Koel Roychowdhury

Assistant Professor

BSc Geography (Presidency College, University of Calcutta, 2002)

MSc Geography (University of Calcutta, 2004)

PGDip Applied Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing (Jadavpur, 2006)

MSc GIS and Human Geography (Leicester, 2008)

PhD (Melbourne, 2011)

Postdoc (Tokyo, 2014)

After completing my MSc in Geography from theUniversity of Calcutta in 2004, I was awarded the DFID Commonwealth Scholarship to study in the UK. I obtained an MSc degree from the University of Leicester. My degree was on the use of Geographic Information Systems to study human geography. After my study in the UK, I continued my research and short term teaching assignments in my doctoral program. My doctoral research from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia looked into the application of satellite images to propose surrogate census. My work was based on Indian census. I was awarded the Australian Leadership Award by the Australian Government for my PhD research. My research and teaching career further continued in Japan through postdoctoral research. I was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship for my research with the United Nations University and University of Tokyo. I focussed my work to explore the utilities of remotely sensed data sources in mapping and analyzing development indicators.

My research primarily explores the utilities of satellite images captured at night in modeling and mapping socio economic indicators. As a postdoctoral fellow I have worked in areas such as application of geospatial technologies in mapping and analyses of health and development indicators. I have also contributed to different projects on sustainability, especially the mapping and temporal analyses of sustainable development indicators. My PhD in Geospatial Sciences from RMIT University, Australia has given me stronghold in working with satellite images. My work focused on proposing surrogate census from satellite images at subnational level. In addition to these, I was associated with a number ofresearch projects with various institutes. I worked as a consultant with Indicus Analytics Private Limited, New Delhi, School of Global, Urban and Social studies, RMIT University, Ordnance Survey, UK and Computer Aided Design Centre, Jadavpur University.

I was associated with teaching since I completed my MSc degree from the University of Calcutta in 2004. In the present department, I am responsible for teaching Population and Urban Geography, Geospatial Techniques and statistical methods, Geography of Development and quantitative methods in Geography.

"Bhandari, Laveesh; Roychowdhury, Koel; ",Night lights and economic activity in India: A study using DMSP-OLS night time images,Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific advanced network,32,0,218,2011,Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon D; Arrowsmith, Colin; Reinke, Karin; ",A comparison of high and low gain DMSP/OLS satellite images for the study of socio-economic metrics,IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing,4,1,35-42,2010,IEEE

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Taubenböck, Hannes; Jones, Simon; ","Delineating urban, suburban and rural areas using Landsat and DMSP-OLS night-time images",2011 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event,,,33-36,2011,IEEE

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon; Arrowsmith, Colin; ",Mapping urban areas of India from DMSP/OLS night-time images,Proceedings of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference,,,319-331,2009,Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon; Arrowsmith, Colin; Reinke, Karin; Bedford, Anthony; ",The role of satellite data in census: Case study of an Indian State,Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network,,,207-218,2010,Asia-Pacific Advanced Network

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon; Arrowsmith, Colin; Reinke, Karin; ",Indian census using satellite images: Can DMSP-OLS data be used for small administrative regions?,2011 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event,,,153-156,2011,IEEE

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon; Reinke, Karin; Arrowsmith, Colin; ",Night-time lights and levels of development: a study using DMSPOLS night time images at the sub-national level,"The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences",39,,93-98,2012,Copernicus 

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon; ",Nexus of health and development: modelling crude birth rate and maternal mortality ratio using nighttime satellite images,ISPRS international journal of geo-information,3,2,693-712,2014,MDPI

"Roychowdhury, K; ","Comparison between spectral, spatial and polarimetric classification of urban and periurban landcover using temporal Sentinel–1 images","The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences",41,,789-796,2016,Copernicus

"Sanyal, Joy; Roychowdhury, Koel; ",Tracking the relationship between changing skyline and population growth of an Indian megacity using earth observation technology,Geocarto international,32,12,1421-1435,2017,Taylor & Francis

"Roychowdhury, Koel; ",Assessing the Utility of DMSP-OLS night-time images to propose surrogate census,2011,RMIT University

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Jones, Simon; Arrowsmith, Colin; ",Assessing the utility of DMSP/OLS night-time images for characterizing indian urbanization,2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event,,,1-7,2009,IEEE

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Bhanja, Radhika; ",A spatial investigation of the feasibility of solar resource energy potential in planning the solar cities of India,Remote Sensing and GIScience: Challenges and Future Directions,,,169-184,2021,Springer International Publishing

"Roychowdhury, Koel; ",Studying the Impact of Urbanization on HYV Rice Fields at a Local Level Using Fine Resolution Temporal RISAT-1 Datasets,Remote Sensing and GIScience: Challenges and Future Directions,,,97-112,2021,Springer International Publishing

"Bhanja, Radhika; Roychowdhury, Koel; ","COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF SOIL BRIGHTNESS ON VEGETATION INDICES EXTRACTED FROM LANDSAT8, LISS-III AND SENTINEL 2 SATELLITE IMAGERY IN A SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENT",International Journal of Integrated Research and Development,138,,108,2018,

"Bhanja, Radhika; Roychowdhury, Koel; ",Assessing the progress of India towards sustainable development goals by 2030,Journal of Global Resources,6,02,81-91,2020,

"BHANJA, RADHIKA; ROYCHOWDHURY, KOEL; ",Emerging Energy Consumption and Efficiency Challenges in Urban India: A Review,Urban India,40,II,,2020,

"Patra, Monalisa; Roychowdhury, Koel; ",Three Decades of Urban Dynamics in India: Exemplifying Haora Sadar Subdivision,Practices in Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development,,,339-357,2021,"Springer, Singapore"

"Roychowdhury, K; ",India and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs): Modelling health and development from satellite images at the subnational level,"7th International Congress of Environmental Modelling and Software. San Diego, California, USA",2014,

"Karmakar, D; Roychowdhury, K; ",Road traffic accident analysis: A case study of Kolkata Municipal Corporation,Urban India,41,2,121 - 138,2021,National Institute of Urban Affairs

"Bhanja, Radhika; Roychowdhury, Koel; ","Topographic and Meteorological Challenges in Dissemination of Solar Technologies: An Overview of Leh, India",2021 IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS),409-412,2021,IEEE

"Roychowdhury, Koel; Bhanja, Radhika; Biswas, Sushmita; ",Mapping the research landscape of Covid-19 from social sciences perspective: a bibliometric analysis,Scientometrics,127,8,4547-4568,2022,Springer International Publishing

"Bhanja, R; Roychowdhury, K; ","a Multi-Criteria GIS Based Analytical Hierarchical Approach for Solar Photovoltaic Farm Site Selection in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India","The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences",48,,31-36,2022,Copernicus

"Biswas, Sushmita; Roychowdhury, Koel; ","Influence of heavy vehicle operation on walkability from pedestrians’ perspective in Krishnanagar Municipality, India",Case Studies on Transport Policy,10,4,2530-2545,2022,Elsevier

"Bhanja, Radhika; Roychowdhury, Koel; ",A spatial analysis of techno-economic feasibility of solar cities of India using Electricity System Sustainability Index,Applied Geography,154,,102893,2023,Pergamon