Engineering from Sardar Vallabhbhai Regional College of Engineering Technology (now SVNIT). He has guided two Doctoral Thesis and 29 Master's Dissertations. He has more than 110 research papers to his credit, including 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He served as Dean (Alumni and Resources Generation), and currently serving as Sectional Head, Water Resources Engineering Section at SVNIT. He played an instrumental role in setting up infrastructure facilities in the Centre of Excellence on 'Water Resources and Flood Management' such as the Experimental Hydraulics Lab, Computational Hydraulics Lab, Water Circulation System, and others. He is appointed as 'National Consultant' for Kalpsar Project by Narmada, Water Resources, Water Supply and Kalpsar Department of Govt. of Gujarat. He is a recipient of 'Best Case Study Award - 2015' award by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his publication in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and 'Young Engineers Award' by the Institution of Engineers (India) in the year 2015. He received 'Prof. R. J. Garde Research Award' for the year 2020 by the Indian Society for Hydraulics. He has awarded DST-SERB Core Research Grant for the project on 'Local Scouring around tandem and staggered bridge piers on Non-uniform mobile bed' in the year 2021. He is active in various professional bodies and organized numerous conferences, workshops, and short-term training programmes in his academic career.  Prem Lal Patel is a Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources in the Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of