Vineet Kumar - Publications

Journal Publications:

1. M. Hosseini, H. McNairn, S. Mitchell, L. Dingle Robertson, A. Davidson, N. Ahmadian, A. Bhattacharya, E. Borg, C. Conrad, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, D. de Abelleyra, R. Gurdak, V. Kumar, N. Kussul, D. Mandal, Y. S. Rao, N. Saliendra, A. Shelestov, D, Spengler, S. R. Verón, S. Homayouni, I. Becker-Reshef, (2021) "A comparison between Support Vector Machine and Water Cloud Model for estimating crop leaf area index, " Remote Sensing, MDPI
2. Vineet Kumar, Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao. (2020) "Crop characterization using an improved scattering power decomposition technique for compact polarimetric SAR data." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
3. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Debanshu Ratha, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, Juan M.Lopez-Sanchez, Heather McNairn, Y. S. Rao (2020) "Dual polarimetric radar vegetation index for crop growth monitoring using sentinel-1 SAR data" Remote Sensing of Environment.
4. Dipankar Mandal, Debanshu Ratha, Avik Bhattacharya, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Yalamanchili S. Rao, and Alejandro C. Frery. (2020) "A Radar Vegetation Index for Crop Monitoring Using Compact Polarimetric SAR Data." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
5. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Debanshu Ratha, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Avik Bhattacharya, Heather McNairn, Y. S. Rao, and K. V. Ramana. (2020) "Assessment of rice growth conditions in a semi-arid region of India using the Generalized Radar Vegetation Index derived from RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR data." Remote Sensing of Environment.
6. Subhadip Dey, Dipankar Mandal, Laura Dingle Robertson, Biplab Banerjee, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao. (2020) "In-season crop classification using elements of the Kennaugh matrix derived from polarimetric RADARSAT-2 SAR data." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
7. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, “An assessment of temporal RADARSAT-2 SAR data for crop classification using KPCA based support vector machine,” (2020), Geocarto International, DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2020.1783577
8. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Avik Bhattacharya, Heather McNairn, and Y. S. Rao. (2020) "Crop biophysical parameter retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR data with a multi-target inversion of Water Cloud Model." International Journal of Remote Sensing.
9. D. Mandal, M. Hosseini, H. McNairn , Vineet Kumar, A. Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao, S. Mitchell, L. Dingle Robertson, A. Davidson, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, (2019) "An Investigation of Inversion Methodologies to Retrieve the Leaf Area Index of Corn from C-Band SAR Data" International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation. (view)
10. Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Avik Bhattacharya, Shane Cloude (2019) "Classification Assessment of Real Versus Simulated Compact and Quad-Pol Modes of ALOS-2" IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. (view)
11. Debanshu Ratha, Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, A. C. Frery (2019) "A Generalized Volume Scattering Model-Based Vegetation Index From Polarimetric SAR Data "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.(View)
12. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao (2019) "Joint estimation of Plant Area Index (PAI) and wet biomass in wheat and soybean from C-band polarimetric SAR data" International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. (view)
13. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao, Paul Siqueria and Soumen Bera (2018) “Sen4Rice: A Processing Chain for Differentiating Early and Late Transplanted Rice using Time-Series Sentinel-1 SAR Data with Google Earth Engine” IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters. (view)
14. Siddharth Hariharan, Dipankar Mandal, Siddhesh Tirodkar, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, and J. M. Lopez-Sanchez, (2018) “A Novel Phenology Based Feature Subset Selection using Random Forest for Multi-temporal PolSAR Crop Classification”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. (view)
15. Unmesh Khati, Vineet Kumar, D. Bandyopadhyay, M. Musthafa, Gulab Singh (2018), "Identification of forest cutting in the managed forest of Haldwani, India using ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR data" Journal of Environmental Management, vol-213, pp. 503-512, May 2018 (view)
16. Vineet Kumar, Heather Mcnairn, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao (2017) "Temporal Response of Scattering from Crops for Transmitted Ellipticity Variation in Simulated Compact-Pol SAR Data", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 5163-5174, Dec. 2017. (view)
17. Vineet Kumar, Mamta Kumari, and S. K. Saha, (2016) “Discrimination of Basmati and Non-basmati Rice Types using Polarimetric Target decompositions of Temporal SAR Data” Current Science.(View)
18. Mamta Kumari, Vineet Kumar and S. K. Saha (2015) “Rice Crop Growth Assessment using C-Band RISAT-1 data” Asian Journal of Geo-informatics, Vol. 15(1): pp. 09-14.(View)
19. Vineet Kumar, Mamta Kumari, and S. K. Saha (2013) “Leaf Area Index Estimation of Lowland Rice using Semi-empirical Backscattering Model” Journal of Applied Remote Sensing; Vol. 7(1):073474.(View)

Conference Proceedings:

