Faculty: GNSS | CSSTEAP

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The faculty for the course consists of scientists and engineers in different fields, drawn from Space Applications Centre, other Centres of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and various other agencies/universities from India and other countries, mainly from Asia and the Pacific region. These experts have long and varied experience in the field of satellite navigation and positioning and their applications. The core faculty has a strong scientific background with a number of publications, experience of participating in international scientific programs and organizing a number of courses to their credit.

Semester-I

Sr no.	Faculty name	Email ID	Topics
1.	Dr. Rajat Acharya	rajat_acharya@sac.isro.gov.in	Reference Co-ordinate Systems and its Transformations
			Conventional Navigation Systems LORAN - Omega - Transit - INS
			Channel characteristics in Satellite Navigation System
			Kalman Filtering and its applications in GNSS Receiver
			Satellite position determination
			Exact Solutions of Quadratic Pseudo Range Equations
			Hyperbolic & Doppler Positioning Techniques
			Errors in GNSS Measurements Sources of error and significance
			Propagation Errors Iono-tropo delay and TEC computation
			Ionospheric Scintillation
			Geometric Dilution of Precision Relation of DOP to Accuracy & Bounds on DOP
			Differential Technique
			Higher order ionospheric effects and perturbations
2.	Apurv Vasal	apurv@sac.isro.gov.in	MATLAB simulation of Complete GNSS Signal
2.	Apurv Vasal	apurv@sac.isro.gov.in	Multipath Effect and Mitigation Techniques
3.	Rakesh Bijarniya	rakeshkb@sac.isro.gov.in	FPGA and ASIC based receiver design concepts
4.	Saumi S	de_saumi@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Modulations: BOC, MBOC
			Signal Acquisition: Fundamentals
			Tutorial on Acquisition and Tracking
			Seminar Evaluation
5.	Dr. Raghunadh Bhattar	raghu@sac.isro.gov.in	Introduction to NAVCOM
			Continuous and Discrete Signals and Systems
			Channel Coding & Its Advantage Pseudo Inverse-Singular
			Value Decomposition (SVD)
6.	Rajesh Kumar Singh	rajeshsingh@sac.isro.gov.in	Fundamentals Of Satellite orbits & Kepler’s Laws
7.	Himanshu M Shah	himanshumshah@sac.isro.gov.in	Basics of Digital Signal Processing
8.	Nishkam Jain	nishkamjain@sac.isro.gov.in	Error budget of GNSS systems and UERE
9.	Sunil Kumar	sunilkumar@sac.isro.gov.in	Analog and Digital Modulation Techniques AM, FM - BPSK, QPSK, QAM
9.	Sunil Kumar	sunilkumar@sac.isro.gov.in	Basics of PSK Demodulation: PLL, FLL, DLL
10.	Dr. Deepak Mishra	deepakmishra@sac.isro.gov.in	Filtering Techniques: LPF, HPF, BPF
10.	Dr. Deepak Mishra	deepakmishra@sac.isro.gov.in	Error: Correcting Codes
11.	Sugandh Mishra	sugandh@sac.isro.gov.in	Spectrum communications
			Ranging Codes ML Codes, Gold Codes etc.Comparison of Different Navigation Code
			Signal Design for ranging and multiple access
12.	Dr. Soumyabrata Chakrabarty	soumya@sac.isro.gov.in	Propagation of EM Waves
12.	Dr. Soumyabrata Chakrabarty	soumya@sac.isro.gov.in	Fundamentals of Antennas
13.	Pravin Patidar	pravinpatidar@sac.isro.gov.in	Multiple Access Techniques
			GNSS signals and Systems: Generalized GNSS System Architecture and Signals Overview
			Modern GNSS Systems: Galileo, COMPASS, QZSS, NavIC
