GIS and Geostatistical Techniques for Groundwater Science

Dr. Venkatramanan Senapathi currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the PG and Research Department of Geology at National College, Tiruchirappalli, India. Before assuming this position, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the Brain Korea BK21 program at Pukyong National University in South Korea, and as Research Faculty at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam. His academic contributions encompass over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 2 edited books, 7 special issue volumes, 26 conference proceedings, and 12 book chapters. His Google Scholar H-index is 37. His research interests cover a wide spectrum including Environmental Geochemistry, Hydrogeological Processes, Sediment Dynamics, Remote Sensing and GIS, and Environmental Toxins. Dr M.V. Prasanna is an Associate Professor at Curtin University, Malaysia. He completed his Ph.D in 2008 at Annamalai University, India. He was a gold medallist in Post graduate degree. He has qualified State Educational Test (SET) under University Grants Commission (UGC), India for lectureship. He has 15 years of teaching and research experience and produced 2 PhD and 2 M.Phil students under his guidance. He has published 86 Journal papers and 8 book chapters, indexed in Thomson Reuters and Scopus. Recently, he has edited a book on GIS and Geo-statistical Techniques for Groundwater Science and published by Elsevier in June 2019. Currently, he is editing a two special issues on recent environmental geochemical trends in water and sediments – a framework on OSPRC 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research Journal. Prof. Sang Yong Chung is a full Professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University in Busan City of Korea. He accomplished the Ph.D. program in Hydrogeology from the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada at Reno, U.S.A. He was interested in the modeling of groundwater data such as aquifer parameters, water level and water quality using geo-statistical methods. Recently, he is studying in the field of the management and conservation of groundwater through hydrogeochemical and geo-statistical studies. He published more than 70 research articles in referred indexed journals.

• Introduction and History of GIS and Geostatistical Techniques in Groundwater Science1. Fundamentals of GIS2. General Introduction of Geostatistical Techniques3. History of GIS and Geostatistical techniques in groundwater science4. Merits and Demerits of GIS and Geostatistical TechniquesTypes of Geospatial Analysis Techniques5. Introduction of various spatial analyses6. Inverse distance weighted and Kriging7. Spline8. Fuzzy9. Cluster and Grouping Analysis10. Correlation and Regression11. Time Series Analysis12. Artificial Neural NetworkGroundwater quality assessment using GIS and Geostatistical aspects13. Groundwater contaminations related with climate change14. Groundwater quality contamination related with urbanization15. Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction16. Groundwater Contamination Related to Seawater Intrusion17. Organic Contamination (Hydrocarbon, LNAPL, DNAPL)18. Fluoride contamination19. Arsenic contamination20. Heavy metal contaminationApplication of GIS and Geostatistical techniques in groundwater resources management21. Groundwater, River basin, Watershed management22. Water management for agricultural utilization