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Evaluation of Completed RESPOND Projects
(April 2014 to March 2017)
CONCEPT, EVALUATION, OUTCOME &
ACTIVITY WISE RESEARCH RESULT
Dr. Parul Patel and Ankita Vishal Patel
September 2017
SPACE APPLICATIONS CENTRE
AHMEDABAD
Technical Report SAC/PPG/RRCD/2017/TR/06
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PROJECT EVALUATION
1.1. INTRODUCTION
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) provides financial support under RESPOND
program for conducting research and development activities related to Space Science, Space
Technology and Space Applications in Universities and Academic Institutions in India. The
main objectives of the RESPOND Program are to establish strong links with Academic
Institutions to carryout quality research and developmental projects of relevance to Space
Science and Technology and derive useful outputs to support ISRO programs. RESPOND
program aims to enhance academic base, generate human resources and develop
infrastructure at Institutions to support the space program. Under the broad umbrella of
RESPOND, ISRO runs Space Technology Cells at IITs, IISc and Pune University which coordinate
research proposals within the respective institutions.
The RESPOND program started at SAC in the 1970s. The program is running at SAC with the
continuous support of Academic Institutions geographically located in different states of India.
The esteemed Institutions/ Universities like IITs, NITs, NIAS, VIT, CEPT University, DA-IICT,
Nirma University etc. have participated in the RESPOND program at SAC.
One of the important objectives of the RESPOND program is to derive useful outputs to
support ISRO Programs. The evaluation of completed RESPOND projects has been taken up to
look back into the impact of projects on ISRO’s Space Programs. Fifty-four projects under
RESPOND at SAC are ongoing as on 31st March, 2017. Since inception, a total of hundred
projects have been completed till March, 2017. This report brings out evaluation of twenty-
nine projects completed during April 2014 to March 2017. The completed projects are from
Jadavpur Uni. Kolkata, Uni. of North Bengal, Uni of Lucknow, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Uni.
Jammu, NIAS Bangalore, DA-IICT Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Uni. of Allahabad, VIT Uni. Vellore, IIT
(Kharagpur, Kanpur, Roorkee, Delhi), Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Pennalur
Sriperumbudur, NIT Rourkela, S.A. Engineering College Chennai, Jain Uni. Bangalore,
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering Bangalore, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering
Tamilnadu, Anna Uni. Chennai, Graphic Era Uni. Dehradun, Nirma Uni.-Ahmedabad. These 29
projects have been evaluated and the Results, Details of Impact Study, Summary of Findings
and Financial details are covered in the document.
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PROJECT EVALUATION
1.2. OVERVIEW ON RESPOND PROJECTS
The overview on projects under Respond at SAC during April, 2014 till March, 2017 is as follows.
No. of projects completed during April, 2014 to March, 2015: 4 No. of projects completed during April, 2015 to March, 2016: 10 No. of projects completed during April, 2016 to March, 2017: 15
The 29 completed projects were taken up in 22 Institutes/ Universities with a budget of `. 387.07 Lakhs.
No. of projects ongoing as on April, 2014: 36 No. of projects completed during April, 2014 to March, 2017: 29 No. of new projects approved by ISRO HQ during Apr. 2014 to Mar. 2017: 44 No. of projects ongoing as on Mar, 2017: 54
Every year new projects are taken up and old projects are completed. Hence the number of
ongoing projects changes every year. Following chart shows year wise number of ongoing
projects.
The increase in completion projects is due to the overall increase of RESPOND projects.
Following chart in Figure 1 shows rise in completed projects during last four years.
Figure 1: Year wise Numbers of Completed Projects (April 2014 to March 2017)
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PROJECT EVALUATION
1.3. PROJECT EVALUATION CONCEPT
The evaluation of research project is a complex task. Subjective parameters hamper
evaluation causing limitation in evaluating a research project. An approach has been
developed to overcome this limitation by converting the subjective evaluation parameters
into rating numbers. The approach has been evolved at Space Applications Centre for
evaluation of Respond projects [1-3] as well as TDP R&D projects [4-12]. In the evaluation
approach, five parameters of importance have been considered for evaluation as described in
Figure 2.
Figure 2: Project Evaluation Concept
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PROJECT EVALUATION
The individual parameter for a specific project is rated on 10 point scale. The projects are
evaluated based on following five parameters and their Weightage Factor (WF).
Results Assessment compared to Objectives and Usages (WF - 0.4)
Deliverables (WF - 0.2)
Papers Publications based on RESPOND Projects. (WF - 0.2)
Human Resource Development/ Ph.D. awarded/ M. Tech. thesis (WF - 0.1)
Seeding of Space related activities at Academic Institutes (WF - 0.1)
For each of the project, each evaluation parameter rating is multiplied with weightage factor.
