Wednesday, June 27, 2007

teaching & training

+teaching

  • Remote Sensing
  • Geographic Information System
  • Hydrogeology
  • Applied Geomorphology


+training

1993

Two weeks training course on ‘Advanced Digital Image Processing of Remotely Sensed data using VAX 11/780 computer system, at Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre, Bangalore, India.

1994

One and half month certificate course on ‘ Remote sensing and its Application in Geography’ at Centre for Remote sensing, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India.

1998

Two months training in GIS at International Institute for Aerospace and Earth sciences Survey, Enschede, The Netherlands.

2004

Three months research/ learning of software & newer technology on ‘Airborne laser scanning’ and interpretation of high resolution satellite data at Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote sensing, Technical University Dresden, Germany.

research carrier

Current

Optimisation of Spectral bands for Lunar Mapping
Remote sensing & Deep Aquifer Study
Sustainable Ground Water Study

2001-2005

Geoinformatics and Landslide Risk Assesment
GIS and Groundwater Exploration
Geoinformatics and Flood Impact Assesment
Remote Sensing and Applied Geomorphological Studies

1998-2001

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, IITM, Chennai


Associated with NLC sponsored project on‘Neyveli Multilayer Aquifer system.
European Commission sponsored project entitled “Development of Fuzzy logic Procedure for Prioritization of Irrigation system Maintenance and Rehabilitation."
Risk assessment, estimation of probability of failures and prioritization of maintenance for irrigations systems.

1996-1998

Justus- Liebig University, Giessen, Germany Postdoctoral research programme involves


Remote Sensing and GIS for Artificial Recharge studies in Kinzig basin, Germany.
International Institute of Aerospace and Earth sciences (ITC), Holland. Short term research work on ‘Hydrological studies in catchment areas through Remote sensing and GIS'.

1987-1996

Integrated Mission for Sustainable Development of Gundar basin area, Tamil Nadu.
Spectro Radiometric Survey and Optimization of Spectral Bands for Discriminating the Minerals and Rocks
Thermal Remote sensing studies for Geological Mapping.
Remote Sensing based Integrated Terrain Analysis for Artificial Recharge.
Urban Land use/land cover mapping using IRS 1B and SPOT data.
Remote Sensing and Hydrogeomorphological Mapping under National Drinking Water Mission project.
Remote Sensing based Village Level Ground Water Potential Mapping for Composite Ramnad district.

academic & professional carrier

+Academic

  • B.Sc Geology (1983) from Department of Geology, Government Arts College Salem.
  • M.Sc Applied Geology (1985) from National College Bharathidasan University, Tiruchy.
  • Ph.D Geological Remote Sensing(1995), Centre for Remote Sensing Bharathidasan University, Tiruchy.

+Professional carrier

  • May 2005 Professor and Head, Department of Geology,Periyar University , Salem
  • March 2005-May 2005 Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, India
  • 2001-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay, India
  • 1998-2001 Senior Project Officer, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, India
  • 1996-1998 Humboldt Research Fellow, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
  • 1995-1996 Research Associate, Centre for Remote sensing, Bharathidasan University

popular articles

1.Sand Mining and its Impact on Groundwater, Dinamani, Chennai. 3rd July 2003.

2.Induced Groundwater recharge in Cauvery delta, The Hindu, Science and Technology dated 5th October, 1994. pp 28.

3.Groundwater conditions in Urban Environment, Dinnamani Sudar. Science section dt 16th November, 1991. pp 1

4.Landslide in Kolli Hills, The Hindu, 2006.

publications

+Journal

Published

1. Saranathan.E., Anbazhagan.S., and Loveson.V.J., Remote sensing mapping for assessing land unit changes of mining environment: A case study from magnesite mines, Salem. Journal of Geomorphology. Vol.8, No.1&2, pp 135-142.

2. Anbazhagan.S.,and Archana M.Nair 2004. Geographic Information System and groundwater quality mapping in Panvel basin, Maharashtra, India. Environmental Geology, International Journal of Geosciences. 45: pp 753-761.