V. Kumar, M. Huber, M. Shorachi, B. Rommen, S. C. Steele-Dunne, (2021), "Agricultural SandboxNL: A crop parcel level database using Sentinel-1 SAR and Google Earth Engine", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Brussels, Belgium.
D. Mandal, N. R. Bhogapurapu, V. Kumar, S. Dey, D. Ratha, A. Bhattacharya J. M. Loper-Sanchez, H. McNairn and Y. S. Rao. (2020), Vegetation Monitoring Using a New Dual-Pol Radar Vegetation Index: A Preliminary Study with Simulated NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) L-Band Data, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Hawai, USA
D. S. Vaka, Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, and Rinki Deo, ( 2019) "Comparison of Various DEMs for Height Accuracy Assessment Over Different Terrains of India". IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-19), Yokohama, Japan.
Subhadip Dey, Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Biplab Banerjee, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Heather McNairn, and Avik Bhattacharya (2019) "Crop Phenology Classification Using A Representation Learning Network From Sentinel-1 SAR Data." IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-19), Yokohama, Japan.
Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya, Vineet Kumar, Debanshu Ratha, Subhadip Dey, Heather McNairn, A. C. Frery, A.C. and Y. S. Rao, (2019) "A Novel Radar Vegetation Index for Compact Polarimetric SAR Data" IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-19), Yokohama, Japan.
Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao, Heather McNairn, (2018) "Crop Biophysical Parameter Estimation with a Multi-target Inversion Scheme using the Sentinel-1 SAR data" IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-18), Valencia, Spain.
Vineet Kumar, Dipankar Mandal, and Y. S. Rao (2017) “Comparision of Hybrid-pol descriptors from multi-sensor polarimetric SAR data” Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS-17), New Delhi, India.(View)
Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao (2017) “Monitoring Rice Crop using Time-series SENTINEL-1 data in Google Earth Engine Platform” Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS-17), New Delhi, India.(View)
Vineet Kumar, Dipankar Mandal, Y. S. Rao and Peter Meadows (2017) “Hybrid and Dual Linear Polarimetric RISAT-1 SAR Data for Classification Assessment” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-17), Texas, USA.(View)
Vineet Kumar and Y. S. Rao (2016) “Analysis of Full and Hybrid Polarimetric Based Descriptors for Different Land Features” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-16), Beijing, China.(View)
Y. S. Rao, P. Meadows, and Vineet Kumar (2016) “Evaluation of Risat-1 Compact Polarization Data for Calibration” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-16), Beijing, China.(View)
Vineet Kumar and Y. S. Rao (2015) “Temporal Analysis of Different Crops Using Quad-pol RADARSAT-2 data” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-15), Milan, Italy.(View)
Vineet Kumar and Y. S. Rao (2014) “Comparative analysis of RISAT-1 and simulated RADARSAT-2 hybrid polarimetric SAR data for different land features” Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XL-8, 799-802, Hyderabad, India 2014.(View)
Minal Jain, Rinki Deo, Vineet Kumar, and Y. S. Rao, (2014) “Evaluation of Time Series TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Models” Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XL-8, 437-441, Hyderabad, India 2014.(View)
Shaunak De, Vineet Kumar and Y. S. Rao, (2014) "Crop Classification using RISAT-1 Hybrid Polarimetric SAR Data," EUSAR 2014, Berlin, Germany; 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar; Proceedings of, pp.1,4.(View)

Conferences/Workshop Presentations:

Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, (2017) "Hybrid Polarimetric RISAT-1 SAR Data Evaluation using Corner Reflectors" CEOS Calibration and Validation Workshop, 07-09 Nov. 2017, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA, California, USA.(View)
Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Rinki Deo (2017) "Vertical Accuracy Assessment of TanDEM-X WorldDEM using DGPS Measurements over Different Terrains of India" CEOS Calibration and Validation Workshop, 07-09 Nov. 2017, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA, California, USA.(View)
Vineet Kumar (2017) “Characterization of crops using full and compact polarimetry” International conference on Engaging India and Canada: Perspective on Sustainability” by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, 11-12 May 2017, New Delhi, India.
Vineet Kumar and Y. S. Rao (2017) “Rice crop monitoring using hybrid-pol RISAT-1 satellite data” POLINSAR-2017 International Workshop, 23-27 January 23-27, 2017, Frascati (Rome), Italy.
Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, and Y. S. Rao (2017) “Winter Barley crop biophysical parameter retrieval using multi-output support vector regression from polarimetric SAR data” POLINSAR-2017 International Workshop, 23-27 January 23-27, 2017, Frascati (Rome), Italy.
Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, (2016) “Kernel-PCA based Support Vector Machine approach for Multi-Temporal Crop Classification using RADARSAT-2 Data” ISRS National Symposium, 07-09 December 2016, Dehradun, India.
Neeraj Agrawal, Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, (2016) “Calibration of RISAT-1 data using trihedral and dihedral corner reflectors” ISRS National Symposium, 07-09 December 2016, Dehradun, India.
R. Jeyakrishnan, G. G. Ponnurangam, Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, and V. M. Ramanujam (2015) “Calibration of RISAT-1 Compact polarimetric SAR systems using point targets” CEOS calibration and validation workshop, 27-29 October Noordwijk, The Netherlands.(View)
Y. S. Rao, Vineet Kumar, (2014) “Full and Compact polarimetric SAR data exploration for different targets” NASA-INDIA SAR (NI-SAR) Science Workshop, 17-18 November 2014, SAC, ISRO, Ahmadabad, India.
Y. S. Rao, Shaunak De, Vineet Kumar, Anup Das, (2013), “Hybrid polarimetric SAR data analysis for various land features” International Expert Meet on Microwave Remote Sensing, 16-17 December 2013, Ahmadabad, India.
Vineet Kumar, Mamta Kumari, S. K. Saha, (2013) “Radiative Transfer Model based characterization of C-band scattering from rice fields: Modeling and Comparison with Multitemporal RADARSAT-2 Data” ISG-ISRS National Symposium 4-6 December 2013, Visakhapatnam, India.
Mamta Kumari, Vineet Kumar, S. K. Saha, N. R. Patel, (2013) “Phenology Monitoring of rice using temporal C-band polarimetric SAR data” ISG-ISRS National Symposium 46 December 2013, Visakhapatnam, India.
Vineet Kumar, Mamta Kumari and S. K. Saha, (2013) “Rice crop monitoring using Quadpol SAR data in part of the Indo-Gangetic plain of India”, Workshop on Geospatial technology for Natural Resource Management at GBPUA&T, Pantnagar 21-22 May 2013, India.