| Designation | Scientist/Engineer - SE |
|---|---|
| Department | Urban & Regional Studies |
| Field of Expertise | Urban Planning Applications using Remote Sensing |
| Mail Address | Urban & Regional Studies Department, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Govt. of India 4, Kalidas Road, Dehradun- 248001 India. |
- Thermal Remote Sensing for Urban Heat Island Studies
- Urban Air Pollution Studies for Smart Environment
- Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Urban Areas
- Solar potential estimation for Smart Energy
- Indian Society of Remote Sensing
- Indian Town Planners Institute
- Council of Architecture
- Masters in Planning , Specialisation – Urban Planning, Institute – School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
- B. Arch , Institute – Faculty of Architecture (Formerly known as Govt. College of Architecture), Lucknow, U.P.
- Scientist/Engineer ‘SE’ at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization, GoI since July, 2021
- Scientist/Engineer ‘SD’ at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization, GoI since January, 2016
- Scientist/Engineer ‘SC’ at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organization, GoI since January, 2014
- Lecturer at National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala from August, 2013 to December, 2013
- Best Student/Thesis Award (Gold Medal) for Masters in Planning at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi for the year 2013
- Gold Medal for Academic Excellence for Masters in Planning at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi for the year 2013
- Gold Medal for Academic Excellence for Bachelors in Architecture at Govt. College of Architecture, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh for the year 2011 conferred through Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU)
- Pidilite Award for Academic Excellence for B.Arch, 2010
- Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) student scholarship for B.Arch, 2010
- Best Paper Award: Prarthna Dhingra, Asfa Siddiqui, Saloni Jain, K. Venkata Reddy, Vinay Kumar, “Object Based and Knowledge based classification techniques in urban areas using Hyperspectral imagery and LiDAR data”, National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystem, ISRS ISG Symposium 2016, Dec 7-9 2016, Dehradun.
- Best Paper Award: Shiva Bhadouria, Asfa Siddiqui, Ishan Dhiman, “Estimating Solar Energy Potential in an Urban Area using Open Source Platform”, National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystem, ISRS ISG Symposium 2016, Dec 7-9 2016, Dehradun.
- Best Paper Award: Gautami Kushwaha, Asfa Siddiqui, Vinay Kumar (2020), “Assessing the thermal behaviour of Urban Materials using Hyperspectral Data in Ahmedabad city, India”, National Seminar on Recent Advances in Geospatial Technology and Applications, March 02, 2020, Dehradun, India
- Rehman, S., Honap, V., Siddiqui, A., Maske, A., & Maithani, S. (2021). Spatio-Temporal Variations in Night Lights , Economy and Night Light Emissions in States of India. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-021-01427-1
- Siddiqui, A., Kushwaha, G., Nikam, B., Srivastav, S. K., Shelar, A., & Kumar, P. (2021). Analysing the day/night seasonal and annual changes and trends in land surface temperature and surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) for Indian cities. Sustainable Cities and Society, 103374. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103374
- Kumar P, Rao KV, Ravindranath S, Maithani S, Siddiqui A, Bharath BD, Bhavani SVL. 2021. A Review of IRS-1C Applications in Urban and Regional Studies, and Infrastructure Planning. J Indian Soc Remote Sens [Internet]. 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-020-01283-5
- S. Srivastava, A. Siddiqui, D. Mitra, and P. Chauhan, “Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the spatio-temporal distribution of nitrogen dioxide over India,” Curr. Sci., vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 368–375, 2021.
- Bera D, Kumar P, Siddiqui A, Majumdar A. 2021. Assessing impact of urbanisation on surface runoff using vegetation-impervious surface-soil (V-I-S) fraction and NRCS curve number (CN) model. Model Earth Syst Environ [Internet].(Bergstrom 1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-020-01079-z
- Siddiqui A, Halder S, Chauhan P, Kumar P. 2020. COVID-19 Pandemic and City-Level Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Reduction for Urban Centres of India. J Indian Soc Remote Sens.(2):1–8. https://doi: 10.1007/s12524-020-01130-7
- Rao JM, Siddiqui A, Maithani S, Kumar P. 2020. Hyperspectral and multispectral data fusion using fast discrete curvelet transform for urban surface material characterization. Geocarto Int [Internet]. 0(0):1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2020.1818855
- Siddiqui A, Kushwaha G, Raoof A, Kant Y. 2020. Bangalore: Urban heating or urban cooling? Egypt J Remote Sens Sp Sci [Internet].(xxxx):0–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrs.2020.06.002
- Siddiqui A, Chauhan P, Kumar V, Jain G, Kumar P. 2020. Characterization of urban materials in AVIRIS- NG data using a mixture tuned matched filtering ( MTMF ) approach Characterization of urban materials in AVIRIS-NG. Geocarto Int [Internet]. 0(0):1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2020.1720312
- Kumar V, Mohan A, Agarwal S, Siddiqui A. 2019. Evaluating the Close Range Hyperspectral Data for Feature Identification and Mapping. J Indian Soc Remote Sens [Internet]. 47(3):447–454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-018-0889-5
- Singh SK, Jain G, Siddiqui A, Naik S, Rathore BP, Garg V, Kumar V, Bahuguna IM, Sharma SA, Shekhar C, et al. 2019. Characterization and retrieval of snow and urban land cover parameters using hyperspectral imaging. Curr Sci. 116(7).