3. Anbazhagan.S., and Dash.P., 2003. Environmental case study of Cauvery river flood plain. GIS Development, December 2003, Vol.7, issue 12, pp 30-35.

4. Anbazhagan.S., and Saranathan.E., 2001. Structure and its Impact in Uthangarai and Thirthamalai region, Tamil Nadu, India - Using Remote sensing. Photonirvachak, Journal of Indian Society of Remote sensing.Vol.29 No.4, pp.187-195.

5. Ramasamy.SM., and Anbazhagan.S., 1997. Criteria and techniques of detecting Site specific mechanisms for Artificial recharge- A case study from Ayyar basin, India. Journal of Geological Society of India. Bangalore. Vol 50, pp 449-456.

6. Ramasamy.SM., and Anbazhagan.S., 1996. Integrated terrain analysis in site selection for Artificial recharge in Ayyar basin, Tamil Nadu, India. Water Resources journal. Bangkok. ST/ESCAP/SER-C/ 190 pp 43-48.

7. Anbazhagan.S., and Saranathan.E., 1995.Application of remote sensing for Analysis of groundwater condition along coastal tract of Tamil Nadu, India. Asian-Pacific Remote sensing journal. Vol.7, No.2. Jan. Bangkok. pp 11-18.

8.Anbazhagan.S., and Saranathan.E., 1995 Impact of urban development on rechargeable media, in and around Madras region, India. Journal of Indian Society of Water Works Association, Bombay. Vol XXVI No.4 1 pp 237-239.

9. Ramasamy.SM.,and Anbazhagan.S., 1994. Remote sensing for Artificial recharge of groundwater Bulletin of the National Natural Resources Management System, Bangalore. March,Vol.18, pp 35-37.

10. Anbazhagan.S., 1993. Fracture pattern study for ground water exploration in part of Dharmapuri dt.Tamil Nadu, Bhu-jal news, New Delhi. Vol.8, no.2 June. pp 8-12.

11. Ramasamy.SM., Venkatasubramanian.V., and Anbazhagan.S., 1993. Reflectance spectra of minerals and their discrimination using Thematic Mapper, IRS and SPOT multispectral data, International journal of Remote sensing, Taylor and Francis, UK. Vol.14, No.16, pp 2935-2970.

12. Anbazhagan.S., 1993.Integrated Groundwater study in drought prone Pennagaram, Dharmapuri dt. Tamil Nadu, Bulletin of the Indian Geologist Association, Dec. Chandigarh.Vol. 26 (2). pp 117-123.

13. Anbazhagan.S., and Saranathan.E., 1991.Hydrogeomorphological mapping in parts of Salem dt, Tamil Nadu. Journal of Indian Geographical society. Vol 66-1, pp65-68.

14. Anbazhagan. S.,1991. Study of geology and Structure of Perungulathur area in Tiruvannamalai Sumbuvarayar dt, Tamil Nadu using Remote sensing technique, `Photonirvachak, Journal of Indian society of Remote sensing, Vol. 19/2, pp 135-140.

Accepted / Communicated

1. Anbazhagan.S., and Ramasamy.SM., 2004.Evaluation of areas for Artificial groundwater Recharge in Ayyar basin, Tamil Nadu, India through Statistical terrain analysis. Journal of Geological Society of India (accepted)

2. Anbazhagan. S., Chatterjee. A., Sethupathi.A.S., and Balamurugan.G.,2004. Remote Sensing and GIS based Integrated Terrain Analysis for Landslide Hazard Mapping for Mumbai city, India. International Journal of Remote Sensing (communicated).

