R E S U M E

Gourkishore Tripathy

Senior Systems Analyst

TATA Infotech Ltd.

SEEPZ, Mumbai, 400096

9819235609 (M)

E-mail: gktripathy@rediffmail.com

http://www.oocities.org/gktripathy

VISA Status: I have proper work authorization (H1B VISA Valid till May 2006) to work in USA.

US Driving License: I have valid driving license from DMV, Nebraska, USA till November 2008.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

More than 10 years of total experience (out of which more than 5 years in private industry) in GIS, GPS & Remote Sensing Data processing and its applications to Utility Management, Town Planning, Land Information System, Vehicle Tracking System, Caller Identification and Route Optimization, Land Degradation/ Desertification (soil erosion & watershed monitoring, vegetation index analysis), Land Consolidation, Hydrology, Wetland Mapping and Coastal Pollution monitoring. I have strong knowledge in basics of GIS and used best GIS packages like ESRI products, MapInfo products, SPANS, IDRISI, GRAM and Image Processing packages like EASI/PACE and DIPIX in various development projects and also in research applications. Work included also design, development and implementation in GIS, Modeling and Analysis in GIS, Computer Programming, Training, Defining quality process for GIS, Project Proposal and Project Management.

EDUCATION:	Ph. D. Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Remote Sensing (included GIS applications development) (1996) Master's Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Earth Sciences (1991)
WORK EXPERIENCE:	63 months experience in TIL (Software Consultancy) 36 months prior experience in Research & Development in GIS applications to Environmental Issues
PLATFORM EXPERIENCE:	Win NT/95/98/2K VAX 8250 NOS/VE VAX/ VMS
SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:	Operating Systems: Windows 95/NT/2K/XP, OS/2, VAX/VMS, DOS, UNIX Packages: GIS (ESRI – ArcGIS 8.3, ArcView, ArcSDE, ArcIMS, MapObject), MapInfo (MapInfo Pro 7.0, MapX, MapXtreme(NT), SpatialWare, MapBasic), SPANS, IDRISI, GRAM), Image Processing (IIPS, EASI/PACE), AutoCAD 2000/ Autodesk Map, MS Office, Lotus Notes R5 Database Management Systems: Oracle 7.3, 8I, SQL 2000, DBase III, Access Case Tools: Power Designer, Visio 2000 Programming Languages: MapObject, C#, ASP.NET, ASP, Fortran-77, C, MapBasic
RESPONSIBILITIES:	Project management Team management Client handling, Client-Relationship Management Project Initiation Project Planning and Execution Resource Management Quality Assurance Introducing quality process in GIS Effort Estimation Requirement study Analysis and design Development and testing Implementation New concept productisation and demonstration User Training Prior experience: Research, Project Coordination, GIS application development, project proposal, seminar/workshop arrangement and coordination, research paper writing and presentation, field visit.

PROJECTs Summary

Project Title	Platform	Role	Duration
Union Pacific Railroad, USA	Windows 2000	GIS Consultant	Since March 2003
State Land Integrated Management System (SLIMS), Govt. of Botswana	Windows 2000	GIS Domain Expert	11 months
Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), Nashik	Windows NT/ 2000	Project Manager	9 months
Development of Facility Management System for TIL	Windows NT	Project Manager	2 months
Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), Nashik	Windows NT	Project Manager	5 months
Vehicle Tracking System, Road Traffic Organization (RTO), Mumbai	Windows NT	Project Manager	5 months
Development of postal database system and location id for postal delivery system, post master general (PMG), Mumbai, India	Windows NT	Project Manager	11 months
Capacity Building for Introduction of Environmental Economics into Decision Making for Sustainable Development	Windows 95	Research Scientist	23 months
Consolidation of Agricultural Land of Village Kumel Singha, Sambalpur, Orissa through Questionnaire Survey and GIS Techniques	Windows 95	Research Scientist	5 months
Natural Resources Accounting (NRA) of TGCS sites	Windows 95	Research Scientist	8 months
Capacity building for introduction of environmental economics into decision making for sustainable development, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), New Delhi, India	Windows 95, OS/2	Research Scientist	23 months
Natural Resources Accounting (NRA) Of TGCS Sites, National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation (NTGCF), Anand, Gujarat And Canadian International Development Agency, Canada	Windows NT, OS/2	Research Scientist	5 months
Consolidation of agricultural land of village Kumel Singha, Sambalpur, Orissa through questionnaire survey and GIS techniques, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, (IGIDR) Mumbai and Vrije University, Netherlands	Windows 95, NT	Research Scientist	8 months

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Union pacific railroad, usa (April 03 – PRESENT)

Union Pacific (UP) is an operating subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad Corporation and is the largest railroads in North America, covering western USA (operating in 23 states). Except for few suburban passenger services, UP operates entirely on freights. UP is also one of the largest inter-modal carriers in US (for truck trailers and marine containers).