			GNSS Interoperability, Compatibility & Co-ordination
			Autonomous Navigation
			Signal in Space Errors: Inter frequency Biases, Inter code Biases & Differential Group Delay
14.	Nirmala S	nirmalas@ursc.gov.in	SatNav. Constellation Design
15.	A P Shukla	atulshukla@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Terminologies
			Legacy GNSS Systems: GPS & GLONASS
			Orbit errors and Satellite Clock errors
16.	Durga Digdarshini	digdarsini@sac.isro.gov.in	Signal Design for anti-spoofing
16.	Durga Digdarshini	digdarsini@sac.isro.gov.in	Error Detection Schemes
17.	Dr. Ashish Agarwal	ashish.npl@nic.in, NPL	Frequency & Time Concepts
17.	Dr. Ashish Agarwal	ashish.npl@nic.in, NPL	Atomic Frequency Standards
18.	Dr. Mohanchur Sarkar	msarkar@sac.isro.gov.in	Generalized Satellite Navigation Signal Structure: Freq, Modln, Codes, Data
			GNSS Navigation Message Structure: GPS, NavIC
			GNSS Simulator
			Positioning Principles
			Seminar Evaluation
19.	Saurabh Bhalla	sbhalla@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Navigation Message Structure: Galileo, Glonass, COMPASS, QZSS
			Overview of Navigation Receivers Generic GNSS Rx Blocks and functions
			Navigation Processing
			Navigation Processing
			Trilateration Concept and GNSS Observation (PR) Equation
			PVT Determination Techniques : Linearization of Navigation Equation and LS solutions
			Tutorial: Least Squares/Weighted Least Squares Solutions
			Multi GNSS Positioning : Methods, Interoperability Issues and Challenges
			NavIC / GNSS Navigation Software
20.	Ujjwal Gangele	ujjwal@sac.isro.gov.in	Spacecraft Systems: Overview
21.	Dhaval Upadhyay	djupadhyay@sac.isro.gov.in	Link Budget Analysis
22.	Parimal Majithiya	p_majithiya@sac.isro.gov.in	Navigation Payloads
23.	Sanjay Mehta	mehtasac@sac.isro.gov.in	Digital systems in navigation Payloads
24.	Rajnikant	rajnikant05@sac.isro.gov.in	Passive RF systems in navigation payloads
25.	Rati Singh	ratis@sac.isro.gov.in	Active RF systems in navigation payloads
26.	Jaydeep Kaintura	jaydeep@sac.isro.gov.in	Atomic clocks in GNSS
27.	Jigar Pandya	jigar@sac.isro.gov.in	Antennas in satellite navigation payloads
28.	Vinay Yadav	vinayyadav@sac.isro.gov.in	Payload Integration & Testing
29.	Kiran	kirank@mcf.gov.in	Satellite TT&C
30.	Anu Arora	anuarora@istrac.gov.in	GNSS Control Segment Architecture
30.	Anu Arora	anuarora@istrac.gov.in	GNSS Reference Time Systems
31.	Anand Sortur	ansortur@istrac.gov.in	GNSS Reference Stations & Integrity Monitoring
31.	Anand Sortur	ansortur@istrac.gov.in	Two way Ranging, Time & Frequency Transfer and synchronization
32.	Anand Dwivedi	adwivedi@ursc.gov.in	GNSS Control Segments: Operational concepts Case Studies: GPS, Galileo, Glonass, COMPASS, QZSS, Navic
33.	Rajarajan D	rrajan@ursc.gov.in	Relativistic effects in GNSS
34.	Babu R	rbabu@ursc.gov.in	Orbital Perturbations
34.	Babu R	rbabu@ursc.gov.in	Satellite Orbit & Clock Determination, Modeling and Prediction
35.	Girish Khare	gkhare@sac.isro.gov.in	Pseudo-ranges and code phase measurements
36.	S Gomathi	sgomathi@ursc.gov.in	Navigation Constellation: Mission Planning, Operations and Management
37.	Shilpa Pandya	shilpa@sac.isro.gov.in	Space Environment
38.	Bhuwaneshwar Semwal	bhuwan@sac.isro.gov.in	Quality & Reliability of space systems
