Research Interests
Thermal Remote Sensing, Modelling evapotranspiration from remote sensing, Drought monitoring from RS data, RS applications in hydrology and water resources
Research Guidance
Post-Doc
Dr. Sanjeev Gadad - 2019 to 2021 - Analysis of satellite soil moisture products over India
Dr. Varsha Pandey - 2022 to 2024- GPP modelling over India
Dr. Ravi Verma - Dec 2024 to present - Urban Remote Sensing
Ph.D. Students
Completed
Kukku Sara P E - 2024 - Estimation of high spatiotemporal land surface temperature using multi sensor approach.
Athira K V - 2024 - A study on the estimation of evapotranspiration from multi-source remote sensing models.
Anusha Roy - 2024 - A Geospatial Analysis of the Surface Heat Island Effect and its evolution over select Indian cities.
Ongoing
Sangeetharani M (SERB OVDF Fellow) - August 2019 - Remote Sensing applications in agriculture.
Rahul Harod (PMRF Fellow) - Integrated M.Tech. and Ph.D. - Aug 2021 - LST from passive microwave observations -Â
Sakshi Harde - August 2021 - Coupled modelling of ET and GPP.
Arunim Anand - August 2021 - Urban Remote Sensing and Building energy modelling
Sanjay N C - Jan 2022 - IITB Monash Academy student - Co-supervised with Prof. Jeff Walker, Monash University, Australia - Modelling evapotranspiration using passive microwave observations.
Pooja N - August 2022 - Evapotranspiration Partitioning and link between GPP and transpiration
Atul Kaushik - August 2022 - Biomass estimation from multi-sensor datasets.
Saketh K - Jan 2023 - Soil organic carbon mapping - External candidate, jointly supervised with Dr. V K Dadhwal, NIAS, Bangalore.
Dharanya T - August 2023 - UAV based thermal remote sensing for agricultural applications.
Thejaswini S P - August 2023 - Thermal Directionality - Jointly supervised with Dr. Jean-Louis Roujean, CESBIO.
Vipul Malhotra - August 2023 - Agricultural Remote Sensing - Jointly supervised with Prof. J Adinarayana, CSRE, IITB.
Nagendra S R - August 2024 - Agricultural Remote Sensing
M.Tech Students
Graduated
Tarun Soni - Landuse/landcover classification and change analysis over India - Completed in July 2020
Avinash Mahech - Drought analysis using remote sensing data - Completed in July 2020
Anushriya Jain - Development of evapotranspiration product with data from spaceborne thermal sensors - Completed in July 2021
Likith M - Analysing the potential of several remotely sensed land surface variables for drought monitoring - Completed in July 2021
Himanshu Sonare - Modelling ET using thermodynamics - Completed in July 2022
Mayur Mulik - Gap filling remotely sensed ET - Completed in July 2022
Srujan Agam - Crop yield modelling from remote sensing - Completed in July 2022
Akash Nigam - Crop classification from remote sensing - Completed in July 2023
Sandipan Biswas - Urban sprawl analysis - Completed in July 2023
Anagha Murali - Evaluation of different evapotranspiration products for drought monitoring over India - Completed in July 2024
Kavichelvan M - Building footprint extraction from high resolution satellite images using machine learning - Completed in July 2024
Eekshitha Somisetty - Seasonal variation of Urban Heat Island effect over Indian Cities - Viva scheduled in June 2025
Rahul Ghindani - Annual and diurnal cycle of land surface temperature - Viva scheduled in June 2025
Udhayakumar G - Crop suitability analysis over rainfed areas of Sivagangai district in Tamil Nadu - Viva scheduled in June 2025
Ongoing
Raaga Tarunya A - ET modelling
Avinash Kumar Singh - Drought monitoring using ET datasets
Project Staff
Siddesh Mane - 2020 to 2021.
Dr. Kukku Sara - Project Research Scientist - Maharashtra Drone Mission