1. EVMS (Electronic Vehicle Management System) Project

(1) Union Pacific planned to utilize GPS and GIS technologies to track and monitor on-line freight movements. To start with, a huge volume of GPS data was collected for railroad routes. Union Pacific was at a crucial juncture where they are trying to transform these GPS data to match with their existing railroad centerline maps in paper form. UP needed assistance in arriving at the approach and models for developing applications, which could transform such voluminous data for their proper usage. (2) UP also developed the base street data of USA derived from Tiger Street data for Electronic Van Monitoring System (EVMS) project. The street data was used to geocode the hotel locations for origin and destinations of vans. The geocoded data is used for finding the shortest routes for each van, which is moving from origin to many destinations (hotels, railroad stations) for picking up and dropping the railroad crewmembers. The optimization of the route is helping UP reduce significantly the travel cost and time.

Activities included:

· Proposing a plan and method to transform the GPS data

· Affine transformation of railroad data in shape format using transformation tool.

· Analysis of tiger street data in ArcSDE 8.3 using desktop ArcGIS 8.3 for hub-spoke pairs to renumber the nodes and geocoding.

· Geocoding of hotels with the renumbered nodes and the process documentation.

· Calculation of aerial distance between hubs and spokes by developing ArcObjects tool

· Status meeting and issue resolution.

· Preparation of GPS zone management process flow

· Documentation on comparing the GIS database dissimilarity with that of Engineering

2. CORYS Magic/ GPS Integration Project (Railroad Yard Spatial data Creation and Maintenance)

Activities included:

· Creation/ digitization of Railroad yard layer from Aerial Photographs and NTAD data

· Overlaying NTAD data on geo-referenced aerial photographs followed by yard layer rectification for better quality.

· Quality checking and documentation

STATE LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM (SLIMS), DEPT. of land, BOTSWANA

(MAY 02 – March 03)

SLIMS was a GIS-cum-MIS system that was developed for Department of Lands, Botswana (Africa). The system was developed using ESRI products such as ArcInfo, ArcSDE, ArcIms and MapObjects and using .NET platform (development using C#) for browser based clients. Tata Infotech was awarded SLIMS to automatise 14 application modules which were tightly integrated for use under centrally managed SQL server database. These application modules were land inventory, process plot application, waiting list allocation, direct plot allocation, title deed registration, transfer title, change landuse, conversion, development control compliance, acquisition and compensation, state and private lease management, valuation roll maintenance, land revenue, BML/ SHHA loan. SLIMS is being utilized by 30 concurrent users, who use on-line land information, working with DOL, SHHA, AGC and other government bodies. SLIMS completely automates their day- to- day work processes so as to benefit economically.

Activities included:

· System Requirement Study (on-site), Client meeting, High Level Design, Detail Design, Code Review, Code Walkthrough, Unit Test Case Preparation, Unit Testing, System Testing, User Manual Documentation, Introducing GIS methodology, Checking Data Quality, Time Sheet Management

· Imparting Training on GIS concepts and system requirement specification to SLIMS team members

· Interaction with customer to study field data for providing data conversion strategy

Nashik Municipal corporation (NMC), nashik (JULY 01 – April 02)

NMC looks after the civic operations of Nashik Metropolitan area. At present NMC does it manually. The civic operations are done by their 6 ward offices and 14 departments such as Town Planning, Roads and Building, Estate and Land Acquisition, Encroachment & Taxation, Health & Sanitation, Garden, Fire and Utility. TIL was awarded by NMC to computerize the departments to benefit in creation and management of geographic databases (GDB), performing Geographic Queries and Analysis for decision making, Improving Organizational Integration, Improving management of resources, interdepartmental information sharing and communication and Visualization of municipal assets geographically. NMC utilized the computerized information on-line using their Intranet servers. The project activities comprised of GDB creation, geocoding, surveying and data entry using MapInfo (GIS) and Oracle8i, data query, browsing and updation using web-GIS (MapXtreme, VB/JAVA Script) and MIS using VB Script/ Oracle8i.

