Dr. Nisha Radhakrishnan

Qualification

• B.E
• M.Tech.
• Ph.D (Remote sensing/ IIT Bombay)

Area of Teaching

• Surveying
• GIS and Remote Sensing

Research Interests

• GIS and Remote Sensing
• Global Positioning System in crustal/structural deformation studies and transportation engineering
• Geographic Information System in pavement management system
• Advanced Surveying Techniques – EDM, Total Station, Photogrammetry
• Ph.D. Thesis title: Geodetic monitoring of deformation of Large Engineering Structures (January 2003 – May 2007)
• M.Tech. Dissertation title: A Study on Stratospheric Pollution with reference to UARS* data (*UARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) (July 2001 – December 2002)

International Journals

• Kulkarni, M. N., Radhakrishnan, N., Rai, D., 2004. Deformation Studies of Koyna Dam, Western India, Using GPS, GPS WORLD, November 15(11), pp. 14 - 19.
• Kulkarni, M. N., Radhakrishnan, N., Rai, D., 2006. Global Positioning System in Disaster Monitoring of Koyna Dam, Western Maharashtra, Survey Review, July 38(301), pp. 629 - 636.

National Journals

• Radhakrishnan, N., Kulkarni, M. N., Sakr, K., 2008. Monitoring of Co-seismic Movement of Koyna Dam using GPS, The Icfai University Journal of Earth Sciences, July 2(3), pp. 54 – 62.
• Radhakrishnan, N., Kulkarni, M. N., 2010. Monitoring Crustal deformation of Western Maharashtra Peninsular Shield of India using GPS, Institute of Engineering (India) (Submitted for review in March 2010).
• Radhakrishnan, N., Patel, P., Kulkarni, M. N., 2010. Post-seismic effect of Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on Western Part of Indian plate, The Icfai University Journal of Earth Sciences (Accepted for publication, July 2010).
• Radhakrishnan, N., 2010. Application of GPS in identifying Active Fault plane in Western Maharashtra Peninsular Shield of India, Journal of Geological Society of India (Accepted for publication, September 2010).
• Parthasarathy, C., Kumaresan, K., Sumbrui, C., Kumar, S., Radhakrishnan, N., Mathew, S., Land use and Land cover Assessment along Tiruchirappalli city using Remote Sensing, The Icfai University Journal of Science and Technology (Submitted for review in May 2010).

International Conferences

• “Direct GPS measurement of Koyna Dam during Earthquake”, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Madhav N. Kulkarni, Kamal Sakr, 3rd IAG Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering & 12th FIG Symposium on Deformation Measurements, Baden, Austria, May 22 – 24, 2006.
• “GPS Measurement of Koyna Dam Deformation during Occurrence of Local Earthquakes”, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Madhav N. Kulkarni, Kamal Sakr, VI Hotine – Marussi Symposium of Theoretical and Computational Geodesy: Challenge and Role of Modern Geodesy, Wuhan University, China, 29th May – 2nd June 2006.
• “Study of ongoing deformation of field and record of dam movement during Earthquake by GPS on Koyna dam”, M N Kulkarni, Nisha R, Kamal Sakr. APSG 2006. Jeju Island, South Korea 16-18 October 2006.
• “Study of recent crustal movements around artificial lakes, Case studies: Aswan Lake, Egypt & Koyna Lake in Western Maharashtra, India”,Kamal Sakr, Abdel-Morem Mohamed, Madhav N. Kulkarni, Nisha Radhakrishnan, The Eleventh General Scientific Meeting, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, December 17 – 21, 2006.
• “Design and Implementation of Web-based GIS of the road network for the Tiruchirappalli region”, Arpan Kusari, Ronald Reagan Maria Benziger, Harihara Subramanian R, Nisha Radhakrishnan, 9th Annual Asian Conference & Exhibition on Geospatial Information Technology and Applications, Map Asia 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 26 – 28, 2010 (Abstract Accepted for Presentation).

National Conferences

• “Comparison of zone mixing ratios of MLS and HALOE and trace gas studies of UARS satellite data over Indian subcontinent”, Nisha Radhakrishnan, M.V.R. Murti and C.S.Rao, Symposium on Advances on Microwave Remote Sensing Applications, January 21-23, 2003, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
• “Studies on Ozone and trace gases with HALOE over India”, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Sanjeev Kumar, M.V.R. Murti and C.S.Rao, ISRS Annual Convention 2003, National Symposium on Resource Management with Special Reference to Geoinformatics and Decentralized Planning, Trivandrum, Kerala, December 9-12, 2003.
• “Monitoring deformations of Koyna Dam using GPS”, Kulkarni, M.N., Nisha R., V.S. Tomar, P. Pillai, World Conference on Disaster manangement, DMIC-2003, Hyderabad, November 10-12, 2003.
• “Techniques for Monitoring Deformation in Large Engineering Structures”, Madhav N. Kulkarni, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Deepa Rai, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR URBAN SAFETY OF MEGA CITIES IN ASIA, Agra, pp 71-82, October 18-19, 2004.
• “Global Positioning System in Disaster Monitoring of Koyna Dam, Western Maharashtra”, Madhav N. Kulkarni, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Deepa Rai, ISRS Annual Convention and National Symposium on Converging Space Technologies for National Development, Jaipur, pp 76, November 3 – 5, 2004.
• “Remote sensing and GIS in land use planning”, Sathees kumar P, Nisha Radhakrishnan, 11th ESRI India User Conference 2010, Noida, April 21 – 22, 2010.
• “GIS-GPS Based Pavement Management System”, Mohammed Shinas S, Nisha Radhakrisnan, Sunitha V, National Symposium for Post Graduate Students NSPGS 2010, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, April 24 – 25, 2010.

Awards

• Awarded the 3rd prize for “best paper presentation by a student” at ISRS Annual Convention 2003, National Symposium on Resource Management with Special Reference to Geoinformatics and Decentralized Planning, 9-12 December 2003, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The title of the paper was “Studies on Ozone and trace gases with HALOE over India”, co-authored by Sanjeev Kumar, M.V.R. Murti and C.S.Rao.
• Awarded “Students paper award” for contribution “Direct GPS measurement of Koyna Dam during Earthquake”, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Madhav N. Kulkarni Kamal Sakr, 3rd IAG Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering & 12th FIG Symposium on Deformation Measurements, Baden, Austria, May 22 – 24 2006.

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