Ks Rajan personal-projects

Environmental Projects - Land use, Water use and Environment related

• Modelling of LULC Dynamics in Yamuna and Godavari River Basins, related to ISRO-GBP project on LULC dynamics and Impact of Human dimensions in Indian River Basins. Main PI.
  
  Funded by: Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO
  Period: 2012-2015.
• Development of Biodiversity Spatial Data Infrastructure for Western Ghats, India. Co-PI, joint research with OSGeo-India.
  
  Funded by: Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India.
  Period: 2012-2013 (Sanctioned but not started)
• Documenting Disappearing Water Bodies of Hyderabad City - Socio-technological options for drinking water supply. Co-PI with SaciWATERs, SOUL and NIAS Bangalore.
  
  Funded by: Funded by Dept of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
  Period: 2012-2013.
• Agent based modeling of land-use/ land-cover changes in Barak basin - North Eastern India. Main PI. Funded by North East Space Applications Centre, Dept. of Space. 2012-13.
  
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• GIS Study of the Watershed of Shamirpet lake in Peri-urban area of Hyderabad. A preliminary analysis for South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs, UNDP) to assess water security in peri-urban areas. May 2011-Aug 2011. Preliminary research work.
  
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• Second National Communication (NATCOM) on inventory of Green House Gases - National Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) assessment using satellite data. PI for 3 states in India. Funded by National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO for 2009-2011.
  
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• ENVIS Common Service Platform - a prototype system. This was developed to improve the data and knowledge sharing of ENVIS centres, in consultation with the Min. of Environment and Forestry, Govt. of India. 2008-2009. (internal funds)
  
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• Agricultural Land Use in East and South Asia - Rapidly Changing Landscapes and its Impacts on Regional Food Security. Main PI of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change (APN) funded project for 2005-07 involving India, Japan and China.
  
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• DREAMAR: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Household Resilience and Change. Decision-making in Rangeland systems: an integrated Ecosystem-Agent-based Modeling Approach. Collaborator of this NSF(USA) funded Project lead by NREL, Colorado State University for 2005-08
  
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Geospatial Technology Projects - GIS Algorithms, Satellite Image Processing, Open Source Development (in-house too)

• Development of an Open Source Collaborative Mapping Platform - VRGeo.in - an in-house technology development project for creation and collation of Voluntarily contributed Geospatial data within India. Technology developed at Lab for Spatial Informatics and Deployed on Megha:Cloud computing platform on GARUDA of CDAC (DeITy, Govt. of India) Bangalore. 2011 onwards.
  
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• LSIViewer: Libre Spatial Information Viewer for Geospatial data (http://lsi.iit.ac.in/lsiviewer) - a hosted free web service. Also released Source code on github.com under Apache License 2.0 in Oct 2012.
  
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• Algorithm Development for GIS based Airport Network Generation. Main PI. Funded by Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. 2012 Aug-Dec. 13. Design & Optimization of Image Registration and Fusion Algorithms. Main PI. Funded by Instruments Research and Development Establishment (IRDE), DRDO, Min. of Defence, Govt. of India. 2012-13.
  
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• Object Creation and Attribution in High Resolution Images for Object Based Image Analysis. Main PI. Funded by Defence Electronics Application Lab, DRDO, Min. of Defence,Govt. of India. 2011-2012.
  
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• Object Based Attribution & Classification - Change Detection and Image Fusion Main PI. Funded by Defence Electronics Application Lab, DRDO, Min. of Defence,Govt. of India. 2011-2012.
  
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• Web enabled information system for e-governance of Rajahmundry Municipal Corporation: An Open Source GIS, Remote Sensing and GPS approach. Co-PI, joint research with Adikavi Nannaya University, Rajahmundry. Funded by Dept of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 2011-2013
  
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• Virtual Lab for Optical Remote Sensing - a project to allow students to learn the concepts of Optical remote sensing by running virtual experiments. Main PI for this Lab as part of a larger National funding. Funded by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India. 2010-2012.
  
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• Development of CRM package using Open Source Technology (under IMGEOS project). Main Lead. Funded by National Remote Sensing Centre, ISRO for 2011-12 19. Determination of Relative State of Aircraft for Airport Surface Indications & Alerting. Funded by Rockwell Collins Inc., USA. 2009-10
  
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• Research on Parallel computing applications on Geo-visualization and open source geospatial libraries, using the IBM Cell processor - as part of the IBM Cell Centre of Competence and IBM Shared University Research award to IIIT-H. 2009~2012
  
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Consultancy

• Evaluation of Open Technology Centre’s Service towards e-Government Projects in India, of National Informatics Centre, Dept. of Electronics and Information Technology, Min. of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India. (2012-13)
  
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• Land use planning of Cyberabad, for APIIC and Govt. of A.P. (2008-09). An initial study for the development of a sustainable socio-economic plan for maintaining a consistent Brand of Hyderabad, in the short, mid and long term growth of the Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration.
  
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• Advisor, to EiGEN Technical Services Pvt. Ltd, for the Traffic feasibility study of the Metro link to Cyberabad area (2009)
  
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• Expert on Environment & Energy, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hyderabad (2009)
  
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• GIS and Research Consultant to TriGeo Image Systems Pvt. Ltd. (India) - advised on GIS User Interfaces and WebGIS related.(1998-1999)
  
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• IS consultant to 'Chuo Chizu Company (Japan)'. Have worked on various projects including one on identifying development areas & strategies in Niigata Prefecture of Japan, another one for Osaka Prefecture.(1996-1999)
  
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• Worked on the development of a GPS camera based Photographic Database System to be used as Ground truth data in remote sensing and related areas with Konica Japan (1995)
  
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• Secretary to the Project Leader of Quality Evaluation Procedures (of geospatial data), Working Group 3 of ISO/TC211. (1998)
  
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