This gives weighted points for each parameter. The addition of five weighted points gives final
rating of the project out of 10 points. Outcome of each of the 29 completed projects have
been analyzed using the evaluation parameters in order to arrive at the final rating.
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PROJECT EVALUATION
1.4. PROJECTS UNDER EVALUATION
The 29 projects completed during April 2014 to March 2017 under RESPOND at SAC are
evaluated using above evaluation concept. The category-wise distribution of the projects is
given in Table 1 and Figure 3.
Table 1: Category wise distribution of completed RESPOND Projects
Category Numbers of Projects
Antenna 3
Electro-Optic Technology 2
Mechanical Systems 1
Microwave Technology 2
RS-Applications 10
RS-Data Products & IP 5
Satcom-Applications 5
Satcom-Technology 1
Total 29
Figure 3: Category wise distribution of completed RESPOND Projects
Antenna3
10%
Electro-Optic Technology
2, 7%
Microwave Technology2, 7%
RS-Applications
1035%
RS-Data Products & IP
517%
Satcom-Applications
517%
Satcom-Technology
13%
Category wise distribution of completed RESPOND Projects (Total Projects : 29 )
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PROJECT EVALUATION
1.5. OVERALL OUTCOME
The overall outcome from 29 completed projects under various parameters is as follows. The
expenditure for generating the outcome is `.387.07 Lakhs funded to 22 Institutes/
Universities.
a. Total Human Resources Developed: 87
Principal Investigators: 29
Principal Co-Investigators: 25
Research Fellows/ Associates: 33
b. PhDs completed under RESPOND Projects: 20
c. M Tech. Thesis completed under RESPOND Projects: 9
d. Total Paper Published under RESPOND: 132
Symposium/ Seminar/ Workshop Publications: 69
Journal Publications: 63
e. Deliverables to SAC: 87
Report generated: 29
Methodology/ Techniques delivered: 8
Database generated: 19
S/w Package/ Modules/ Algorithms developed: 29
Model developed: 2
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2.1 EVALUATION RESULTS
The twenty-nine projects are grouped based on final rating with following criteria is given in
Table 2.
Table 2: Impact Study of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects (April 2014 to Mar 2017)
Sr. No.
Final rating of the project
Group No. of projects in the Group
% of projects in the Group
1 7.5 to 10 Excellent 7 24.14%
2 5.0 to 7.5 Very good 19 65.52%
3 3.0 to 5.0 Good 3 10.34%
Total 29 100.0%
The pie chart showing distribution of projects as per grading is given in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Impact Study of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects (April 2014 to Mar 2017)
Excellent7
24.14%
Very good19
65.52%
Good3
10.34%
Impact Study of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects(April 2014 to Mar 2017)
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Group – Excellent:
Total seven projects fall under this group. The analysis of their category is given in Table 3 and
Figure 5.
Table 3: Excellent group wise category of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects
Group No. of projects in the
Group % of projects in the
Group
Antenna 1 14.29%
Electro-Optic Technology 1 14.29%
RS-Applications 1 14.29%
RS-Data Products & IP 1 14.29%
Satcom-Applications 3 42.86%
Total 7 100.00%
Group – Very Good:
Total nineteen projects fall in this group. The analysis of their category is given in Table 4 and
Figure 6.
Table 4: Very Good group wise category of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects
Group No. of projects in the
Group % of projects in the Group
Antenna 2 10.53%
Mechanical Systems 1 5.26%
Microwave Technology 2 10.53%
RS-Applications 7 36.84%
RS-Data Products & IP 4 21.05%
Satcom-Applications 2 10.53%
Satcom-Technology 1 5.26%
Total 19 100.00%
Group – Good:
Total three projects fall in this group. The analysis of their category is given in Table 5 and
Figure 7.