39.	Mohit Anand	mohitanand@sac.isro.gov.in	Characteristics of GNSS Antenna Characteristics of GNSS Antenna, types of Antenna, gain pattern, phase center, Bandwidth, Polarization, Interference Handling, Multipath Suppression, Impact on Receiver sensitivity
39.	Mohit Anand	mohitanand@sac.isro.gov.in	Tutorial on GNSS Antenna
40.	Krunal Kolhatkar	krunal09@sac.isro.gov.in	Signal Acquisition: Issues and challenges
41.	Rohan Urdhwareshe	rohansu@sac.isro.gov.in	Carrier Phase Measurements / Doppler Measurements
			Doppler Collision and Receiver Noise
			Cycle Slip Detection & Correction Algorithms
42.	Kalpesh Borsadiya	kalpesh@sac.isro.gov.in	Fundamentals: Code Tracking Loop, Maximum Likelihood estimate of delay and position, Delay lock tracking
			GNSS Signal Tracking
			Tracking Errors and Receiver Noise performance
			Time Solution: Receiver Clock Steering, PPS & UTC Time
			Tutorial: Time Solution
43.	S Anusha	anusha@sac.isro.gov.in	Navigation Data Demodulation, Decoding and processing
44.	Raksha Rai	rraksharai@sac.isro.gov.in	Receiver Modes and Output Formats
45.	Akshay Pande	akshayp@sac.isro.gov.in	Software defined radio
45.	Akshay Pande	akshayp@sac.isro.gov.in	Cellular & Mobile Positioning
46.	Puneet Agrawal	puneetag@sac.isro.gov.in	Multipath & Interference Detection & Mitigation
47.	Deval Mehta	m_deval@sac.isro.gov.in	History, Background, Concepts and Evolutions of GNSS
48.	Renuka Arora	renuka.rnk@sac.isro.gov.in	Generalized GNSS Receiver Architecture Link Margin, RF Front End Design
54	Saumi S	de_saumi@sac.isro.gov.in	Focal Person: Foundation Course
55	Dr. Raghunadh Bhattar	raghu@sac.isro.gov.in	Focal Person: Fundamentals of NavCOM
56	Pravin Patidar	pravinpatidar@sac.isro.gov.in	Focal Person: GNSS Signals and Systems
57	Saurabh Bhalla	sbhalla@sac.isro.gov.in	Focal Person: Navigation Receivers
58	Dr. Mohanchur Sarkar	msarkar@sac.isro.gov.in	Focal Person: Position Determination Techniques
59	Vishal Agarwal	vagarwal@sac.isro.gov.in	Focal Person: Seminar + External visit

Semester-II

Sr no.	Faculty name	Email ID	Topics

1.	Dr. Abhineet Shyam	abhineetshyam@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS-Radio Occultation for atmospheric profiling
1.	Dr. Abhineet Shyam	abhineetshyam@sac.isro.gov.in	Ocean surface winds from GNSS-Reflectometry
2.	Ananya Ray	a_roy1660@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Reflectometry and Altimetry applications
3.	Ankesh Garg	ankesh@sac.isro.gov.in	Vulnerabilities of Open signals and commercial receivers
			Advanced Receiver Types
			Wideband jamming and SNR Loss
			Pseudolite: Implementation
4.	Apurv Vasal	apurv@sac.isro.gov.in	High Sensitivity Receiver
4.	Apurv Vasal	apurv@sac.isro.gov.in	Launch Vehicle Tracking and HSP PAT Application
5.	Sri. A. P. Shukla	atulshukla@sac.isro.gov.in	Overview of GNSS Applications: Societal, Scientific and Strategic
6.	Dr. Ashish Shukla	ashishs@sac.isro.gov.in	Concept of DGNSS
			Pseudolite: Concepts and System Configuration
			Introduction.Overview of the module
7.	Dr. Chandra Prakash	chandra@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS for Rail Navigation: RTIS and UMLC
8.	Dhaval Upadhyay	djupadhyay@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Reference Receivers
9.	Deepak Putrevu	dputrevu@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS for Remote-Sensing, land Subsidence and SAR
10.	G. J. Doshi	g_doshi@sac.isro.gov.in	Timing Receivers: Concept, Implementation and Applications