- Siddiqui Asfa, Siddiqui Almas, Maithani S, Jha AK, Kumar P, Srivastav SK. 2018. Urban growth dynamics of an Indian metropolitan using CA Markov and Logistic Regression. Egypt J Remote Sens Sp Sci [Internet]. 21(3):229–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrs.2017.11.006
- Garg V, Senthil Kumar A, Aggarwal SP, Kumar V, Dhote PR, Thakur PK, Nikam BR, Sambare RS, Siddiqui A, Muduli PR, Rastogi G. 2017. Spectral similarity approach for mapping turbidity of an inland waterbody. J Hydrol. 550.
- Prarthna Dhingra, Asfa Siddiqui, Vinay Kumar, Prabhashini Mohapatra, K. Venkata Reddy (2017), “A Knowledge-based approach to urban land use classification using AVIRIS imagery and LiDAR data”, Asian Journal of Convergence in Technology, Volume III, Issue III
- Asfa Siddiqui, Mehak Agarwal, Vishnu. P. Vijay (2016), “Spatio Temporal Analysis of Land Surface Temperature: A case study of Surat City”, Spandrel, International Journal of SPA, Bhopal, 1(12):1-12
- Sardar A Patil, Sonal Khobrgade, Shweta Khandelwal, Harpreet Singh, Asfa Siddiqui (2015), “An estimation of solar energy potential using point solar radiation tool in Arc GIS: A case study of College of Engineering Pune”, International Journal of Applied Research, Vol 1(9), pg. 890-897
- P. Kumar, K. Gupta, H. Karnatak, A. Siddiqui and A. Kumar, "Geo-enabled e-Democracy Tools and Services for Smart Cities", in E-Democracy for Smart Cities, T. Kumar, Ed. Springer, 2017, pp. 391-440.
- P. Kumar, A. Siddiqui, K. Gupta, S. Jain, B. Bharath and S. Maithani, "Understanding Urban Environment in Northwest Himalaya: Role of Geospatial Technology", in Remote Sensing of Northwest Himalayan Ecosystems, R. Navalgund, A. Kumar and S. Nandy, Ed. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019, 2019, pp. 403-431.
- S. Maithani, K. Gupta, A. Siddiqui, A. Begum, A. Deshmukh and P. Kumar, "Urban Settlement Pattern and Growth Dynamics in Northwest Himalaya", in Remote Sensing of Northwest Himalayan Ecosystems, R. Navalgund, A. Kumar and S. Nandy, Ed. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2019, pp. 433-453.
- A. Siddiqui, K. Kakkar, S. Halder and P. Kumar, "Smart Chandigarh Tri-City Region: Spatial Strategies of Transformation", in Smart Metropolitan Regional Development: Economic and Spatial Design Strategies, T. Kumar, Ed. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2018, pp. 403-452.
- A. Siddiqui, D. Joshi, S. Rehman, P. Kumar and V. Devadas, "A Solar Intensive approach for Smart Environment Planning in Gandhinagar, Gujarat", in Smart Environment for Smart Cities, Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, T. Kumar, Ed. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2020, pp. 197-240.
- K. Mishra, A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, ‘’ Experiments Synergizing Machine Learning Approaches with Geospatial Big Data for Improved Urban Information Retrieval”, in Handbook of Research on Machine Learning, M. Mangla, S.K. Shinde, V. Mehta, N. Sharma and S.N. Mohanty Ed., CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2021 (ISBN: 9781774638682)
- G. Kushwaha, A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, “Assessing the thermal behaviour of Urban Materials using Hyperspectral Data in Ahmedabad city, India”, National Seminar on Recent Advances in Geospatial Technology and Applications, Dehradun, India, March 02, 2020.