3.Anbazhagan.S.,Persai.P., Balamurugan.G., Sethupathi.A.S., and Dasgupta.S., 2004.Groundwaterpotential and aquifer type analysis in drought prone area: through remote sensing and GIS. Hydrological Sciences Journal (communicated)

4. Anbazhagan.S., Rajalaxmi Rout and Archana M.Nair 2004. Runoff Resistance map generation for Mamundi river basin, Tiruchirappalli India using remote sensing and GIS. Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, Bangkok (communicated)

5. Anbazhagan.S., and Archana M.Nair 2004. Groundwater resource analsysis through IRS 1C LISS III satellite data and GIS technique in Panvel basin, India. Geocarto International (communicated)

6. Anbazhagan.S., Ramasamy.SM.,and Sukla Dasgupta., 2004. Remote sensing and GIS for artificial recharge study, runoff estimation and planning in Ayyar basin, Tamil Nadu, India. Environmental Geology (in press).

7.Anbazhagan.S. Gupta.A.K., Balamurugan.G., and Sethupathi.A.S., 2004. Geoenvironmental study around Hogenakkal waterfalls, Tamil Nadu, India using satellite data and GIS technique. Enivironmental Geology (communicated).


+Conference

Papers in Conference Proceedings

1 Anbazhagan.S.,2004.Airborne Laser Scanning And Its Application-Review. International Seminar On Geoinformatics, December 13-14.Mysore

2 Anbazhagan.S., P.Persai, G.Balamurugan and S.DasGupta.,2004.Remote Sensing and GIS for groundwater development plan in drought prone area Tamil Nadu, International Seminar On Geoinformatics, December 13-14.Mysore

3 Anbazhagan.S., A.K.Gupta , PN Dash, GuruBalamurugan.,2004.Geoinformatics And Environmental Study Along Cauvery River, TamilNadu, India, International Seminar On Geoinformatics , December 13-14. Mysore

4 Anbazhagan.S.,K.S.Sajinkumar, 2004.Delination of Landslide Hazard Zones in parts of Western Ghats using ISR ID Satellite Data And GIS, International Seminar On Geoinformatics, December 13-14. Mysore

5 Anbazhagan.S., 2004. Geoinformatics for Hydrological studies. Proceedings of Regional Collogquium, An Industry-Academia meet on Advanced materials, Biosciences and Computers and Information Technology. Daman. Feb pp25-27.

6 Anbazhagan.S., and Archana M.Nair 2003.Remote sensing and GIS for land and groundwater resource analysis in Panvel basin, India. VI Inter- Regional Conference on Environment Water (Envirowater’2003), Albacete, Spain 3-5 September. Abs.160-161, Full paper published in CD ROM

7 Archana M.Nair., and Anbazhagan.S., 2003. GIS and spatial analysis for groundwater potential mapping in Panvel basin,India. VI Inter-Regional Conference on Environment Water (Envirowater’2003), Albacete, Spain 3-5 September Abs.21-22 Full paper published in CD ROM

8 Archana M Nair., and Anbazhagan.S., 2003. Hyperspectral Remote sensing for mineral exploration – A review. ISRS 2003 Symposium, Thiruvananthapuram 9-12 December Full paper published in CD ROM.

9 Anbazhagan.S., 2002 Remote Sensing And GIS Based Hydrological Studies in Kinzig Basin, Germany. Geomatics 2002, Conference on “IT Enabled Spatial Data Services” September 18-20, Centre for Remote sensing, Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli. Pp 218-222.

10 Anbazhagan. S., and Ramasamy.SM., 2002. Remote Sensing based Artificial Recharge studies – a case study from Precambrian terrain, India.Dillon P.J (ed.) Management of Aquifer Recharge for Sustainability Proc. 4th International Symposium on Artificial Recharge, September 22- 26, Adelaide, Australia pp. 553-556.

