Publications
Journal Publications
V. S. K. Vanama, Y. S. Rao, and C. M. Bhatt. “Rapid monitoring of cyclone induced flood through an automated approach using multi–temporal Earth Observation (EO) images in RSS CloudToolbox platform." European Journal of Remote Sensing 54, no. 1 (2021): 588-608. [doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2021.1983471 ] (Full paper)
Yadav, Vijay Pratap, Rajendra Prasad, Ruchi Bala, Prashant K. Srivastava, and V. S. K. Vanama. "Appraisal of Dual Polarimetric Radar Vegetation Index in First Order Microwave Scattering Algorithm using Sentinel–1A (C-band) and ALOS-2 (L-band) SAR Data." Geocarto International (2021): 1-12. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.1933209] (Full paper)
Venkata Sai Krishna Vanama, Mohamed Musthafa, Unmesh Khati, Gowtham R, Gulab Singh, Y. S. Rao. “Inundation mapping of Kerala flood event in 2018 using ALOS-2 and temporal Sentinel-1 SAR images.” Current Science, no. 120 (2021):5. [doi: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v120/i5/915-925] (Full paper)
V. S. K. Vanama, Y. S. Rao, and C. M. Bhatt. “Change detection based flood mapping using multi-temporal Earth Observation satellite images: 2018 flood event of Kerala, India." European Journal of Remote Sensing 54, no. 1 (2021): 42-58. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2020.1867901] (Full paper)
Vanama, Venkata Sai Krishna, Dipankar Mandal, and Yalamanchili S. Rao. "GEE4FLOOD: rapid mapping of flood areas using temporal Sentinel-1 SAR images with Google Earth Engine cloud platform." Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 14, no. 3 (2020): 034505. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.14.034505] (Full paper)
Krishna, VV Sai, Kamal Pandey, and Harish Karnatak. "Geospatial multicriteria approach for solid waste disposal site selection in Dehradun city, India." Current Science 113891, no. 112 (2017): 3. [doi: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v112/i03/549-559] (Full paper)
Conferences Publications
Babu, KV Suresh, and V. S. K. Vanama. "Burn area mapping in Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform: 2019 forest fires in eastern Australia." In 2020 International Conference on Smart Innovations in Design, Environment, Management, Planning and Computing (ICSIDEMPC), pp. 109-112. IEEE, 2020. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIDEMPC49020.2020.9299625] (Full paper)
Kanade, Dhanashri S., V. S. K. Vanama, and Sanjay Shitole. "Urban area classification with quad-pol L-band ALOS-2 SAR data: A case of Chennai city, India." In 2020 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), pp. 58-61. IEEE, 2020. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/InGARSS48198.2020.9358951] (Full paper)
Vanama, V. S. K., Sanjay Shitole, U. Khati, and Y. S. Rao. "Split-Window Based Flood Mapping with L-Band ALOS-2 SAR Images: A Case of Kerala Flood Event in 2018." In IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 4742-4745. IEEE. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324012] (Full paper) (Certificate)
Shitole, Sanjav, Vijay Jain, and V. S. K. Vanama. "De-speckling of synthetic aperture radar using discrete fourier transform." In IGARSS 2020-2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 1524-1527. IEEE. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324277] (Full paper)
Vanama, V. S. K., Sanjay Shitole, and Y. S. Rao. "Urban Flood Mapping with C-band RISAT-1 SAR Images: 2016 Flood Event of Bangalore City, India." In 2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World-Quo Vadis (ICCDW), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2020. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318710] (Full paper) [Secured second prize]
Vanama, V. S. K., K. V. S. Babu, and Y. S. Rao. "Ground truth mapping with multi-temporal earth observation data in ESA CloudTool box: A case of Kerala flood event occurred in 2018." In 2020 International Conference on Emerging Smart Computing and Informatics (ESCI), pp. 133-136. IEEE, 2020. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ESCI48226.2020.9167570] (Full paper) [Bagged best paper award]
Vanama, Venkata Sai Krishna, and Y. S. Rao. "Change detection based flood mapping of 2015 flood event of Chennai city using sentinel-1 SAR images." In IGARSS 2019-2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 9729-9732. IEEE, 2019. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8899282] (Full paper)
Kolekar, Dhanashri, V. S. K. Vanama, and Y. S. Rao. "Satellite Based Drought Assessment Over Latur, India Using Soil Moisture Derived from SMOS." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 42 (2018): 5. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-421-2018] (Full paper)
Suresh, Babu KV, and Venkata Sai Krishna Vanama. "Fire Detection in a Varying Topography Using Landsat-8 for Nainital Region, India." In 2018 3rd International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2018. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/I2CT.2018.8529366] (Full paper)
