Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

“The editors have produced a detailed and state-of-the-art research monograph on hyperspectral remote sensing (HRS) and imaging modalities. This monograph should be of interest to image scientists and graduate students involved in HRS and imaging technologies. Beyond a review on HRS, the authors address airborne imaging spectrometers, anomalies in HRS images, atmosphere parameter retrieval and corrections. Readers interested in HRS applications for vegetation, urban research including water and wetland ecosystems resources or agricultural research will find a wealth of information, including case studies from India, South Africa, Ecuador and Nigeria. These case studies are enhanced by HRS images and advanced statistical analysis. Furthermore, a chapter on HRS multi-sensor and fusion capabilities can be found in connection with pollution detection and noninvasive detection of plant parasitic nematodes. HRS applications in soil and mineral explorations, which includes heavy metal pollution and future requirements for advanced sensor systems for satellite and airborne systems, should attract a wide readership.” –OSA

Dr. Prem Chandra Pandey

Dr. Prem Chandra Pandey holds a PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, obtained through the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Deemed to be University) in UP, India. Previously, he was associated with Banaras Hindu University, India, as an SERB-NPDF fellow. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Banaras Hindu University and an MTech degree in Remote Sensing from Birla Institute of Technology, India. He has worked as a professional research fellow on remote sensing applications within the National Urban Information System, funded by the NRSC Government of India.

Dr. Pandey is the recipient of several awards, including Commonwealth Fellow (United Kingdom), INSPIRE Fellow (GoI), MHRD-UGC Fellow (GoI), Malviya Gold Medal from Banaras Hindu University, SERB-NPDF from the Government of India, and a Young Investigator Award. His current research involves three projects focused on monitoring wetlands and Chilika Lake, particularly Ramsar sites, along with other natural resource research funded by the NGP and SERB Government of India. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers, seven edited books, and numerous book chapters, and has presented his work at national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial board for Geocarto International journal and Sustainable Development (Wiley).

Prashant K. Srivastava

Prashant K. Srivastava obtained his PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol in Bristol, UK. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. He previously worked in the Hydrological Sciences Department at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is an investigator for several national and international projects. He has published over 100 papers, numerous books, and several book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of several reputable journals.

Prof. Heiko Balzter

Prof. Heiko Balzter received his Dipl.-Ing.Agr. (equivalent to M.Sc.) and Dr.Agr. (Ph.D.) degrees from Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is a Research Professor and the Director of the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research at the University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K., and an Official Development Assistance (ODA) Programme Leader in the NERC National Centre for Earth Observation. Prior to joining the University of Leicester, he was Head of the Section for Earth Observation at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, U.K., where he worked from 1998 to 2006.

His research interests include the interactions of the water cycle with ecosystems across multiple spatial and temporal scales, the pressures of climate change and land use change on ecosystem services, and the effects of spatial patterns and processes on biological populations in evolving 3-D landscapes. Prof. Balzter holds the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2011) and the Royal Geographical Society’s Cuthbert Peek Award (2015). He received the President’s Cup for the Best Paper at the Annual Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Conference (2009).

Prof. Balzter chairs the BESS-EO working group on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and Earth Observation, is a member of the NERC Future Landscapes Scoping Group, and serves as the UK representative on the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Programme Board. He leads the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service for the UK, which produces the CORINE land cover map. In the Forests 2020 project, he leads the Forest Cover Change Detection task. In GLOBBIOMASS, he is responsible for the regional case studies work package. He is the Principal Investigator of the European Centre of Excellence in Earth Observation Research Training GIONET.

Dr. Bimal Bhattacharya

Dr. Bimal Bhattacharya has been associated with SAC ISRO Ahmedabad since 2000 as a Scientist SG. He received his PhD degree in Agriculture Physics in 1995 and his MSc degree in Agriculture Physics in 1991 from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He worked as a scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) from 1995 to 2000. Since 2000, he has been working in various scientific capacities at the Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

His work involves developing satellite-based agro-met products and their utilization in National Agro-met Advisory Services in India. He led the development of satellite-based surface energy balance modeling over Indian terrestrial ecosystems, primarily using remote sensing data from India’s geostationary sensors (INSAT VHRR, 3A CCD, 3D Imager). He also led an ISRO-Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (GBP) national-scale science project on Energy and Mass Exchange in Vegetative Systems. He is the principal investigator for land surface processes in the ISRO-CNES MEGHA-TROPIQUE mission and a science member of the MoES-NERC Indo-UK Monsoon project called INCOMPASS. He is the science leader of the AVIRIS-NG airborne hyperspectral mission in India and the science co-chair of the ISRO-CNES (Indo-French) thermal infrared mission. He currently represents ISRO in CEOS for land surface imaging.

Dr. Bhattacharya is a recipient of the P. R. Pisharoty award from the Indian Society of Remote Sensing and a young scientist award from AsiaFlux, Japan, sponsored by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). He also received an ISRO team member award. He is a teaching faculty member in the UN-sponsored course on “Satellite Meteorology and Global Climate” under the Centre for Space Science Technology and Education for Asia-Pacific (CSSTEAP). He has published over 50 research papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals.

Dr. George P. Petropoulos

Dr. George P. Petropoulos is an Associate Professor in Geoinformatics at the Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. His research focuses on the exploitation of geoinformation technology and geospatial data analysis techniques in geographical and environmental applications. He is the author or co-author of over 150 articles, 50 book chapters, and has edited 6 books. He has established global collaborations with key scientists in his field, and his research and teaching work has received international recognition through several significant awards and research funding.

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