Dr. Unmesh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. 

He has a background in Electronics Engineering and a Masters of Technology in Remote Sensing and GIS. He was awarded the Ph.D. in Radar Remote Sensing by IIT Bombay in 2019. He has been working in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar since 2014 and has authored more than 15 peer-reviewed international journal articles and 40+ conference papers.

Dr. Unmesh was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral fellow and subsequently a JPL postdoc at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA where he worked on development of spaceborne Tomography algorithm using X-band data. This work resulted in the first tomograms at X-band from space over tropical forests (Khati et. al., 2019).

Currently, Dr. Unmesh is involved with the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission Science Team for development of algorithms for dynamic monitoring of changes in the ecosystems and carbon content mapping. He is also interested in the utilization of different SAR remote sensing data for crop-area mapping, crop-type discrimination, flood mapping, snow and glacier parameter retrievals as well as disaster mapping.

Dr. Unmesh is also developing new strategies for unmanned aerial system (UAS) based monitoring of agriculture and forest resources.

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Conference Papers