			Network Assisted Aiding
			Applications of Indoor Navigation
			Designing of GNSS Applications
11.	Girish Khare	gkhare@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Signal Spoofing: Types, Impact on Receivers
			Receiver Technologies for Spoofing detection
			Concept of Ground based Augmentation system
12.	Gourav Bapna	gourav_bapna@sac.isro.gov.in	Business and Revenue Sources in GNSS applications
13.	Hemant Jain	hemant.jain@sac.isro.gov.in	Intellectual property and legal aspects in GNSS applications
14.	Jayaprasad P	jayaprasadp@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Surveying using DGNSS, RTK and PPP
15.	J R Kshatriya	k_jignesh@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS - Radio Occultation Technique
16.	Kalpesh Borsadiya	kalpesh@sac.isro.gov.in	Applications of Integrated GNSS-INS navigation
16.	Kalpesh Borsadiya	kalpesh@sac.isro.gov.in	Timing Applications: Grid, Network and Frequency Synchronization
17.	Ms. Kanika Jakhar	kanikajakhar@sac.isro.gov.in	Messaging and Radiosonde tracking application
18.	Dr. Kaushik Gopalan	kaubega@yahoo.com	GNSS Weather prediction using integrated water vapour
19.	Krunal Kolhatkar	krunal09@sac.isro.gov.in	Pulsed jamming detection & Mitigation
20.	Mohit Anand	mohitanand@sac.isro.gov.in	Antenna Technology for Multipath and anti-jamming
21.	Nishkam Jain	nishkamjain@sac.isro.gov.in	Location-based Services
22.	Sri N. M. Desai	nmdesai@sac.isro.gov.in	SATNAV and SATCOM: Synergetic Applications
23.	Pravin Patidar	pravinpatidar@sac.isro.gov.in	Types of Jamming & Impact on Receivers
1.			Indoor Navigation Systems
1.			Space Flight Navigation
2.	Prasun Kumar	prasunk@sac.isro.gov.in	Soil Moisture using GNSS-Reflectometry
3.	Puneet Agarwal	puneetag@sac.isro.gov.in	Technologies for narrow band interference mitigation
			Space based receiver design: overview and application
			Assisted GNSS and Indoor Navigation Applications
4.	Dr. Rajat Acharya	rajat_acharya@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS Networks: CORS, IGS
			Integration of GNSS & INS data using Kalman Filter
			Monitoring Ionosphere with GNSS
			Introduction to Ionosphere: Definition, structure, dynamics and driving forces
			Ionospheric scintillation
			Interesting facts of the Sun and heliosphere
			Interaction of Solar wind with earth’s magnetosphere
			Effect of Space Weather on GNSS signals: Ionospheric Perturbations due to variations in Solar wind
5.	Rajeshkumar Ajwaliya	rjajwaliya@sac.isro.gov.in	Applications of GNSS in Infrastructure Development
6.	Dr. Rahul Nigam	rahulnigam@sac.isro.gov.in	GNSS for Agriculture
7.	Rakesh Bijarniya	rakeshkb@sac.isro.gov.in	CW jamming and Correlation Loss
8.	Dr. Randhir Singh	randhir@sac.isro.gov.in	Tropospheric profiling using GNSS
9.	Dr. Ratan Singh Bisht	ratansinghbisht@gmail.com	Space Weather Effects on GNSS Space Segment: Particles bombardment and interference with solar radio emission
10.	Smt. Renuka Tandan	renuka.rnk@sac.isro.gov.in	Hardware architectures for Anti jam feature
11.	Rohan Urdhwareshe	rohansu@sac.isro.gov.in	Strategic Receivers Overview
			CW jamming detection
			Introduction to Indoor Navigation
12.	Dr. Sandip Oza	sandipoza@sac.isro.gov.in	Maritime Navigation, AIS & LRIT, IMO Certification of NavIC
13.	Smt. Saumi S	de_saumi@sac.isro.gov.in	EUROPEAN EGNOS & JAPAN’s MSAS