Activities included:

· Project Management that included follow up the QMS guidelines such as project plan, effort estimation, project schedule, CMP, tailoring, status updation and PSC review

· Understanding the current technical requirements of NMC and translating them to Web-GIS based system and MIS development for query, browse and remote data update

· Team building and assigning each team member their role definition

· Interaction with customer and the subcontractor for work progress and deliveries

· Reviewing work progress, system output, quality check and work documentation

· Reviewing steering committee meeting, issue resolution, time sheet management

· System demonstration, conference participation, result presentation & proposal writing

· Defined the quality documentation standard for GIS methodology and GIS estimation that will be used for GIS projects throughout the TIL

Development of Facility Management System for TIL (MAY 01 – JUNE 01)

An internal project of TATA Infotech Ltd. where database on employee, project and resources were created and managed in the company’s Intranet site. The GIS-based Facility Management System was developed for resource managers, administration and every employee of the company to browse and update the information in the Intranet. Detail Information on each resource such as project details, employee details and resources details can be browsed from any offices of TIL. Every information was mapped on to the center’s layout plan so as to make it more decisive and appealing.

Activities included:

· Project Management that included follow up the QMS guidelines such as project plan, effort estimation, project schedule and review.

· Digitization, Data entry and quality check of MIDC layout plan maps.

· Hands-on Training and Internal Demonstration given to TIL staff on using FMS.

Nashik Municipal corporation (NMC), nashik (DEC 00 – April 01)

NMC maintains the Nashik city public utilities and services through its 14 departments like Development Planning (DP), Water Supply & Sewerage, Electricity, Health & Sanitation etc and 6 ward offices located all over the city. NMC computerized all its DP sheets and ward offices using GIS for town planning, utility management, health, sanitation and environment. The computerization helped NMC to reduce the manual processes practiced currently to maintain the city and reach out to public widely and effectively. NMC wanted to utilize the computerized information on-line using their Intranet servers. The project was spread over a period of 6 months during which first the data creation i.e., digitization of maps, geocoding and data entry were completed using MapInfo (GIS) and Oracle8i, and second these data were used in the web-GIS (MapXtreme, VB/JAVA Script) for query, browsing and updation.

Activities included:

· Project Management that included follow up the QMS guidelines such as project plan, effort estimation, project schedule, CMP, tailoring, status updation and PSC review

· Understanding the current technical requirements of NMC and translating them to Web-GIS based system development for query, browse and remote data update

· Team building and assigning each team member their role definition

· Interaction with customer and the subcontractor for work progress and deliveries

· Reviewing work progress, system output, quality check and work documentation

· Reviewing steering committee meeting, issue resolution, time sheet management

· System demonstration, conference participation, result presentation & proposal writing

VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM, ROAD TRAFFIC ORGANIZATION (RTO), MUMBAI (NOV 99 – NOV 00)

Road Traffic Organization (RTO) has a fleet of patrol vehicles (around 300) moving in and around Mumbai. In case of emergency it is desirable to have tracking of patrol vehicles so that the vehicles near problem areas can reach the required location in minimum time. Presently, MTNL has allocated 20 lines having a pilot number 100. There are 20 telephones and 20 operators for handling calls manually. When anybody dials 100, the operator answers and notes down the information where police help is needed. The written dockets are then hand delivered to wireless section. Wireless section in turn broadcasts the information to all vans via RF transceiver. The mobile van which is free and closest to the problem area, reaches the desired spot needing help. RTO wanted TIL to demonstrate a system that could improvise the response time during an emergency.

Activities included:

· Development, goal setting and team building for Corporate Technology Group-GIS.

· Co-ordination with academic institution like IIT, Bombay for working together in common areas such as application development in GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing.

· Design and development of Vehicle Tracking System (VTS) based on MapInfo GIS, RF channel and GPS hardware components

· Developed the VTS system for monitoring, querying the vehicle location, speed

· VTS was demonstrated live to RTO using Win 95 machine

DEVELOPMENT OF POSTAL DATABASE SYSTEM AND LOCATION ID FOR POSTAL DELIVERY SYSTEM, POST MASTER GENERAL (PMG), MUMBAI, INDIA (SEP 98 – OCT 99)

Post offices in Mumbai handle around 2.5 million packets of post daily and is one of the country’s largest postal departments. There are about 90 postal divisions and 425 department offices, and about 4300 post peons with 8000 supporting staffs in Mumbai region that includes the districts of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Alibag. In the presently growing competitive markets of private courier services, Mumbai post offices need to improvise its speed post and other postal services effectively so as to maintain its lead and customer satisfaction. PMG selected TIL to introduce computerized postal database system for Mumbai that could provide maximum information on the customer addresses and proximity to the post offices.

