Sujit SikderLeibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development | IOER · Spatial Information and Modelling
Sujit Sikder
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Introduction
Care about people-place-technology-focused scientific innovations to support urban/city regions, but equally sensitive to governance. Working within an interdisciplinary research team, major study topics are spatial data science, spatial-temporal analysis, land use monitoring, geovisualisation and citizen science for making spatial sustainable transformation happen.
Tags: #energyCity #eMobility #eCommerce #eScience #eLearning
Additional affiliations
April 2012 - July 2017
Institute of Geodesy and Geoformation (IGG), University of Bonn
Position
- Research Associate
January 2012 - March 2012
Institute of Envirornment and Human Security - United Nations University (UNU-EHS)
Position
- Analyst
March 2006 - July 2009
Private and Public Sector
Position
- Consultant
Education
April 2012 - June 2017
October 2009 - March 2011
Technische Universität München (TUM)
Field of study
September 2001 - February 2006
Publications
Publications (58)
This study examines and explores the contribution of an energy-optimized urban planning approach to efficient resource use in the context of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. A conceptual energy optimization model called the "EnUp" model has been developed and tested for feasibility and adaptation strategies to improve urban energy use in residential settlem...
Information on spatial building structures is limited, but it can support efficient planning and management in the context of fast-growing big cities in many developing countries. In this paper, we present a spatial analysis approach that includes an estimate of building intensity in the megacity of Dhaka and a spatial analysis using spatial statis...
Making cities smart has been an inherent goal and a challenge for the contemporary cities. This phenomenon gets more complicated when there is a pressing need to adopt smart city principles against the backdrop of visible and invisible factors that are causing urban transformation on a varying magnitude. One such "visibly-invisible" factor is e-com...
The world is currently experiencing a COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly suffering its second wave in September 2020 (i.e. Ander Heiden & Buchholz,2020; Ander Heiden & Buchholz,2020). Like many other domains, the agenda of urban spatial data science agenda requires a revision to adapt to these new challenges and to demonstrate its potentials to contri...
The livelihoods of coastal people are at risk as shoreline migration is accelerated by climate change. To safeguard these communities and maintain their economy, it is imperative to strengthen resilience via adaptive strategies. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the rates and impacts of physical shoreline migration over the past 9,000 years us...
Integrating spatial inequality perspectives in strategic decision-making can ensure positive impacts on resource distribution for public welfare and sustainable development. This study aims to apply evidence-based approaches in deploying permanent deacons. The empirical case study has been conducted at the St Helens denary of the Liverpool archdioc...
Data poverty is one of the challenges in appointing data-driven modeling approaches in real-world decision-making for self-sufficient future cities. The micro-climatic models for energy-related decisions require high-resolution weather data for capturing dynamic factors of the urban built environment This study aims to demonstrate an experimental h...
We explore the urban space transformation dimension in response to COVID-19, emphasizing adaptability of cities across global south and global north. It sheds light on how pandemic responses reshape urban space utilization. It is evident that the global south nations are requiring a delicate balance between affordability and effective transformatio...
Data management plans (DMPs), designed to adhere to Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) principles, were introduced to enhance research data
management (RDM) but have encountered challenges in implementation. This essay
calls for a paradigm shift by introducing the ‘Research Output Management Planning
(ROMPi)’ approach, aiming to i...
Rapid urbanization is increasingly challenging in multiple domains including ecological, economic and social issues. In order to understand interrelationships between human habitat in relation to nature, to assess natural hazards more accurately, and to guide political and economic decisions more precisely, detailed settlement data is an important...
This is an invited presentation at the Indo-German workshop on "Open Spatial Data Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development." The workshop was organized at CEPT University and CRDF in Ahmedabad, India, from October 3rd to October 4th, 2023. These workshops aim to bring interdisciplinary scientists and practitioners together to identify futur...
The emerging research data centre (RDC) at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) constitutes an essential milestone towards promoting sustainable land transition and transformative urban and regional development. The IOER RDC leverages spatial data science and artificial intelligence to process and analyse divers...
Urbanization needs to conceptualize land use policy beyond the city boundaries. It might be explained by exploring complex and interconnected interdependencies in regional key driving factors that can have tele-coupling effects during sudden shocks. Over one million Rohingya have settled in the rural/forest area in Cox's Bazar for locational proxim...
Under the umbrella "Urban Analytics for Transforming Cities and Regions", ILUS 2023 is dedicated to give answers to the question how interdisciplinary concepts in spatial analysis and data modelling can contribute and support sustainable urban and regional development. To this end, the symposium co-vers the major topics: Urban Dynamics, Resilient u...
This paper proposes and applies a novel interdisciplinary framework to study peri-urban land use dynamics in India, which is theoretically embedded in land use transition, land change science and political economy research. The framework is operationalised by a mixed methods approach cutting across scale and time to provide a comprehensive understa...