11 Anbazhagan.S., and Ghosh.A., 2002. Coastal Geomorphology and Land Use/ Land Cover Mapping in and around Manori Creek, Mumbai, ISPRS International Symposium on Resource and Environmental Monitoring, 3-4 December, Hyderabad. Pp 420-423

12 Anbazhagan.S., and Saranathan.E., 2001.Urbanisation and its Environmental Impact on Groundwater in Chennai city, India. International Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment with special regard to Water Resources Management, AIT, Bangkok. Nov’2001. pp 9-16

13 Anbazhagan S., Aschenbrenner F and Knoblich K., 2001. Comparision of Aquifer Parameters with Lineaments Derived from Remotely Sensed Data in Kinzig basin, Germany. XXXI. IAH Congress: New Approaches to Characterising Groundwater Flow. Munich, 10th- 14th September, Vol 2. pp 883-886.

14 Anbazhagan.S.,and Saranathan.E., 2000.Influence of Geology, Geomorphology and Structure on groundwater condition in hard rock terrains of Tamil Nadu, India. Conference on Groundwater Exploration Techniques. 30-31 March. Tiruchirappalli. pp. 1-6.

15 Anbazhagan.S., Ramasamy.SM., and Moses Edwin.J., 2000.Remote Sensing and Geophysical Resistivity Survey for Groundwater exploration – A comparative analysis. Conference on Groundwater Exploration Techniques. 30-31 March. Tiruchirappalli. pp. 177-181.

16 Moses Edwin.J., Manivel.M., and Anbazhagan.S., 2000.Comparative analysis of Different Interpretation methods of Geophysical data – A case study from Ayyar basin. Conference on Groundwater Exploration Techniques. 30-31 March. Tiruchirappalli. pp. 101-108.

17 Anbazhagan S., Aschenbrenner F and Knoblich K.,1999. Geographic Information System for Artificial Recharge Studies in Germany. International Geoscience and Remote sensing symposium, 28 June – 02 July, Hamburg, Germany. IEEE. pp 2380- 2382

18 Anbazhagan.S., Ramasamy.SM., and Moses Edwin.J., 1997. Artificial Recharge studies through Remote sensing in central part of Tamil Nadu, India: in Stein T.I., (ed) Remote sensing: a scientific vision for sustainable development :1997 International Geoscience and Remote sensing symposium, Piscataway, N.J. IEEE Singapore. Vol I pp 29-31.

19 Anbazhagan.S., 1997.Geophysical Resistivity survey and potential site selection for Artificial Recharge, India. in Marinos.P.G.,et al (ed) International Symposium on Engineering Geology and Environment. Vol. 2, 23-25 June. Athens. pp 1169-1173.

20 Ramasamy.SM., Anbazhagan.S., and Moses Edwin.J., 1993.Control fracture systems in Artificial recharge with special reference to crystalline aquifer system in Tamil Nadu, Proc. on International symposium on Strides in Civil Engineering, Anna University, Madras,India. pp SU 41-46.

21 Ramasamy.SM., Paul.M.A., and Anbazhagan.S., 1992.Influence of rock Mineralogy and rock chemistry over thermal emissivity of rocks and suitability of thermal remote sensing for geological mapping. 6th Australian symposium on Remote sensing. Newzealand.pp :2 - 296-299.1992.

22 Ramasamy.SM., Anbazhagan.S., and Tillai Govindarajan.S., 1992.Generation of hybrid images through statistical combination of seven band Thematic Mapper data in lithological discrimination and terrain analysis´in Srinivasan.V., Omg.S.H., and Ang Y.H., (ed) 2nd Singapore International conference on Image processing (ICIP 92). World Scientific publisher, Singapore. pp 482-486.

23 Ramasamy.SM., and Anbazhagan.S., 1992.Digital image processing of seven band Thematic Mapper data and the optimisation of enhancement techniques for lithological mapping:in I.V. Muralikrishna (ed) ICORG-92, Remote sensing application and Geographic Information Systems, Recent trends, Tata McGraw-Hill publishing company Ltd. New Delhi. pp 475-479.

24 Anbazhagan.S., and Ramasamy.SM., 1993.Role of Remote sensing in Geomorphic analysis for water harvesting structures, Proc. on National seminar on Water harvesting, Regional Engineering college, Tiruchirappalli. pp 208-218.