Activities included:

· Development, goal setting and team building for Applied Technology Group-Geoinformatics

· Coordinating with academic institution like IIT, Bombay for working together in common areas of applications such as research, development and total solutions in GIS and Remote Sensing.

· Design and development of Location ID system based on MapInfo GIS

· Design and development of Post Office Database of PMG, Mumbai on MapInfo GIS

· Evaluating the algorithms used for route optimization

· Finding shortest route of delivery zone in Mumbai city using a routing DLL from third party

· Location ID system was developed to improve the response time by the post offices while collecting the parcels, speed post, excel parcels

· Location ID system was live demonstrated in Win NT server using MapInfo and CTI (Computer Telephony Integration)

PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR INTRODUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS INTO DECISION MAKING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP), NEW DELHI, INDIA (NOV 96 - SEP 98)

UNDP sponsors projects on environment and health to developing countries for improving the present degrading conditions. UNDP, New Delhi awarded a project on environmental economics and capacity building program all over India as a part of Rio-1992 earth Summit.

Activities included:

· Developed integrated watershed monitoring and management strategy for water pollution abatement and resource allocation on the basis of physical, chemical and socio-economic parameters of the Krishna river watershed basin.

· Computation of pollution load, river zonation (buffering) and management strategy to restore the water quality into normal through different abatement programs through GIS.

· SPANS-GIS and Digital Multimedia software were utilized.

· Work also included result documentation and presentation

· Data conversion using SPANS

NATURAL RESOURCES ACCOUNTING (NRA) OF TGCS SITES, NATIONAL TREE GROWERS COOPERATIVE FEDERATION (NTGCF), ANAND, GUJURAT AND CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, CANADA (JUN 96 - OCT 96)

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) sponsors projects on environment, economics and health to developing countries for improving the quality of life, environment etc. NTGCF, Anand (Gujarat) was awarded a project on environmental economics and capacity building program on land regeneration all over India as a part CIDA’s help to developing nations including India for participatory management of forest and common land.

Activities included:

· Field surveying of soil erosion and plantation, questionnaire survey with the stakeholders at TGCS plantation sites in Gujarat and Orissa

· Computation of soil loss using USLE, accounting watershed benefits of plantation specifically soil conservation, ecology and socio-economic benefits

· Documentation and presentation of results obtained from above analysis

CONSOLIDATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OF VILLAGE KUMEL SINGHA, SAMBALPUR, ORISSA THROUGH QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY AND GIS TECHNIQUES, INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, (IGIDR) MUMBAI AND VRIJE UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS (OCT 95 - MAY 96)

IGIDR is a research institute in Mumbai funded by Reserve Bank of India to conduct advance research on economics, environment, development policy etc. It also offers academic program in Ph.D. and M. Phil. Vrije University, Netherlands has close interaction with IGIDR faculties to offer expertise in solving land related reforms in India.

Activities included:

· Digitization, edge matching and editing of village level cadastral map for land inventory and cadastral code matching

· Land parcel comparison with the village level questionnaire survey for ownership, area, fragmentation, average land holdings, finding out area mismatching and multiple ownership

· Classifying the parcel on the basis of size, productivity, land value and proximity to water, road and village

MARINE POLLUTION MONITORING BY AN EFFECTIVE MODEL USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNIQUES FUNDED BY MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & FOREST, NEW DELHI ; WORKED AS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAY. (JUL 95 - OCT 95)

Activities included:

· Water Sampling from Arabian Sea

· Digital image processing of Landsat TM data for detection of sources of pollution

· Quantification of physical parameters of water pollution such as turbidity and pH through Chebychev polynomial transformation of digital data.

· The study was conducted for the fresh and marine water resources within and surrounding the Bombay City

TRAINING & SELF DEVELOPMENT

Training Undergone:

Course Description	Duration	Year
C# and ASP.NET	2 Weeks	2002
Introduction to XML	1 Week	2002
JAVA Concepts and Programming	1 week	2000
Hands-on training on MapInfo GIS suite of products including programming in MapBasic at TIL, Bangalore	1 week	1999
A comprehensive training at TIL, Mumbai, Database Concepts, Software Development, Quality Management System, Underwent Training in C & Oracle under Unix.	3 months	1998
Environmentally Sustainable Development for Asia-Pacific Region at IGIDR, Mumbai	2 weeks	1997
Digital Image Processing and GIS Concepts and Applications at CSRE, IIT, Bombay	2 weeks	1992
Hands-on training on ESRI suite of products (ArcIMS 3.1, ArcSDE, MapObjects)	2 weeks	2002