The specific Research Topic presented here explores the thematic domain of data-driven approaches and proven technologies that offer innovative solutions for local and emerging urban issues while addressing environmental and social concerns. Contributions to this Research Topic largely focus on the spatio-temporal and practice-oriented themes of su...
The creation of an accurate simulation of future urban growth is considered to be one of the most important challenges of the last five decades that involves spatial modeling within a GIS environment. Even though built-up densification processes, or transitions from low to high density, are critical for policymakers concerned with limiting sprawl,...
Invited Keynote at the International Seminar: "Towards the Digital Urban Era“
Background
In May 2020, the international non-governmental organization Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) sought to enable health systems in Tanzania to address COVID-19 health response. CARE leveraged existing partnerships with the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children and the President’s Off...
Overcrowding in informal housing is a core problem in international development debates, whereby slum upgrading is viewed as a dominant policy to integrate formal and informal areas. Conceptually, challenges to socio-spatial integration are associated with unbalanced development processes of urban de- and re-densification beyond the housing level....
Several international studies have already mentioned various policy instruments to promote the sociallymixed housing policy that supports many cities to achieve inclusionary housing goals. One of the greatest challenges facing cities in Germany is the current housing shortage, especially of affordable housing and the provision of adequate social in...
This paper gives a comprehensive introduction to the IOER Monitor-an open research data infrastructure (RDI) in Germany providing domain-specific multi-temporal geospatial datasets, services and visualizations for land use and land cover (LULC)-related development of settlements and open space and closely related topics. Its easy-to-use information...
The geographical location and development of Bangladesh means that the country is vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Cyclones are becoming more frequent and severe due to the effects of climate change [1]. Since 2007, more than 5,000 people have died, and damage runs into billions of dollars due to cyclones. This study aims to conduct an assessment o...
Making cities smart is an inherent goal and challenge for contemporary cities. This phenomenon becomes more complicated when there is an urgent need to adopt smart city principles against the backdrop of visible and invisible factors that cause urban transformations with varying magnitudes. One type of visibly invisible factor is e-commerce and its...
The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...
The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...
Auf der Basis öffentlich und frei verfügbarer Fahrplandaten stellt dieser Beitrag ein Konzept für einen kleinräumigen Indikator (1 km²-Raster) zur ÖPNV-Versorgung vor. Grundlage dieser Studie sind Fahrplandaten des öffentlichen Personenverkehrs im di-gitalen Austauschformat General Transit Feed Service (GTFS). Mithilfe dieser Daten können ÖPNV-Halt...
This article presents the concept, implementation and results of the project "OpenGeoEdu", an open and web-based educational resource on Remote Sensing and GIS. OpenGeoEdu is focused on the use of open geodata in spatially oriented study courses. Teachers and students in the German-speaking countries are to be offered an open learning environment h...
Research on environmental justice comprises health and well-being aspects, as well as topics related to general social participation. In this research field, among others, there is a need for an integrated use of social science survey data and spatial science data, e.g. for combining demographic information from survey data with data on pollution f...
Increasingly cycling is being adopted as one of the most sustainable and healthy transport options in many countries. It has emerged as a popular urban transport mode in Bangladesh, especially in the nation's capital – Dhaka. Due to its infamous traffic congestion, Dhaka loses 3.2 million working hours daily. To avoid the exhaustion with infinite w...
This article presents the concept, implementation and results of the project "OpenGeoEdu", an open and web-based educational resource on Remote Sensing and GIS. OpenGeoEdu is focused on the use of open geodata in spatially oriented study courses. Teachers and students in the German-speaking countries are to be offered an open learning environment h...
The combination of theoretical knowledge and practice-oriented education are key for future professionals and young scientists. Open data and technologies are providing manifold opportunities within the scope of open science era. This paper aims to present the open e-Learning platform OpenGeoEdu (OGE) that comes with thematic learning module on bes...
- Urban human activity can be largely related to rapid urbanization, environmental, socio-economic challenges; the intensity need to be conceptualize for strategic planning and management
- Geospatial data constraints are limiting to guide evidence-based policy making in data-poor regions
- Adoption of UAV are potential, but the regulatory barriers...
Spatial data-driven approaches are promising for evidence-based public policy-making (e.g. spatial planning) by combining multi-dimensional open data and emerging technologies besides traditional data sources. With this background, this study aims to assess spatial diffusion patterns its potential determinants of Electric Vehicle (EV) public chargi...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the actual walking distance to public transport (PuT) stations and to report passenger perceptions on route choice. A systematic case study has been conducted after administrating a tailor-made paper-based intercept survey in a German city (Munich). It can determine the interrelation between the accessibility...
Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to explore the actual walking distance to public transport (PuT) stations and to report passenger perceptions on route choice.
Design/methodology/approach:
A systematic case study has been conducted after administrating a
tailor-made paper-based intercept survey in a German city (Munich). It can determine the...