25 Anbazhagan.S., and Suresh.V.D., 2000. Fuzzy logic procedure and Possible application in Geoscience. National Symposium on Tamil Science conference. Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi.

26 Anbazhagan.S., 1992. Groundwater condition in hill regimes of Tamil Nadu – A remote sensing approach. National Semimar on Recent Trends in Prospecting of Earth Resources, Madras.18-20th March.

27 Ramasamy.SM., and Anbazhagan.S., 1991.Optimisation of remotely sensed data for mapping zones of environmental degradation. National symposium on Remote sensing of Environment, Institute of Remote sensing, Anna University, Madras.

28 Ramasamy.SM. and Anbazhagan.S., 1991. Thermal environmental mapping in Tiruchirapalli region. National symposium on Remote sensing of Environment, Institute of Remote sensing, Anna University, Madras.

projects

+Sponsored project

  1. Integrated Remote sensing and GIS studies for delineating deep aquifer systems in Precambrian crystalline terrain (Principal investigator)

Sponsored by : Indian Space Research Organisation

  1. Characterization of modern coastal environment in Gulf of Cambay, India (Co-Principal Investigator)

Sponsored by : British Gas

  1. Strengthening of Remote sensing and GIS facilities (Principal Investigator)

Sporsored by : Ministry of Human Resource Development

  1. Study of reflectance spectra of minerals, rocks and optimization of spectral bands for lunar mapping

Sponsored by : Indian Space Research Organisation

+Consultancy

Remote sensing data analysis and interpretation

Geographic Information Systems for land and water resource evaluation.

Resistivity survey for groundwater exploration and subsurface geological studies

Site selection and thematic mapping through satellite data and GIS integration

collaboration

National collaboration

Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay

SASE - DRDO, Chandigarh.


International collaboration

1. Technische Universität Dresden Institut für Photogrammetrie and Fernerkundung Dresden, Germany

2. Department of Geology, Technical University Freiberg, Germany.

guidance

+Ph.D

Completed

2005 Geoinformatics in Landslide Risk Assesment and Management in parts of Western Ghats, Central Kerla , India. (Sajin Kumar K S)

Ongoing

Name : Sukla Das Gupta

Topic : Sustainable Water Resource Development studies in Uppar Odai River Basin Tamil Nadu,India through Remote Sensing and GIS

Name : Guru Balamurugan

Topic : Remote Sensing and GIS for Characterising Fractured Aquifer System in Parts of Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri Districts, Tamil Nadu,India

Name : K N Kusuma

Topic : Reflectance Spectra of selected rocks and minerals and Optimization of Spectral Bands for Lunar Mapping

Name : S.Arivazhagan

Topic : Hyperspectral Remote sensing in geological studies

Name : R.Muthumani Raja

Topic : Geoinformatics for sustainable water resources study in Vasita river basin

Completed

2005 Remote Sensing and GIS in Development of Hydrological Information System in Hard Rock Aquifer Around Hosur, TamilNadu, India. (Milan Kanti Das)

2005 Remote Sensing and Geomorphological study in understanding Palaeo river course in parts of Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India.(Ajith Kumar R)

2004 Flood Impact Assessment through Remote Sensing and GIS in Darbhang and Madhubani Districts of Bihar,India (Sreekumar Pillai)

2003 Remote Sensing and GIS for Hydrogeological Studies in Panvel Basin, Raigarh District, Maharashtra, India (Archana M Nair)

2003 Hazard Zonation Mapping of Mumbai City Environments using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques (Avirup Chatterjee)

+M.Sc.Tech

Completed

2005 : Lineament Extraction in Hard rock Terrain in Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India. (Bidhan Chandra Biswal)

2005 : LandSlide Hazard Zonation Around Idukki and Ernakulam District, Kerla,India. (Gyanendra Kumar)