THESIS/PROJECTS

Ph.D. Thesis (1997)

· Monitoring Desertification in Parts of Karnataka Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

The research topic entitled "Monitoring of Desertification in Karnataka State Using Remote Sensing And GIS Techniques" was to develop an albedo model which could be used to monitor the temporal change pattern of the reflectance. Increase in albedo was a positive step to either increased soil erosion, reduced soil moisture and vegetation or onset of drought. Albedo images were generated from LANDSAT MSS and IRS-LISS-II scenes. An increase in albedo value, in an albedo difference image, indicated the land degradation causing an increment to the prevalent of droughtic or soil erosion conditions in this semi-arid region and hence the continuity of desertification process. The albedo change images were correlated to the ancillary information like soil loss/ moisture & vegetation to confirm the ongoing land degradation processes. A time range of 8 years duration for which satellite data acquired & processed showed that the reflectance is increasing and the natural and anthropogenic factors are affecting the change. A wide range of variations in reflectance change was due mainly to natural phenomenon & human/livestock population pressure as studied from meteorological & statistical information. On the basis of meteorological, statistical & remote sensing data integration over albedo change images using GIS, a desertification severity map & output summary was prepared. The final results were verified in the field. Besides, targeting of ground water potential areas using data pertaining to geology, lineaments, fracture/ joints, lithology, W.T fluctuation & precipitation were used to manage drought in the study area.

AWARDS

· Ph.D. Fellowship

· Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship

· Junior Merit Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

· Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Dehradun

· Society for Clean Environment (SOCLEEN), Mumbai

· Indian Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), DST-New Delhi

REFREE

· Dr. Ashok Samal, Associate Professor

Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engineering

University of Nebraska

Lincoln, NE, 68588-0115

samal@cse.unl.edu

· Prof. Manoj Panda, Dean

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

General A.K. Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (E), Bombay, India 400 065

Tel : +91 –22- 8400919, e-mail: manoj@igidr.ac.in

· Dr. R. K. Das, Head, Photogrammetry Division

Department of Surveys and Mapping

Post Bag 00128, Gaborone, Botswana (Africa)

Tel - 00267 - 353251, e-mail: rdas@gov.bw

· Dr. B. Krishna Mohan, Principal Research Scientist

Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology

Bombay, India

Tel - +91-22- 5767676, e-mail: bkm@csre.iitb.ernet.in

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Books/ Edited Books

1. Environmental Problems of Coastal Areas in India, pp.107-118, 1^st edn., Published by BOOKWELL, New Delhi (2000).

International/ National Journals

2. Tripathy, G.K. (2003) : A Distributed and Real-Time System for Public Utility and Town Planning, Siddhant, vol.3(1), pp.12-21.

3. Tripathy, G.K. (2002) : Urban Planning and Information System for Municipal Corporations, GIS@Development, vol.6(12), pp.44-46.

4. Tripathy, G.K. and P. Jothimani. (2000) : Water Pollution Monitoring, GIS@Development, Vol.4, issue 9, pp.19-26. http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/nrm/water/quality/watq0001.htm

5. Sahoo, N.R., P. Jothimani and Tripathy, G.K. (2000) : Multi-Criteria Analysis in GIS Environment for Natural Resource Development – A Case Study on Gold Exploration, GIS@Development, Vol.4, issue 5, pp.38-40. http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/geology/mineral/geom0002.htm

6. Tripathy, G. K., Sen, S., Shukla, S. and Jothimani, P. (1999) : Where Will You Call Today, GIS@Development, Vol.4, issue 8, pp.33-35.

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/utility/telecom/utilityt0005.htm

7. Tripathy, G. K. (1999) : “Water Quality Monitoring Through GIS”, Published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Geoinformatics Beyond 2000 held in March 1999 at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India.

8. Tripathy, G.K., Ghosh, T.K. and Shah, S.D., (1996) : "Monitoring of Desertification Process in Karnataka State of India Using Remote Sensing and Ancillary Information Using GIS",International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol.17 (12), pp.2243-2257.

9. Behera,B.K., Tripathy,G.K., S.,Inamdar and A.B., Asolekar,S.,(1996) : "Assessment of Marine Pollution Parameters Using Remote Sensing Data", Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, vol.25, pp.103-108.