Housing markets develop very heterogeneously, with some trends even running in opposite directions. It is vital to consider the local trend of each municipality in order to capture dynamic developments in the housing market. This paper presents a method of forecasting demand for municipal housing. It has discussed about the adoption potential of su...
Die Geodatendienste des IÖR-Monitors stellten bundesweit Indikatoren zur Flächennutzungsstruktur sowie der verkehrsbezogenen Infrastruktur bereit. Diese Daten können unter anderem für die Infrastrukturplanung genutzt werden. Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, die räumliche Variabilität der aktuellen Ladestationspunkte (Electric Vehicle Charging Points:...
The open data and technologies promise potentials for collecting and analyzing required insights besides traditional data sources in order to monitor smart development of our cities and regions. In fact, scientific literature related to spatial sciences often asks on how to navigate this growing array of open data sources for future infrastructure...
The concept of energy optimization in urban development has the potential to address many urban challenges besides local energy concerns. Past research has attempted to combine the cross-cutting issues of urban planning, energy planning, and local urban sustainability. The gaps that collectively remain in scientific progress necessitated the adapta...
There has been a huge discussion in the light of climate change and energy issues to inform sustainable urban planning scholarship. In this new era, the relationship between urban planning and energy consumption are experiencing a rebirth today although it is not a new line of inquiry. The topical issues of urban form, energy efficiency and modern...
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Reducing energy demand by 50% by 2050 is one of the two core components of the City of
Frankfurt’s “Master Plan 100% Climate Protection”. According to this ambitious Master Plan,
Frankfurt aims to reduce its current energy demand by half and to cover the remaining half
through renewable energy. Since households account for 22% of Frankfurt’s curren...
A MS EXCEL based tool for conducting Expert Judgement under Analytical Hierachical Process (AHP). Requirement at least MS office 2007 or higher.
The discussions on the topic of urban planning and energy consumption are dominating in both scientific and professional arena. In this contrast, a good number of studies have investigated on the dynamic composition of urban elements in different scales. This research explored the dynamics of urban residential neighborhood and energy aspects based...
This study focuses on stakeholders’ participation, perceptions and local contextualization in the Informal Settlement (IS) regularization processes in Khulna City. These processes are undertaken to address livelihood challenges of IS dwellers and to operationalize development initiatives in informal regularization projects. Adopting both a qualitat...
There is a widely accepted argument is that the development of any country is synonymous with the level of energy consumption. With such a view energy is a critical input parameter for national economic development. Another way, there has been huge discussion in the light of climate change and energy consumption for advancing towards a low carbon g...
The transition of urban energy systems to inform sustainable urban planning scholarship is a
popular topic of discussion. The related issues of urban form, energy efficiency and modern
technologies have already been studied under different urban configurations and scales.
Consequently, the energy integrated urban development policies are being a...
Location planning process as one of the most complicated spatial decisions is the initial and perhaps one of the critical steps in the development of a New Town. Site selection (seat and location) is a fundamental factor in success of new towns functionality, and also determines the success of the new town investment. Since location planning and se...
PPP is an agreement between the government and the private sector for the purpose of provisioning of public services or infrastructure with a common vision, the enterprise of both the sector is blended in a platform for accomplishment of mutual benefits. It is one of the alternatives in the hands of Govt to attract the investment when it cannot alo...
The settlement grows with the increase of population. The word 'settlement' denotes a human habitat where a group of people have come to live and make their homes. So, understanding the pattern of settlement is very important for future planning. Moreover, the settlement expansion guidelines are necessary for optimum utilization of the limited land...
Urban solid waste management is considered as one of the most immediate and serious environmental problems confronting municipal authorities in developing countries like Bangladesh. A standard solid waste management should provide hygienic, efficient and economic collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste without polluting atmosphere. T...
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Questions (5)
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) or Geographical Data Infrastructure (GII) is known for sometimes for providing the need for spatial science research as well as many other purposes in science and practice. I am looking forward to the further explanation on the question around - how does the contemporary topic of "Research Data Infrastructure" on spatial science will make a difference in regard to "SDI or GII"?
Many Global cities are opening Public transportation data feed under open license. General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) is already offering such valuable information within the provision of freely license specification besides TRANSM.
Is there any overview - which cities are offering GTFS as open data (global, regional, national)?
Here I can see a summary in case of Germany (but not sure it is complete!!)- https://bit.ly/2Ut5Mf0
Looking forward....
Today, there exist thousands of data portals and more will come in future for example https://data.gov.uk/, https://open.nrw, https://www.mcloud.de/. I am looking for a well-known method to conduct an usibility assesment of Data portals (how easy one can find what he/she is looking for?). The domin focus will be geodata and statistical data services. Thanks in before hand.
Typically Moran Index value should be within a rang of – 1 to +1. But using ArcGIS spatial statistics tool, the outcomes of local moran's Index value even differ in a range of -1 to +4. What should be a reason for the extrem value?
