Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Dipak R. Samal

Assistant Professor
Hyderabad Campus,
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance
Faculty Co-ordinator, Certificate and Diploma Programmes

Qualification

Ph.D (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

M.Tech (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi)

M.Sc (Ravenshaw University, Odisha)

B.Sc (Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar)

Contact

dipak.samal[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

Dipak R. Samal is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and
Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. He holds a Ph.D from
the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Before joining TISS, he was working as an Assistant Professor and program coordinator
(M.Tech Geomatics) at the Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)
University, Ahmedabad. As a post-doctoral fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in
Ecology and Environment (ATREE), he has worked on Upscaling Catchment Processes
for Sustainable Water Management in Peninsular India (UPSCAPE) project which is
one of the three projects in India initiated under the ambitious Newton-Bhabha
Sustaining Water Resources Programme. He has also worked on a project “Adapting to
Climate Change in Urbanizing Watersheds"(ACCUWa) project where the major goal
was is to build an interdisciplinary approach toward understanding the interaction
between the water resource system and the climate system in an urbanizing context,
and to build the capacity of scholars, students, and civil society groups for conducting
interdisciplinary actionable research.

Dipak received MHRD fellowship for his doctoral studies at IIT Bombay where he
investigated the influence of urbanization on water resources for the Upper Bhima
basin, Maharashtra using geospatial modellng and analysis approach. During his
doctoral studies, he was involved in several consultancy/research projects as a leading
team member for precision mapping of city infrastructures (Water and Sewer), mapping
and monitoring of pollutants in the Ulhas-Waldhuni river (NGT issue), land subsidence
studies and creating a high-resolution topographic model for Mumbai city using
advanced geospatial technology. He has also worked with National Environmental
Engineering and Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) where he was instrumental in
developing a thematic database for environmental research.

Dipak is passionate about application of geospatial technology for mapping, monitoring and modelling natural and urban processes.

Geospatial Technology

Spatial Statistics

Hydrology and Water Resorces

Urabanisaton

Book Chapters

Priya Mendiratta, Dipak R. Samal, Ravi Kumar K V R K (2022), COVID Management Strategies and Techniques adopted by the Municipal Corporations in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
D Patel, Dipak R. Samal, C Prieto, S Eslamian, Application of RS and GIS for LocatingRainwater Harvesting Structure Systems (In: Handbook of Water Harvesting and Conservation: Basic Concepts and Fundamentals, Edited by Saeid Eslamian), Page: 131 - 146, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
J.Brema ,Shivam Trivedi, Monica Sherin, Dnyanadev S. Dhotrad, K. Ganesha Raj, Dipak R. Samal. Urban Growth Impact on Cauvery River: A Geospatial Perspective (In: Geo- intelligence for Sustainable Development), Springer, 2021

