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Subashisa Dutta

Subashisa Dutta

Professor

0361-258 2415    subashisa[at]iitg.ac.in

Research Area: *Meso-Scale Distributed hydrological modeling *Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS for Water resources Management *Computational river hydraulics and its applications *Watershed and Irrigation Management


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Experience

  • Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati (Oct 2012 to till date)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati (2007 to 2012)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati ,(2003 to 2007)
  • Scientist-SD, Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad (2000 to 2003)
  • Scientist-SC, Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad ,(1998 to 2000)
  • SRF, University College of Engineering, Sambalpur University,(Jan to Dec 1994)

Under-graduate course

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Engineering Drawing ( instructor and tutor)
  • Principle of Remote Sensing
  •  Engineering Surveying
  • Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering

Post-graduate course 

  • Advanced Hydrology 
  • Advanced Hydraulics
  • Computation methods in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering
  • Watershed Management and Remote Sensing Applications
  • GIS for Water Resources Engineering
  • River Engineering 

Research

  • Hillslope Hydrology, Distributed Hydrological Modeling and impact of climate change
  • Flood Innundation Modeling, Geo-spatial technology, bank erosion, 2D river flow and sediment transport modeling
  • River bank protection and Stormwater drainage design

Hillslope Hydrology

  • Sarkar, R., Dutta, S., Panigrahy, S., 2008. Characterizing overland flow on a preferential infiltration dominated hillslope: Case study. J. Hydrol. Eng. 13, 563–569. doi:Doi 10.1061/(Asce)1084-0699(2008)13:7(563).

  • Sarkar, R., Dutta, S. and Panigrahy, S., 2008. Effect of scale on infiltration in a macropore-dominated hillslope. Current Science (00113891), 94(4).

  • Sarkar, R. and Dutta, S., 2009. An experimental and modelling investigation of macropore dominated subsurface stormflow in vegetated hillslopes of northeast India. IAHS-AISH publication, pp.145-152.

  • Shougrakpam, S., Sarkar, R., Dutta, S., 2010. An experimental investigation to characterise soil macroporosity under different land use and land covers of northeast India. J. Earth Syst. Sci. 119, 655–674. doi:10.1007/s12040-010-0042-5.

  • Sarkar, R., Asce, S.M., Dutta, S., 2012. Field Investigation and Modeling of Rapid Subsurface Stormflow through Preferential Pathways in a Vegetated Hillslope of Northeast India. J. Hydrol. Eng. 17, 333–341. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000431.

  • Sharma, R.D., Sarkar, R., and Dutta, S., 2013. Run-off generation from fields with different land use and land covers under extreme storm events. Current Science, 104 (8), 1046–1053.

  • Das, P., Islam, A., Dutta, S., Dubey, A.K, Sarkar, R., 2014. Estimation of runoff curve numbers using a physically-based approach of preferential flow modelling. IAHS Publ. 363, 443-448.

  • Sarkar, R., Dutta, S., Dubey, A.K., 2015. An insight into the runoff generation processes in wet sub-tropics: Field evidences from a vegetated hillslope plot. Catena 128, 31–43. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2015.01.006.

  • Sarkar, R., Dutta, S., 2015. Parametric study of a physically-based, plot-scale hillslope hydrological model through virtual experiments. Hydrol. Sci. J. 60, 448–467. doi:10.1080/02626667.2014.897407.

Distributed Hydrological Modeling & Climate change

  • Zade, M., Ray, S.S., Dutta, S. and Panigrahy, S., 2005. Analysis of runoff pattern for all major basins of India derived using remote sensing data.Current science, 88(8), pp.1301-1305.

  • Dutta, S., Mishra, A., Kar, S., Panigrahy, S., 2006. Estimating Spatial Curve Number for Hydrologic Response analysis of a small Watershed. J. Spat. Hydrol. 6.

  • Rajyalakshmi, N.V. and Dutta, S., 2006. Regionalization of rainfall–runoff processes in rice agriculture dominated watersheds. Water science and technology, 53(10), pp.131-139. doi: 10.2166/wst.2006.306.

  • Mishra, S.K., Sarkar, R., Dutta, S., Panigrahy, S., 2008. A physically based hydrological model for paddy agriculture dominated hilly watersheds in tropical region. J. Hydrol. 357, 389–404. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.05.019.

  • Das, P., Dutta, S., 2011. A trend analysis study on the flashiness of floods of hilly headwater catchments in the Brahmaputra Basin. J.Earth Sciences and Engineering. 04,298-300.

  • Ghosh, S., Dutta, S., 2011. Impact of Climate and Land Use Changes on the Flood Characteristics of the Brahmaputra Basin. ISH J. Hydraul. Eng. 17, 32–42. doi:10.1080/09715010.2011.10515058.

  • Ghosh, S., Dutta, S., 2012. Impact of climate change on flood characteristics in Brahmaputra basin using a macro-scale distributed hydrological model. J. Earth Syst. Sci. 121, 637–657. doi:10.1007/s12040-012-0181-y.

  • Apurv, T., Mehrotra, R., Sharma, A., Goyal, M.K., Dutta, S., 2015. Impact of climate change on floods in the Brahmaputra basin using CMIP5 decadal predictions. J. Hydrol. 527, 281–291. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.04.056.

Bank Erosion and Fluvial Hydraulics

  • Dutta, S., Laha, M.K., 2000. Analysis of the small amplitude sloshing of a liquid in a rigid container of arbitrary shape using a low-order boundary element method 1633–1648.

