Bharath Aithal

About

Dr. Bharath Haridas Aithal received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Bangalore University, Karnataka, India, in 2009 and Ph.D. degree in Data mining, urban pattern analysis and modelling from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2015. During doctoral work, he worked on understanding and modelling the pattern of urban growth in various cities of India, his thesis reflects the future implications with an ongoing rate of urbanization. He has been recognized and he has been awarded several awards such as Sahyadri young ecologist 2014, young researcher of the year by NESA in 2016, Sahyadri young researcher in 2016, Young Engineer award in 2019 by IEI, and Indian National Geospatial Award 2019 by ISRS.
Dr. Bharath H. Aithal is currently a faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has published 60 journal papers, 8 Book chapters, 2 Books, 120 Conference proceedings, and 50 Technical reports. He is now working on Digital Data observatories for the smart cities of India. His future vision is to build digital data access to the commons of India and to provide basic amenities in every nook and corner of India through digital data.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Associate Professor
  2023 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Assistant Professor
  2016 - 2023
• University of Southern California Senior Research Associate
  2015 - 2016

Education

• Indian Institute of Science PhD
  2009 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (70)

• Urban structural complexity in transition: Fractal analysis of deep learning-derived morphological patterns
  Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 2026 1 citation DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101814
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• Assessing the impact of urban land use on air quality: a case study of Kharagpur city
  Tropical Ecology 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1007/s42965-025-00390-z
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• A GIS-based integrated assessment of geomorphometry with land use dynamics for topographically harsh ungauged watershed
  Journal of Earth System Science 2025 5 citations DOI: 10.1007/s12040-025-02557-7
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• Urban heat island linkages with the landscape morphology
  Scientific Reports 2025 27 citations DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-09141-5
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• Road Width Estimator—An Automatic Tool for Calculating Road Width Leveraging Geospatial Knowledge
  Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis 2025 9 citations DOI: 10.1007/s41651-024-00205-0
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• Developing approaches in building classification and extraction with synergy of YOLOV8 and SAM models
  Spatial Information Research 2024 23 citations DOI: 10.1007/s41324-024-00574-0
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• UnetEdge: A transfer learning-based framework for road feature segmentation from high-resolution remote sensing images
  Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 2024 7 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101160
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• Urban land surface temperature forecasting: a data-driven approach using regression and neural network models
  Geocarto International 2024 16 citations DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2023.2299145
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• Assessment of the Impact of Building Orientation on PMV and PPD in Naturally Ventilated Rooms During Summers in Warm and Humid Climate of Kharagpur, India
  2023 3 citations DOI: 10.1145/3600100.3627034
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• Assessing Coastal Flood Impact on Buildings: A Climate Change Perspective from the Developing Nation
  2023 1 citation DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24541-1_8
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