T.V. Ramachandra
Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Dr. T.V. Ramachandra, Ph.D. (I.I.Sc), FIE, FIEE(UK)
Energy and Wetlands Research Group [CES]
Centre for Ecological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012, India
E Mail: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in
ram@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Fax: 91-080-23601428/23600085/23600683 [CES TVR]
Tel: 91-080-23600985/22933099/22932506
Department:
Institution:
Web: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity
DETAILS OF ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Degree
University/Institution
Ph.D. (Energy & Environment)
Indian Institute of Science (1996)
B.E. (Electrical)
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore University
Diploma (Information Technology)
Global Bangemann Challenge, Stockholm (1999)
Chartered Engineer (India)
The Institution of Engineers (India), 2000
Professional Engineer (India)
The Institution of Engineers (India), 2003
1.1 RESEARCH AREA - FIELD OF INTEREST
 Energy and Environment: Renewable energy, Energy Conservation, Integrated Regional
Energy Planning, Demand side management, Decision support systems.
 GIS (Geographic Information Systems), Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing,
 Biodiversity, Western Ghats and Himalayan Ecology
 Database Management System, Information Technology,
 Landuse, land cover dynamics, Urban Sprawl pattern analyses
 Ecosystem conservation, Habitat fragmentation analysis and its implications on Hydrology
 Natural Resource Management, Biodiversity, Ecology, Eco Development
 Ecological modelling, landslide assessment
 EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), CIA (Cumulative Impact Assessment)
 Aquatic Ecosystems – Characterisation, Conservation, Restoration and Management.
 Environmental Engineering: Solid waste management, environmental management
 Environmental Information System
 Environmental Education, Distance Education (http://cce.iisc.ernet.in)
FIELD EXPERIENCE
Western Ghats (Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada, Kerala, Maharsatra)
Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal – Himalaya, Kolar - Arid Region
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Urban Ecosystem – Bangalore, Mysore, Managlore, Udupi
Macro cities (10) and selected micro cities in India
1.2 MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Senior Member, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, INC. (IEEE),2000
Senior Member (Life), The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), 2000
Senior Member Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers
Fellow,
The Society of Earth Scientists, 2009
Fellow
Manthan Award: The e-Content Pathbreaker, 2007
Fellow
Indian Association of Hydrologists (India), 2006
Fellow
The Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), 2005
Fellow
The Institution of Engineers (India), 2003
Fellow,
International Congress of Chemistry and Environment, 2003
Fellow,
National Environmental Science Academy, 2001
Member (Life), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
Member (Life), TIS – The Energy Research institute Information System
Member (Life), The Indian Society of Remote Sensing (IRS)
Member (Life), Forum of Scientists, Engineers and Technologists (FCET)
Member (Life), The Institution of Engineers (India)
Member (Life), Indian Science Congress Association (India)
Member (Life), Karnataka Association for Advancement of Science
Member (Life), Karnataka Environment Research Foundation
Member (Life), International Solar Energy Society (ISES)
Member (Life) International Society of Ecological Economics (ISEE)
Member (Life), Indian Society of Ecological economics (INSEE)
Member (Life), Association for Environmental Biology (AEB)
Member (Life), Indian Institute of Hydrology (IIH)
Member(Life), Solar Energy Society of India (SESI)
Member
Society for Wetlands Scientists (SWS)
Member,
Canadian Remote Sensing Society (no 5903)
Member
ASPRS - the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society
Member,
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
Member,
NIEPIANS: Network of Indian Environment Professionals LLC
Member,
International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE)
Member,
Network of Environment Professional LLC (ENVINDIA))
Member,
International River Network (IRN)
Member,
Rural Forestry Development Network (RFDN)
Member,
National Environment Science Academy (NESA)
Member,
National Geographic Society, USA
Member,
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Member,
Society for Wetland Scientists (SWS)
Member,
Renewable Energy Development Institute (RFDI)
Member
International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
Member
IAENG Society of Imaging Engineering
Member
CapNet-South Asia
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1.3 MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Governing Council, Karnatka Muncipal data Society (2011..)
Review Committee, EMPRI Lake Conservation Project
Research and Academic Advisory Committee, CiSTUP, IISc (2009-)
Western Ghats Task Force, Government of Karnataka (2008-2013)
BDA Lake development Advisory Committee (2008-09)
Quick bird satellite data for mining area, Department of Industries and
Commerce, Government of Karnataka (2009)
Member
Disposal of consent application under the air and water acts. Karnataka Pollution
Control Board (2008-09)
Member
DSIR - Technical Assessment Committee (TAC) on waste to Wealth
Member
Advisory group on the framing of the curricula, Navarachna Education society,
Vadodara (2008-10)
Member
Faculty Selection Committee, Department of Environmental Sciences, M G
University, Kottayam (2008-09)
Member
Recruitment Committee, Environmental Management and Policy Research
Institute (2008-2010)
Member
Staff Evaluation Committee 2006, 2007 (Scientist D and E, Indian Space
Research Organisation)
Memebr
IISc Cmmittee to advise pertaing to KSPCB norms – Air and water act
Member
Staff Evaluation Committee 2007 (Technical staff, Visveshwariah Industrial
Technological Museum, Bangalore)
Member
Staff Evaluation Committee 2006, 2007, 2008 (Class IV Employees, IISc)
Member
Board of Studies, Ecology & Environmental sciences, Pondicherry University
Member
Advisory Board, School of Ecoinformatics, IIITMK, Trivandrum
Member
Advisory board, Innovator Factor Foundation (2007-09)
Member
Advisory team for the “Preparation of Vision document for Karnataka”,
PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd
Member
Karnataka State level Environment Expert Appraisal Committee (2007-10)
Chairman
Board of Studies in Environmental Science, Karnataka State Open University,
Mysore (2006-07)
Chairman
Board of Studies in Environmental Science, Geology and Water Management
(PG), University of Calicut, Calicut (2006-09)
Chairman
OSGeo software development committee, India OSGeo Chapter (2006-2008)
External Member BOE in Environment Science for PG examination, Karnataka State Open
University, Mysore (2007)
Member
Environmental Advisory Committee, IISc (2007-)
Member
Committee for Water Conservation and Utilisation, IISc (2007-)
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Member
Member
Member
Member
Adviser
Member
Expert Committee on liability and redress under article 14 (2) of the Convention
of Biological Diversity (Government of India Nominee)
Research advisory Committee, Kerala State Council for Science and Technology,
Trivandrum
Ph.D. doctoral committee (2004-2008), Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna
University
Expert committee Bio-geo programme in Himalayas, Department of Science and
Technology, GOI (2005 - )
M.Tech Programme in GIS at the National Institute of Engineering 2002-2003, Mysore
Board of Studies in Environmental Sciences, PSG College of Arts and Science,
Coimbatore
Member
Board of Studies in Botany (PG), University of Mysore [2004-2007]
Member
Board of Studies in Environmental Science (BOS), Gulbarga University
Member
Faculty selection committee, programme in Remote Sensing and GIS, NITK,
Suratkal (2005)
Member
Expert committee, PG Diploma programme in Remote Sensing and GIS, NITK,
Suratkal (2004-2005)
Member
Expert committee (Scientific Staff evaluation – 2004, 2005, 2006), Indian Space
Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore
Member
Expert committee (Scientific Staff evaluation – 2004), Visvesvaraya Industrial
and Technological Museum, Bangalore, (VITM)
Member
DBT Project monitoring committee, Sustainable utilization of the bio park in JB
campus, Bangalore University
Member
Programme Review Committee (PRC, 2001-2005), Development of
environmental engineering courses for distance learning, Commonwealth Of
Learning, Canada
Member
Programme Review Committee (PRC, 2004-2007), Environmental education
through open distance learning, Karnataka State Open University, Karnataka
Member,
Working Group on Sustainable Product Development, United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP-WG-SPD)
Member
Expert Committee – EIA of Canal projects, National Water Development Agency
(NWDA)
Member
Industry Sector Action Group, IOC
Member
KSCST-Indo Norwegian Environment Programme Committee (1997-2002)
Co-ordinator Working Group - Karnataka 2000: State of Environment Report
Member
I.I.Sc Digital Information Service Centre Programme Committee (1998-2000)
Member
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology-NRDMS Experts
committee
Member
Executive committee, Karnataka Environment Research Foundation
Member
India Youth Water Prize committee, Karnataka Environment Research
Foundation & Stockholm Environmental Research Water Institute.
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Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member,
Chairman
Sub-Committee on land use, Committee for Infrastructural development on IISC
campus (1999-2000).
Sub-Committee on storm water drainage, Committee for Infrastructural
development on IISC campus (1999-2000).
Sub-Committee for Solid Waste Management, Committee for Infrastructural
development on IISC campus (1999-2000).
Judge- Intel Science Student City Fair, 2001
Judge- Intel Science Student National Fair, 2002
Judge- Intel Science Student National Fair, 2004
Judge- Intel Science Student National Fair, 2005
Judge – National Student’s Science Seminar (NSS), BITM, Calcutta, 2008
Panel of Judges, Regional CBSE Science Exhibition, 18th Aug 2009, JSS Public
School, Bangalore
1.4 ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS:
Ph.D. Thesis Referee: Department of Botany, Karnatak University, 2007
Board of Studies in Botany (PG), University of Mysore, Karnataka, 2003
Department of Zoology, Karnatak University, 2002
M.S. Thesis Examiner, Department of Civil Engineering, IITM, Chennai
Syllabus – Certificate and Diploma Course in environment Technology, Karnataka State Open
University (2005-2007)
Curriculum Development – M Sc (Integrated) Environment Science, University of Mysore
Syllabus – Environment Management Course, Karnataka State Open University, Mysore
Syllabus – Environmental Engineering, SDM College of Engineering, VTU
Syllabus – Certificate and Pg-Diploma course in Environment Technology, KSOU
Syllabus – Masters in environment Science, Geology, Calicut University
Curriculum Development – B Sc BEd (Integrated), Navrachna University, Vadodara (2009)
1.5 MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Co-Editor
Member
Editorial Board, International Journal of Energy & Sustainable Systems
Editorial Board, Science of the Total Environment
Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
Editorial Board, ICFAI University Journal of Soil and Water Sciences
Editorial Board, E-Zine on Environment, Mumbai
Editorial Board, Scientific Journals International (2007)
Editorial Board, Research Journal of Environmental Science
Asian Network of Scientific Information
National Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Biology
Editorial Advisory Board, Int. Journal of Ecology, Environment and Conservation.
Research journal of Chemistry and Environment
Advisory board – Mapana: Journal of Sciences, Christ College, Bangalore
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1.7 REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Applied Energy
International Journal of Energy
Biochemical Engineering Journal
International Journal of Exergy
Bioremediation Journal
Journal Ecological Complexity
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Journal of Chemistry and Environment
Current Science
Journal of Ecology, Environment and Conservation
Energy & Fuel
Journal of Environmental Biology
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Journal of Environmental Management
IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing of Environment
Journal of Information Science
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Int. Journal of Water, Air and Soil Pollution
International Journal of Hazardous materials
Review of MS – Book Publishers and Reports from Institutions
Orient & Longman
Centre for Environment Education, Bangalore
University Press
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Review of Research Proposals
Ministry of Science & Technology – NRDMS, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of
SERC, Science and Society
India
CSIR, New Delhi
Ministry of Water Resources
Karnataka State Council for Science and Kerala State Council for Science, Technology &
Technology
Environment
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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2011 Legend in Energy, The Association of Energy Engineers (USA)
Inclusion in Biofuels Hall of Fame 2011 proceedings, www.greenworldconferences.com,
Publication - Ramachandra, T.V., D.M. Mahapatra, Karthick B. and R. Gordon, 2009.
Milking diatoms for sustainable energy: biochemical engineering vs gasoline secreting
diatom solar panels. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 48(19, Complex
Materials II special issue, October).
Certificate of appreciation by IEEE Bangalore chapter for the publication - Hybrid Bayesian
Classifier for Improved Classification Accuracy. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Letters, Vol. 8, No. 3, May 2011, pp 473-476. [Authors: Uttam Kumar, S. Kumar Raja,
Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay and Ramachandra T. V]
The Best Theme Contribution to Advancing Technology for Humanity in Technology in
Education" was conferred at 2011 IEEE Students' Technology Symposium (IEEE
TECHSYM 2011), held during 14-16 January 2011 at the Indian Institute o f Technology,
Kharagpur for the publication A Multi-layer Perceptron based Non-linear Mixture Model
to estimate class abundance from mixed pixels [Authors: Kumar, U., Kumar Raja, S.,
Mukhopadhyay, C., and Ramachandra T. V.], Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Students'
Technology Symposium, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 14-16 January,
2011 (IEEE Explore, April 2011)
International Energy Engineer, 2009, The Association of Energy Engineers (USA), India Chapter
Prof. Satish Dhawan Young Engineer Award, 2007. Karnataka State Government
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Manthan E Award, 2007. India’s best e –content for development, Digital Empowerment Foundation
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Johny biosphere award for Ecology and Environment, 2004
Environmental Scientist, 2004. National Environment Science Academy
Energy Professional Development, 2005, Association of Energy Engineers (International), USA
Bharath Jyothi, 2003. India International Friendship Society.
Fellow, The Institution of Engineers (India), 2003
Environmental Professional, AEE – Region 6, 2003
Fellow, International Congress of Chemistry and Environment, 2003
Energy Manager 2002, AEE – Navy region southwest energy team, USA
Fellow, National Environmental Science Academy, 2001
Energy Engineer 2000 - Association of Energy Engineers (Region VI), USA
Best paper award for the paper "Status and socio-economic aspects of wetlands",
Rajinikanth and Ramachandra, T.V. (2000) Presented at Lake 2000: Symposium on
Restoration of Lakes and Wetlands, 27-29, Nov 2000
Young Scientist Award for the paper "Assessment of the water quality of Kamakshipalya
tank, Bangalore, Karnataka," Authors: Kiran, R., Deepa, R.S. and Ramachandra T.V.
(1998) Presented at NESA - XII Annual Conference - Environment and Toxicology.
Global Bangemann Diploma in Information Technology 1999.
Best Scientist Award - ISEAS 1997, International Society for Socio Environmental
Awareness Studies
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2.0 PROFILE OF PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Period
April 09- Present
Designation
Associate Faculty
July 2003 - Present
Associate Faculty
Sept 1997 – Present
Faculty
March 2007 – Present
Dec 2002 – present
Co-ordinator
Convenor
June 2003 – 2007
July – August 2005
Co-ordinator
Visiting Professor
Organisation
Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable
Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP),
Indian Institute of Science
Centre for Sustainable Technology (ASTRA),
Indian Institute of Science
Indian Institute of Science
Centre for Ecological Science
CHN Facility (Division’s facility)
Environmental Information System (ENVIS), CES,
IISc
Awarded Best ENVIS Centre, 2004, by the
Ministry of Environment and Forests, GOI
ENVIS Node – Western Ghats Biodiversity
Institut d'astronomie et de géophysique G. Lemaître
(ASTR), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), 2
Chemin du cyclotron, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
December 2002- 2007
Vice President (Hon)
Karnataka Environment Research Foundation,
Bangalore
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3.0 REPORT ON RESEARCH/TEACHING/INDUSTRY INTERACTION
3.1 RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS
 Energy
 Design and Development of RIEP: Regional Integrated Energy Plan – spatial decision
support system for regional energy planning
o Identification of Potential micro/mini/small hydel sites – with potential
assessment andcost benefit analysis
o Regional level energy demand assessment
o Assessment of Renewable energy potential – talukwise, resourcewise (solar,
wind, hydro and bioenergy)
o Energy conservation potential – sectorwise
o Alternative to mega dams – optimal design for energy and water
 Analysos of Intra and inter country energy intensity trends
 Ecology
o Aquatic Ecosystems – lentic and lotic
o Linkages – energy, ecology, hydrology
o Conservation, restoration and management of aquatic ecosystem
o Mapping of flora and fauna – terrestrial and aquatic
o Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment – Sharavathi River
o Prospects of bioremediation and phytoremediation
o Ecological modelling
o Carbon dynamics (statewise analysis)
 Environment
o Water pollution (surface, Groundwater)
o EIA of mega projects
 Urbanisation and urban sprawl: pattern analysis, SPSS
 Geoinformatics
o Design of GRDSS – open source GIS based DSS.
o Development of algorithms for analysis of multisensor, multi resolution, multi
spectral remote sensing data
o Spatio temporal analysis of ecosystems
o Land use and land cover dynamics
 Western Ghats Biodiversity Information Systems
o Design of Western Ghats Biodiversity information System (Flora and fauna)
o Design and Publication of Sahyadri E-News ( since 2004, 28 issues)
3.1.1 SALIENT FEATURES OF RESEARCH
i.
Integrated Regional Energy Planning - Uttara Kannada district: Proposed
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innovative, attractive and easily implementable Integrated Regional Energy Plan, based on
indepth work, mathematical modelling and optimisation.
 Model shows that it is possible to meet the energy demand in the district, accounting for
both population and economic growth, using only renewable energy resources.
 Tackles an important area of work on energy planning at a district level explicitly taking
the ecological factors into account.
 One of the few works that provides "equal time" to resources (particularly renewable) as
well as the utilisation of energy in rural areas. While there has been great deal of work on
the energy use patterns in rural areas, there is little or no attention to resource picture. In
this context, this work is considered scientifically interesting and of exceptionally
contemporary social relevance.
o Important breakthrough in rural energy studies - Prof. K. Krishna Prasad
(Editor, Energy for Sustainable Development Journal).
o The work is seminal for appropriate regional development - Dr. Jesse C.
Denton, (Editor, Energy Conversion and Management).