2005 : Remote Sensing and GIS Study of Gandhari and Kal River Basin, Sub Basin of Savitri River Basin Raigari and Pune District,Maharastra,India. (Ramesh Dhote)

2005 : Influence of Costal Geomorphology on Land Use Krishna Delta,India, An Attempt Based on Remote Sensing and Ground Truth Data Using GIS. (Mahesh Wanjare)

2004 : Remote Sensing and GIS for GroundWater Developement Study in Drought Prone Area, Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India. (Prashant Persai)

2004 : Remote Sensing and GIS for Geoenvironmental Study in and around Hogenakkal Water falls,Tamil Nadu ,India. (Ankit Kumar Gupta)

+M.Sc

Completed

2005 : Coastal Geomorphological evolution in and around Gulf of Cambay using Remote Sensing and GIS.(Somenath Kar)

2003 : Run off Resistance Map Generation Using Remote Sensing and GIS in Mamundi River Basin, Triruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu, India.(Rajlaxmi Rout)

2002 : Remote sensing and GIS for Cauvery River FloodPlain Environmental Mapping Tiruchirappali,Tamil Nadu,India.(Padmanava Dash)

2002 : Remote Sensing for Artifical Recharge site selection in parts of BhatsaiRiver Basin, Maharastra(Saptari Das Gupta)

awards & honorary works

Awards

Humboldt Research Fellow 1996-98, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation,Germany.

Honorary work

M.S Thesis Evaluation

Ph.D examiner

SLET’2006 Coordinator for Salem centre

Chairman, Board of Studies in Geology, Periyar University

Member, Board of Studies in Remote sensing, Bharathidasan University

Question Paper Setting in Remote Sensing and GIS

Reviewer for Journal Articles

Indian Journal of Remote sensing

Remote sensing of Environment

Marine Environmental Research

Environmental Geology

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

Earth System Sciences

course organised

AICTE - Sponsored QIP Short Term Course on GIS and its Applications Feb-14th to 18 th 2005, Department of Earth Sciences,IIT-Bombay

Workshop on “Earth Sciences: Its Present role in society”- an awareness programme for School teachers, 28 th Feb 2006.

membership

Geological Society of India, India.

Indian Society of Geomatics, Ahmedabad, India.

Indian Society of Remote sensing, Dehradun, India.

Asian Remote sensing Research Information Network (ARSRIN), AIT, Thailand.

foreign visit

2004 Germany
Three months (May –July 2004) short term research visit through Alexander von Humboldt revisit programme at Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technical University, Dresden, Germany.

2003 Spain
Participated in Interregional Conference on Envirowater03 at Albacete (five days)

2001 Thailand
Participated in International Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment with special regard to Water Resources Management (one week)

2001 Germany
Participated in International Conference on New Approaches in characterizing groundwater flow at Munich (one week)

1998 Netherlands
Short-term research work at International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth sciences (ITC) Enschede (three months)

1997 Netherlands
Participated in International conference on Virtual reality in Geosciences
(four days)

1997 Greece
Participated in International conference on Engineering Geology and Environment
(four days)

1996-98 Germany
Alexander von Humboldt Research fellow at Institute of Applied Geology, Justus- Liebig University, Giessen. Post doctoral research (2 years)

profile

+specialisation

# Remote sensing
# Geographic Information System
# Applied Geomorphology
# Groundwater

+research interest

* HyperSectral Remote Sensing Study
* Remote Sensing and GIS for Applied Geomorphology and Geoenvironmental Studies
* Artificial Recharge Studies
* Groundwater Exploration and Quality Assessment

+contact

Prof.Dr.S.Anbazhagan
Professor and Head
Department of Geology
Periyar University
Salem
Tamil Nadu - 636011
India
Ph: +91 427 2345520 ext 261 (off)
+91 427 2449784 (Res)
Mobile: 9443045889
Fax: +91 427 2345124, 2345565

E mail: anbu02@gmail.com

Website: http://www.anbu.net.tc