- K. Mishra, A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, R.D. Garg, “Enhancing Resolution of Hyerspectral data : A comparative study in urban area”, in ISG-ISRS National Symposium on Innovations in Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development with special emphasis on NER, Shillong, 2019.
- K. Mishra, A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, “A Comparative assessment of super resolved airborne hyperspectral outputs in urban material and land cover information extraction”, in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Dehradun, Volume XLII-5, 2018
- A. Siddiqui, S. Vid, S.K. Sharma, K.M. Kumar, D. Kumar, “Assessing the Relationship between Land Surface Temperature and Impervious Surface Area in Jaipur, India”, in International Conference on “Geo-Spatial Technology for Natural Resource Management & Climate Change by NIRD, Hyderabad, 2017
- K. Mishra, V. Kumar, A. Siddiqui, “Land Use-Land Cover Information Extraction from High Resolution Airborne Hyperspectral Data”, in Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Delhi, India, October 23-27, 2017
- P. Dhingra, A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, P. Mohapatra, K.V. Reddy, “A Knowledge Based approach to urban land use classification using AVIRIS imagery and LiDAR data”, Asian Journal of Convergence in Technology, Vol III, Issue III. in IEEE 2nd International Conference on Convergence in Technology 12CT, Pune, India, April 7-9, 2017. Available asianssr.org/index.php/ajct/article/view/282
- S. Jain, A. Siddiqui, P. S. Tiwari, M. Shashi, “Urban Growth Assessment using CA Markov Model: A case of Dehradun”, Conference on Land Use Change, Climate Extremes and Disaster Risk Reduction, IGU, Delhi, March 18-19, 2016
- P. Dhingra, A. Siddiqui, S. Jain, K. V.Reddy, V. Kumar, “Object Based and Knowledge based classification techniques in urban areas using Hyperspectral imagery and LiDAR data”, National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystem, ISRS ISG Symposium 2016, , Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, Dec 7-9, .2016
- S. Bhadouria, A. Siddiqui, I. Dhiman, “Estimating Solar Energy Potential in an Urban Area using Open Source Platform”, National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystem, ISRS ISG Symposium 2016, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, Dec 7-9, 2016
- P. Sharma, A. Siddiqui, S. Jain, P. Krishna Bhargavi, D. Kumar, “DSM Generation using high resolution satellite imager: Dehradun City”, National Seminar on GeoInformatics Applications in Natural Resource Management, NIRD, Hyderabad, March 18-19, 2016
- A. Siddiqui, P. Sharma, S. Jain, D. Kumar, M. Shashi, “Solar Rooftop potential estimation using High resolution satellite imagery”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Built Environment, VIT, Vellore, March 10-12, 2016
- Asfa Siddiqui, Vinay Kumar, Prarthna Dhingra, “ A knowledge based approach to Urban Feature Classification using high resolution AVIRIS and LiDAR data”, Contact Newsletter vol. 18 no. 1, June 2016
- Asfa Siddiqui, Ishan Dhiman, “ GRASS GIS based analysis of the potential of Solar Energy in Gandhinagar”, Contact Newsletter vol. 18 no. 1, June 2016
- Asfa Siddiqui, “Euphoric Golden Jubilee Commemorations at IIRS, The big date…April 21, 2016”, Contact Newsletter vol. 18 no. 1, June 2016
- S. Srivastav, A. Siddiqui, D.Mitra, P. Kumar, P. Chauhan, “Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) reduction during COVID-19 induced lockdown and effect of NO2 exposure on COVID-19 mortality over India”, Space based Observations over India to assess Environmental Changes during COVID-19 induced Lockdown, submitted to ISRO Headquarters, June, 2020.
- A. Siddiqui, Y. Kant, P. Kumar, “Air Quality Assessment in urban environment using Geospatial techniques”, Technology Development Programme Technical Closure Report, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, IIRS/URSD/TDP/261, 2019.
- A. Siddiqui, S. K. Reddy, “A Solar Intensive Approach for Smart City Planning”, Technology Development Programme Technical Closure Report, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, IIRS/URSD/TDP, 2018.
