Geo-information for Disaster Monitoring and Management

Introduction.- Landslide/ Slope failures/ Flood and glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFS) /Drought/ Desertification status mapping/ Tsunami/ Lightening/ Forest Fire/ Earthquake / Volcanic eruptions.- Statistical, multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), machine learning models (spatial prediction models).- Challenges and future needs.

Dr. Prem C. Pandey received PhD from University of Leicester, United Kingdom He did his Post-Doctoral from Tel Aviv University Israel. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, UP India. Previously, he has been associated with IESD, Banaras Hindu University India. He received his M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and M.Tech. in Remote Sensing. He worked on remote sensing applications as Professional Research funded by NRSC Government of India. He has been a recipient of several awards including Commonwealth UK, INSPIRE, MHRD and UGC fellowships, SERB-NPDF from GoI India. He has published >55 peer reviewed journal articles, 7 Edited Books, several book chapters and presented his work in several conferences. Additionally, he is also a member of Indian Society of Geomatics, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, IUCN-CEM, SPIE and AAG. He is also acting as editorial Board members of Geocarto International (T & F), Sustainable Development WILEY (IF 12.5), and serving as Guest editor for Remote Sensing, MDPI. He is having an expertise in remote sensing of environment research themes:  his research interests include natural resource including forestry, agricultural, urban studies and environmental pollutant modeling.

 Dr. Rajesh Kumar successfully defended his Ph.D. (Geography) on 'Fluvial Processes in Lower Rapti River Basin: A Case Study of Impacts on Arable Land' from the CSRD, JNU in 2011. He was awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in 2009 by the University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi. He worked as Research Associate in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Govt. of India (GoI)- sponsored project on 'Ganga River Basin Management Plan' in collaboration with School of Environmental Sciences, JNU and IIT Kanpur during October 2011 -July 2013. Further, he joined the CSRD as Research Associate and worked in the Departmentof