Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring

Dr. Prem Chandra Pandey

Dr. Prem Chandra Pandey holds a PhD from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, awarded under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Deemed to be University), 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 NRSC, Government of India.

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

Dr. Mukunda Dev Behera

Dr. Mukunda Dev Behera is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to this, he worked for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Dr. Behera has made significant contributions to the fields of forest remote sensing, land and water resource management, and ecological climatology through theoretical work, modeling, and innovative experimental and field-based research utilizing satellite remote sensing.

He has developed novel protocols and methodologies for estimating various vegetation photosynthetic and structural variables, including leaf area index, canopy height, aboveground biomass, and productivity, using a suite of satellite data products and modeling. He has authored over 110 peer-reviewed journal publications and co-edited several books. Dr. Behera serves on the editorial boards of multiple reputable environmental journals and contributed to the IPCC AR-6 of WG-II.

Dr. Kantamaneni

Dr. Kantamaneni is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), United Kingdom. Her research has, for the first time, produced a combined vulnerability assessment based on physical science parameters and economic drivers. Her academic background provides her with diverse perspectives, enabling her to engage in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects related to coastal and water infrastructures, natural disasters, risk assessment, and management.

Her research primarily focuses on coastal vulnerability, natural disasters, natural hazards, climate change, water infrastructure, and GIS mapping. She has been a plenary/keynote and invited speaker at many major international conferences. Dr. Kantamaneni has served as an evaluator for various coastal and maritime research projects and is also a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous international research projects.

Dr. Navneet Kumar

Dr. Navneet Kumar is a Professor and Head of the Geo-Meteorological Risk Management Division (GMRMD) at the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. He holds a PhD in Engineering (Hydrology and Climatology) from the University of Bonn, Germany, supported by a DAAD scholarship, and a Master’s degree in Geoinformatics from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Netherlands.

His work encompasses various aspects of disaster risk reduction and management, advanced applications of remote sensing and GIS for vegetation monitoring, drought, flood, and landslide risk assessment, mapping, and modeling. He has a particular focus on real-time monitoring frameworks, climate change, risk analysis, and land degradation. He has coordinated several projects in Africa and Asia, including India, West Africa, Algeria, Ethiopia, and South Korea. He has contributed to capacity-building initiatives at the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences in Tlemcen, Algeria, and collaborated on a global classroom program with institutions in the USA and Brazil.

Professor Kumar has lectured, conducted trainings and workshops, and presented at several international conferences, earning multiple awards. He has published numerous papers in international peer-reviewed journals, co-edited four handbooks, co-authored several book chapters, proceedings, and global reports that reflect both scientific rigor and policy relevance. Professor Kumar has also served as a guest editor for various international journals, a reviewer of grant proposals from Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, and a member of international committees.

Prior to joining NIDM, Professor Kumar worked at the University of Bonn, Germany. In this role, he coordinated disciplinary PhD courses and was a member of the ethical committee for the doctoral program at the Center for Development Research (ZEF). He also coordinated several research and capacity-building projects. Additionally, he held a position at the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, Germany, where his responsibilities included the proactive promotion, strengthening, and expansion of scientific networks to establish partnerships with pertinent institutions, including United Nations organizations.

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