 Identified potential micro, mini and small hydro potential sites in Bedthi and
Aghanashini river basins. If all identified streams are harnessed an estimated 720 and
510 million kWh can be generated annually.
 Environmentally sound alternative proposed for Bedthi Hydroelectric Project has been
accepted by KPC, proposed model shows a net energy gain of 63.9% for reduction of
37.3% in dam height and submergence area gets reduced from 95 sq.Kms.. to 5.7
sq.Kms..
 Proposal of harvesting solar energy in 5% of the present wasteland in coastal taluks
shows, it can meet 35% of the present electricity demand of the district.
 Bioresources from forests and agriculture is of the order of 13705 million kWh is
sufficient to meet the bioenergy requirement of the region.
 Biogas potential based on livestock population indicates it can meet 30% of total
population domestic energy requirement.
 Wind potential in coastal taluks is good during pre-monsoon period, wind farm of 2 MW
could be set up in 5% of wasteland available along the seashore in Karwar and Kumta
taluks.
 Detailed household and industrial energy auditing shows that there is a scope for saving
energy of the order of 27 to 42%.
 Optimisation based on the cost minimisation, shows the cost saving of the order of 36%
and energy saving of the order of 19%.
 Optimisation of maximisation of efficiency (source-device-enduse) shows the energy
saving of 20% and the cost saving of 32%.
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Kolar District Energy Plan DSS using GIS: TArea based energy plan prepared using
GIS (Geographic Information System) is being implemented at Kolar district (UNDP NRDMS project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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Ecology of Western Ghats
 Mapping of endangered, threatened species of flora
 Discovery of two critically endangered tree species
 Discovery of Fish Species - Schistura nagodiensis and S. sharavathiensis
 Discovery of Amphibian - Philautus neelanethrus, Philautus ochlandrae
 Linkage between landscape dynamics and fish diversity
 Direct devlop mode in bypassing intermediary tadpole stage in Philautus cf.
leucorhinus
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Aquatic Ecosystems: Wetlands of Karnataka
 35% decrease in the number of water bodies during last two decades
 Drainage network analyses shows breakage in interconnectivity due to urbanisation
 Water quality monitoring indicates most of water bodies in Bangalore are polluted
compared to the standards of inland surface waters.
 Developed techniques for restoration and conservation of lakes and wetlands.
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Environmental Information System: Design of Western Ghats Biodiversity Information
System – http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity
Design and development of environmental information system - presented at the Global
Seminar on Information Technology, Organised by Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A
and Royal Institute of Technology, KTH University, Sweden.
3.1.2 IMPACT OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FIELD CONCERNED (BASIC OR
APPLIED)
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An environmentally sound alternative model proposed for Bedthi hydro electric project at Magod site
is shown to reduce the submergence area from 95 sq.km to 5.8 sq.km, without any reduction in the
850 million kWh capacity and 40.5% reduction in cost. This design is accepted by the government
and is being implemented.
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Identified potential sites to tap hydro potential in ecologically sound way through Mini / Micro /
Small hydel projects. Based on the research outputs, under Indo Norvegian Programme (KSCSTTIDE), three Micro hydro projects were implemented and commissioned in 2002.
 Proposed an innovative and easily implementable Integrated Regional Energy Plan, based on indepth field work, mathematical modeling and optimisation. This area based energy plan
decision support system using GIS (Geographic Information System) is being
implemented at Kolar district (UNDP -NRDMS project, Ministry of Science and
Technology, Government of India). Line department officials are being trained in GIS
and DSS as a part of implementation of DSS. Details are at http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/ .
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Capacity Building: In-service professionals – developed environmental engineering modules in self
learning format for launching in distance education mode. These modules are being validated and
pilot tested.
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Environmental monitoring involving school children. Schools in rural Bangalore are the partners in
the programme. Wetland monitoring (ecosystem approach – soil and water quality monitoring,
catchment mapping) using SIMPUTERS. To enable school children to handle SIMPUTERS, user
friendly GUI’s were developed and the response of the school children is very good to this
programme. Raising awareness among school children would certainly contribute towards sustainable
development.
Remote sensing data analyses reveal that the western side and south-east region of the river basin are
dominated by evergreen to semi-evergreen vegetation. Drainage network analyses reveal higher
drainage density and rainfall analyses reveal high intensity rainfall. Classified image and transect
based field investigations show large number of evergreen endemics are in western and south-east part
of study area.
Landscape analyses using remote sensing data along with collateral data reveal that vegetation,
rainfall and land use are correlated. Occurrences of evergreen to semi-evergreen vegetation region
tend to have higher rainfall and perennial streams. The regions with Western Ghats evergreen,
endemics tend to retain moisture leading to perennial streams in the region. This helped in evolving
restoration strategies to augment water supplies to the Linganamakki reservoir.
Designed Sahyadri: Western Ghats Biodiversity Information System. Currently the database consists
information about – 4500 species of flora, medicinal plants, Orchids and fauna (Amphibian, Fish,
Bird). Details are at http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/database/database.htm
3.1.4 Guidance of Students for Research Conferments
Ph.D. Thesis
Candidate Name
Modeling of urban sprawl H.S. Sudhira
dynamics and its linkages with (2004-2008, Guided jointly
environment
with M H Balasubramanya)
Institution Details
Awarded in Sept 2008.
Centre
for
Sustainable
Technologies, Indian Institute
of Science
Land cover mapping and Uttam Kumar
Will be submitting in 2011.
Modelling
using
Hyper (Registered in 2005-2006) Centre
for
Sustainable
spectral data
(jointly with. Mukhopadhyay, Technologies, Indian Institute
C.)
of Science
Optimal anaerobic treatment Durga Madhab Mahapatra
of urban wastewater
(Registered in 2006-2007)
(jointly with H N Chanakya.)
Modelling of GHG emission Shwetmala
from Municipal Waste
(Registered in 2008-2009)
(jointly with H N Chanakya.)
Modelling
land
cover Bharath H. Aithal
dynamics
(Registered in 2009-10)
(Jointly with Dr.Durgappa)
Centre
for
Sustainable
Technologies, Indian Institute
of Science
Centre
for
Sustainable
Technologies, Indian Institute
of Science
Centre
for
Sustainable
Technologies, Indian Institute
of Science
Conservation of flora in the Sumesh Dudani (2010)
central Western Ghats
BOS in Botany
Mysore University
BOS in Botany
Mysore University
Ecology of Stream Diatom Karthick B
Communities of
(2006-07)
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Central Western Ghats, India
Diatom Ecology in Lentic Alakananda
Ecosystems
(2008-09)
BOS in Botany
Mysore University
Ecophysiology
and Diwakar Mesta
Awarded in 2008
regeneration of Western Ghats (2003-2004)
Department of Botany
endemics in fragmented
Karnatak University
Habitats
Viable
bioremediation Ahalya N
Awarded in 2007
technology for restoration of (2002-2003)
Department of Zoology
wetlands
Karnatak University
M Tech, MS students: 8 and Guidance of M.Sc., M.E and MCA Students: 84
M.Tech Thesis Title
Candidate Names
Institution Details
Hyper spectral Image Analysis for
Land cover mapping
Choice of optimal spectral
vegetation indices for remote
sensing applications
Comparative evaluation of the
algorithms for land cover mapping
using hypers pectral data
Modeling hydrological regime at
mesoscale with landuse dynamics
Arun Chaudhary
M Tech (2004)
Avinash Srivastava
M Tech (2004)
Department of Aerospace
Engineering, IISc
Department of Aerospace
Engineering, IISc
Uttam Kumar
M S (2005)
Quantification of hydrological
responses to land use changes
using remote sensing and GIS
techniques
Integration of agent-based and
cellular automata models for
simulating urban sprawl
Landslide prone zone mapping
using remote sensing and GIS
techniques in Sharavathi river
basin, Karnataka
Saira Varghese K.
M Tech (2004)
Geoinformatics division
Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing and ITC, Netherlands
Water Resources Division,
Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing
Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing
Pallav Julka
M Tech (2003)
Geoinformatics division
Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing and ITC, Netherlands
Indian Institute of Remote
Sensing
Optimal Design of Rainwater
Harvesting Structures using
Spatial and Temporal Tools
Murari,R.R.V
M.Tech (1999)
Govt. College of Technology.
Coimbatore
Shruthi B V
M Tech (2004-05)
Sudhira H.S.
M S (2004)
4 PUBLICATIONS
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4.1 BOOKS
1. Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Capital
Publishing Company, New Delhi.
2. Ramachandra T.V., Subash Chandran M D., Gururaja K V and Sreekantha, 2007.
Cumulative Environmental Impact Assessment, Nova Science Publishers, New York.
3. Ali, Sameer, G. R. Rao, Divakar K. Mesta, Sreekantha, Mukri Vishnu, M. D. Subash
Chandran, K. V. Gururaja, N. V. Joshi, and T. V. Ramachandra. Ecological Status of
Sharavathi Valley Wildlife Sanctuary. Prism Books Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, 2007
4. Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Management of Municipal Solid Waste, Commonwealth Of
Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed by Capital
Publishing Company, New Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, New Delhi].
5. Ramachandra T.V., 2006.Soil and Groundwater Pollution from Agricultural Activities,
Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed
by Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, New
Delhi].
6. Vijay Kulkarni and Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Environmental Management,
Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed
by Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, NewDelhi].
7. Ramachandra T.V., Ahalya N. and Rajasekara Murthy, 2005. Aquatic Ecosystems:
Conservation, Restoration and Management, Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi
8. Ramachandra T.V. and Ahalya N., 2004. Wetland ecosystem in India: Conservation and
Management, Monograph- DEF Environmental Research Update, Journal of
Environmental Biology
9. Ramachandra, T.V. 2003. Ecologically Sound Integrated Regional Energy Planning,
Nova Science Publishers, Huntington, NY 11743-6907.
10. Sudhira H.S., Ramachandra T.V. and Jagadish K.S., 2003. Urban Sprawl Pattern analysis
using GIS, Aicra Publishers, Bangalore.
11. Ramachandra, T.V., Kiran R and Ahalya N. 2002, Status, Conservation and Management
of Wetlands, Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd, Bangalore.
12. Ramachandra, T.V., Rajasekara Murthy C. and Ahalya N., 2002, Restoration of Lakes
and Wetlands, Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd., Bangalore.
13. Ramachandra, T.V. and Ahalya N. 2001. Monograph on Essentials in Limnology and
GIS, Karnataka Environment Research Foundation, Bangalore.
14. Ramachandra, T.V., Rajasekara Murthy. C and Ahalya.N. 2001, Lake 2000-Proceedings
of International Symposium on Restoration of Lakes and Wetlands, Centre for Ecological
Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
15. Ramachandra, T.V., 2000. Energy Alternatives: Renewable energy and energy
conservation technologies, Karnataka Environment Research Foundation, Bangalore.
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Ramachandra T V, Rishabh Jain, Gautham Krishnadas, 2011. Hotspots of solar
potential in India, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 15 (2011) 3178–3186,
doi:10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.007
Ramachandra T V and Sudhira H S, 2011. Influence of Planning and Governance on
the Level of urban Services, The IUP Journal of Governance and Public Policy,
VI(1):24-50.
Uttam Kumar & Norman Kerle & Milap Punia & T. V. Ramachandra 2011. Mining
Land Cover Information Using Multilayer Perceptron and Decision Tree from
MODIS Data, J Indian Soc Remote Sens 38(4): 592-603 (DOI 10.1007/s12524-0110061-y)
Rao G R, Subhashchandran M D and Ramachandra T V, 2011. New plant records for
Karnataka, Uttara Kannada district, Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany
(JETB), 35(1):154-157
Rajasri Ray, Gururaja K V and Ramachandra T V, 2011. Predictive distribution
modeling for rare Himalayan medicinal plant Berberis aristata DC. Journal of
Environment Biology, 32 (2011)
Subash Chandran M D, Rao G R, Prakash Mesta, Bharath H Aithal, Uttam Kumar
and Ramachandra T V., 2011. Landslides in coastal Uttara Kannada: Management
towards risk reduction, Journal Applied Disaster Research (Disaster, Risk and
Vulnerability Conference, 2011), 1(1): 7-17
Karthick B., Mahesh M. K. and Ramachandra T. V., 2011. Nestedness pattern in
stream diatom assemblages of central Western Ghats, Current Science, 100 (4): 552558.
Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Chanakya H N and Ramachandra T. V, 2011. C:N ratio of
Sediments in a sewage fed Urban Lake, International Journal of Geology, 5(3): 86-92
Durga Madhab Mahapatra, H.N. Chanakya and T.V. Ramachandra, 2011. Assessment
of treatment capabilities of Varthur Lake, Bangalore, India, Int. J. Environmental
Technology and Management, Vol. 14, Nos. 1/2/3/4, pp.84–102.
Uttam Kumar, Anindita Dasgupta, Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay, N. V. Joshi, and T. V.
Ramachandra, 2011. Comparison of 10 Multi-Sensor Image Fusion Paradigms for
IKONOS Images, International Journal of Research and Reviews in Computer
Science (IJRRCS) Vol. 2 (1):40-47
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Urbanisation in Bangalore: Hallmark of lack of governance
and urban planning, Project Monitor, 10(26): 14-15
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Mapping of Fuelwood trees using Geoinformatics,
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 14 (2): 642-654
[doi:10.1016/j.rser.2009.10.007].
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Wetlands: Need for appropriate stratergies for conservation
and sustainable management, Journal of Basic and Applied Biology, 4(3):1-17.
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Karthick B., Boominathan M., Sameer Ali and Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Evaluation
of the Quality of Drinking Water in Kerala State, India. Asian Journal of Water,
Environment and Pollution, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 39 – 48.
Uttam Kumar, S. Kumar Raja, Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay and Ramachandra T. V.,
2011, Hybrid Bayesian Classifier for Improved Classification Accuracy. IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 8, No. 3, May 2011, pp 473-476.
Subash Chandran M D, Rao G R, Gururaja K V and Ramachandra T V, 2010.
Ecology of the swampy relic forests of Kathalekan from Central Western Ghats,
India, Bioremediation, Biodiversity and Bioavailability, 4 (special issue): 54-68,
Global Science Books
Ramachandra T V and Uttam Kumar, 2010. Greater Bangalore: Emerging Heat
Island,
GIS
for
Development,
14(1):
86-104
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/
urban/sprawl/Greater-BangaloreEmerging-Urban-Heat-Island.htm
Mahesh Babu D, Rao G.R., Diwakar Mesta, Subashchandran M.D. and Ramachandra
T V, 2010. Sharavathi river basin flora information system (SRFIS), The Indian
Forester, 136(4):507-517 .
Rao G.R., Subashchandran M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2010. Plant diversity in the
Sharavathi river basin in relation to human disturbance, The Indian Forester, 136(6):
775-790.
Sameer Ali, Mesta D K, Subash Chandran M D and Ramachandra T V, 2010. Report
of Burmannia championii thw from Uttara Kannada, central Western Ghats,
Karnataka, J. econ. Taxon. Bot., 34(9):343-345
Karthick B, Jonathan Charles Taylor, Mahesh M K and Ramachandra T V, 2010.
Protocols for collection, preservation and enumeration of diatoms from aquatic
habitats for water quality monitoring in India, The Icfai University Journal of Soil and
Water Sciences, Vol. III (1): 25-60, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1557556
Rajasri Roy and Ramachandra T V, 2010, Small sacred groves in local landscapes:
are they really worthy of conservation?, Current Science, 98 (9): 1178-1181
Ramachandra, T.V., D.M. Mahapatra, Karthick B. and R. Gordon, 2009. Milking
diatoms for sustainable energy: biochemical engineering vs gasoline secreting diatom
solar panels [invited]. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 48(19, Complex
Materials II special issue, October).
Ramachandra T V and Uttam Kumar, 2009. Land surface temperature with land cover
dynamics: multi-resolution,spatio-temporal data analysis of Greater Bangalore,
International Journal of Geoinformatics, 5 (3):43-53
Ramachandra T.V. 2009. RIEP: Regional Integrated Energy Plan, Renewable and
Sustainable Energy Reviews, 13 (2009) 285–317 doi:10.1016/j.rser.2007.10.004..
Ramachandra T.V. and Shwetmala, 2009. Emissions from India's Transport sector:
Statewise Synthesis, Atmospheric Environment, 43 (2009) 5510–5517, DOI:
10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.015
Ramesh Maheshwari, Sankara Rao K. and Ramachandra, T. V., 2009. Structural
characteristics of a giant tropical liana and its mode of canopy spread in an alien
Environment, Current Science, 96(1):58-64.
Savitha G and Ramachandra T V, 2009. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in
Fire Ecology, Conservation Forum Journal, 2(2009): 6-13
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Uttam Kumar, Mukhopadhyay C and Ramachandra T V., 2009. Spatial data mining
and modelling for visualisation of rapid urbanisation, SCIT Journal, 9(2): 1-9
Karthick B, Toyoda, K., Ramachandra T. V. and Williams, D.M., 2009. A note on the
identity of Ceratoneis iyengarii Gonzalves & Gandhi, Diatom Research, 24(1):233236
Ramachandra T.V. and Karthick B., 2009. Research prospects in Western Ghats
stream ecology: Perspectives from river Sharavathi, Pollution Research, 28(1):19-20
Subramanian K.A., Samirali and Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Odonata as indicators of
riparian ecosystem health: A case study from south western Karnataka, India,
FRASERIA (N.S.) 7: 83-95
Uttam Kumar, Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay, and T. V. Ramachandra, 2009. Pixel based
fusion using IKONOS imagery, International Journal of Recent Trends in
Engineering (Computer Science), 1(1): 178-182
Chanakya H.N., Isha Sharma and Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Micro-scale anaerobic
digestion of point source components of organic fraction of municipal solid waste,
Waste Management, 29 (4): 1306-1312 doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2008.09.014
Ahalya N,. Kanamadi R.D and T.V. Ramachandra, 2009. Removal of Hexavalent
Chromium using Coffee Husk, International Journal of Biotechnology, 10(9): 17-26.
Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Geographical Information System Approach for Regional
Biogas Potential Assessment, Research Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2(3):
170-184.
Ramachandra T.V. 2008. Regional land cover mapping using remote sensing data,
Journal of Agricultural, food and environmental sciences, 2(1):
http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2008/j_of_agriculture1_2008.htm.
Ramachandra T.V and Uttam Kumar, 2008. Wetlands of Greater Bangalore, India:
Automatic Delineation through Pattern Classifiers, The Greendisk Environmental
Journal.
Issue
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Electronic
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URL:
(http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/index.php/egj/article/view/3171).
Ahalya N., Kanamadi R D and Ramachandra T V., 2008. Biosorption of Chromium
(VI) by Tamarindus indica pod shells, Journal of Environmental Science Research
International, 1 (2):77-81
Ajay Narendra and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Remote detection and distinction of
ants using nest-site specific LISS-derived Normalised Difference Vegetation Index,
Asian Myrmecology Volume 2, 51 – 62
Uttam Kumar and Ramachandra T.V. 2008. Endmembers discrimination in MODIS
using spectral angle mapper and maximum likelihood algorithms, International
Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 2(1): 2-14
Subash Chandran M.D., Mesta D.K., Rao G.R., Sameer Ali, Gururaja K.V. and
Ramachandra T.V. 2008. Discovery of two critically endangered tree species and
issues related to relic forests of the Western Ghats, The Open Conservation Biology
Journal, 2008, 2, 1-8. http://www.bentham.org/open/toconsbj/openaccess2.htm, doi:
10.2174/1874839200802010001
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Desai, S. R., Subash Chandran M. D. and Ramachandra, T. V., 2008. Phytoplankton
Diversity in Sharavati River Basin, Central Western Ghats(August 11, 2008). The
Icfai University Journal of Soil and Water Sciences, I(1): 7-66 Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1216302
Sreekantha, K. V., Gururaja and T. V. Ramachandra, 2008. Nestedness pattern in
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freshwater fishes of the Western Ghats: an indication of stream islands along
riverscapes, Current Science, 95 (12):1707-1714.
Ramachandra, T. V. and Kumar Uttam, 2008. Decision Support System for Land Use
Planning. The Icfai University Journal of Environmental Sciences, II ( 3): 7-19,
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1187983
Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Comparative assessment of techniques for bioresource
monitoring using GIS and remote sensing, The ICFAI Journal of Environmental
Sciences, 1(2):7-47.
Karthick B. and Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Spatial variation of physico-chemical and
hydrological parameters with land-use in Venkatapura catchment, Karnataka. Asian
Jr. of Microbiol. Biotech. Env. Sc. Vol. 9, No. (4) : 2007 : 981-985.
Gururaja K.V., Sameer Ali and Ramachandra T.V., Micrixalus fuscus (Anura:
Ranidae) in Sharavathi river basin, Karnataka, Journal of Bombay Natural History
Society , 104(1): 104-105
Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Geospatial Mapping of Bioenergy Potential in Karnataka,
India. Journal of Energy & Environment (JEE), 6(1): 28-44.
Ramachandra T.V. and Ajay N., 2007. Ants habitat mapping using remote sensing
and GIS, Eco_chronicle 2(3): 115-121
Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Vegetation Status in Uttara Kannada District, Mapana –
Journal of Sciences, 6(1):1-26
Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Spatial Analysis and Characterisation of Lentic
Ecosystems: A Case Study of Varthur Lake, Bangalore, International Journal of
Ecology and Environment, 9(8):39-56
Ramachandra T.V., Sreekantha and Purnima G B., 2007. The Status of Bioenergy in
the Sharavathi river basin, India. Energy and Environment, 18(5): 591-613.
Ramachandra T. V., 2007. Solar energy potential assessment using GIS Energy
Education Science and Technology, 18(2): 101-114
Ramachandra T.V. and Shruthi B.V. 2007. Spatial mapping of renewable energy
potential, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 11(7):1460-1480.
Ramachandra T.V. and Shruthi Bachamanda, 2007. Environmental audit of
Municipal Solid Waste Management, Int. J. Environmental Technology and
Management, 7( 3/4): 369-391.
Sudhira H.S. and Ramachandra T.V, 2007. Managing urban sprawl for achieving
sustainable urbanisation, APNN Sustainable Development, 1(4):3-5.
Gururaja K.V., Dinesh K.P., Palot M.J., Radhakrishnan and Ramachandra T.V. 2007.
A new species of Philautus Gistel (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern
Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 1621: 1-16
Sudhira H.S., Ramachandra T.V., Bala Subramanya M.H., 2007. City Profile:
Bangalore., Cities l 24(4): 379-390.
Chanakya H.N., Ramachandra T.V., Guruprasad, M. and Vinutha Devi, 2007. Microtreatment options for components of organic fraction of MSW in residential areas. Int
J. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s10661-007-9711-5. , 135 (1-3),
pp. 129-139
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Chanakya H.N., Ramachandra T.V. and Vijayachamundeeswari, 2007. Resource
recovery potential from secondary components of segregated municipal solid wastes,
Int J. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s10661-007-9712-4,
135 (1-3), pp. 119-127
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Ahalya, N., Kanamadi R.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Cr(VI) and Fe(III) removal
using Cajanus cajan husk, Journal of Environment Biology, 28(4): 765-769
Gururaja, K.V., Aravind, N.A., Sameer Ali, Ramachandra, T.V., Velavan, T.P.,
Krishnakumar, V. and Aggarwal, R.K., 2007. A New Frog Species from the Central
Western Ghats of India,and its Phylogenetic Position, Zoological Science, 24:525534.
Sreekantha, Subash Chandran M.D., Mesta D.K., Rao G.R., Gururaja K.V.,
Ramachandra T.V. Fish Diversity in Relation to Landscape and Vegetation in Central
Western Ghats, India. Curr.Sci., 2007: 92(11):1592-1603.
Ramachandra T.V. Yves Loerincik and Shruthi B.V., 2006. Intra and Inter Country
Energy Intensity Trends, International Journal of Energy and Development, 31(1):
43-84.
Ramachandra T.V., Vince George, Krishna Vamsee, Purnima G.B., 2006. Decision
support system for regional electricity planning, Energy Education Science and
Technology, 17(1):7-25
Ramachandra T.V. and Uttam Kumar, 2006. Relevance of Hyperspectral Data for
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, GIS and Development 10(4):30-36
(India)
Ramachandra, T.V. and Sreekantha, 2006. Conservation values of wetlands, Pollution
Research 25(1):61-66.
Gururaja, K.V. and Ramachandra, T.V., 2006. Developmental mode in white-nosed
shrub frog Philatus cf. leucorhinus, Current Science, 90(3): 450-454.
Gururaja, K.V. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2006. Pedostibes tuberculosus Advertisement
Calls and Distribution, Herpetological Review, 2006, 37(1):75-76
Devashish Kar, Nagarathna A.V., Ramachandra, T.V. and Dey, S.C., 2006. Fish
Diversity and Conservation Aspects in an Aquatic Ecosystem in Northeastern India,
Zoo’s Print Journal, 21(7): 2308-2315.
Sreekantha, Gururaja, K.V., Remadevi, K., Indra T.J. and Ramachandra T.V., 2006.
Two new species of the genus Schistura Mcclelland (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae)
from Western Ghats, India., Zoos’ Print Journal, 211(4): 2211-2216
Ahalya N, Kanamadi R.D. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2006. Biosorption of iron (III)
from aqueous solutions using the husk of Cicer arientinum, Indian Journal of
Chemical Technology, 13 (March2006): 122-127
Ahalya, N. and Ramachandra, T.V., 2006. Phytoremediation: Processes and
Mechansims, Journal of Ecobiology, 18(1):33-38
Ahalya N, Kanamadi R.D. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2006. Biosorption of chromium
(VI) from aqueous solutions by the husk of Bengal gram (Cicer arientinum),
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 8(3)
http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/content/vol8/issue3/full/10/bip/BIP.HTML
http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/content/vol8/issue3/full/10/
Ramachandra T.V., Rajeev Kumar Jha, Vamsee Krishna and Shruthi B.V. 2005.
Solar energy decision support system, International Journal of Sustainable Energy,
24(4): 207-224.
Sreekantha and Ramachandra T.V. 2005. Fish diversity in Linganamakki reservoir,
Sharavathi river, Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 11(3-4): 337-348
Ramachandra T.V., Vamsee Krishna S. and Shruthi B V, 2005, Decision support
system for regional domestic energy planning, Journal of Scientific and Industrial
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Ramachandra T.V., Rajeev K.J., Vamsee Krishna S and Shruthi B.V., 2005. WEPA:
Wind energy potential assessment – spatial decision support system, Energy
Education Science and Technology, 14(2):61-80.
Ramachandra T.V., Rajinikanth R. and Ranjini V.G. 2005. Economic valuation of
wetlands, Journal of Environmental Biology, 26(3):439-447.
Ramachandra T.V. and Shruthi B.V., 2005. Wind energy potential mapping in
Karnataka using GIS, Energy Conversion and Management, 41(9-10):1561-1578
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Ali, s., Gururaja K.V. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2005. Schistura nilgiriensis (Menon)
in Sharavathi river Basin Western Ghats, Karnataka, ZOOS’ Print Journal, 20 (2):
1784-1785
Rao G.R., Subash Chandran M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2005. Habitat approach for
conservation of herbs, shrubs and climbers in the Sharavathi River Basin, The Indian
Forester, 131 (7): 885-900
Ahalya N, Kanmadi R D and Ramachandra T V., 2005. Biosorption of Chromium
(VI) using Cicer arientinum husk. Electronic journal of Biotechnology, 8 (3):
Available from:
http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/content/vol8/issue3/full/3/index.html. ISSN
0717-3458.
Ramachandra T.V., Vamsee Krishna S and Shruthi B.V., 2004. Decision support
system to assess regional biomass energy potential, International Journal of Green
Energy, 1(4):1-22.
Ramachandra T.V. and Uttam Kumar, 2004. Watershed Management using GRDSS,
GIS and Development 8(8):20-26 (India)
Ramachandra T V., 2004. Conversion of vegetable oil to diesel like fuels, Energy
education, Science and Technology, 14:33-42
Ramachandra T.V., Kamakshi G and Shruthi B.V., 2004. Bioresource status in
Karnataka, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 8, Issue 1, February
2004, Pages 1-47.
Ramachandra T.V., Uttam Kumar, Vaishnav B and Prasad S.N., 2004. Geographic
Resources Decision Support System – an open source GIS, Geospatial Today, 3(3):
52-59
Ramachandra T.V., Rajeev Kumar Jha, Vamsee Krishna and Shruthi B.V., 2004.
Spatial Decision Support System for assessing Micro, Mini and Small hydel
potential, Journal of Applied Sciences 4(4):596-604.
Ramachandra T.V. and Saira Varghese K. 2004. Environmentally sound options for
e-wastes management, ENVIS Journal of Human Settlements (ISSN 0971-9091),
March 2004 (India)
Ramachandra T.V., Subhash Chandran M.D., Sreekantha, Diwakar Mesta, Rao G.R.
and Sameer Ali. 2004. Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Sharavathi River Basin,
International Journal of Environment and Development, 1(1): 113-135.
Ramachandra T.V., Ahalya N. and Rajinikanth R., 2004, Fish homicide by civic
authorities: Latest episode of euthanasia, Nature environment and pollution
technology, 3(2): 141-146 (India).
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Ramachandra T.V. and Shruthi B.V. 2003. Wind energy potential in Karnataka, Wind
Engineering, Volume 27, Issue 6, pp 549-553.
Ramachandra T.V. and Saira Varghese K. 2003. Exploring possibilities of achieving
sustainability in solid waste management, Indian Jl Environmental Health, 45
(4):255-264.
H. S. Sudhira, T. V. Ramachandra, Karthik S. Raj, and K. S. Jagadish, 2003. Urban
growth analyses using spatial and temporal data, Indian Journal of Remote Sensing,
31(4): Dec 2003.
H. S. Sudhira, T. V. Ramachandra, and K. S. Jagadish, 2003. Urban Sprawl –
Metrics, Dynamics and Modeling using GIS, international Journal of Applied Earth
Observation
and
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Ahalya N., Ramachandra T.V. and Kanamadi R.D. 2003. Biosorption of heavy
metals, Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment, 7(4): 71-79
Ramachandra T.V. and Raushan Kumar, 2003, Wastelands: Rehabilitation and
management approaches, LEISA-Low external input sustainable agriculture, 5 (4):1012.
Ramachandra, T.V. 2002. Restoration and Management Strategies of Wetlands in
Developing Countries, The Greendisk Environmental Journal. (International
Electronic Jour. URL: http://egj.lib.uidho.edu/egj15/ramacha1.html)
Prasad, S.N., Ramachandra, T.V., Ahalya, N., Sengupta, T., Alok Kumar, Tiwari,
A.K., Vijayan V.S. and Lalitha Vijayan, 2002. Conservation of wetlands of India – a
review, Tropical Ecology, 43 (1): 173-186.
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K. and Joshi,N.V., 2001. A Decision Support
System for an optimal design of hydro electric projects in Uttara Kannada,
International Journal of Energy for Sustainable Development. V(3): 14-31.
Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Energy consumption trends in Karnataka: Good
conservation potential (Part I), Energy Times, 23(21): 4-5, India.
Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Energy consumption trends in Karnataka: Good
conservation potential (Part II), Energy Times, 23(23): 4-5, India.
Ramachandra,T.V. and Subramanian,D.K., 2001. Energy requirements and
conservation potential in industrial sector in Karnataka, International Journal of
Ambient Energy, 22(1):35-47.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Nagarathna, A.V., 2001. Energetics in paddy cultivation in
Uttara Kannada District, Energy Conversion and Management Journal, 42(2001):
132-155
Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Integrated Energy Planning Energy Times, 23(34): 4-5,
India.
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K. and Joshi,N.V., 2000. Present and Prospective
role of bioenergy in regional energy systems, Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Reviews,4(2000): 376-430.
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K., Joshi,N.V., 2000. Optimal design of
hydroelectric projects in Uttara Kannada, India. Hydrological Sciences, 45(2): 299314.
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K., Joshi,N.V., Gunaga, S.V. and Harikantra,
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R.B., 2000. Domestic energy consumption patterns in Uttara Kannada District,
Karnataka state, India. Energy Conversion and Management Journal, 41(08):775831.
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K., Joshi,N.V., Gunaga, S.V. and Harikantra,
R.B., 2000. Enduse efficiencies in the domestic sector of Uttara Kannada district,
Energy Conversion and Management Journal. 41(08): 831-845.
Ramachandra, T.V., 2000. Solar energy potential in Uttara Kannada district,
Karnataka, Environment and Ecology,18(4): 988-994.
Ramachandra T.V. 2000, Environmental digital information system,
http://www.iicd.org/base/?id=4450
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K. and Joshi,N.V., 1999. Hydro electric resource
assessment in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka state, India, Journal of Cleaner
Production.7(3):195-211
Kiran, R. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1999, Status of Wetlands in Bangalore and its
Conservation Aspects, ENVIS Journal of Human Settlements, March 1999: 16-24.
Kar D., Rahaman, H., Barman, N.N., Kar, S., Dey, S.C. and Ramachandra, T.V.,
1999. Bacterial pathogens associated with Epizootic Ulcerative syndrome in
freshwater fish in India, Environment and Ecology, 17 (4): 1025-1027.
Kar D., Dey S C., Kar S and Ramachandra T.V., 1998. Trawls of lake Sone in
Assam, Journal of Applied Zoology of Research, 10 (2), pp. 170-172
Ramachandra, T.V. 1998. Energy utilisation in rural industries in Karnataka. Ambient
Energy, 19(2):75-92.
Ramachandra, T.V. 1998. Renewable energy options for ecologically sound
development. Asia Pacific Tech Monitor, 15(3):16-25.
Ramachandra, T.V. 1998. Efficient household energy use in Uttara Kannada district,
Karnataka. Boiling Point, 40(3):32-35.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1997. Potential and prospects for solar
energy in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. Energy Sources, 19(9):945988.
Ramachandra, T.V., Subramanian, D.K. and Joshi, N.V. 1997. Wind energy potential
assessment in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. Renewable Energy.
10(4):585-611.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1997. Industrial energy utilisation in
Karnataka and potential savings. Energy Conversion and Management, 38(6):563599.
124. Ramachandra, T.V. 1996. Scope for solar energy devices in Karnataka state, India. Energy
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Ramachandra, T.V. 1996. Hydro potential assessment in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka,
India. Future Age Energy, 1(2):8-9 (Moscow) [Short Communication]
Ramachandra, T.V., Subramanian, D.K. and Joshi, N.V. Optimal design of hydro electric
projects. Future Age Energy. 1(2):9-12. (Moscow) [Short Communication]
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1996. Energy utilisation in Karnataka: An
overview. Energy Management, 20(4): 23-40. (India).
Ravindranath, N.H. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1996. Renewable Energy Options for
Decentralised Electricity Generation. Encology, 11(2):32.
Ramachandra, T.V. 1996. Ecologically sound planning strategies for sustainable development,
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http://www.igc.org/greendisk), Special issue on Renewable Energy: The Guide to Sustainable
Future, 6(4).
