Sandhya Farswan

Information Officer, Environmental Information System (ENVIS)

Hi! I’m a geospatial analyst and working at School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University under ENVIS scheme by Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC)

Interests: Remote Sensing, Geospatial Science, GIS, Sustainable Environment, Climate Change

Projects

Assessment of forest fires & climate attributes interaction in the Himalayas 2023

Assessment on forest fire events, climate attributes and forest biomass Carbon stock loss due to forest fire from 2002 to 2019 were carried out in central Himalayas of India

Carbon Stock Climate Change Forest Biomass Forest Fire Himalayas

Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) 2022

The geospatial map and infographic on the status of Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) in Indian states are sustainable solution to treat human and industrial effluents and disposal and utilization of treated water to irrigation, industrial reuse and others

Wastewater Waste discharge Treated water

Heritage and Climate 2022

I created maps on theme of the year 'Heritage and Climate' to mark the World Heritage Day 2022 on global, national and regional level and to create awareness towards the sustainable culture and environment

Heritage Geo-tourism Agriculture

Assessment of rainwater harvesting sites 2019

The study was conducted with an aim to provide practical solution for the groundwater management in villages of the N-W Delhi, India. LANDSAT remote-sensing datasets for the last four decades (1977–2018) were assessed to determine changes in vegetation cover at the selected sites.

Soil texture analysis Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) 1977-2018 Rooftop rainwater harvesting potential

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Papers

Forest fires and climate attributes interact in central Himalayas: an overview and assessment

Mina, U., Dimri, A.P., FARSWAN, S. (2023). Fire Ecology volume 19, Article number: 14 (2023).

Full Article

A Review on Disaster : Causes, Mitigation and Adaptation

Farswan, S. and Singh, S. (2023). Geodiversity & Impact on Environment, Vol-27 (4), EIACP (ISSN: 0974-1364).

Full Article

Landfill: Solution or a Bigger Problem to the Environment

Singh, S., Farswan, S., Meena, R., Ramanathan, AL. (2019). Geodiversity & Impact on Environment, Vol-24 (2), ENVIS (ISSN: 0974-1364).

Full Article

Assessment of rainwater harvesting sites in a part of North- West Delhi, India using Geomatic tools

Farswan, S., Vishwakarma, C.A., Mina, U. et al. (2019). Environmental Earth Sciences volume 78, Article number: 329 (2019).

Full Article

An Indian Perspective of Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+)

Singh, S., Farswan, S., Mina, U., Ramanathan, AL, (2018). Geodiversity & Impact on Environment, Vol-23 (3), ENVIS (ISSN: 0974-1364).

Full Article

Waste and Waste Management in India

Singh, S., Farswan, S., Mina, U., Ramanathan, AL, (2017). Geodiversity & Impact on Environment, Vol-22 (4), ENVIS (ISSN: 0974-1364).

Full Article

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Essays

Nature based solutions (NbS)

30 Jul 2022

Today on the ocassion of World Nature Conservation Day I would like write about the best holistic approach of Nature based solutions (NbS). We should think why we need to observe these environmental calender days that the United Nations (UN)...

Nature conservation Sustainable lifestyle

The monitoring of Forest Fire incidences

30 Jul 2022

Forest fire assessment types - phenological or physiological Forest fires are grouped into following main categories on the basis of fuel ignition, flame development and fire spreading behaviour: Subsurface or Ground Fire: A fire that burns with in the ground/surface...

Natural Disaster DRR Wildfire