10. Ghosh, T.K. and Tripathy, G.K. (1995) : "Analysis of Precipitation and Satellite Data over Drought", Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 51-57.

11. Ghosh,T.K. and Tripathy,G.K., (1994) : "Investigations and Monitoring of Desertification", Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing Jour.,Volume 7, No. 1, PP.35-40.

12. Ghosh,T.K. and Tripathy,G.K.,(1994): "Remote Sensing and GIS for Investigation and Monitoring of Desertification" Proceedings of the Symposium of Mapping and Geographic Information Systems,ISPRS Commission IV,Vol.30(4), pp.595 - 602.

International/ National Conferences/ Seminars/ Symposiums/ Workshops

13. Ghosh, T. K. and Tripathy, G. K.: "Satellite Data and GIS for Drought Monitoring" presented at Proceedings of International Conference on Disasters and Mitigation held at Anna Univ., Madras between Jan 19-22, 1996.

14. Behera,B.K., Kumar,S., Inamdar,A.B., Tripathy,G.K. and Asolekar,S.: "Assessment of Marine Pollution Parameters Using Remote Sensing Data",Presented at National Seminar on Conservation and Sustainable Development of Coastal Resources held at Berhampur University, Orissa between December 14-17, 1994.

15. Ghosh,T.K. and Tripathy,G.K. : "A Study of Drought and Desertification through Satellite and Land based Data" presented at National Seminar on Hydrological Hazards-Prevention and Mitigation, Indian Association of Hydrologists(IAH), Roorkee (India),between March 17-18, 1993.

16. Ghosh,T.K. and Tripathy,G.K. : "Assessing Drought by using Satellite and Surficial Data" presented at 80th Session of the Indian Science Congress association held at National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR), GOA between Jan 3-4, 1993.

17. Ghosh,T.K. and Tripathy,G.K.: "Study and Development of Drought Assessment Techniques" presented at International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources held at hotel Vasant Vihar,New Delhi between Dec 20-22, 1993.

18. Tripathy,G.K. and Bagchi,J.: "Bagru Bauxite Deposit- A study", presented at The Recent Trends of Research in Earth Sciences held at Presidency college, Calcutta,between Jan 13-14, 1992.

International/National Worksops

19. Tripathy, G. K. (2002) : Web-GIS based Urban Planning and Information System for Municipal Corporations – A Distributed and Real-Time System for Public Utility and Town Planning, MapIndia 2002 conference proceedings, pp.325-331.

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/urban/overview/urbano043.htm

20. Tripathy, G.K., Verma, G. and Pande, A. (2000) : Development of Vehicle Tracibility System using GIS-GPS presented in the symposium Remote Sensing for Natural Resources & Watershed Management at ORSAC, Bhubaneswar (Orissa) between March 20-22.

21. Tripathy, G.K. and Jothimani, P. (2000) : Vehicle Tracibility System Using GIS-GPS, presented at Geomatics 2000 conference organised by C-DAC, Pune University, Pune between Jan 21-22.

22. Tripathy, G.K. (1999) : “Arsenic in Water – A Silent Killer in West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh”, presented at All India Science Congress seminar Science Congress, organised by FOSET, Calcutta between 11-14, February.

23. Tripathy, G. K. and Parikh, J. K. (1998) : Water Quality Monitoring Using GIS : Case Study of Krishna Basin, presented at Integarted Basin Management Seminar, CWRDM, Calicut, Kerala on 19-20 May, 1998.

24. Tripathy, G. K. : "A Framework For Optimising Garbage Collection In Metro Cities Through Route Networking In GIS" presented at Workshop on Integrated Solid Waste Management held at SNDT University, Juhu, Mumbai between August 7-8, 1998.

25. Tripathy, G. K. : "Organisation and Presentation of Krishna Basin Database Through GIS : A Decision Making Option for Policy Makers" presented at Workshop on Water Quality Management for the 21st Century held at IGIDR, Bombay between Dec 18-19, 1997.

26. Tripathy, G. K. : Applications of Remote Sensing Techniques for Assessing Marine Pollution of Mumbai Coast, Seminar on Coastal Cities in India: Responding to Environmental and Socio- Economic Issues of Concern, on 16th July, 1997 at IGIDR, Mumbai, India.

27. Tripathy, G. K.: "Advanced Monitoring Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques: Review of Current Techniques and Applications" presented at the inaugural workshop of UNDP project on Capacity Building for Introduction of Environmental Economics into Decision Making for Sustainable Development held at IGIDR, Bombay between Dec 26-27, 1995.