Peer Reviewed Journals

Vikhyat Gupta, Dhwanilnath Gharekhan & Dipak R. Samal (2025). Machine Learning Based PM 2.5 and 10 Concentration Modeling for Delhi City. Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Vol. 58, pp. 81-99. DOI: 10.1007/s12524-024-01962-7.
Shalu, T. Acharya, D Gharekhan, Dipak R. Samal (2024). Harnessing ML and GIS for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Prioritization, Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol. 33 (0), pp. 111-134. DOI: 10.32604/rig.2024.051788.
Zeel Shah, Aditya Saraswat, Dipak R. Samal, Dhruvesh Patel (2022). A single interface for rainfall-runoff simulation for flood assessment – A case of new capability of HEC-RAS for flood assessment and management. Arabian journal of Geosciences, Vol. 15(18), pp. 1-18
Sheeba Sekharan, Dipak R. Samal, Harish C Phuleria, Munish K Chandel, Shirish Gedam, Rakesh Kumar, Virendra Sethi, Amar R Supate, Subhankar Karmakar (2022). River pollution monitoring over an industrial catchment in urban ecosystem: Challenges and proposed geospatial framework. Environmental Challenges. Volume 7, 100496. DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2022.100496
Alisha Sahu, Tushar Bose and Dipak R. Samal (2021), Urban Flood Risk Assessment and Development of Urban Flood Resilient Spatial Plan for Bhubaneswar. Environment and Urbanization Asia, Vol. 12(2), pp. 269 – 291. DOI: 10.1177/09754253211042489
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam (2021), Assessing the impacts of land use and land cover change on water resources in the Upper Bhima river basin, India. Environmental Challenges, Vol. 5, 100251DOI:10.1016/j.envc.2021.100251
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam (2015), Monitoring land use changes associated with urbanization: An object based image analysis approach. European Journal of Remote Sensing Vol. 48, pp. 85 - 99. DOI:10.5721/EuJRS2015480
Dipak R. Samal, Shirish S. Gedam, and R. Nagarajan (2015), GIS based drainage morphometry and its influence on hydrology in parts of Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Geocarto International, Vol. 30, pp. 775-778. DOI:10.1080/10106049.2014.978903.
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam (2013), Assessing the impact of land use change on stream flow in a semi-urban river basin, Maharashtra, India. International Journal of Hydrological Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 351 - 363. DOI: 10.1504/IJHST.2013.060336.
R. Vijay, Dipak R. Samal, and P. K. Mohapatra (2011), GIS based Identification and assessment of groundwater quality potential zones in the Puri city. International Journal of Water Resource and Protection, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 440 - 447. DOI: 10.4236/jwarp.2011.36054

International Conferences

Pooja B. Saha, J. M. Nongkynrih, Dipak R. Samal "Measuring building vulnerability for seismic hazard", 39th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-19 October, 2018.
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam, "Monitoring land use change associated with urbanization in upper Bhima basin, Maharashtra, India", IEEE-IGARSS, Melbourne, Australia, 21-26 July, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723373.
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam, "Rainfall-runoff variability in a rapidly changin semi-urban river basin", 2012 International SWAT workshop and conference, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 16 - 20 July, 2012.
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam, "Impact of land use dynamics on stream flow: A case study in uper Bhima basin, Maharashtra, India", IEEE-IGARSS, Munich, Germany, 22 - 27 July, 2012. DOI:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352010
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam, "Spatio-temporal rainfall trend over the upper Bhima baisn, Maharashtra, India", Geomatirix’12, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 26-29 Feb, 2012

National Conferences

Aditya Saraswat, Zeel Shah, Dhruvesh Patel, Dipak R Samal, "Flood Inundation Modelling and Analysis for Vadodara City using HEC-RAS Model", ISRS-ISG National Symposium, Dec-2020.
Shivam Trivedi, K. Ganesha Raj, Dnyandav Dhotrad, Dipak R. Samal, "Study of Kaveri River Pollution Using Geospatial Techniques", 2019. (Full paper accepted in 6th India Water Week Conference, New Delhi. )
Dipak R. Samal, Priya Mendiratta, and Shirish S. Gedam, "Object based land use change detection: Lessons from change matrix", Geomatrix’14, IIT Bombay, 6 - 7 June, 2014.
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam, "Monitoring land use change over a rapidly chang ing semi-urban river basin, Maharashtra, India", ISRS-2012, New Delhi, 5 - 7 Dec, 2012.
Dipak R. Samal and Shirish S. Gedam, "Analysis of uncertainty in automated drainage network delineation from DEM", Geomatrix’11, IIT Bombay, India, 26 - 27 Feb, 2011. (Awarded best paper)

Will be updated soon...

1. Geo-visualization of Society and Nature

2. Applied Data Science for Cities

3. Introduction to R/Python

4. Fundamentals of Spatial Analysis

5. Introduction to GIS/Remote Sensing/GEE

6. City Labs

7. Data Sceince and Public Policy

8. Geospatial-Planning