Table 5: Good group wise category of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects
Group No. of projects in the
Group % of projects in the Group
Electro-Optic Technology 1 33.33%
RS-Applications 2 66.67%
Total 3 100.00%
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Figure 5: Excellent group wise category of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects
Figure 6: Very Good group wise category of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects
Figure 7: Good group wise category of 29 Completed RESPOND Projects
Antenna1
15%
Electro-Optic Technology
114%
RS-Applications1
14%RS-Data Products &
IP1
14%
Satcom-Applications
343%
Excellent (Total Projects : 7 )
Antenna2
10%
Microwave Technology
2, 11%
RS-Applications
737%
RS-Data Products & IP
421%
Satcom-Applications
211%
Satcom-Technology
1, 5%
Very Good(Total Projects : 19)
Electro-Optic Technology
133%
RS-Applications
267%
Good (Total Projects : 3 )
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IMPACT STUDY OF COMPLETED PROJECT
2.2 IMPACT STUDY of Completed RESPOND Projects (April 2014 to March 2017) at a Glance (*) - Points out of 10
Sr. No
OGP No SFP Name Title of Completed Projects PI Name/ Institute Results Assessment and Usage (WF: 0.4)
Deliverables (WF: 0.2)
Papers Publications
(WF: 0.2)
HRD (WF: 0.1)
Seeding at Academia (WF: 0.1)
Final Rating out of
10
Group
1 OGP049 Shri Rajeev Jyoti Study and Optimization of Microstrip Antenna System to receive satellite link from moving trains
Prof. Bhaskar Gupta, Jadavpur University,Kolkata
8 8 7 10 8 8.00 Excellent
2 OGP055 Dr. A S Rajawat Morphodynamic study of the Digha coast of West Bengal for sustainable development and erosion mitigation using remote sensing and GIS techniques
Amit Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
8 8 6 4 10 7.40 Very Good
3 OGP073 Dr. P K Gupta Predicting Flood Inundation using Remote Sensing & GIS Techniques : A case Study of North Bengal
Dr. Sushma Rohatgi, University of North Bengal, West Bengal
5 4 1 4 4 3.80 Good
4 OGP075 Dr. K R Murali Designing of SLMs based on Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with non-mesogenic molecules (Polymer, Nano-Particle and Dyes)
Dr. Rajiv Manohar, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
8 8 10 7 10 8.50 Excellent
5 OGP080 Shri Akshay Khare Design & Demonstration of a set of algorithm for High Reliability Wireless Data Acquisition & Control
Shri Sumeet Gupta, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu
6 6 10 4 6 6.60 Very Good
6 OGP084 Dr. A S Rajawat Implications of Satellite Imagery on Cultural Heritage Resource Management
Prof. S Ranganathan , National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore
8 6 4 10 10 7.20 Very Good
7 OGP086 Shri P P Thaker Design, Development and Hardware implementation of BPSK, QPSK and other modulation schemes as part of Software Defined Radio (SDR)/Cognitive Radio (CR), for use in Satcom terminals
Dr.Vijay Kumar Chakka, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
6 8 1 10 8 6.00 Very Good
8 OGP087 Dr. Raj Kumar High resolution Indian Ocean State estimation
Dr. Suneet Dwivedi, University of Allahabad, Allahabad (UP)
7 8 10 9 6 7.90 Excellent
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IMPACT STUDY OF COMPLETED PROJECT (*) - Points out of 10
Sr. No
OGP No SFP Name Title of Completed Projects PI Name/ Institute Results Assessment and Usage (WF: 0.4)
Deliverables (WF: 0.2)
Papers Publications
(WF: 0.2)
HRD (WF: 0.1)
Seeding at Academia (WF: 0.1)
Final Rating out of
10
Group
9 OGP088 Dr. A S Rajawat GIS based Early warning landslide susceptibility model using data mining classification approach
Prof. M. Venkatesan, VIT University, Vellore
8 8 4 4 10 7.00 Very Good
10 OGP089 Shri P Narayanababu Feasibility studies on enhancing detector efficiency with structured plasmonic films
Shri S. Anantha Ramakrishna, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
5 6 4 0 2 4.20 Good
11 OGP090 Shri S.Manthira Moorthi
Dual Blind Detection Robust watermarking for Multimedia security
Mrs. K. Thaiyalnayaki, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Pennalur, Sriperumbudur, Chennai
7 8 2 0 6 5.40 Very Good
12 OGP091 Shri R P Singh Dimensionality reduction of Hyper-spectral remote sensing data
Dr. (Er.) Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
6 6 0 7 6 4.90 Good
13 OGP092 Shri R K Bahl Simulation and analysis of system design requirements for ground to satellite and inter satellite free space optical communication link
Prof. Subrat Kar , Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