- A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, A. Deshmukh, P. Kumar and A. Kumar, "Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of urban areas", in Science Results from Phase – 1 Airborne Hyperspectral Campaign with AVIRIS-NG over India, Ahmedabad, 2017, pp 288-295
- A. Siddiqui, V. Kumar, A. Deshmukh, P. Kumar and A. Kumar, "Urban Area mapping", in Spectrum of India Coffee table Book, Ahmedabad, 2017.
- Secretary, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun Chapter (2020-22)
- Treasurer, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun Chapter (2018-20)
- Ladies Warden (2018-till date)
- Conferences attended:
- Geosmart India Conference, March 1-3, 2016, Greater Noida
- ISRO Women Congress, March 15-18, 2016, Trivandrum
- APRSAF-24 (Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum) and Water Rocket Event for International School Students from Nov 11-18, 2017, Bangalore
- 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) on Space Applications: Touching Human Lives from Oct 23-27, 2017, New Delhi,
- ISRS-ISG National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems from Dec 7-9, Dehradun
- ISPRS TC-V Mid-term Symposium “Geospatial technology-Pixel to People from November 20-23, 2018, Dehradun
- Workshop on Groundwater Management for Food Security by CGWB, Uttarakhand on March 25, 2014
- Workshop on "Unlocking Potential of Youth in Context of Changing Climate in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)" from 28-30th April, 2014, Nainital
- SAARC Regional Training Programme on GIS and Remote Sensing Technology in Disaster Risk & Emergency Management in South Asia from July 14th to 25th, 2014 at Dehradun
- Training on Fire Safety in Office Buildings- General Awareness Program on October 9th, 2014
- IITP 26 : Successfully completed ISRO Induction Training Program 26th batch
- Workshop on “Six cities Seminar on Smart Cities Infrastructure” on August 27, 2014 at Dehradun
- Training/Summer School on “Urban Floods” organized by IISc, Bangalore from 24-29 August, 2015
- Completed Online course on “Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided” with Distinction by World bank on Cousera.org
- Conferences/training organised:
- Conducted a seminar on “Space Education for Educators”: jointly organized by ISRO-JAXA under Space Education Working Group (SEWG), APRSAF from Nov 15-16, 2018 at Dehradun, India
- 62nd DLP Programme on "Geospatial Inputs for Enabling Master Plan Formulation" from July 27-31, 2020.
- AMRUT course on “Geospatial Technology for Enabling Master Plan Formulation” in July 15-22, 2018.
- AMRUT course on “Geospatial Technology for Enabling Master Plan Formulation” from Jan 7-18 2019.
- One day workshop on Space Technology organized by ISRO on April 7, 2018.
- One day ISRO Academia Day, November 13, 2018 in collaboration with ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore.
- IIRS User Interaction Meet, February 18, 2016 and February 23, 2017.
- Member of various committees: Golden Jubilee celebration 2017, International Women’s Day, Internal Complaint Committee (ICC), Pre-qualification for Academic Block, ACRS-2017, IUIM-2016/2017, Swachch Bharat Booklet, ISPRS-2019, ISRO Academia Day 2019, Hostel management, Women’s Day-2019, Remote Sensing day, National Technology Day, 2019, IIRS Founding Day (April 21, 2016), etc.
- State Level Workshop on NUIS Bhuvan in Dehradun and Srinagar (2014 and 2015)
- Special Course on Geospatial technology for Urban and Regional Planning, Dehradun (2015)
- Special training Program on Applications of Hyperspectral Imaging and Technology for DTRL/DRDO officials
- Scientific meetings attended:
- Brainstorming Session on Remote Sensing Based Inputs for Urban Flooding, February 10, 2021.
- Application for Kumbh Mela development meetings in Jan and Feb, 2021.
- Brainstorming Session on Space based inputs for Air Pollution monitoring and information dissemination on Dec 23, 2020.
- National workshop on “National Workshop on Habitat sector under Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project” scheduled on August 16, 2018 at TIFAC Office, New Delhi chaired by Former Secretary, MoUD, Dr. Sudhir Krishna. Presented research work on “Geospatial Technology for Urban and Regional Planning”.
- Presented progress of AVIRIS-NG related scientific contribution in Science Meet from Aug. 23-24, 2018 held in SAC, Ahmedabad, for urban studies.
- Study Visit of Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, on June 02, 2018, Dehradun
- Presented an in-house research project to Former Chairman Dr. A. S. Kiran Kumar on “Characterization of urban materials using AVIRIS-NG data in Ahmedabad city” on August 3, 2018 at IIRS, Dehradun.
