Sangram's den
Reflections of Passion
Specialization
Research Experience
Affiliations/ Memberships
Academic Service
Awards/ Honors
Specialization
- Modeling of large-scale processes of climate-vegetation interaction, statistical time series analysis and spectral analysis of long-term vegetation and climate data records
- Remote sensing of vegetation and modeling 3-D radiative transfer processes in vegetation canopies
- Advanced signal processing and image processing techniques for multi-dimensional and multi-temporal analysis of satellite imagery
- Image classification, compression and recognition using soft computing techniques (fuzzy, neural nets, genetic algorithm) and wavelet analysis
- InSAR and SAR change detection
- Programming expertise: C/C++, Fortran, Shell, MATLAB, IDL, HTML, DHTML
- Scientific software package tools: ENVI, Arcmap, RATS, IPW
- Operating system/ platforms: Windows, Linux, HP Unix, Sun Solaris workstation, Macintosh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA – 02139.
- MODIS algorithm refinement and Earth science data record development for global land cover and land cover dynamics.
Apr, 2008 - Present
Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA – 02139.
- Developing physical algorithms (Canopy spectral invariants and stochastic radiative transfer models) to retrieve vegetation structural parameters;
- Generating long term data records of vegetation biophysical products (LAI, FPAR) from measurements of multiple sensors (AVHRR and MODIS);
- Analyzing and evaluating global trends in vegetation activity over the period, 1981-present, and correlating the trends with observational changes in climate surrogates;
- Studying the recent climate changes (and land use changes) and their impacts on large-scale vegetation dynamics over the north American/ Eurasian grasslands and boreal forests and the semi-arid regions of Africa, Australia and Southern Asia.
Sep, 2004 –Mar, 2008
Masters Research, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
- Studies on texture analysis and image understanding systems for remotely sensed scenes and their applications to geological studies.
Jul, 2002 – May, 2004
Research Internee, Cooperative Research Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP) and the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia.
- Repeat pass SAR change detection and image processing techniques.
May-July, 2003
Research Internee, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy.
- A study of the Alboran sea mesoscale system using the empirical orthogonal function decomposition of satellite SST data and interpreting the sea wave direction propagation and its effect by other data processing techniques.
May-July, 2002
- MODIS algorithm refinement and Earth science data record development for global land cover and land cover dynamics.
Apr, 2008 - Present
Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA – 02139.
- Developing physical algorithms (Canopy spectral invariants and stochastic radiative transfer models) to retrieve vegetation structural parameters;
- Generating long term data records of vegetation biophysical products (LAI, FPAR) from measurements of multiple sensors (AVHRR and MODIS);
- Analyzing and evaluating global trends in vegetation activity over the period, 1981-present, and correlating the trends with observational changes in climate surrogates;
- Studying the recent climate changes (and land use changes) and their impacts on large-scale vegetation dynamics over the north American/ Eurasian grasslands and boreal forests and the semi-arid regions of Africa, Australia and Southern Asia.
Sep, 2004 –Mar, 2008
Masters Research, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
- Studies on texture analysis and image understanding systems for remotely sensed scenes and their applications to geological studies.
Jul, 2002 – May, 2004
Research Internee, Cooperative Research Center for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP) and the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia.
- Repeat pass SAR change detection and image processing techniques.
May-July, 2003
Research Internee, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy.
- A study of the Alboran sea mesoscale system using the empirical orthogonal function decomposition of satellite SST data and interpreting the sea wave direction propagation and its effect by other data processing techniques.
May-July, 2002
IEEE
AGU
AGU
• Reviewer of Remote Sensing of Environment
• Reviewer of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Reviewer of Climate Change
• Reviewer of Climate Research
• Reviewer of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Reviewer of Climate Change
• Reviewer of Climate Research
• Gold medal for the best technical poster, Society for Petroleum Geophysicists and Society for Exploration Geophysics (SEG) International Conference, 2004, Hyderabad, India.
• Most innovative student paper, International conference on microwaves, antenna, propagation and remote sensing (ICMARS 2004) organized by International center for Radio Science (ICRS), 2004, India.
• Most innovative student paper, International conference on microwaves, antenna, propagation and remote sensing (ICMARS 2004) organized by International center for Radio Science (ICRS), 2004, India.