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 Science 1. Fundamentals of GIS 2. General Introduction of Geostatistical Techniques 3. History of GIS and Geostatistical techniques in groundwater science 4. Merits and Demerits of GIS and Geostatistical Techniques

Types of Geospatial Analysis Techniques 5. Introduction of various spatial analyses 6. Inverse distance weighted and Kriging 7. Spline 8. Fuzzy 9. Cluster and Grouping Analysis 10. Correlation and Regression 11. Time Series Analysis 12. Artificial Neural Network

Groundwater quality assessment using GIS and Geostatistical aspects 13. Groundwater contaminations related with climate change 14. Groundwater quality contamination related with urbanization 15. Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction 16. Groundwater Contamination Related to Seawater Intrusion 17. Organic Contamination (Hydrocarbon, LNAPL, DNAPL) 18. Fluoride contamination 19. Arsenic contamination 20. Heavy metal contamination

Application of GIS and Geostatistical techniques in groundwater resources management 21. Groundwater, River basin, Watershed management 22. Water management for agricultural utilization