Smart Buildings and Cities with Remote Sensing and GIS

The built environment is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the integration of cutting-edge geospatial technologies. Smart Buildings and Cities with Remote Sensing and GIS serves as a comprehensive guide to navigating this transformation and bridges the gap between traditional architectural and planning practices and the innovative possibilities of remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS).

The book demonstrates how architects, planners, and decisionmakers can use GIS and RS to design smarter, context-aware, and eco-friendly urban spaces. It explores innovative approaches for architecture, focusing on geospatial site analysis, net-zero energy building designs, heritage preservation, innovative virtual campus planning methodologies and even futuristic concepts like habitat design on the lunar surface.

Key features:

• Brings together contemporary geospatial technologies and their applications to address the challenges and opportunities in designing smart buildings and cities.

• Provides actionable solutions for professionals, researchers, and policymakers.

• Includes global contributions that provide diverse perspectives on smart city and building applications.

• Highlights how geospatial data-driven insights can revolutionize decisionmaking processes in urban planning and building design.

The work is designed for postgraduate students and researchers in the departments of architecture, planning, and geomatics, geoinformatics, software engineering.

Dr Shiv Mohan is a leading researcher and educator with specialization in microwave remote sensing of earth and lunar surface. During his service at ISRO, he initiated research programme related to microwave remote sensing applications. He was Principal Investigator of various SAR application projects awarded to him through international global announcement of opportunity projects from European Space Agency, Japanese Exploration Agency, Italian Space Agency and NASA/DLR. These experiments resulted into development of an in-house applications program for ISRO like Joint experiment program, Disaster SAR and Satellite SAR programs. He was the main architect of India’s first RISAT utilization program where he worked as Project Director until 2011. He was also lead contributor of Chandrayaan-1 Mini SAR water ice detection model and in the definition of Chandrayaan-2 dual frequency SAR payload. After retiring from ISRO, he worked with Planetary exploration program at Physical Research Laboratory where he evolved application of dual frequency microwave data for lunar water ice model, regolith depth modeling and crater morphology. He has served as a member of 70 technical committee of ISRO including RISAT-1, Chandrayaan-2 and future Venus’s mission. He has 320 research papers in Journals, conferences, ISRO reports and conducted about 190 tutorials on microwave remote sensing. He also served as visiting scientist at DLR, Germany during 1980 and 1981 and Chief Scientist, HARSAC, Haryana Government during 1998 to 2001. He is recipient of Indian National Remote Sensing award 1995, outstanding reviewer award from Elsevier, Netherland (2015) and IEEE GRSS outstanding service award (2022). Dr Shiv Mohan is presently visiting faculty at CEPT University, Gujarat University and IEEE GRSS Liaison for Asia Pacific region.

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Dr Navneet Munoth is an Architect and Urban Planner currently engaged at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, an Institute of National Importance established by the Government of India. Dr Munoth pursued his Bachelor’s in Architecture from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur and the subsequent Post-Graduation as well as Doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, one of the premier Institutions of India.

Dr Munoth has been serving in his current position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning, MANIT Bhopal for the past 14 years. He is also the Honorary Director of the Council of Architecture’s Training and Research Centre (COA-TRC) established in December 2018 at MANIT Bhopal.

Dr Munoth has also presented his research in the form of research papers and book chapters at several acclaimed International Conferences organized in India or abroad like in Singapore (National University of Singapore), Malaysia (University of Malaya) and Italy (University of Naples). Very recently, his research papers have also been accepted in international conferences at the University of East London (United Kingdom), Pusan National University (South Korea) and University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Dr Munoth has been awarded the prestigious 13th CIDC Vishwakarma Award for the year 2022 in the 26th CIDC Annual Day Ceremony conducted by the Construction Industry Development Council was set up by the erstwhile Planning Commission (now Niti Aayog) at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. He is the first Architect and Planner from the architecture and planning fraternity to receive this award for his academic as well as professional achievements and pursuits. In 2023, Dr Munoth revived K F Antia’ Memorial Prize by The Institution of Engineers (India) at Jabalpur (M.P.), India for the best research paper titled ‘Carbon Sequestration Potential of Urban Trees: A Case of Kolar Area in Bhopal City, India’ (published in the Series ‘A’ Journal of IEI, Vol. 103, Issue 2) has been selected for the subject prize. This is the fourth National level Award that he has gotten till now.

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Email – naneet.munoth@gmail.com

Ar. Neha Sharma is a geospatial engineer and architect with a passion for harnessing the power of data science to bridge the gap between technology and design. With over four years of industry experience, she currently thrives as a Product Engineer II - Geospatial Data Science at ESRI GeoAI R&D Center in New Delhi. Prior to this, she honed her expertise as a Software Engineer in the GeoAI Team at Larsen & Toubro (L&T-NxT, Mindtree, and LTIMindtree).

She recently completed an MS in Data Science from Liverpool John Moore University, England. Previously, she earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore and an M. Tech in Geomatics from CEPT University in Ahmedabad, where she was recognized with the best capstone project award, the distinguished student award, the best portfolio award, and a merit scholarship. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MA-NIT), Bhopal, a Government of India-designated Institute of National Significance.

Neha is a member of the Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG) and the Institution of Engineers (India). She has been an active participant in national-level training programs, faculty development initiatives, and workshops organized by prestigious bodies like the Council of Architecture – Training and Research Center (CoA-TRC), IEEE GRSS, and MA-NIT, Bhopal. Neha has authored two research papers in national journals and symposiums and contributed a chapter to a Scopus-indexed book (2021).

She has received several honors and scholarships, including winning awards at L&T and Mindtree hackathons (2021 & 2022) and the prestigious GICEA Gold Medal 2020 bestowed by the Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects (GICEA).

Her research interests include remote sensing, GIS, and spatial data science.

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Email – neha845sharma@yahoo.com