Benjamin Ranjeev, Chakrapani,B.K., Kar Devashish, Nagarathna, A.V., and Ramachandra,
T.V. 1996. Fish mortality in Bangalore lakes, India, Electronic Green Journal, (International
Electronic Journal. URL: http://www.lib.uidaho.edu: 70/docs/ egj.html ), Issue 6, December
96.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Shastri, C.M. 1995. Energy utilisation in the domestic sector in
Kumta taluk, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Jour. of Energy in Southern Africa, 7(1):1624.
Ramachandra, T.V., Subramanian, D.K. and Joshi, N.V. 1995. Micro, mini and small hydro
potential in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Rural Technology, 13(1&2):16-33. (India)
Ramachandra, T.V., Subramanian, D.K. and Joshi, N.V. 1995. Efficient utilisation of energy
in domestic sector for cooking and water heating in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Indian
J. Rural Technology, 7(1&2):1-22. (India)
Ramachandra, T.V. 1994. Getting into hot, hot water. ARECOP Glow, 14(12):7-11.
(Indonesia.)
Ramachandra, T.V. 1993. Energy options for sustainable development. Energy Management,
17(1): 12-19. (India).
Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1993. Analysis of energy utilization in the grain
mill sector in Karnataka. Energy Policy, 21(6):644-655.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1992. Energy efficiencies of enduse devices in a
electro-metallurgical industry: A critical study. Energy Conversion and Management,
33(10):899-912.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1991. Analysis of energy utilisation in the small
scale industries in Karnataka. Energy Management, 15(1):23-46. (India)
4.2 Chapter in a Book
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Ramachandra T V, 2011. Renewable energy transition: Perspective and Challenges, In: Energy
India 2020- A Shape of Things to come in Indian Energy Sector, Saket Projects Ltd.,
Ahmedabad, Pp:175-183
Ramachandra T. V., and Uttam Kumar, 2009. Geoinformatics for Urbanisation and Urban
Sprawl pattern analysis. Chapter 19, In: Geoinformatics for Natural Resource Management (Eds.
Joshi et al.). Nova Science Publishers, NY. Pp- 235-272
Ramachandra T V and Uttam Kumar, 2009. FOSS for Geoinformatics (FOSS4G), Chapter 1, In
Open Source GIS in India: Present Scenario, CiSTUP Technical Report 2, pp3-10.
Sudhira H. S.and Ramachandra T. V., 2009. A Spatial Planning Support System for Managing
Bangalore’s Urban Sprawl, Chapter 9, in S. Geertman, J.C.H. Stillwell (eds.), Planning Support
Systems Best Practice and New Methods, 175-190. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-8952-7_9, ©
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009.
Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, In Environment
Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New
Delhi, Pp1-13.
Chanakya, H.N., Karthick B. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Nitrogen and carbon flows through
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Belandur lake – Role of Bellandur lake as a natural wetland treating Bangalore wastewater, In
Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing
company, New Delhi, Pp25-32.
Gururaja K.V., Sameer Ali and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Influence of land use changes in river
basins on diversity and distribution of amphibians, In Environment Education for Ecosystem
Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp 33-42.
Sameer Ali, Subhash Chandran, M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Faunal assemblages in
Myristica swamps of central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India, In Environment Education for
Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra (ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp 94112.
Rao G.R., Diwakar K. Mesta, Subhash Chandran, M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Wetland
flora of Uttara Kannada, In Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, Ramachandra
(ed.), Capital publishing company, New Delhi, Pp 152-159.
Uttam Kumar, Norman Kerle, and Ramachandra T.V., (2008) Contrained linear spectral
unmixing technique for regional land cover mapping using MODIS data. In: Innovations and
advanced techniques in systems, computing sciences and software engineering / ed by Khaled
Elleithy. Berlin : Springer, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8734-9. pp 416-424.
Ramachandra T.V. and Suja A., 2006. Sahyadri: Western Ghats Biodiversity Information
System http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity, In Biodiversity in Indian Scenarios, Ramakrishnan,
N. (Ed), Daya Publishing House, New Delhi. Pp 1-22.
Ramachandra T V and Rao G R, 2005. Inventorying, Mapping and Monitoring of Bioresources
using GIS and Remote Sensing, In Geospatial technologies for developmental planning,
Ramaswamy S M, Kumanan C J, Palanivel K and Bhoop Singh (eds), pp 49-76
Ramachandra T.V., 2005. Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems,
In Aquatic Ecosytems – Conservation, Restoration and Management, Ramachandra, Ahalya N.
and Rajasekara Murthy (ed), Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi.
Raushan Kumar and Ramachandra T.V. 2005. Water, soil and sediment investigations to
explore the status and management options of aquatic ecosystems, In Aquatic Ecosytems –
Conservation, Restoration and Management, Ramachandra, Ahalya N. and Rajasekara Murthy
(ed), Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi.
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Savitha, G., SOMASHEKAR, R.K., Prakash, K.L., and Ramachandra, T.V. 2004.Vegetation
Analysis in Uttara Kannada district using GIS and Remote SensingTechniques. (In ed,
Somashekar, R.K. and Iyengar, M.A.R.) Remote Sensingand its applications in environmental
Management, Bangalore, pp 122-130.
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Prasad S.N., Sengupta T., Alok Kumar, Vijayan V.s., Lalita Vijayan, Ramachandra T.V.,
Ahalya N. and Tiwari A.K., 2004. Wetlands of India, In: National Aquatic Ecosystems of India
– Thematic Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, Venkataraman K. (ed), Zoological Survey of
India
Dabrase, P. and Ramachandra, T.V., 1999. Energy and Environmental Sustainability: Some key
issues in rural Kolar, Karnataka, India. In. Criteria and Indicators of sustainability in Rural
Development - a Natural resource Perspective, Anil K. Gupta (ed), Oxford and IBH Publishing
Co. Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, pp. 222-240.
Ramachandra T.V. 1997. Regional Integrated Energy Planning. Human Development CD-Rom,
(Belgium)Vol 1.2: Section: Energy and Sustainable Development.
Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1997. Energy utilisation in Karnataka : Part III:
Energy utilisation in industries in Karnataka. Human Development CD-Rom, (Belgium), Vol
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Ramachandra, T.V. and Subramanian, D.K. 1996. Energy utilisation in Karnataka : Part I:
Introduction. Human Development CD-Rom, (Belgium)Vol 1.1: Section: Energy and
Sustainable Development
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1996. Energy utilisation in Karnataka : Part II:
Energy utilisation in industries in Karnataka . Human Development CD-Rom, Vol 1.1: Section:
Energy and Sustainable Development.
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1991. Some aspects of agriculture and irrigation in
Karnataka. In: Karnataka State of Environment Report - V. Cecil J. Saldanha (ed.). pp. 95-116.
Centre for Taxonomic Studies, Bangalore, India.
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1987. Energy utilisation in small scale industries
in Karnataka. In: Karnataka State of Environment Report - III. Cecil J. Saldanha (ed.). pp. 107121. Centre for Taxonomic Studies, Bangalore, India.
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1986. Energy utilisation in industries in
Karnataka. In: Karnataka State of Environment Report - II. Cecil J. Saldanha (ed.). pp. 107-125.
Centre for Taxonomic Studies, Bangalore, India.
PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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Ramachandra T V, 2011. Impact of urbanization on natural resources and climate, In Proceedings DICAM
2011: Development for Technology Transfer on Climate Change and Adaptation, 19-20 April 2011,
Organised by Periyar Maniammai University, Thanjavur, pp1-21
Ramachandra T V, 2011. Disaster due to unplanned urbanization, In proceedings ekDRM – International
Conference Environment Knowledge for Disaster Risk Management, 10-11 May 2011.
Ramachandra T V, 2011 Spatio-temporal landscape modelling for natural hazard vulnerability analysis in
select watersheds of Central Western Ghats, In proceedings of the 26th Annual In-House Symposium on
Space Science and Technology, 28-29th January 2011, Organised by ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell,
IISc, pp 192-202.
Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Ecology, biodiversity, energy and hydrology linkages. In the proceedings of the
Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme
1/tvr.pdf
Subash Chandran M. D., Rao G. R., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Western Ghats: Need for Locating, studying
and conserving relic forests. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate
Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Uttam Kumar, Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Exploiting spatial and spectral
resolutions of remote sensing data for analyzing land cover dynamics. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010:
Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore.
Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Chanakya H. N., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Varthur lake : Past, Present and
Future. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December,
Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Alakananda B., Supriya Guruprasad, Mahesh M.K., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Ecological Characteristics
of Benthic Diatom Communities in Assessment of Lake Trophic Status. In the proceedings of the Lake
2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/alaka.pdf
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Shwetmala, Chanakya H. N., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Management of Solid waste in Bangalore: Gaps
and Opportunities. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/shwetmala.pdf
Bharath H. Aithal, Sanna Durgappa D., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Urban growth monitoring through
spatio-temporal analysis. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change,
22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/bharath_aithal.pdf
Rao G. R., Subash Chandran M. D., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Uttara Kannada - A journey with plants and
their life from coast to uplands. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate
Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Rao G. R., Archana Singh, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Plant diversity along altitudinal elevations in three
watersheds of Western Himalayas. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and
Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Rao, G. R., Krishnakumar, G., Subash Chandran, M. D. and Ramachandra, T. V., 2010, Last abodes of relic
species in Uttara Kannada-Sacred groves and their silent extinction. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010:
Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore.
Rajasri Ray, 2010, Ecosystem services from sacred groves of Uttara Kannada - A case study. In the
proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish
Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Boominathan M., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Molluscs of Pangong Tso, a high altitude brackish water lake
in Ladakh. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/boominathan.pdf
Balachandran C., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and water quality of
Bangalore lakes. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/balachandran.pdf
Sumesh Dudani, Subhash Chandran M. D., Rao G. R., Vishnu Mukri, Harish Bhat, Ramachandra T. V.,
2010, Biodiversity, Ecology and Socio-Economic Aspects of Gundia River Basin. In the proceedings of the
Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme
1/sumesh_d.pdf
Prakash Mesta, Subhash Chandran M. D., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Integrated Value Assessment of
Estuarine Tangible Production: A Case Study of Aghanashini Estuary in Uttara Kannada. In the
proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish
Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Prachi Ugle, Sankara Rao, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Carbon sequestration potential of urban trees. In the
proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish
Dhawan
Auditorium,
Indian
Institute
of
Science,
Bangalore,
Web
link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/prachi_u.pdf
Aakanksha, Shilpi Samantray, Supriya Guruprasad, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Diversity of lipids in Algae.
In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish
Dhawan
Auditorium,
Indian
Institute
of
Science,
Bangalore,
Web
link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/aakanksha.pdf
Anindita Dasgupta, Uttam Kumar, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Insights to the process of rapid urbanization
through spatial metrics. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change,
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http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/anindita.pdf
Bharath Setturu, Uttam Kumar, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Spatio-temporal pattern of land use dynamics for
Bangalore. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/anindita.pdf
Gautham Krishnadas, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Scope for renewable energy in Himachal Pradesh, India.
In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish
Dhawan
Auditorium,
Indian
Institute
of
Science,
Bangalore,
Web
link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/gautham.pdf
Mahima Bhat, Subash Chandran M. D., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Fish diversity and distributional
dynamism in relation to salinity gradients and fisheries in Aghnashini estuary, Kumta. In the proceedings of
the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Meera D. S, Alakananda B, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Ecology and distribution of diatoms in Bangalore
lakes. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December,
Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/meera_ds.pdf
Rashi Rao, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Renewable Energy Potential Assessment In Uttar Kannada District,
Karnataka. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/rashi_rao.pdf
Rishabh Jain, Gautham Krishnadas, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Solar Hotspots of India. In the proceedings
of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan
Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Seema Dey, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Carbon sequestration potential of ecosystems in Utara Kannada
District, Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity
and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/seema_day.pdf
Shilpi Samantray, Aakanksha, Supriya Guruprasad, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Prospects of diatoms as third
generation biofuel. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/shilpi_s.pdf
Sowmyashree M. V, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Urban growth in major cities of India. In the proceedings of
the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme
1/sowmyashree.pdf
Shrikant G. Naik, Subhashchandran M. D., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Some observations on the birds of
Uttara Kannada. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24
December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sreekantha, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Legal and illegal waste dumping sites. In the proceedings of the
Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Sudarshan P., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Lichens of Western Ghats. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010:
Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/sudarshan_p.pdf
Sumarani, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Environmental Education. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010:
Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore
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effective extraction of lipids from micro algae. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity
and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
36. Vishnu Bajpai, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Landscape pattern analysis through metrics. In the proceedings
of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan
Auditorium,
Indian
Institute
of
Science,
Bangalore,
Web
link:
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/vishnu_b.pdf
37. Vishnu Mukri, Subhashchandran M. D., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Importance of seed studies in forest
trees of Western Ghats. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010: Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change,
22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
38. Yallappa Pulyagol, Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Nutrient dynamics in lentic
ecosystems: A combined theoretical and practical approach. In the proceedings of the Lake 2010:
Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24 December, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, Web link: http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2010/Theme 1/yallappa_p.pdf
39. Rajasri Ray, Chandran M. D. S. and Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Hydrological Importance of Sacred Groves
of Western Ghats. In the proceedings of the First Indian Biodiversity Congress 2010, 28-30 December,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
40. Sumesh Dudani and Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Pteridophytes of Western Ghats. In the proceedings of the
First Indian Biodiversity Congress 2010, 28-30 December, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
41. Mahapatra D.M., Chanakya H.N. and Ramachandra T.V., (2011), Water treatment potential in relation to
phytoplankton dynamics in tropical sewage-fed urban water bodies, Proceedings of International
conference on Microbes in Wastewater Treatment, Bioremediation and Energy Production (MWT 2011),
IWA, BITs Pilani, Goa, India 24th – 27th Jan, 2011.
42. Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Chanakya H. N., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, N budget and sustainable nrecovery in a sewage fed urban waterbody – case study of Varthur lake, Bangalore. In the proceedings of
the 5th International Nitrogen Conference, 3 -7 December, New Delhi., Raghuram, Bijay Singh and Madan
Pal (eds.), Pp: 93-94.
43. Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Chanakya H. N., Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Optimal Nutrient Management
through Algal and Macrophyte Interplay in an Urban Lake in Bangalore. In the proceedings of the 4 th
International Conference on Plants and Environmental Pollution, 8 -11 December, Lucknow, Pp157.
44. Priyadarshini J. Shetty, Shashikala V. and Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Urban Footprint Dynamics in Indian
Metropolis. In the proceedings of the Conference on Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban
Planning, CISTUP@CISTUP2010, 18 - 20 October, JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore.
45. Anindita Dasgupta, Uttam Kumar and Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Urban Landscape analysis through Spatial
Metrics. In the proceedings of the Conference on Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban
Planning, CISTUP@CISTUP2010, 18 - 20 October, JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore.
46. Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Supriya Guruprasad, Chanakya H. N. and Ramachandra T. V., 2010, Algal
photosynthetic dynamics in urban lakes under stress conditions. In the proceedings of the Conference on
Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, CISTUP@CISTUP2010, 18 - 20 October,
JN Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
47. Mahapatra D.M., Chanakya H.N. and Ramachandra T.V., (2010), Sustainability and treatment potentials of
an urban swage fed lake in Bangalore, India, Proceedings of Seventeenth National Symposium on
Advances in Environmental Monitoring and Modeling, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (IITK), Kanpur, India, 13-15th May, 2010
48. Ramachandra T V, Uttam Kumar, Bharath H Aithal, Diwakar P G, Joshi N V, 2010. Landslide susceptible
locations in Western Ghats: Prediction through Open Modeller, In proceedings of the 25th Annual In-House
Symposium on Space Science and Technology, 28-29th January 2010, Organised by ISRO-IISc Space
Technology Cell, IISc, pp 65-74.
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49. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Biodiversity, Hydrology and Ecology linkages, In the Proceedings of , National
Seminar on “Conservation and Management of wetlands in an area of Climate Change, Organised by
Deapartment of Botany, N M Christian College, Marthandam, 1 st and 2nd March 2010, pp1-4.
50. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Conservation and Management of Wetlands – stratergies and challenges, In the
Sovenir and Book of Abstracts, One Day seminar on “Environmental Impact of Biodiversity”, 26 th Feb
2010, Organised by Department of Zoology, Bangalore University, pp 10-12
51. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Conservation and Sustainable management of wetlands: Stratergies and
challenges, In the Proceedings of DST National Conference on “Scientific stratergies for protection and
preservation of wetlands in India” (Ed. Ramanathan A L), Organised by School of Environmental
sciences, JNU, 11-12th Jan 2010, Pp 76-79.
52. Chanakya H.N., Shwetmala and Ramachandra T.V. (2010). Small-scale decentralized and sustainable
municipal solid waste management potential for Bangalore anchored around total recycle and biomethanation plants. National conference on Urban, Industrial and Hospital Waste Management. 7-8th May.
Ahmedabad. Pp 47-53.
53. Ramachandra T V, 2009.Geographic Information System: Essentials, In the proceedings of Workshop on
Computer Aided Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering, Organised by CiSTUP, IISc
54. Ramachandra T V, 2009. Emissions from India’s Transport Sector – Statewise Synthesis, In the
proceedings of the workshop on Recent trends in sustainable transportation planning, orgaised by CiSTUP,
IISc
55. Bharath H Aithal, Uttam Kumar, Ramachandra T V, 2009. Fusion of multi resolution remote sensing data
for urban sprawl analysis, COSMAR 2009, Orgnised by MS, IISc.
56. Ramachandra T.V., Uttam Kumar, Diwakar, P.G. and Joshi N V., 2009. Land cover Assessment using À
Trous Wavelet fusion and K-Nearest Neighbour classification, In proceedings of the 25th Annual In-House
Symposium on Space Science and Technology, 29-30th January 2009, Organised by ISRO-IISc Space
Technology Cell, IISc, pp 25-32.
