Geospatial Technology for Natural Resource Management

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Shruti Kanga PhD is an assistant professor in the Centre for Land Resource Management Central University of Jharkhand Ranchi. Her main areas of interest include forest fire risk modeling and management tourism and resource management. She has attended and organized over 35 national and international conferences. She has over 12 years of teaching and research experience. She was also the course coordinator for different modules of the EDUSAT based distance learning program organized by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing ISRO Indian Space Research Organization Government of India. Gowhar Meraj PhD works in the field of remote sensing watershed management hydrology disaster risk assessment and mitigation simulation modelling and spatial analysis. He is the principal investigator of a Department of Science and Technology Government of India sponsored research project where he assesses the impact of climate change on the critical ecosystem services of the Kashmir Valley. His work is with INVEST modelling for assessing sediment retention services water yield services and habitat quality in the Kashmir valley. He has more than 40 research publications. Suraj Kumar Singh PhD is an assistant professor at the Centre for Land Resource Management Central University of Jharkhand Ranchi. He over 12 years of teaching and research experience in the areas of waterlogging and flood hazards geospatial applications in water resources disaster management hydrogeomorphology urban planning and wasteland mapping. He was previously a course coordinator for different modules of the EDUSAT based distance learning program organized by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Indian Space Research Organization Government of India. Majid Farooq PhD is a working scientist in the Department of Ecology Environment and Remote Sensing Government of Jammu and Kashmir India. He has more than 15 years of experience in research teaching and consultancy related to remote sensing and GIS such as climate change vulnerability assessments flood modeling ecosystem assessment watershed management natural resource management ecosystem services and modeling. M. S. Nathawat PhD is a scientist of international repute. He has more than 150 publications in various international and national journals. His primary areas of research include remote sensing natural resource management environmental assessments desertification remote sensing and GIS natural resources management physical geography regional and urban planning environmental geomorphology climate change and disaster management. He is also a member of expert committees in various national bodies.