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RANJITH GOPALAKRISHNAN

Email: ranjith.gopalakrishnan@gmail.com

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Forest Sciences of the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. I completed by Phd from the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech University, USA (in 2017). My primary research interest is the application of remote sensing data to address key questions in forest resource conservation and management, large-scale ecological modeling and understanding global change. I have over 10 years of experience in this domain. My work mostly involves dealing with large datasets, quite some programming and scripting, trying out various machine learning and statistical techniques and communicating my results (by writing manuscripts). My three-year involvement with Virginia Tech's Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program in Remote Sensing has given me invaluable experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams.

Selected Publications (full list available on request, also please see Google scholar profile):

  1. Gopalakrishnan, R., Seppänen, A., Kukkonen, M., & Packalen, P. (2020). Utility of image point cloud data towards generating enhanced multitemporal multisensor land cover maps. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 86, 102012. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2019.102012
  2. Gopalakrishnan, Ranjith, Jobriath S. Kauffman, Matthew E. Fagan, John W. Coulston, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas R. Fox, and Valquiria F. Quirino. "Creating Landscape-Scale Site Index Maps for the Southeastern US Is Possible with Airborne LiDAR and Landsat Imagery." Forests 10, no. 3 (2019): 234. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/f10030234
  3. Ranjith Gopalakrishnan, Valerie A. Thomas, John W. Coulston, and Randolph H. Wynne, "Prediction of Canopy Heights over a Large Region Using Heterogeneous Lidar Datasets: Efficacy and Challenges", Remote Sens. 2015, 7(9), 11036-11060. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70911036
  4. Gopalakrishnan R., Bala G., Jayaraman M., Cao L., Nemani R. and Ravindranath N (2011), "Sensitivity of terrestrial water and energy budgets to CO2-physiological forcing: an investigation using an offline land model", Environ. Res. Lett. 6 (2011) 044013. Available here.
  5. Rajiv K. Chaturvedi, Ranjith Gopalakrishnan, Mathangi Jayaraman, Govindasamy Bala, N. V. Joshi, Raman Sukumar and N. H. Ravindranath, "Impact of climate change on Indian forests: a dynamic vegetation modeling approach", Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, DOI: 10.1007/s11027-010-9257-7


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