57. Kumar, U., Mukhopadhaya, C., and Ramachandra T. V., (2009) Fusion of multisensor data: Review and
Comparative Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2009 World Research Institutes Global Congress on
Intelligent Systems, May 19-21, Xiamen, China, Vol. 2, pp. 418-422. Published by IEEE Computer
Society, Los Alamitos, CA. ISBN 978-0-7695-3571-5, IEEE DOI 10.1109/GCIS.2009.457.
58. Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Regional Integrated Energy Plan, In Shakti: Workshop on Renewable Energy
Resource Assessment, 16th Oct 2008, Organised by Tezpur University, pp 1-2.
59. Subashchandran M.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Social and ethical dimensions of environmental
conservation (Invited Lecture), In the proceedings of Environmental challenges of 21st Century – the role of
academic instituitions, UGC sponsored state level seminar, 17-18th Oct 2008, Organised by Government
Arts and Science College, Karwar, pp-19-32.
60. Avinash K G., Diwakar P.G., Joshi N V and Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Landslide susceptibility mapping in
the downstream region of Sharavathi river basin, Central Western Ghats, In Proceedings of the 24th Annual
In-House Symposium on Space Science and Technology, 30-31st January 2008, Organised by ISRO-IISc
Space Technology Cell, IISc, pp 135-140.
61. Ramachandra T.V. 2007. Watershed management using geospatial technologies, In the proceedings of the
workshop GIS and its applications in Civil Engineering, Organised by Department of Civil Engineering,
Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Pp 1-10.
62. Ramachandra T.V. 2006., Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation, In Proceedings of Lake
2006:
Symposium
on
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Education
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Conservation,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/lake2006/programme/ec.htm#1
63. Ramachandra T.V., 2006. The Need and Challenges for Conservation of Ecosystems, In the proceedings of
National symposium on Issues and Challenges for Conservation of Plants and Ecosystem in India, 2-3rd
November 2006, Organised by Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
64. Ramachandra T.V. and Krishna Alluri, 2006. ‘ODL Courses in Environmental Engineering for Professional
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and extension, 15-17th Sept 2006, Organized by CUSAT, Cochin and Commonwealth of Learning.
Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Integrated planning of natural resources (keynote address), In Proceedings of
National Seminar on Biological Sciences and it’s impact on environment, 20-22 Jan 2006, Sri Jagadguru
Renukacharya College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bangalore University, pp(i-xx)
Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Integrated planning of water and land resources, In proceedings ‘Sustainable
Technologies for Environmental Protection’, 7-9 January 2006., Organised by Coimbatore Institute of
Technology, pp60-61.
Karthick B., Divakar K. Mesta and Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Influence of land-use changes on stream
ecology, In proceedings ‘Sustainable Technologies for Environmental Protection, 7-9 January 2006.,
Organised by Coimbatore Institute of Technology, pp120-126.
Ahalya N., Kanamadi R.D. and Ramachandra T.V., 2006, Biosorption: Viable bioremediation options for
restoration of wetlands, In proceedings ‘Sustainable Technologies for Environmental Protection, 7-9
January 2006., Organised by Coimbatore Institute of Technology, pp51-54.
T. V. Ramachandra, S. N. Prasad, Uttam Kumar and Vaishnav B (2005). GRASS Applications in Land
use/Land cover assessments. Paper presented at Workshop on Free and Open Source Software, Geological
Survey of India, Southern Region, 17-18 May, Hyderabad, pp2-4.
Gururaja K.V. and Ramachandra T.V., 2005. Integrated approaches to minimize ambiguities in anuran
description, In proceedings – Integrating Science and Management of Biodiversity in Western Ghats, 2nd
National Conference of the Western Ghats Forum, Organised by Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and
Natural History, pp-26-29.
Ramachandra T V., 2005. Status of Wetland Ecosystems in India (Focus on Wetlands of Bangalore,
Karnataka), In TEQIP Workshop on Wetland Management, November 28, 2005. Department of Civil
Engineering, Bangalore University, Pp36-55
Ramachandra T V., 2005. Remote sensing and GIS Application in Hydrology, In Proceedings of the IVth
DST-SERC School on Mathematical Modelling of Groundwater Quality and Pollution, 2-30 May 2005,
Department of Mathematics, Bangalore University
Ramachandra T.V., 2004. Hydrology, Ecology and Land Cover Linkages, In proceedings: National
workshop on “Water reuse and recycling for sustainabaility”, 4th Dec 2004, Organised by Anjuman
Engineering College for men, Bhatkal
Ramachandra T.V., 2004. Environmental monitoring using spatial and temporal tools, In proceedings: ITP
in environmental monitoring, 1-11, June 2004, Organized by Periyar centre for environment and energy
management, Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women, Vallam, Thanjavur.
Ramachandra T.V., 2004. Aquatic ecosystema – Ecological impacts due to developmental projects, In
Proceedings: Lake 2004 – International symposium Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic
Ecosystems, 9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Karthick B and Ramachandra T V, 2004. Ecosytem characterization by hydrobiological investigations, In
Proceedings: Lake 2004 – International symposium Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic
Ecosystems, 9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Ahalya N., Ramachandra T V and Kanamadi R D. 2004. Low cost absorbents for removal of heavy metals
in constructed wetlands, In Proceedings: Lake 2004 – International symposium Conservation, Restoration
and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Sudhira H S and Ramachandra T V, 2004. Impact of urbanization on aquatic ecosystems, In Proceedings:
Lake 2004 – International symposium Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems,
9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Purnima G B and Ramachandra T V, 2004. Spatial and temporal analysis of watershed, In Proceedings:
Lake 2004 – International symposium Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems,
9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Saira Varghese and Ramachandra T V, 2004. Hydrological responses to land use changes, In Proceedings:
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9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Suja A, Vasu G J and Ramachandra T V, 2004. Sahyadri : Western Ghats Biodiversity Information System,
In Proceedings: Lake 2004 – International symposium Conservation, Restoration and Management of
Aquatic Ecosystems, 9-13th Dec 2004, organized by Berhampur University, Orissa
Guruaraja K V, Sameer Ali and Ramachandra T.V., 2004. Amphibian distribution pattern to assess the
ecological status of an aquatic ecosystem, In Proceedings: Lake 2004 – International symposium
Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 9-13th Dec 2004, organized by
Berhampur University, Orissa
Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Ecological impacts of river valley projects: assessment using remote sensing, In
proceedings: National workshop on Interlinking of Rivers, 04-06, Dec 2003, Organised by Faculty of
Engineering – Civil, Bangalore University.
Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Satellite information for rural needs, In Proceedings: Rural Technology, A 25
years Retrospective, Volume II. ASTRA, IISc.
http://www.wwwastra.iisc.ernet.in/Pages/Publication/rural/Satelliteinformationforruralneeds.html
Ramachandra T.V. 2003. Relevance of GIS and remote sensing for environmental monitoring, In
proceedings: One week course on Digital Image processing and its applications, 24-29, November 2003,
Organised by M S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 054.
Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Relevance of GIS and remote sensing for urban sprawl analysis, In Proceedings:
AICTE-ISTE Short term training programme on Strategic options for managing urban environment, 10-23,
Nov 2003. Organised by Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimabtore.
Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Analysis of Ecological status of the Sharavathi river basin using Remote sensing.
In Proceedings: National seminar on the Emerging Trends in Bio-Diversity and Bio Technology, 25th to
27th Sept 2003, Organised by the Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, Christ College,
Bangalore.
Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Cumulative Impact assessment in Sharavathi river basin,In Workshop
proceedings – Conservation of Environment and Ecology in the Sharavathi valley, 19th May 2003, at Hotel
Panduranga, Kumta. Organised by Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. And Vriksha laksha Andolana,
Karnataka.
Ramachandra T.V. 2003, Efficient resource utilization using spatial technologies – GIS and remote sensing,
in Proceedings National seminar on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems in Natural
Resource Management - Current status and emerging trends, 15-17th March 2003. Organised by School of
Environmental Sciences, Mahtma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Pp 27-29.
Roshan Kumar and Ramachandra T.V. 2003. Water, soil and sediment investigation to explore the status of
aquatic ecosystem, National seminar on river conservation and management, 2-4th January 2003. Organised
by Limnological Association of India and St.Thomas College, Trichur, Pp 91-98.
Ajay Narendra and Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Habitat mapping using remote sensing and GIS for spatial
distribution of ants, National seminar on GTS to GPS: Geodesy on the move, organized by Survey of India
and DST, 9-13th February 2003.
Ahalya N. and Ramachandra T.V., 2003. Phytoremediation to remove heavy metal contamination, In the
proceedings of ENVIROGIS 2003: National seminar on Strategies for Sustainable planning and
management of Industrial ecology, 7-8th March 2003, Organised by Centre for Water and Environmental
Studies, Department of Civil Engineering, Kumaraguru college of Technology, Coimbatore., Pp: 62-65
H. S. Sudhira, T. V. Ramachandra and Jagadish, K.S. 2003. Urban sprawl pattern recognition and modeling
using GIS, Mapindia 2003 Proceedings, http://www.mapindia.org
Ramachandra T.V. 2002. Optimal solid waste management using GIS, In the proceedings of workshop on
“Clean Technologies for Industries”, Oct 3rd, 2002, Organised by Centre for Water and Environmental
Studies, Kumaragaru College of Technology, Coimbatore
Ramachandra T.V. and C.Rajasekara Murthy, 2002. Restoration and Management strategies for wetlands,
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In Restoration of Lakes and wetlands, Allied Publishers, Bangalore
97. Ranjani, V.G. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2002. Bathymetric analyses and the characterisation of the Hebbal
lake to explore restoration and management options. In Restoration of Lakes and wetlands, Allied
Publishers, Bangalore.
98. Rajinikanth, R. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2002. Status and socio-economic aspects of wetlands. In
Restoration of Lakes and wetlands, Allied Publishers, Bangalore.
99. Sanilkumar M.G. and Ramachandra T.V., 2002. Riparian vegetation of Sharavathi river, Shimoga,
Karnataka (selected sites), In proceedings of the National seminar on current environmental problems and
management, 1-3 August 2002, Organised by Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala.
100. Ramachandra, T.V., Pankaj Kumar Mohanta and Rao, G.R., 2002. Species level mapping through
hierarchical classification approaches, Conference: National Symposium on Advances in Remote Sensing
Technology with special emphasis on high resolution imagery, 11-13, December 2001, SAC, Ahmedabad,
Organised by Indian Society of Remote Sensing.
101. Anil Kumar Bhagat and Ramachandra, T.V., 2002. Wetland Inventorying using GRASS, Conference:
National Symposium on Advances in Remote Sensing Technology with special emphasis on high resolution
imagery, 11-13, December 2001, SAC, Ahmedabad, Organised by Indian Society of Remote Sensing.
102. Ramachandra, T.V. 2001 Integrated Regional Energy Planning - Concepts and Approach, In GIS
Technologies for Sustainable Development, OCT 9-11, 2001. Organised by IIT, Delhi and DST, Pp 45-48.
103. Ahalya, N. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Wetlands Restoration and Conservation - What, How and Why.
In Proceedings of Enviro 2001 - National Conferenece on Control of Industrial pollution and
Environmental degradation, Sept 14-15, 2001.
104. Ramachandra, T.V., Ahalya, N. and Rajinikanth. R. 2001. Fish homicide by civic authorities: latest episode
of euthanasia. In Proceedings of Enviro 2001 - National Conferenece on Control of Industrial pollution and
Environmental degradation, Sept 14-15, 2001.
105. Rajinikanth, R. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. River valley projects impact assessment and mitigation
measures. In Proceedings of Enviro 2001 - National Conferenece on Control of Industrial pollution and
Environmental degradation, Sept 14-15, 2001.
106. Rajinikanth, R. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2000. Effective wetland management using GIS, In proceedings of
Geoinformatis 2000, Nov 17-18, 2000, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Pp 262-275.
107. Sathiskumar, R. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2000. Solid waste management using spatial analysis tool, In
proceedings of Geoinformatis 2000, Nov 17-18, 2000, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Pp 248261.
108. Ramachandra, T.V., Prasad, B.K.V. and Padhy, S. 2000. Bio-resource inventory using remote sensing for
regional energy planning. In Proceedings of the National Symposium on Remote Sensing Applications for
Natural Resources: Retrospective and Perspective, January 19-21, 1999. Indian Society of Remote
Sensing, Bangalore, India, Pp 245-256.
109. Ramachandra, T.V., 2000. Integrated Planning of Water Resources with Ecology and Energy Constraints,
In: Waste Recycling and Resource Management in the Developing World, Pp531-541, Jana B.B.,
Banerjee, R.D., Gutestam, B. and Heeb J. (Eds), University of Kalyani (West Bengal) and International
Ecological Engineering Society (Switzerland).
110. Deepa, R.S. and Ramachandra, T.V. 2000. Impact of urbanisation on the interconnectivity of wetlands. In
Proceedings of the National Symposium on Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resources:
Retrospective and Perspective, January 19-21, 1999. Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Bangalore, India,
Pp 343-351.
111. Dabrase, P. and Ramachandra, T.V., 1999. Energy and Environmental Sustainability: Some key issues in
rural Kolar, Karnataka, India. In. Proceedings of a workshop on Criteria and Indicators of sustainability in
Rural Development - a Natural resource Perspective - Sustainability Indicators: Case Studies, Vol III, pp.
222-240.
112. Ramachandra, T.V., 1998. Renewable energy resources of Kolar district. In: Proceedings of a Workshop
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on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development, Golden Valley Institute of Technology (Corp. ed.),
Kolar Gold Fields, India.
113. Vijayprasad, B.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1998. Regional bioresource mapping using GPS and GIS. In:
Proceedings of the National Seminar on Environmental Pollution: Causes and Remedies. pp. 183-194.
Maheshappa, H. and Raghavendra Rao, M.N. (eds.), P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.
114. Deepa, R.S., Ramachandra, T.V. and Kiran,R. 1998. Anthropogenic stress on wetlands of Bangalore. In:
Proceedings of the National Seminar on Environmental Pollution: Causes and Remedies. pp. 195-212.
Maheshappa, H. and Raghavendra Rao, M.N. (eds.), P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.
115. Kiran, R., Deepa, R.S. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1998. Comparative water quality assessment of Yediur and
Bannergatta lakes of Bangalore. In: Proceedings of the National Seminar on Environmental Pollution:
Causes and Remedies. pp. 166-182. Maheshappa, H. and Raghavendra Rao, M.N. (eds.), P.E.S. Institute of
Technology, Bangalore, India.
116. Ramachandra, T.V. 1995. Efficient wood energy devices for cooking and water heating purposes. In :
ECOTECH 94 Computer Conference, IUFRO Workshop Proceedings, (United Nations University, Japan.)
4.4
TECHNICAL REPORTS
1. Ramachandra T V, Mohan Kumar M S, Sitharam T G and Prasad S N, 2011. Opensource
geospatial tools, CiSTUP Technical Report 3, CiSTUP, IISc
2. Ramachandra T V, Subash Chandran M D, Haris R Bhat, Rao G R, Sumesh D, Vishnu
Mukri and Boominathan M, 2010. Biodiversity, Ecology and Socio-Economic Aspects of
Gundia River Basin in the context of proposed Mega Hydro Electric Power Project, CES
Technical Report 122, CES. IISc, Bangalore
3. Ramachandra T V, Subashchandran M D and Anant Hegde Ashisar, 2009. Landslides at
Karwar, October 2009: Causes and Remedial Measures, ENVIS Technical Report: 33,
Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
4. Ramachandra T V, Sitharam T G, Mohan Kumar M S and Prasad S N, 2009. Open source
GIS in India: Preseent Scenario, CiSTUP Technical Report 2, Urban Ecology,
Environment and Policy Research, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation
and Urban Planning, IISc, Bangalore
5. Ramachandra T V, 2009, Conservation and management of urban wetlands: Strategies
and challenges, ENVIS Technical Report: 32, Environmental Information System, Centre
for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
6. Ramachandra T V, 2009. Essentials in urban lake monitoring and management, CiSTUP
Technical report 1, Urban Ecology, Environment and Policy Research, Centre for
Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning, IISc, Bangalore
7. Karthick B., Alakananda B and Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Diatom based pollution
monitoring in urban wetlands of Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, ENVIS Technical Report: 31,
Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
8. Ramachandra TV, Ahalya N and Kanamadi RD, 2008. Biosorption: Techniques and
Mechanisms, CES Technical Report 110, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore.