Vanama, Venkata Sai Krishna, Y. S. Rao. "Spatio-temporal analysis of passive microwave remote sensing data for rapid detection of large scale flood mapping - a geospatial approach." In Proceedings of 38th Asian Conference of Remote Sensing (ACRS), New Delhi, India, 2017. (Full paper)
Alisha Chowdhury, Vanama, V.S.K. and Valliappan. AL. "Examining the Effect of the Physical Characteristics of the Urban Green & Blue Spaces in Heat Mitigation: A Case Study of Pune." In Proceedings of 38th Asian Conference of Remote Sensing (ACRS), New Delhi, India, 2017. (Full paper)
Babu, KV Suresh, Venkata Sai Krishna Vanama, Arijit Roy, and P. Ramachandra Prasad. "Assessment of forest fire danger using automatic weather stations and MODIS TERRA satellite datasets for the state Madhya Pradesh, India." In 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pp. 1876-1881. IEEE, 2017. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8126118] (Full paper)
VV, Sai Krishna, Anil Kumar Dikshit, and Kamal Pandey. "Flood modelling with global precipitation measurement (GPM) satellite rainfall data: a case study of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India." In Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Remote Sensing Technology, Techniques and Applications VI, vol. 9880, p. 98801A. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223928] (Full paper)
Conferences Presentations/Workshops
V. S. K. Vanama, and Y. S. Rao, "Automatic thresholding based flood mapping with temporal Sentinel-1 images" presented at the National Symposium on Innovations in Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development with special emphasis on NER during 20–22 Nov 2019 at North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), India.
V. S. K. Vanama, and Y. S. Rao, "Spatial Identification of Flood Areas Using Temporal AMSR-2 Data" presented at the 4th World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM-2019) during 29th Jan – 1st Feb 2019 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
S. Babu K.V., V. S. K. Vanama, and Ridhika Aggarwal "Change detection based brunt area mapping using freely available Sentinel-2 images" presented at 4th World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM-2019) during 29th Jan – 1st Feb 2019 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
V. S. K. Vanama, S. Babu K.V., and Y. S. Rao, “Spatio-temporal Analysis of Chennai City Land Surface Temperature using Landsat 8 data,” presented at the International conference on Urban Geoinformatics-2017, Delhi, India, 2017. (Poster)
V. S. K. Vanama and Y. S. Rao, “Satellite Based Urban Flood Extent Mapping: A Case Study of Bangalore Metropolitan Region,” presented at the National Symposium on Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems, Dehradun, India, 2016. (Poster)
V. S. K. Vanama, S. Babu K.V., and K. Pandey, “Analysis of various fusion techniques for multi spatial resolution images,” presented at the National symposium on Geomatics for Digital India, Jaipur, 2015.
V. S. K. Vanama, K. Pandey, and B. D. Bharath, “Urban Water Information System (UWIS): A web based spatial decision support system for management and monitoring water utility assets,” in FOSS4G-India 2015, Dehradun, India, 2015.
V. S. K. Vanama, “Urban surface and sub-surface utility mapping in 3D using geospatial techniques – A case study of part of Dobhalwala ward, Dehradun, India,” presented at the National seminar on Changing spectrum of Human Settlements and Planning Education, Amritsar, India, 2014.
Books/Book Chapters
Gautam Dadhich, Venkata Sai Krishna Vanama, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, and Indrajit Pal, “Flood damage assessment with multi-temporal earth observation SAR satellite images: A case of Coastal flooding in Southern Thailand” In Disaster Resilience and Sustainability (2021), Springer. [doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85195-4.00021-4 ]
Vanama, V. S. K., and Y. S. Rao. "Real-Time Flood Mapping with Temporal SAR Images Using ESA CloudToolbox Service." Urban Science and Engineering: Proceedings of ICUSE 2020: 133. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4114-2_11] (Full paper)
Vanama, Venkata Sai Krishna, Ch Praveen Kumar, and Y. S. Rao. "Rapid detection of regional level flood events using AMSR-E satellite images." In Proceedings of International Conference on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management, pp. 13-23. Springer, Cham, 2019. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77276-9_2] (Full paper)
Invited Talks
V. S. K. Vanama, “Applications of Earth Observation (EO) images in disaster management with special emphasis on flooding,” Online presentation by Centre for Geo Informatics, Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Sep 2020, Mumbai, India.