			Augmented System - CDGPS & SDCM, SNAS and SACCSA SYSTEMS
			Kalman Filter tracking for weak signals
			Strategic Applications of GNSS
14.	Saurabh Bhalla	sbhalla@sac.isro.gov.in	Differential Receiver
15.	S N Satashia	s_satashia@yahoo.com	Disaster Warning and Emergency Response
16.	Shashikant Sharma	sasharma@sac.isro.gov.in	GIS for GNSS: Bhuvan & Vedas
17.	Dr. Sreejith KM	sreejith@sac.isro.gov.in	Geodesy application in GNSS
18.	Smt. Sunanda Trivedi	sunanda@sac.isro.gov.in	GPS data processing in DGPS mode
1.	Dr. Surisetty V V Arun kumar	arunkumar@sac.isro.gov.in	RIP current estimation for coastal hazards and warnings
2.	Smt. Vibha Jain	kvibha@sac.isro.gov.in	Vessel Monitoring, Tracking and Coastal Surveillance
3.	Yagnesh Patel	yagnesh67@sac.isro.gov.in	Road Transport and Fleet Management Application
4.	Sri Abdul Shukkoor	shukkooraa@yahoo.co.in, Retired from IISU	Inertial Navigation Equations
			Finding acceleration using Accelerometer and angular velocity using Gyroscopes
			INS Error Propagation
5.	Dr. Bijoy Roy	bnr01@ganpatuniversity.ac.in, Ganpat University	Plasma Dynamics in electric and magnetic field
5.	Dr. Bijoy Roy	bnr01@ganpatuniversity.ac.in, Ganpat University	Ionospheric Dynamo : E and F Region dynamo and Equatorial electro jet
6.	Dr. Dibyendu Chakrabarty	dipu@prl.res.in	Geomagnetic storms and sub-storm : Reasons, effects on ionosphere and Ionospheric storms
			Particle trapping and Van Allen Belt: Plasma Trapping, Belt formation and Importance of Van Allen Belt
			Space Weather Effect on Equatorial Ionosphere:
7.	Sri M L Chakraborty	chakraborty010458@gmail.com, Retired from AAI.	Existing Ground Based Navigation Systems at Airports- DVOR, DME, ILS
8.	Dr. M. R. Sivaraman	dr.manjeri.r.sivaraman@gmail.com	Equatorial anomaly Transport component of plasma, drift and diffusion
9.	Dr. Priyadarshnam	priyadarshan.hari@gmail.com, Professor-IIST,	Introduction to Inertial Navigation
			Inertial Navigation – Inertial Frame, Earth Frame and Local Frame
			Familiarization with Inertial Sensors, Accelerometer, Gyroscope
			Inertial Measurements - Sensors and Units Initialization and Alignment
10.	Dr. Prashanta Mula	prasanta@ursc.gov.in	On board Orbit Determination
11.	Dr. P Janardhan	jerry@prl.res.in	Introduction to Space Weather : Sun, Solar activities, Solar wind and IMF, Reconnection and Convection
12.	Ms. Sharada Valiveti	sharada.valiveti@nirmauni.ac.in, Nirma University	Basics of Encryption and use in GNSS
13.	Dr. Shantanu Karkari	skarkari@ipr.res.in	Plasma Instabilities : Basics and Theory of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
14.	Dr. Surendra Sunda	s.sunda@gmail.com, AAI	Augmentation System: Generic Architecture and Operation
			Wide Area Augmentation System: GAGAN
			Aircraft Navigation
			GNSS and MSS based Aircraft Tracking and ADS-B Application
15.	V K Tank	tankvk@yahoo.co.in	Safety of Life Applications
16.	Vineet Gera	gera8vineet@gmail.com, AAI	Local Area Augmentation System General concepts and Architecture
17.	Vishwanath Tirlapur	tirlapur@ursc.gov.in	Space applications of GNSS
18.	Ankesh Garg		Focal Person: Technologies for Advanced receivers and augmented Systems
19.	Dr. Ashish Shukla		Focal Person: GNSS/INS Integrated Navigation
20.	Nishkam Jain		Focal Person: GNSS Applications
21.	Dr. Rajat Acharya		Focal Person: Space Weather and GNSS
21.	Dr. Rajat Acharya		Focal Person: Pilot Project