9. Boominathan M., Subash Chandran M D., Ramachandra T V., 2008. Economic valuation
of bivalves in the Aghnashini Estuary, West Coast, Karnataka, ENVIS Technical Report:
30, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
10. Amit S. Yadav, Gururaja K.V., Karthik B., Rao G. R., Vishnu Mukri, Subash Chandran
M.D. & Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Ecological Status of Kali River Flood Plain, ENVIS
Technical Report: 29, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
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Ramachandra T.V., Sudhira H.S., Karthick B. and Avinash K.G., 2007. Environmental
Impact of Developmental Activities in the Bellandur Lake Catchment, ENVIS Technical
Report: 27, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Bangalore
Ramachandra T.V. and Sudhira H.S. 2007. Present Status of Gottigere Tank: Indiactor of
Decision Maker’s Apathy, ENVIS Technical Report: 26, Environmental Information
System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
Ramachandra T V and Malvikaa Solanki, 2007. Ecological assessment of Lentic
Waterbodies of Bangalore, ENVIS Technical Report 25, Environmental Information
System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
Ramachandra T.V. and Savitha Ganapathy, 2007. Vegetation Analysis in Uttara Kananda
district using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques, Sahyadri Conservation Series 2,
ENVIS Technical Report 24, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological
Sciences, Bangalore
Ramachandra T.V and Shruthi Bachamanda, 2006. Environmental Audit of Municipal
Solid Waste Mangement, CES Technical Report 118, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Bangalore
Chanakya, H.N., Ramachandra, T.V. and Vijayachamundeeswari M., 2006. Anaerobic
Digestion and Reuse of Digested Products of Selected Components of Urban Solid Waste,
CES Technical report No 114, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Ramachandra, T.V.. Rishiram, R. and Karthick, B. 2006. Zooplankton as Bioindicators:
Hydrobiological Investigations in selected Bangalore lakes, CES Technical report No 115,
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Sameer Ali, Rao G.R., Divakar K. Mesta, Sreekantha, Vishnu D. Mukri., Subash
Chandran, M.D., Gururaja K.V., Joshi, N.V. and Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Ecological
status of Sharavathi valley wildlife sanctuary, Sahyadri Conservation Series 1, ENVIS
Technical Report 19, Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Bangalore
Karthick, B. and Ramachandra T.V., 2006, Water quality status of Sharavathi river basin,
Western Ghats, Sahyadri Conservation Series 5, ENVIS Technical Report 23,
Environmental Information System, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
Kanamadi RD, Ahalya N and Ramachandra TV., 2006 Biosorption of Heavy Metals by
Low cost Adsorbents. CES Technical Report 112, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Ahalya N, Ramachandra TV and Kanamadi RD. 2006. Low cost biosorbents for dye
removal, CES Technical Report 113, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore.
Uttam Kumar, Ramachandra T.V., Norman Kerle, Clement Atzberger and Milap Punia,
2006. Evaluation of Algorithms for land cover analysis using Hyperspectral data, CES
Technical report No 111, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Ramachandra T.V. and Kamakshi G., 2005. Bioresource Potential Of Karnataka
[Talukwise Inventory With Management Options], CES Technical report No 109, Centre
for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Sudhira H.S., Ramachandra, T. V., Andreas Wytzisk & C. Jeganathan, 2005. Framework
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Simulations, CES Technical report No 100, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Ramachandra T.V., Ahalya N. and Mandy Payne, 2003. Status of Varthur lake:
Opportunities for Restoration and Sustainable management, CES Technical report No
102, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Ramachandra T.V. and Rajinikanth R. 2003. Economic valuation of wetlands, , CES
Technical report No 101, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Sudhira H.S., Ramachandra T.V., and Jagadish K.S., 2003, Urban sprawl pattern analysis
using GIS, CES Technical report No 99, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Ramachandra T.V., Kiran R., Ahalya N. and Deepa R.S., 2002, Status of Wetlands in
Bangalore, CES Technical Report No 88, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Sathishkumar R., Chanakya H.N. and Ramachandra T.V., 2001. Feasible solid waste
management, CES Technical Report No 86, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
Subramanian, D.K., Ramachandra, T.V. and Bhat, P.R. 1992. Proceedings of the
Training Programme on Management of Environment, 24-29 August 1992, Technical
Report No 63, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore.
4.5 BOOK REVIEWS
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Ramachandra T V and Nagarathna A V, 2011, Water, Agriculture and Sustainable Well-Being.
Unai Pascual, Amita Saha and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay (eds). Oxford University Press, New
Delhi. Current Science 100(1): 124-125
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Energy Portpolios, Aswathnarayana U and Rao S D (eds), CRC Press,
Leiden, The Netherlands, Current Science, 98(8): 1129-1131
Ramachandra T V and Nagarathna A V, 2010. Climate Change and Groundwater, Dragoni W.
and Sukhija B S (eds.), Geological Society, Special Publication 288, Current Science 98(1):103105.
Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A V, 2009. Joint Forest Management: Issues and
Experiences. Meenu Bhatnagar (ed.)., The Icfai University Press, Current Science
97(2):259-261
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Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A V, 2008. Community-based Natural Resource
Management: Issues and Cases from South Asia. A. Menon et al. Sage Publications India Pvt
Ltd, Current Science, 95(5): 678-679
6. Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Groundwater Management in India: Physical, Institutional and Policy
Alternatives. M. Dinesh Kumar (ed.). SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi 110 044.
2007. 354 pp. Current Science, Vol. 93, N0. 9, 10 NOVEMBER 2007, 1312-1313.
7. Sudhira H.S and Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Administrative Reforms: Towards Sustainable
Practices (Amita Singh), Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. (2003), Current Science, 90 (5): 727728.
8. Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A V., 2005, Understanding Environment (Mamatha Pandya
and Meena Raghunathan, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi (2004), Current Science,
89 (1): 206-207.
9. Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A.V. 2003, Eco-degradation, Biodiversity and Health,
(Pandey B.N), Daya Publishing House, Delhi (2002), Current Science 85 (6):1368-1369.
10. Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A.V. 2003, Biodiversity characterization at landscape level in
North-East India using satellite remote sensing and GIS, Current Science.
11. Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A.V. 2002, Biodiversity and Environment: Remote sensing
and GIS Perspective. Roy P.S., Sarnam Singh and Toxopeus A.G (eds). Current Science 83(7):
903-905.
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4.6 NEWSLETTERS
1. Ramachandra,T.V. 1992, Bedthi: Chasing the mirage of development, Bhagirathi ki Pukar,
2(7):1-2 (published by The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage [INTACH], New
Delhi, India.)
2. Ramachandra, T.V., 1993. Ecological and social dynamics of village ecosystem, ILEIA Newsletter,
9(4):32 (Netherlands).
3. Bio energy potential and demand in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Special Issue on Bio
Energy, IREDA News
4. Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Regional Integrated Energy Planning Insight (An R & D Magazine of
the Indian Institute of Science), 4(1): 3, India.
5. Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Restoration of Lakes and Wetlands - Lake 2000 report, Karnataka
Environment Research Foundation Newsletter, Issue 3, August 2001.
6. Ramachandra, T.V. 2001. Regional Integrated Energy Planning Karnataka Environment
Research Foundation Newsletter, Issue 3, August 2001.
7. Ramachandra, T.V. and Ahalya, N. 2001. City lakes unfit for divine idols. Karnataka
Environment Research Foundation Newsletter, Issue 3, August 2001.
8. Rajinikanth R. and Ramachandra T.V., Wetlands – Nature’s neglected lot: do we need them?,
Karnataka Environment Research Foundation Newsletter, Issue 4, August 2002.
9. Ahalya N. and Ramachandra T.V., Aquatic ecosystem conservation via watershed approaches,
Karnataka Environment Research Foundation Newsletter, Issue 4, August 2002.
10. Ramachandra T.V., Limgis 2001- Winter school on essentials in Limnology and GIS, Karnataka
Environment Research Foundation Newsletter, Issue 4, August 2002.
11. Ramachandra T.V., Kalyanee Chetia, Gururaja K.V. and Vasu G.J., 2003. Western Ghats
Biodiversity Information system, Sahyadri E News, Issue 1.
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/newsletter/issue1/index.htm
12. Ahalya N. and Ramachandra T.V. (2004), Western Ghats Aquatic Biodiversity, Sahyadri E
News, Issue 5
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/newsletter/issue5/index.htm
13. Ramachandra T.V. and Nagarathna A.V., 2006. Environmental education: In pursuit of
sustainable development, Indian Institute of Science Pensioners’ Association Silver Jubilee
Souvenirs, pp 32-36.
14. Ali., S, Rao, G.R., Mesta, D.K., Sreekantha, Mukri, V.D., Subash Chandran, M.D., Gururaja,
K.V., Joshi N.V. and Ramachandra T.V. 2006, Ecological Status of Sharavathi Valley Wildlife
Sanctuary,
Ecological
Conservation
E-News,
Issue
1,
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis/sdev/sus_enews/index.htm
15. Ramachandra T.V., 2007. Environment education for ecosystem conservation, Ecological
Conservation
E-News,
Issue
II,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sdev/sus_enews/issue2/index.htm
16. Ramachandra T V and Ahalya N, 2008. Environment Education, 2008, Sahyadri E News, XXII,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue22/index.htm
17. Ramachandra T V, Gururaja K V and Subashchandran M D, 2008, Sahyadri E News, Issue XXIII,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue23/index.htm
18. Ramachandra T V, 2008, Solidwaste Management, Sahyadri E News, Issue XXIV
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue24/index.htm
19. Ramachandra T V, 2009. Lake Ecosystem, Sahyadri E News, Issue XXV,
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20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue25/index.htm
Karthick B. and Ramachandra T.V. 2009, Biomonitoring of Lotic Habitats through Diatoms,
Sahyadri
E-News,
Issue
XXVI,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue26/index.htm
Ramachandra T V, Harish Bhat, Gururaja K V and Subash Chandran M D, 2009. Environmental
Impact
Assessment,
Sahyadri
E
News,
Issue
XXVII,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue27/index.htm
Gururaja K V, Sreekantha, Subash Chandran M D and Ramachandra T V, 2009, Discovery of
new
species
in
western
Ghats,
Sahyadri
E
News,
Issue
XXVIII,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue28/index.htm
Gururaja K V, Amit Yadav and Ramachandra T V., 2010, Ecological status of Selected
Riverbasins
in
Western
Ghats,
Sahyadri
E
News,
Issue
XXIX,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue29/index.htm
Subash Chandran M D and Ramachandra T V., 2010. Social and Ethical dimensions of
environmental
Conservation,
Sahyadri
E
News,
Issue
XXX,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue30/index.htm
Rajasri Ray, Subash Chandran M D and Ramachandra T V., 2010. Sacred Groves: Nature
Conservation Tradition of the Ancient World, Sahyadri E News, Issue XXXII,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue32/index.htm
26. Ramachandra T V., 2010. Need for Conservation and Sustainable Management of Wetlands, Jalaplavit –
Exploring Wetlands, 2(2):23-26
27. Sumesh Dudani, Subash Chandran M D and Ramachandra T V., 2011. Diversity of pteridophytes in
Western
Ghats,
Sahyadri
E
News,
Issue
XXXIII,
http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/sahyadri_enews/newsletter/issue33/index.htm
4.7
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
(i) Reports:
1. Ramachandra T V, Joshi N V and Diwakar P G, 2010. Geospatial modeling of landslide
susceptible zones, ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell
2. Ramachandra T.V., Mujumdar P P., 2009., Urban Flodding: Bangalore, NIDM, Ministry of
Home affairs, Government of India
3. Ramachandra T.V., Joshi N V., Uttam Kumar and Gururaja K V., 2008. Landscape
Charecterisation and Forest Fragmentation Dynamics, Ministry of Science and Technology,
DST, Government of India
4. Ramachandra T.V., Joshi N V, Gururaja K V, Rao G R, 2008. Above ground biomass and
biomass productivity of three micro watersheds across altitudinal gradients in western
Himalaya, Ministry of Science and Technology, DST, Government of India
5. Ramachandra T.V., Joshi N.V., Gururaja K.V., Dhanapal G., Rao G R, Vishnu Mukri, 2008.
Floral and faunal distribution in three selected micrp watersheds of Western Himalaya,
Ministry of Science and Technology, DST, Government of India
6. Ramachandra T.V. and Joshi N.V. 2007. 2007. Inventorying and Monitoring of Wetlands,
Ministry of Science and Technology, DST, Government of India
7. Ramachandra T.V., Sudhira H S, Karthick B and Avinash K G., 2005, Environmental Impacts
of Developmental Activities in Belandur lake catchment, report prepared for Kormanagla
Initiative
8. Ramachandra T.V. 2004. Linganamakki reservoir: Rim protection and Restoration,
Recommendation report submitted to the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited.
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9. Ramachandra T.V., Gururaja K.V., Ahalya N., Karthick K., 2004, Ecological Impact
Assessment of the the proposed building in Sankey lake catchment, submitted to Swabiman –
NGO at Malleswaram
10. Ramachandra T.V., Sreekantha, Gururaj K.V. and Sameer Ali, 2004. EIA of Mining in
Ambara Gudda, Sharavathi river basin, Submitted to Karnataka Biodiversity Board,
Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd and Karnataka Forest Department.
11. Ramachandra T.V. 2003. Action plan for conservation and sustainable management of the
Sharavathi river basin. Report submitted to the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited,
Government of Karnataka
12. Prasad S.N., Ramachandra T.V. and Ahalya N. 2002. Lentic Ecosystems: Wetlands of India,
Submitted to SACON and Zoological survey of India for National Biodiversity Strategy and
Action Plan, prepared by ZSI, Chennai.
13. Ramachandra T.V. and Joshi N.V. 2004. Habitat fragmentation analysis using GIS and
Remote sensing, Interim report submitted to ISRO-IISc STC.
14. Environmental Information System: 1985 -2004
Submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India
15. Ramachandra T.V. 2003 Cumulative Impact Assessment in Sharavathi river basin, Final
Report submitted to Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd.
16. Ramachandra T.V. and Jagadish K.S., 2003. Urban sprawl pattern recognition using remote
sensing, Submitted to ISRO-IISc STC.
17. Ramachandra T.V. 2002. GRASS GUI for wetland inventorying, Submitted to Salim Ali
Centre for Ornithology and Natural history (SACON), Coimbatore.
18. Ramachandra T.V. and Subramanian D.K., 2002. Integrated Energy Planning using GIS,
Ministry of Science and Technology, DST, Government of India.
19. Ramachandra T.V. 2002 Cumulative Impact Assessment in Sharavathi river basin, Interim
Report submitted to Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd.
20. Sivapullaiah, P.V., Mujumdar P.P., and Ramachandra T.V. 2001. Rapid impact assessment of
Kasarsada bauxite mines, Submitted to INDAL, Kolkatta
21. Ramachandra T.V. and Jagadish K.S. 2001. Regional bioresource inventorying using GIS and
Remote sensing. Submitteed to ISRO-IISC STC
22. Ramachandra, T.V., 1999. The framework for establishing a state of the environment
reporting system - State of the Environment Report, Karnataka State Council for Science and
Technology, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore.
23. Ramachandra, T.V., 1999. Land use pattern at IISc Campus, Final report submitted to
Committee for Infrastructural development (COMIND), Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
24. Ramachandra, T.V., 1999. Buildings space requirement at IISc campus, Final report
submitted to Committee for Infrastructural development (COMIND), Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore.
25. Ramachandra, T.V. and Mujumdar, P.P., 1999. Storm water drainage in the IISc campus,
Final report submitted to Committee for Infrastructural development (COMIND), Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore.
(ii) Cd-Rom (Section: Energy and Sustainable Development)
1.
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1997. Energy utilisation in Karnataka : Part
I, and II. Human Development CD-Rom, Vol 1.1. (Belgium).
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2.
Subramanian, D.K. and Ramachandra, T.V. 1997. Energy utilisation in Karnataka : Part
III. Human Development CD-Rom, Vol 1.2. (Belgium).
5.0 BRIEF RESUME OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WORK CARRIED OUT
Significant Contribution: An environmentally sound alternative model proposed for Bedthi
hydro electric project at Magod site is shown to reduce the submergence area from 95 sq.km to
5.8 sq.km, without any reduction in the 850 million kWh capacity and 40.5% reduction in cost.
This design is accepted by the government
Ramachandra,T.V., Subramanian,D.K., Joshi,N.V., 2000. Optimal design of hydroelectric
projects in Uttara Kannada, India. Hydrological Sciences, 45(2): 299-314. (International
Jour.)
(i) Ecologically Friendly Optimal Design of Hydro Electric Projects : The planning of water
resources depends upon types and size of projects, the ecological factor involved etc. Emphasis is
placed on presenting an overview of water resources in Uttara Kannada District by providing
meteorological, hydrological, ecological and economic data. The economic data includes all
costs and benefits, specifically including hitherto under estimated environmental and social costs
and benefits. This alternative design is proposed for Magod site (Bedthi river) and at Unchalli
(Aghnashini river). A model is proposed to minimise submergence and maximise net energy in a
region with the seasonal power generation, reservoir storage capacity and installed generation
capacity as the decision variables.
Parametric optimisation techniques are used to compute energy from hydro source at Magod site
of Bedthi river. If no seasonal variation is allowed between Ptm (peak hydro power generation
during season) and Ptd (peak hydro power generation during dry season), height of the dam
required is 107 m and corresponding submergence area is 95.03 Sq.km. The energy generated
annually is 746 million units (mkWh). We can harness more hydro electric energy by drawing
the water during the monsoon on run of river basis and storing small quantity to meet the region's
requirement during the lean season. This saved area with bio resources would also help in
meeting the thermal energy requirement of the region like firewood etc., leaf manure for
agriculture and horticulture lands. This can be achieved by allowing seasonal variation
between Ptm and Ptd (that is Ptm to Ptd ratio as 3). More of inflow during wet season can be
used directly without storing. reduces the storage capacity requirements., we notice that the
submergence area saved is about 69.97%. That is height of the dam is 87 and corresponding
submergence area is 28.59 Sq.km. by allowing Ptm = 3*Ptd. Reduction in the height of the dam
from 107 m to 77 m, the submergence area changes from 95.05 Sq.km. to 16.27 Sq.km. Further
reduction by 10 meters (dam height of 67 meters) would bring down the submergence area to
5.70 Sq.km. We notice that by allowing seasonal variation there is an increase in electric energy
generated. That is when Ptm = Ptd energy generated in a year is 746 million units (mkWh) and
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with Ptm = 3*Ptd energy generated is 810 million units (mkWh).
