Browsing by Author "Singh, Kiran K."

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Mapping of Surface Water Bodies in Punjab and High Resolution of Remote Sensing Data
(Central University of Punjab, 2018) Ahmed, Mukhtar; Singh, Kiran K.
This study is an attempt to create boundary of Punjab state and surface water bodies map from NATMO atlas map, SOI map, Landsat-8 data and Google Earth image using GIS software. It has also compared the variation in status which is extracted from the data or image of various scale or resolution. According to NATMO data, the water bodies in Punjab are 1476. 109km2 (excluding canals), according to Landsat-8 are 2844.55 km2 (including canals), according to SOI are 764.93 km2 and according to Google earth are 141.06 km2. Variation in the status of the area and length of surface water bodies is due to the scale and resolution of images. High resolution image is capable of creating precise boundaries. The purpose of this study was to create precise boundaries of the state and water bodies. Management of water bodies calls for generation of multiple inventories and demarcation of precise boundary is one of the inventories. This study also suggests the Map making organisations to revise their maps by using recent geospatial technologies.
Mapping Of Urban Green Spaces Using Remote Sensing Technique: A Study Of Cities Of Punjab
(Central University of Punjab, 2018) Kaur, Mandeep; Singh, Kiran K.
Urban green spaces are important part of urban areas for good/fresh environment. These spaces are helpful in controlling and reducing the pollution and the temperature. These urban spaces provide a variety of services like biodiversity conservation, noise reduction, mitigation of urban heat island effect, prevention of soil erosion and carbon sequestration. Due to increasing urbanization, the quantity and quality of urban green spaces are degraded. So urban authorities are concerned about the management of green areas in the cities. Mapping of vegetation and green spaces play an important role to conserve the environment and sustainable environment in urban areas for authorities. In the study, the remote sensing is used for the mapping the urban green areas. This study probes the vegetation change detection in the four cities of Punjab over the period of 17 years from 2000 to 2017 based on NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) by using remote sensing images of Landsat 7 and Sentinel 2 data.
Public transport and urban mobility: Perception of people on services of public transport in Bathinda city, Punjab, India
(ISCA, 2014) Kumar, Gaurav; Kaur Amandeep; Singh, Kiran K.
Public transport as an essential part of the socio-economic and political structure of the country plays a vital role in development of modern society. Urbanization is one of the challenges in a developing country that needs planning and provisioning of adequate transport system and facilities. The availability of good road networks and affordable small private vehiclesmotivateurban and sub-urban dwellers to the use of private vehicles. Therefore, inclination of people towards the private vehicle (two and four wheelers) has been greater as compare to public transport (buses and three wheeler). Due to rapid growth in the private vehicle in the city the role of public transport in the urban mobility of people has become crucial to understand. Thus, this study is an attempt to evaluate public transport and urban mobility in Bathinda andpeople perception about quality of public transport. Apart from this the urban travel attitude and behavior of people in making choice of public transport as their means of transportation has also been studied and discussed.
Spatial Pattern Of Urban Crime in Bathinda City Using Geographical Information System
(Central University of Punjab, 2018) Kaur, Arshdeep; Singh, Kiran K.
Cities are place of hope and opportunity not only for people of the city but also for the surrounding areas. Cities seem very beautiful to people when they see tall buildings, malls, parks, and well-designed roads but there is a dark side of cities also. In cities, people feel insecure, even in their own streets and houses with the rise in criminal activities. There is a big fear of crimes in the mind of people in the city, which arise from inequality, poverty, segregation, and injustice. This study focused on the six urban crimes in Bathinda city such as crime related to alcohol under Excise Act, drugs related crime under NDPS Act, gambling, snatching, house-break, and vehicle theft. The crime pattern of Bathinda city has been explored by using Geo-Spatial techniques for the period 2007-2017. Changing pattern of crimes from year 2007 to 2017 is represented by graph diagrams. Hotspot analysis of these six crimes has been done of year 2007 and 2017
Transboundary implications of damming river brahmaputra and response of indian government
(Central University of Punjab, 2014) Naik, Mohd. Hussain; Singh, Kiran K.
Rivers play an important role in the lives of the people. Rivers provide water for irrigation, potable drinking water, cheap transportation, electricity, as well as livelihoods for a large number of people. On one hand river is source of livelihood but on another it is also a source of conflict. When it is shared by two states or two nations it may raise tension on the water sharing issues. The depleting water resource, pollution and unequal regional distribution are some of the factors that pose challenge to handling such issues. When it is International River it may cause severe conflict and hence nations try to resolve the issue through treaties and agreement. Brahmaputra is one of the mighty rivers with its headwaters in Tibet. Brahmaputra has a high potential of hydropower and is one of the untapped rivers originating on the Tibetan plateau. But now the two growing economies and riparian countries i.e. India and China have proposed a large number of dams to be constructed on the river. There is a huge plan of construction work but there is an absence of any treaty between these two countries. China's dam policy has raised severe concern for the downstream countries. This study is an attempt to highlight the trans-boundary implications of the dams, how damming of the river will impact a huge proportion of world population living downstream, how it will change the river-scape and also the local environment and what is the response of lower riparian countries i.e., India. The study revolves around three objectives; To analyse the current water situation of India and China; To analyse the Impact of damming and diverting the Brahmaputra river for India; To analyse the Indian v government response on the dam construction by China on river Brahmaputra. The study is being done through consulting primary as well as secondary sources of data like, reports of Ministry of Water Resource of India, Central Electricity Authority, various related books, articles, research papers and newspapers.
Urban Green Space And Question Of Distributive Justice: A Study Of Cities Of Punjab Using Geo-Spatial Approach
(Central University of Punjab, 2018) Kaur, Navjotpreet; Singh, Kiran K.
Urban green parks play vital role in providing fresh and healthy environment in urban areas. But conspicuous problem remains in unequal distribution of parks. This problem raises various questions. One of them is distributive justice. This study was conducted for four major cities of Punjab: Ludhiana, Bathinda, Amritsar and Chandigarh, to check the location of parks and slums in these cities to look into the problem of distributive justice. In study, the buffer analysis is used to know the serving area of parks and to represent over-served, served and un-served area of parks. GIS (Geographical Information System) is used to derive the serving area of parks. The result shows that major concentration of parks is in exclusive areas in these cities like elite class residential localities. It also highlights that most of the parks are far away from the slum areas. The study also shows that well planned areas have the high facility of parks than others. Overall, these findings help in underscoring the problem of distributive justice in allocating parks in urban areas.