  • Karmaker, T., Dutta, S., 2010. Generation of synthetic seasonal hydrographs for a large river basin. J. Hydrol. 381, 287–296. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.12.001.

  • Karmaker, T., Ramprasad, Y., Dutta, S., 2010. Sediment transport in an active erodible channel bend of Brahmaputra river. Sadhana - Acad. Proc. Eng. Sci. 35, 693–706. doi:10.1007/s12046-010-0052-7.

  • Dutta, S., Medhi, H., Karmaker, T., Singh, Y., Prabu, I., Dutta, U., 2010. Probabilistic Flood Hazard Mapping for Embankment Breaching. ISH J. Hydraul. Eng. 16, 15–25. doi:10.1080/09715010.2010.10515012.

  • Karmaker, T., Dutta, S., 2011. Erodibility of fine soil from the composite river bank of Brahmaputra in India. Hydrol. Process. 25, 104–111. doi:10.1002/hyp.7826.

  • Talukdar, S., Kumar, B., Dutta, S., 2012. Predictive capability of bedload equations using flume data. J. Hydrol. Hydromechanics 60, 45–56. doi:10.2478/v10098-012-0004-5.

  • Karmaker, T., Dutta, S., 2013. Modeling seepage erosion and bank retreat in a composite river bank. J. Hydrol. 476, 178–187. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.032.

  • Karmaker, T., Dutta, S., 2015. Stochastic erosion of composite banks in alluvial river bends. Hydrol. Process. 29, 1324–1339. doi:10.1002/hyp.10266.

  • Karmaker, T., Dutta, S., 2016. Prediction of Short-Term Morphological Change in Large Braided River Using 2D Numerical Model. J. Hydraul. Eng. 04016039. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001167.

  • Chembolu, V., Dutta, S., 2016. Entropy and Energy Dissipation of a Braided River System. Procedia Eng. 144, 1175–1179. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.05.094.

  • Karmaker, T., Medhi, H., Dutta, S., 2016. Study of Channel instability in the Braided Brahmaputra River Using Satellite Imagery. Current Science (Under Review).

Geo-informatics for Water Resources management

  • Ray, S.S., Kundu, N., Dutta, S., Panigrahy, S., 2000. A GIS and remote sensing based approach for siting cold storage infrastructure for horticultural crops: A case study for potato crop in Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sens. 28, 171–178.

  • Dutta, S., Chakraborty, M., Panigrahy, S., 2002. Computation of storm-surge damage using distributed models and remote sensing data: A case study for the super cyclone in Orissa State, India. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 40, 497–499. doi:Pii S0196-2892(02)00886-0.

  • Ray, S.S., Singh, J.P., Dutta, S. and Panigrahy, S., 2003. Analysis of within-field variability of crop and soil using field data and spectral information as a pre-cursor to precision crop management. International archives of photogrammetry remote sensing and spatial information sciences, 34(7/A), pp.302-307.

  • Zade, M., Ray, S.S., Dutta, S., Panigrahy, S., 2005. Analysis of runoff pattern for all major basins of India derived using remote sensing data. Curr. Sci. 88, 1301–1305.

  • Gupta, P.K., Singh, R., Raghuwanshe, N.S., Dutta, S. and Panigrahy, S., 2005. Application of mike-11 to damodar 6-main canal system, INDIA. International Agricultural Engineering Journal, 14(2), pp.77-88.

  • Chattopadhyay, A., Dutta, S., 2006. Mapping monsoonal soil wetness regions from multi-temporal VEGETATION dataset. Int. J. Remote Sens. 27, 4693–4700. doi:10.1080/01431160600649247.

  • Gupta, P.K., Singh, R., Raghuwanshi, N.S., Dutta, S., Panigrahy, S., 2008. Effect of Remotely Sensed Data on the Performance of a Distributed Hydrological Model: Case Study. J. Hydrol. Eng. 13, 939–947. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2008)13:10(939).

  • Gupta, P.K., Dutta, S., Panigrahy, S., 2010. Mapping of conjunctive water use productivity pattern in an irrigation command using temporal IRS WiFs data. Water Resour. Manag. 24, 157–171. doi:10.1007/s11269-009-9442-1.

  • Verma, R., Dutta, S., 2012. Vegetation Dynamics from Denoised NDVI Using Empirical Mode Decomposition. J. Indian Soc. Remote Sens. 41, 555–566. doi:10.1007/s12524-012-0246-z.

  • Dubey, A.K., Gupta, P., Dutta, S., Kumar, B., 2014. Evaluation of satellite-altimetry-derived river stage variation for the braided Brahmaputra River. Int. J. Remote Sens. 35, 7815–7827. doi:10.1080/01431161.2014.978033.

  • Dubey, A.K., Gupta, P., Dutta, S., Singh, R.P., 2015. Water Level Retrieval Using SARAL/AltiKa Observations in the Braided Brahmaputra River, Eastern India. Mar. Geod. 38, 549–567. doi:10.1080/01490419.2015.1008156.

  • Dubey, A.K., Gupta, P.K., Dutta, S., Singh, R.P., 2015. An improved methodology to estimate river stage and discharge using Jason-2 satellite data. J. Hydrol. 529, 1776–1787. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.08.009.

  • Moharana, S., Dutta, S., 2016. Spatial Variability of Chlorophyll and Nitrogen Content of Rice from Hyperspectral Imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Under Publication).

  • Moharana, S., Medhi, H., Dutta, S., 2016. Advanced Vegetation Indices For Sensing Paddy Growth Via Hyperspectral Measurements. Geocarto International (Under Publication)

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