Net energy analyses carried out by incorporating biomass energy lost in the land submergence
show that land saving could be achieved and maximisation in net energy at a site is possible if the
hydro electric station generation capacity is adjusted according to the seasonal variations in the
river's water discharge/runoff. This analysis obtains the upper bound on the height of dam and
therefore on reservoir area for the project to yield a positive net energy. Analyses carried out for
different heights of the dam for biomass productivity of 6.5 t/ha/yr, shows that net energy
increases from 190 to 550 million units with reduction in 40 meter in dam height. The net
energy gain of 65% for a reduction of 37% in dam height. That is the increase in net energy from
520 to 896 million units by hydro thermal combined option in a land area of 95.03 Sq.km. The
cost per unit for various designs of the dam and for biomass productivity of 6.5 t/ha/yr shows
that 40.5% reduction in cost (Rs. 1.53 per unit to Rs. 0.92 per unit) for a dam height reduction of
37%. If we exclude costs of bioresources and consider electricity from hydro resource only, then
cost reduction is from Rs. 1.53 per unit to Rs. 1.09 per unit. Benefit to Cost ratio computed
considering forest land value as Rs. 45000 per acre is less than 1.5 for dam height of 107 m,
while for heights 87 meters, 77 meters, 67 meters, it is greater than 1.5. Benefit to Cost ratio
increases from 0.82 to 1.68 by reducing the submergence area from 95.03 Sq.km. (107 meter
height dam) to 5.70 Sq.km. (67 meter height dam).
(ii) Ecologically Sound Integrated Regional Energy Planning: The central theme of the
integrated energy plan would be to prepare an area based decentralised energy plans to meet
energy needs for subsistence and development of alternate energy sources at least cost to the
economy and environment. Centralised energy planning exercises cannot pay attention to the
variations in socioeconomic and ecological factors of a region which influence success of any
intervention. Decentralised energy planning is in the interest of efficient utilisation of resources.
The regional planning mechanism takes in to account various resources available and demand
in a region. This implies that the assessment of the demand and supply and the intervention in the
energy system which may appear desirable due to such exercises must be at a similar geographic
scale. In this regard, the District is accepted as the appropriate planning level. Uttara Kannada
District, Karnataka State is chosen for carrying out present study. Planned interventions to
reduce energy scarcity can take various forms such as (a) energy conservation through promotion
and use of energy efficient stoves for cooking and water heating, compact fluorescent bulbs in
place of ordinary incandescent bulbs, (b) supply expansions through energy plantations and (c)
alternatives - renewable sources of energy such as micro/mini/small hydro power plants, wind,
solar and biomass based systems. Ecologically sound development of the region is possible when
energy needs are integrated with the environmental concerns at the local and global levels. For
this purpose an integrated planning framework is necessary.
The main objective of this research is to develop an "Ecologically Sound Integrated Energy
Plan" at District level to arrive at an optimal mix of energy sources that can meet the energy
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demand in a region by keeping in view the development priorities of the region. The energy plan
consists of the following components:
(i)
Assessment of Supply Situation: This involves analysis of present energy supply system;
assessment of woody and other bio resources; assessment of renewable sources potential
such as solar, wind, hydro, woody and other bio resources; study of supply system of
commercial energy.
(ii)
Sectorwise Energy Demand: This involves survey of the present energy consumption in
different sectors for various enduses covering the type of fuel, magnitude and
composition of fuel, trends, seasonal constraints and preferences in consumption and
estimating energy demand based on the survey data.
(iii) Development of Energy Plan: Based on the estimated supply and demand, an energy
plan to meet the energy demand would be worked out in accordance with the
development priorities. Techno economic analyses of various energy technologies would
be carried out to find out technical and economic viability of the system. Energy plan at
District level is proposed based on the Decision Support Systems approach.
(iv)
Suggestions for Implementation and Management: With the knowledge of
administrative structure at District level and agencies implementing energy development
programme, a suitable institutional structure would be suggested for implementing and
managing the energy plan. Analyses of the importance of community participation in
energy conservation, planning and identify measures to enhance the level of
participation.
This work presents a conceptual design for energy system which could meet demand of all
sectors in the region. The proposed design would in principle, supply enough energy for a
sustainable development of a region. The energy planning endeavor involves finding a set of
sources and conversion devices so as to meet the energy requirements/demand of all the tasks in
an optimal manner. This optimality depends on the objective; such as to minimise the total
annual costs of energy or minimisation of non local resources or maximisation of system overall
efficiency. Factors such as availability of resources in the region, task energy requirements
impose constraints on the regional energy planning exercise. Thus, the regional energy planning
turns out to be a constrained optimisation problem. This exercise describes an optimum energy
allocation based on Integrated Energy Planning Approach for Uttara Kannada District and make a
satisfying energy allocation plan for the year 2000, 2005 and 2010. Integrated energy planning
developed is flexible, adaptable, ecologically sound and gives an optimal mix of new
renewable/conventional energy sources.
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5.2 . PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
5.2.1 Teaching:
Courses
ST 206: Environmental and Natural
Resources Management (3:0)
ST 210: Principles and Applications of
GIS and Remote sensing
ST 220: Principles of Remote sensing
(3:0)
ST 240: Remote sensing for natural
resources management (3:0)
ST 251: Laboratory practices in satellite
applications (0:1)
Session
Jan
At CST, IISc, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and
2011 Academic Session
2010
Aug-Dec
Summer
August
Independently since 2001
and with Prof.Y.V. Venkatesh during 1997-2000
2003-2004, with Dr. M. Shekar of Civil engineering
department
Shared with other instructors (STC Courses)
Jan
Jan
Geographic Information System Jan 2004
(GIS) & Remote Sensing: Principles
& Applications (3:0)
Competence based Education
Municipal Solid waste management
(3:0)
Competence based Education
Environmental management (3:0)
Proficience http://cce.iisc.ernet.in/gis_prof.html
August
–
Dec 2004
Centre for Continuing education (New programme –
Distance education)
http://cce.iisc.ernet.in/de_index.html
Centre for Continuing education (New programme –
Distance education)
http://cce.iisc.ernet.in/de_index.html
August
–
Dec 2004,
Jan
2005,
Aug 2006
August 2007
August 2008,
August 2009
August 2010
5.2.2 Books and Other Education Materials
(I) TEXT BOOKS (ALSO LISTED UNDER BOOKS)
DEVELOPED ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COURSES IN SELF LEARNING FORMAT
(FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION)
1. Ramachandra T.V. 2006. Management of Municipal Solid Waste, Commonwealth Of Learning,
2.
3.
4.
5.
Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed by Capital Publishing Company, New
Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, NewDelhi]
Ramachandra T.V. 2006. Soil and Groundwater Pollution due to Agricultural activities,
Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed by
Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, NewDelhi].
Vijay Kulkarni and Ramachandra T.V., 2006. Environmental Management, Commonwealth Of
Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed by Capital Publishing
Company, New Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, NewDelhi]
Mahajan S.P., 2006. Air Pollution Control (Ed. T.V. Ramachandra), Commonwealth Of Learning,
Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed by Capital Publishing Company, New
Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, NewDelhi]
Rakesh Kumar, R.N. Singh, Municipal water and wastewater treatment, (Ed. T.V. Ramachandra),
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Commonwealth Of Learning, Canada and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Printed by
Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi [Reprinted in 2009 by TERI Press, NewDelhi]
NOTE: MODIFIED VERSION OF THESE BOOKS ARE BEING PRINTED BY TERI PRESS (2009)
(II) Education Posters for Environment Education Programme with Schools
Biodiversity, Geoinformatics, Natural resources monitoring
(III) Education Cd-Rom’s
1. Know your Ecosystem 2002
2. Know your Ecosystem 2000
3. Lakes in tears (developed in Collaboration with AVRC, Mysore University), 2000 (being
telecasted by Doordarshan – Education programme)
4 Lake 2000: Symposium Proceedings
5 Lake 2002: Symposium Proceedings
6 Lake 2004: symposium Proceeding
7 Lake 2006: Environment Education for Ecosystem Conservation
5.2.3 Short Term Courses / National Symposium / International Symposium Organised
Workshop on” Open source geospatial tools”, 1-5th May 2011, CiSTUP Seminar Hall, IISc
QIP Short term course on “Principle and Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing”, 28th
February to 4th March 2011 at CCE seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)
3. Lake 2010: Wetlands Biodiversity and Climate Change, 22-24th Dec 2010, Satish Dhawan
Auditorium, IISc Campus
4. Internet based Course – Environment Management, August-December 2010, Centre for
Continuing education, IISc
5. Workshop on Aquatic ecosystems: Biodiversity Conservation and Management, Pre conference
workshop, 13th December 2010, CST Seminar Hall, IISc Campus
6. Workshop on “My Village Biodiversity”, 26th November 2010, Kulgi Nature Camp, Uttara
Kannada district
7. Workshop on “My Village Biodiversity”, 28th November 2010, Vaibhav Hotel, Kumta taluk,
Uttara Kannada District
8. Workshop on “My Village Biodiversity” 30th November 2010, Hotel Madhuvan, Sirsi Taluk,
Uttara Kannada district
9. Teachers’ orientation Programmes on “ Documenting Village Biodiversity” at Kulgi 7th August
2010
10. Teachers’ orientation Programmes on “ Documenting Village Biodiversity” at Sirsi, 9th August
2010
11. Teachers’ orientation Programmes on “ Documenting Village Biodiversity” at Kumta, 10th
August 2010
12. Workshop on Coastal Biodiversity, 19th May 2010, Dr. Baliga College of Arts and Science,
Kumta. Organised by A V College of Arts and Science, Kumta, Sneha Kunja, Kasarkod and
1.
2.
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13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
CES, Bangalore.
Discussion meeting – Open source GIS in India: Present Scenario, 16th Nov 2009, CiSTUP
Conference Hall, IISc campus
Brainstorming session on Conservation and management of urban lakes, 26th Sept 2009, CiSTUP
Conference Hall, IISc campus
Internet based Course – Environment Management, August-December 2009, Centre for
Continuing education, IISc
Workshop on Urban lake monitoring and Management, 23-25th Sept 2009, CiSTUP Conference
Hall, IISc campus
Joint round table meeting on Infrastructural and service demands of emerging urban growth
centre, 14th May 2009, CSTEP, Cistup and University of Hull, @ Center for Study of Science,
Technology and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore.
Brain storming session on Urban Development and Environmental Sustainability, 11th May 2009,
CiSTUP, Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, Department of Civil engineering, IISc
QIP Short term course on “GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental
Management”, 2nd March to 7th March 2009 at CCE seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)
Workshop on Ecological status of Dandeli Anshi Tiger Reserve, 13-15th Feb 2009, Dandeli
Nature Reserve, Organised jointly with Dandeli division, Karnataka Forest Department
Lake 2008: Conservation and Management of River and Lake Ecosystems, 22-24th Dec 2008,
Satish Dhawan Auditorium, IISc Campus
Rapid Urbanisation and resiliency of water resources, Indo-US Joint Research Workshop, 12-20th
Dec 2008, KSCST Conference Room and CST seminar hall, Organsied by CES, IISc, Portland
State University and KSCST
QIP Short term course on “GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental
Management”, 25th February to 1st March 2008 at CCE seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)
Internetbased Course – Environment Mangement, August-December 2008, Centre for Continuing
education, IISc
QIP Short term course on “GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental
Management”, 12th to 17th March 2007 at CCE seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)
Internetbased Course – Environment Mangement, August-December 2007, Centre for Continuing
education, IISc
Lake 2006: Symposium on Environment Education and Ecosystem Conservation, 28-30th
December 2006, Rustum Choksi Hall, IISc Campus
Internetbased Course – Environment Mangement, August-December 2006, Centre for Continuing
education, IISc
Discussion meeting on Curriculum Development and Instructional Material Development, 1 st
December 2006, CES Seminar Hall
‘Environment Monitoring workshop’, 14th -15th July 2006, K.K. English School, Varthur
One day ‘Ecology workshop’, 18th March 2006, St. Joseph English School, Whitefield
Discussion meeting on ‘Environment Education in India’, 4th March 2006, and 19th August 2006,
CES Seminar Hall, IISc
Round table meeting ‘Environmental education in India’ 12-13th Feb 2006, CES Seminar Hall,
IISc
One day ‘Ecology Workshop’, 16th February 2006, Satya Sai Residential school, Muddenahalli,
Kolar
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35. One day ‘Workshop on Environment for School teachers’, 13th January 2006, CES Seminar Hall,
IISc
36. Internetbased Course – Environment Mangement, August-December 2005, Centre for Continuing
education, IISc
37. QIP Short term course on “GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental
Management”, 12th to 18th August 2005 at CCE seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)
38. Three Days ‘Green Workshop’ , 3-5th June 2005, K K English High School, Varthur
39. RIEP Training for PI’s of DST Bio-geo programme in Himalayas, Department of Science and
Technology, GOI, 19-20th April 2005, IIT- New Delhi
40. RIEP Training for PI’s of DST Bio-geo programme in Himalayas, Department of Science and
Technology, GOI, 21-22nd January 2005, IIT-Roorkee
41. Lake 2004 – International Symposium on Conservation and Management of Aquatic
Ecosystems,9-13th December 2004, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa
42. Roundtable meeting for the release of ‘Environmental Engineering Modules’, 6th Nov 2004,
Council Hall, IISc
43. Internetbased Course – ERnvironment Mangement, August-December 2004, Centre for
Continuing education, IISc
44. Competence based education: Environmental Management, 30th Sept to 2nd Oct 2004 at CCE
Seminar Hall (sponsored by COL, Canada)
45. QIP Short term course on “Municipal Solid waste management”, 2nd to 6th August 2004 at CCE
seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)
46. Two days’ discussion meeting on ‘ODL methods and systems for delivering short term
continuing professional education courses’, 15-16th March 2004, CES Seminar Hall, IISc
47. Short term course on “Municipal Solid waste management”, 14th to 19th April 2003 at CES
seminar hall, IISc
48. Short term course on “Air pollution Control” 21-26th April 2003, at SDM College of Engineering,
Dharwad
49. Short term Course on “Municipal water and wastewater treatment” 28th April to 3rd May 2003, at
SIT, Tumkur.
50. Short term Course on “ Soil and Groundwater pollution due to agricultural activities” 5-10th May
2003, CES Seminar hall, IISc, Bangalore
51. Short term course on “Environmental Management” 12th to 17th May 2003, at SDM College of
Engineering, Dharwad.
52. Lake 2002, International Symposium on Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic
ecosystems, 9-13th December 2002, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, IISc Campus.
53. Know Your Ecosystem - Johny Biosphere, 2 - 8th Dec 2002 (organised at 10 schools).
54. Know your Ecosystem – school children, April 20-21, 2002, Rustom Choksi Hall, IISc campus.
55. Pre Final review meeting ‘Revision and transformation of EE Modules to self learning materials,
5-10th August 2002, CES Seminar Hall, IISc
56. Mid term Review meeting ‘Revision and transformation of EE Modules to self learning materials,
7-16th April 2002, CES Seminar Hall, IISc
57. Round table meeting ‘Revision and transformation of EE Modules to self learning materials, 29th
-31st Oct 2001, CES Seminar Hall, IISc
58. Winter School in"Essentials in Limnology and GIS", CES Seminar Hall, IISc campus, 5-13th
December 2001.
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59. Hands on training in Spatial and Temporal tools (GIS,GPS and remote Sensing) for Engineering
College teachers, CES Conference Room, IISc Campus, 29th Sept to 2nd Oct 2001.
60. Lake 2000, Symposium on Restoration of Lakes and Wetlands, CSIC Auditorium, IISc Campus,
Nov 27-29, 2000.
61. Know Your Ecosystem - Johny Biosphere, 24th Nov - 10th Dec 2000 (organised at 10 schools).
62. Discussion meeting at Kolar - Integrated Energy Planning using GIS, May 25, 2000.
63. Energy Alternatives 2000 - Exhibition on Renewable energy technologies, 24-25, June 2000.,
Mahila Seva Samaja, Kolar
64. Lake Monitoring and Mangement Sysmposium, 20-23rd December 1998, CES Seminar Hall
5.3 KEYNOTE ADDRESS, GUEST OF HONOUR, CHIEF GUEST
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Ramachandra T V, 2011. Lead talk - Conservation and sustainable management of
Sharavathi river basin, Seminar on ‘Protection of Nadhi moola’, Organised by Western
Ghats task force and Karnataka Forest Department, Thirthahalli, 30 May 2011,
Ambuthirtha, Shimoga
Ramachandra T V, 2011, Chief Guest and talk – Need for conservation of Sacred groves, In
workshop ‘Protection of Sacred Groves’ Organised by Western Ghats task force and
Karnataka Forest Department, Thirthahalli, 30 May 2011, Ammanighatta Sacred grove,
Shimoga
Ramachandra T V, 2011. Keynote Address - Unplanned urbansisation and consequent
urban sprawl, International Conference on Information Systems and Technology ICIST
2011 on 16 May 2011. Lulu International Convention Centre, Thrissur, Organised by
Department of IT, MES College of Engineering, Kuttipuram.
Ramachandra T V, 2011, Plenary talk – Carrying capacity of Uttara Kannada district, In the
conference – Twenty five years of Bedthi Struggle, 14th May 2011, Organised by Bedthi –
Aghnashini Kolla Samithi and Western Ghats Task Force, Karnataka Forest Department,
Yellapur Division.
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Chief Guest and Plenary Lecture – Urbanisation and its impact on
natural resources, Bagalkot Ditrict Engineeers Meet, 21 Jan 2011, at B V V Sangha’s Mini
ASuditorium Hall, Baglkot. Organised by The Institution of engineers (India), Dharwad
Local Centre and B V V Sangha’s Polytechnic, Bagalkot
Ramachandra T V, 2011. Chief Guest and Keynote Address Understanding the linkages
between ecosystem structure and its functional aspects, In the UGC and CSIR Sponsored
National Seminar on Biological approaches for Monitoring and Protection of Environment,
11th January 2011, Organsied by Plant Biology and Biotechnology Division, PSGR
Krishnammal College For Women, Coimbatore.