6 4 10 10 4 6.60 Very Good
14 OGP093 Dr.R.Ramakrishnan & S.Manthira Moorthi
Development of Approaches for Geometric, Radiometric and Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Data Products for Multidate Data Analysis
Dr. Prabu S., VIT University, Vellore
6 8 2 7 4 5.50 Very Good
15 OGP094 Shri Shashikant A Sharma & Dr. Nitant Dube
Grid based application development for satellite image processing
Dr. S. Margret Anouncia, VIT University, Vellore
8 10 4 4 10 7.40 Very Good
16 OGP095 Shri Amitabh 3D reconstruction and software development for city model generation from satellite images
Dr. R. Balasubramanian Raman, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
8 8 0 4 4 5.60 Very Good
17 OGP098 Shri Rajeev Jyoti Analysis of Dielectric Resonator Antenna Array
Dr. S K Behera, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
7 10 2 6 6 6.40 Very Good
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IMPACT STUDY OF COMPLETED PROJECT (*) - Points out of 10
Sr. No
OGP No SFP Name Title of Completed Projects PI Name/ Institute Results Assessment and Usage (WF: 0.4)
Deliverables (WF: 0.2)
Papers Publications
(WF: 0.2)
HRD (WF: 0.1)
Seeding at Academia (WF: 0.1)
Final Rating out of
10
Group
18 OGP099 Dr. Raghunadh K Bhattar
VHDL Implementation of Efficient Trelli's coded spatial modulation scheme for MIMO communication
Shri C. Arunachalaperumal, S.A. Engineering College, Thiruverkadu-Post (Chennai)
7 8 10 10 6 8.00 Excellent
19 OGP101 Shri Raju Das Robust Video Streaming using H.264 Scalable Video Coding over Mobile Broadband Networks
Ms. S. Swarna Parvathi, Sri Venakteswara College of Engineering, Pennalur, Sriperumbudur
8 10 10 7 6 8.50 Excellent
20 OGP103 Shri R M Bhalja Feasibility studies on development of surface integrity and strength characteristics of rapid prototyped components to enable their direct application in design and development activities of payload for spacecraft
Dr. Krishna Venkatesh, Jain University, Kanakapura Taluk, Bangalore
7 8 2 4 6 5.80 Very Good
21 OGP104 Shri Arun Kumar Sharma
The Study of Pollution Mechanisms in Urban aquifers of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Paalike (BBMP) area by integrated Geophysical, Remote Sensing and GIS techniques
Dr. H K Ramaraju, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka
5 6 2 9 9 5.40 Very Good
22 OGP105 Dr. Nitant Dube Ontology-based semantic annotation generation and retrieval of images using multiple sub ontologies
Dr. Sunitha Abburu, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Tamilnadu
8 10 10 4 10 8.60 Excellent
23 OGP107 Dr. Raj Kumar Wave modelling for North Indian Ocean using SAR and MIKE-21
Dr. Usha Natesan, Anna University, Chennai
7 8 0 7 6 5.70 Very Good
24 OGP109 Shri Shashikant Sharma
Design and development of Spatio-Temporal data mining techniques and software framework for Earth observation data
Dr. Sanjay Garg, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
7 10 4 10 8 7.40 Very Good
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IMPACT STUDY OF COMPLETED PROJECT (*) - Points out of 10
Sr. No
OGP No SFP Name Title of Completed Projects PI Name/ Institute Results Assessment and Usage (WF: 0.4)
Deliverables (WF: 0.2)
Papers Publications
(WF: 0.2)
HRD (WF: 0.1)
Seeding at Academia (WF: 0.1)
Final Rating out of
10
Group
25 OGP110 Shri N M Desai & Shri Himanshu N Patel
Design of Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) standard cell Library for 0.18µm technology
Dr. N M Devashrayee, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
8 10 3 10 8 6.60 Very Good
26 OGP111 Dr. Ashish Shukla Rain fade mitigation for Ka Band communication satellite
Dr. B S Jassal, Graphic Era University (Deemed University), Dehradun
6 10 6 7 6 6.90 Very Good
27 OGP112 Dr. Raghunadh K Bhattar
Reliable and secured space communication based on fundamental cut-sets and fundamental circuits in Graphs
Dr. R.Selvakumar, VIT University, Vellore
8 8 7 7 8 7.70 Excellent
28 OGP113 Dr. A S Rajawat Development of Early Warning System for Shallow Landslides-using Rainfall thresholds
Dr. G P Ganapathy, VIT University, Vellore
7 8 7 4 6 6.80 Very Good
29 OGP124 Mrs. Harshita Tolani Photonic Microwave Arbitrary Waveform Generation with Adjustable Chirp Parameter based on Remote Sensing Applications
Dr. Sanjeev kumar Raghuwanshi, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad - Jharkhand
4 6 10 10 6 5.40 Very Good
RESPOND & Research Coordination Division
Planning and Projects Group
Space Applications Centre, ISRO
Ambavadi Vistar P.O.
Ahmedabad-380015
Website: www.sac.gov.in/respond
