DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
B. Tech., M. Tech., Ph.D.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Professor
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Water Resources and Remote Sensing Applications
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
4/847 Musarrat Villa, Ek Minar Colony, Dodhpur, Aligarh 202 002
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
saif_said@rediffmail.com
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.TIME_TABLE
Time Table B-Tech Winter Semester 2021Time Table M-Tech Autumn Semester 2021
Dr. Saif Said is presently, Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, Aligarh Muslim University and joined the University in July 2016, prior to which he served several prestigious Universities in India. Dr. Said worked as assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi and served Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology presently known as Thapar University, Patiala in Punjab as assistant professor for a brief period. He is graduated in Civil Engineering and post graduated in Water Resources Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He obtained his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He is a Fellow of the Indian Water Resource Society (IWRS), life member of Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationist (IASWC), The Institution of Engineers (IE) India and life member of Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), (ISRO, Ahmedabad, India. He has supervised three PhD thesis and 25 M-Tech dissertations. He has published more than 60 papers in national /international journals and conferences. Dr. Said is a Casual Reviewer of more than 15 reputed international journals of water resources engineering. He has provided consultancies in different areas of water resources engineering.
- Publication
1. “Soil Moisture Estimation using ERS 2 SAR Data: A case Study in Solani river catchment”, S. S. Haider, S. Said, U. C. Kothyari and M. K. Arora, Journal of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Vol 49, No. 2, April 2004. IF: 3.787 (Scopus)
2. "Soil moisture estimation from ERS-2 SAR data in Solani River catchment." Said, S., U. C.Kothyari, and M. K. `Arora. Agriculture and Hydrology Applications of Remote Sensing Journal, Vol. 64 (11), pp.101-111, 2006. (Scopus)
3. “ANN Based Soil Moisture Retrieval over Bare and Vegetated Areas Using ERS-2 SAR Data”, S. Said, U. C. Kothyari and M. K. Arora, International Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 461-475, June 2008. IF: 1.594 (Scopus)
4. "Vegetation Effects on Soil Moisture Estimation from ERS-2 SAR Images”, Said, S., U. C. Kothyari, and M. K. Arora “Hydrological Sciences Journal” (IAHS), Vol 57, No. 3, pp. 517-534, 2012. IF: 3.787 (Scopus)
5. “Assessment of Roof top Rainwater Harvesting Potential in South Delhi, India – A Case Study”, S Said, International Journal of Environmental Research and Development, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 141-146, 2014.
6. “Change Detection Analysis of Yamuna River Flood Plain in Delhi Using Remote Sensing Data”, S Said, Journal of Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology, Vol. 2, No. 14, pp. 10-13, 2015.
7. “Morphometric Analysis of Kosi River Sub-watershed in Ramnagar, Uttarakhand Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques”, S Said, International Journal of Advance Research in Science and Engineering (IJARSE), Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 441-450, 2016.
8. “Comparison of Three Image Fusion Techniques Employed on High Resolution QuickBird Images”, S Said and S Ahmad, Remote Sensing of Land, 1(1), 87-94, 2017.
9. “Effect of Wastewater on the Soil and Irrigation Process: A Laboratory Study”, A. Hussain, M. Priyadarshi, S. Said and S. Negi, Journal of Geographical Studies, 1(1), 46-55, 2017.
10. “Modeling Surface Soil Moisture from Microwave Remote Sensing Data in Solani River Catchment, Uttarakhand, India”, S. Said, Journal of Geographical Studies, 1(1), 3-10, 2017.
11. “Morphometric analysis and sub-watersheds prioritization of Nagmati River watershed, Kutch District, Gujarat using GIS based approach”, R. Siddiqui, S. Said and M. Shakeel, Journal of Water and Land Development, Institute of Technology and Life Sciences, Poland, No 39 (X-XII) 131-139, 2018. IF: 1.534 (Scopus).
12. “Pollution Mapping of Yamuna River Segment Passing Through Delhi Using High Resolution Geoeye-2 Imagery”, S Said and A Husain, Applied Water Science Journal (AWS), 9:46, 2019. Springer Link. IF: 3.874 (SCI, Scopus)
13. “Box-Jenkins Multiplicative ARIMA modelling for Prediction of Solar Radiation: A Case Study”, A. Shadab, S. Said and S Ahmad, International Journal of Energy & Water Resources, 3(4), 305-3018, 2019. Springer Link (Scopus)
14. “Land use Mapping of Yamuna River Flood Plain in Delhi using K-mean and Spectral Angle Image Classification Algorithms”, N Ahmad, S. Said and N. Ahsan, Water and Energy International, CBIP, 62(5), Vol. 63-68, 2019. (SCI, Scopus)
15. “Nagmati River Sub-watershed Prioritization Using PCA, Integrated PCWS and AHP: A Case Study”, R. Siddiqui, S. Said and M. Shakeel, Natural Resources Research, Vol. 22, 2020. Springer Link IF: 5.146 (SCI, Scopus)
https://doi: 10.1007/s11053-020-09622-6
16. “Remote Sensing Based Water Quality Index Estimation Using Data-Driven Approaches: A Case Study of the Kali River in Uttar Pradesh, India”, S. Said and S. A. Khan (PUBLISHED: Environment Development & Sustainability -2020) Springer Link IF: 3.219 (SCI, Scopus).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01437-6
17. “Comparison of Image Classification Algorithms for Land Use Mapping of the Yamuna River Flood Plain in Delhi Using Remote Sensing and GIS”, N. Ahmad, S. Said, A., Int. J. of Remote Sensing (Revision II Submitted, June 2020). Springer Link IF: 1.102 (SCI, Scopus)
18. “Remote sensing and GIS based assessment of groundwater potential zones in AMU campus using AHP approach”, S. Said and M. Anees, Ecology Environment & Conservation, Vol. 26 (November Suppl. Issue): 2020; pp. (S6-S11). (Scopus).
19. “Spatial Forecasting of Solar Radiation using ARIMA Model” A Shadab, S Ahmed and S Said, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (Elsevier, IF: 2.24 SCI, Scopus), Vol. 20, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100427
20. “Water Quality Mapping of Yamuna River Stretch Passing Through Delhi State Using High Resolution Geoeye-2 Imagery”, G. Sharma, S Said and A Hussain, International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 9(4), 2018, pp. 23-35. IF: 1.125 (Scopus)