Ramachandra T V, 2010, Keynote Speaker – Ecology, Biodiversity and Water linkages:
Lessons from the research in Central Western Ghats and Bangalore, In Lake 2010:
Symposium on Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, 22
Dec 2010, Organised by The Energy and Wetlands Research Group, CES, IISc and KSCST
Session Chairman and Plenary Lecture: FOSS in environmental simulation and modelling,
In the first National Convention for Academics and Research – NCAR 2010, 18th
December 2010, at Mahindra Satyam Technology Centre, Bahadurpally, Hyderabad,
Organised by FSMI and IIIT Hyderabad
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Chief Guest, Role of doctors in environment conservation, Dr.
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Toppil Venkatesh Felicitation Function, at KIMS Hospital auditorium, 20 th November
2011, Organised by Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat (KRVP) and Nava Karnataka
Publications.
10. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Chief Guest and Lead Talk – GIS, Eco Mapping and Ecosystem
Conservation, in the Workshop on Environmental Stability through Preservation and
Restoration of Ecological Balance, 29th Oct 2010, at College of Forestry, Sirsi. Organised
by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Bangalore and College of
Forestry, Sirsi.
11. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Chief Guest and Keynote Address - Unplanned urbanization and its
effects on Bangalore climate, Science Day, 21 October 2010, Jyoti Niwas Pre University College,
Bangalore
12. Ramachandra T V 2010. Lead Talk – Western Ghats Biodiversity Information System, in
HORTINFORMATICS – 2010, National Consultative meet on Bioinformatics in
Horticulture, 9-10 Oct 2010, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research,
Calicut.
13. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Key note address, Environment, Health and Sustainable
Development, in the International Conference on Global Warming, Climate Change,
Sustainable Development and Spirituality, 9th Sept 2010, Santhigiri Main Auditorium,
Organised by Santhigiri Ashram, Thiruvanthapuram
14. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Chief Guest and Key note Address – Clean water for a Healthy World,
in Water Resources Day Celebration & 17th Balekundry Memorial Lecture, 15th June 2010,
Organised by The Instituition of Engineers (India), Dharwad Local Centre and Shiva Kamala
Balekundry Trust.
15. Ramachandra T V, 2010, Chief Guest, International Day of Biodiversity, 22 May 2010,
Christ Junior College, Bangalore
16. Ramachandra T V, 2010. Keynote Address – Need for teaching Ecology and Environment
concepts in higher education, Conference on ‘Reorienting Higher Educationfor
Sustainability’, 22-23 April 2010, University of Mysore, Org by Institute for Climate
Change and Sustainability and Instituition of Enmgineers, Bangalore
17. Ramachandra T V 2010, Chief Guest and Key note Address – Ecosystem Approaches in
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Conservation and Management, 22nd March 2010, One day seminar on “phytodiversity conservation
and medicinal plants, Organsied by Post Graduate Department of Studies in Botany, Karnatak
University
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Conservation of Biodiversity, Keynote address, Science day, Focus on
Biodiversity, Organsied by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy and Nutana College of
Education, 7th March 2010, Bapuji Dental College Auditorium, Davangere
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Biodiversity, Hydrology and Ecology linkages, Keynote Address,
National Seminar on “Conservation and Management of wetlands in an area of Climate Change,
Organised by Deapartment of Botany, N M Christian College, Marthandam, 1st and 2nd March 2010.
Ramachandra T V, 2010. Conservation and Management of Wetlands – statergies and challenges,
Keynote address, One Day seminar on “Environmental Impact of Biodiversity”, 26th Feb 2010,
Organised by Department of Zoology, Bangalore University
Chairman, Session III: Assessment of natural and anthropogenic influence on the status of wetlands,
DST National Conference on “Scientific stratergies for protection and preservation of wetlands in
India” Organised by School of Environmental sciences, JNU, 11-12th Jan 2010, School of Social
sciences I, JNU – Committee Room (ground Floor)
Chairman, Session II: Harnessing water resources, Conference on “Opportunities in Industrial
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Corridor Infrastructure in Karnataka, Organised by CII, 18 th Dec 2009, Hotel Lalit Ashok,
Bangalore
Ramachandra T V., 2009. Conservation of wetlands: Need and approaches, Keynote address,
National conference on “Protection and Conservation of Wetlands in India”, 17th August 2009,
Organised by Nehru Arts, Science and Commerce College, Hubli.
Ramachandra T V, 2009. Climate change and Global warming, Keynote Address, National
Symposium on “Role of life sciences in climate change and global warming” 19 th Feb 2009,
organised by V V puram College of Science, Bangalore
Chief Guest, Sambhrama 2009, 25th January 2009, Millenium Public School and Ashok
International Public School, Jalahalli West, Bangalore
Guest of Honour, Harshotsava 2009, 11th January 2009, K K Education Society
Plenary Talk - Regional Energy Planning: Need for Holistic Approaches, 18th Swadeshi congress at
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvanthapuram, 6 th Nov 2008.
Chairman, technical session V- Need Assesment for RE, Workshop on Renewable Energy, 16th Oct
2008, Org. by Tezpur University, Assam
Keynote address, Phytodiversity Conervation in Central Western Ghats, UGC_SAP-DRS_III
programme on Phytodiversity and conservation, 24th March 2008, Karnatak University, Dharwad
Guest of Honour, Aarohan 08, 23rd April 2008, New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore
Valedictory Address: Status of Wetland Ecosystems in Karnataka, Refresher Course in Environment
Science, 24th December 2007, UGC Academy Staff College and Pondicherry University,
Puducherry
Keynote address Role of Spatial data, GIS and GPS in regional planning, International Conference
on Information Systems and Technology, 14th Dec 2007, MES College of Engineering,
Kuttippuram.
Presidential and Keynote Address: Role of Environmental information in decision making,
Workshop on Eco-Informatics, Indain Institute of Information Technology and ManagementKerala, Priyadarshini Seminar Hall, 23rd Nov 2007.
Chief Guest and keynote address in Graduate Ceremony, New Cambridge Education Trust. 24th
February 2007, New Cambridge High School, Vijayanagar, Bangalore
Chief Guest and Key note address in Two day state level workshop on Applications of GIS and
Remote Sensing in Civil Engineering’ 21-22 Oct 2006, Org. by Department of Civil Engineering,
Malnad College of Engineering
Chief Guest and Key note address ‘ Sustainable Future and Environmental Education’ 28 th Sept
2006, Intercollegiate Science Fest ‘EFFERVESCIENCE’ Org. by Life Sciences Department, BHS
First Grade College, Bangalore.
Chief Guest and Key note address ‘Remote sening applications in Coastal Environment
Management’, 18th Sept 2006, Coastal Cleanup Day, Org. by Visvesvaraya Industrial and
Technological Museum (National Council of Science Museums), Bangalore
Guest Lecture ‘Data mining for Urban Sprawl pattern Analysis’ 9th Sept 2006, Two Days workshop
on ‘GIS & Spatial data mining’, Org. by Deprtment of Civil Engineering and MCA Department,
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangakore.
Expert lecture ‘Sahyadri: Abode of Ecologists’ 1 st Sept. 2006, Regional Workshop on ‘Uttara
Kannada district: Biosphere reserve’, Org. by Bedthi Aghnashini Kolla Samrakshana Samithi,
Sonda, Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka.
Chief Guest and key lecture, Overview of GIS and applications, 8th April 2006, Two day National
Workshop on ‘Applications of GIS in Civil Engineering’, Department of studies in Civil
Engineering, University BDT College of Engineering, Davangere.
Chief Guest and key lecture, Integrated planning of natural resources, ‘National Seminar on
Biological Sciences and its impact on the environment’, Sri Jagadguru Renukacharya College of
Science, Arts and Commerce, Bangalore. 20th January 2006
Plenary Lecture, Ecosystem Management, 3rd January 2006, State level Science exhibition for high
school students and science teachers 2005-06, V.B. Darbar Pre University College, Bijapur
Plenary Lecture, Status of Wetland Ecosystems in India, 28 th Nov 2005, TEQIP Workshop on
Water Management, Department of Civil Engineering, Bangalore University
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44. Invited Lecture -. Ecological modelling: Concepts, 21st April 2005, Ministry of Science and
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Technology, Government of India (Expert committee - Coordinated program on ‘Bio-Geo Database
and Ecological Modelling for Himalaya)
Plenary lecture – Sustainable planning of Ecosystems, 5th March 2005, National Conference on
Environment, Pollution and Ecoplanning, organized by K L E Society’s Nijalingappa College,
Bangalore
Plenary Lecture – Aquatic Ecosystems: Ecological Impacts due to developmental projects, 10th Dec
2004, Lake 2004 – International conference on Coservation, Restoration and Management of Lakes
and Coastal Wetlands, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa
Valedictory address in Induction Training Programme in Environmental Engineering, 11 th June
2004, Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women, Vallam, Thanjavur
Guest of Honour, AICTE-ISTE STTP on Remote Sensing and GIS for Resource Management, 1425, January 2002, Organised by the Department of Applied Mechanics & Hydraulics, Karnataka
Regional Engineering College, Suratkal 574 157, Karnataka
Spatial and Temporal tools for optimal resource management, Key note address at AICTE-ISTE
STTP on Remote Sensing and GIS for Resource Management, 14-25, January 2002, Organised by
the Department of Applied Mechanics & Hydraulics, Karnataka Regional Engineering College,
Suratkal 574 157, Karnataka
Integrated Regional Energy Planning for Rural Development, Key note address at National Seminar
on Renewable Energy Sources and other technologies for rural development, 9-10, March 2002.
Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon 444 203, Maharashtra.
Chief Guest, School day, K.K. English High School, Vartur, Bangalore District, January 26th, 2002.
Chief Guest, Independence Day, Vartur School Association, Government Primary College, Vartur,
15th August 2002.
Aquatic Ecosystems: Conservation, Restoration and Management, Key Speaker: Lake 2002 International Symposium on Conservation, Restoration and Managmement of Aquatic Ecosystems,
Dec 9-13th 2002. Organised by CES, IISc, KERF and COL, Canada.
Efficient resource management using spatial technologies: GIS and Remote sensing - Key note
address at National seminar on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems in Natural
Resource Management - Current status and emerging trends, 15-17th March 2003
Guest of Honour, One day workshop on “Ecology and Environment” 12 th December 2003, SDM
College of Engineering, Dharwad (Inauguration of Centre for Integrated Environment Studies)
GLOBAL SEMINAR SERIES ON THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Ramachandra, T.V. 1998, Strategies for Environmental Information System,
(http://global.stanford.edu/global/india/all.ram), Presented at Global Seminar on the Information
Technologies, 15th October to 15th December 1998. Organised by Stanford University,
Stanford, U.S.A (http://global.stanford.edu/global /india/dale.ram) and Royal Institute of
Technology, KTH University, Sweden
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Ramachandra, T.V. 1998, Presented following articles through bulletin board for discussion, (http:
global.stanford.edu/board/), Global Seminar on the Information Technologies, 15th October to
15th December 1998.
(i) Environmental audit through IT
(ii) Digital Information System in planning ecosystems
(ii) Necessity of IT - Environmental education
(iv) Environmental mismanagement
(v) Access to databases
(vi) 2k Problem - Global challenge to the information systems
These were preceded by a telephonic interview on 15th Oct 1998 (http://
global.stanford.edu/global/india/ interview.ram) and chat sessions on 29th Oct 1998 at 800 and
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2000 hours (I.S.T.), URL: (http: // global.stanford.edu / chat), Coordinated by Prof. Dale Harris,
Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A and Prof.Bjorn
Pehrson, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH University, Sweden
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PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM / CONFERENCES
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T.V. Ramachandra and Uttam Kumar, 2010. Sprawl and Urban Expansion in Indian Cities
Since the 1970s, Presented at International Conference on Urbanisation and Global
Environmental Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in an Urbanising
World, Organsied at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15-17, 2010
Jefferey M. Sellers, Jingnan Huang, T.V. Ramachandra, 2010. Peri-urban expansion in
China and India: A Comparative Analysis, Presented at International Conference on
Urbanisation and Global Environmental Change: Opportunities and Challenges for
Sustainability in an Urbanising World, Organsied at Arizona State University, Tempe,
Arizona, USA, October 15-17, 2010
Ramachandra T V 2010, Urbansiation India: Comparative analysis of 10 cities in India.
Workshop on “Peri-urban development and environmental sustainability- examples from
India and China, 7-12 May 2010, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China.
Organised by APN for Global change research and USC, USA.
Ramachandra T.V., 2009. Wetlands of Greater Bangalore: Impact of unplanned urbanization,
the Regional Workshop on “Wetland Resources Management: Integrated Approach towards
Sustainability”, Organised by Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), 5-7Th May 2009,
BCAS, Dhaka
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Ramachandra T.V., 2008. Renewable energy potential in Karnataka: Spatial mapping and
analysis, International Workshop on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Zone – Chiba
University 21st Century COE Program International Conference, 28-30th March 2008, Chiba
University, Japan.
Ramachandra T.V. 2007. Urbanisation in India: Research Prospects, Discussion Meeting
“Periurban Development and Environmental Sustainability” at the National University of
Singapore during September 22-23, 2007.
Uttam Kumar, Norman Kerle and Ramachandra T V, 2007. Constrained linear spectral
unmixing technique for regional land cover mapping using MODIS Data,
http://cisse2007.org/author/papers.aspx; The Third International Joint Conferences on
Computer,
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(CIS E 07), December 3 - 12, 2007 (CISSE series of e-conferences), Technically CoSponsored by: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), University of
Bridgeport
Ramachandra T.V. and Uttam Kumar, 2004. Geographic resources decision support system
for land use land cover dynamics analysis, FOSS/GRASS 2004 Conference, 12-14 sept
2004, Bangkok, Thailand.
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/papers.php?first_letter=T
Ramachandra T.V., Rajasekara Murthy, C., Krishna Alluri and Krishna Pillai Murugan,
2004. Capacity Building through Distance Education: Environmental Engineering Courses
Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF4), 4-8th July 2004, New
Zealand, http://www.col.org/pcf3/prog.htm
Ramachandra T.V, Ahalya N. and Kanamadi R.D., 2004. Wetland Restoration through
Metal Bioremediation, July 2004, UTRECHT 2004: INTECOL 7 th International Wetlands
Conference
http://www.bio.uu.nl/intecol/programme/list.php?po=1&ord=session
Ramachandra T.V. and C. Rajasekara Murthy, 2001. Restoration of lakes and wetlands in
developing countries, XXVIII SIL Congress, February, 4-10, 2001. Melbourne, Austrailia.
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(http://www.monash.edu.au/oce/sil2001/scientific/36.html).
Kiran, R. and Ramachandra, T.V., Status of Bangalore wetlands: Strategies for restoration,
conservation and management, . Conference: INTECOL VI: Wetlands in the millennium,
6-12, August 2000, Quebec, Canada, Organised by International Association of Ecology
(http://www.sws.org/quebec2000/abstracts_program/index.html).
Devashish Kar, Nagarathna, A.V. and Ramachandra, T.V. Fish diversity and conservation
aspects in an aquatic ecosystem in India. Conference: INTECOL VI: Wetlands in the
millennium, 6-12, August 2000, Quebec, Canada, Organised by International Association
of Ecology. (http://www.sws.org/quebec2000/abstracts_program/index.html).
Ramachandra, T.V. Regional Integrated Energy Planning Decision Support System,
Conference: The fifth conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operations Research
Societies within IFORS on "Operations Research in the Millennium", 5-7 July 2000,
Singapore, Organised by APORS
http://www.ise.nus.edu.sg/proceedings/apors2000/fullpapers/42-04.htm
Ramachandra, T.V. Renewable Energy Potential and Prospects - Emphasis on Bioenergy,
First International Conference on Renewable Energy Resources", 9-12, May 2000,
Mauritius, Organised by Central Board of Irrigation and Power.
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Books and Monographs:
Text books (Environmental Engineering Courses):
Published in Journals (during 1991-2011)
Chapters in a book
Published in conference proceedings
Papers (Journals, conference proceedings) In press
Keynote address, plenary talk, lead lectures
Lectures – Conferences, workshop, discussion meeting.
Technical reports
Book Reviews
Newsletter articles
Others
Reports
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Education Cd’s
Organised conferences, Short term courses, workshops
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PATENTS AND DESIGN REGISTRATIONS
Type
Title of the work
Registration Number
Copy Right
SW2659/2006
Copy Left
Regional Integrated Energy
Plan – Spatial Decision
Support System
Geographic Resources
Decision Support System
SW2658/2006
TEACHING:
ST210: Principles and applications of
GIS and Remote Sensing (3:1)
ST 206: Environmental and Natural
Resources Management (3:0)
ST 220: Principles of Remote sensing
(3:0)
ST 240: Remote sensing for natural
resources management (3:0)
ST 251: Laboratory practices in satellite
applications (0:1)
Competence based Education
Environmental management (3:0)
Summer/August
At CST since 2010
Jan
At CST, IISc, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Academic Session
Independently since 2001 to 2004
and with Prof.Y.V. Venkatesh during 1997-2000
2003-2004, with Dr. M. Shekar of Civil engineering
department
Shared with other instructors (STC Courses)
August
Jan
Jan
Since
2004August session
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Centre for Continuing education (New programme –
Distance education)
http://cce.iisc.ernet.in/de_index.html