Geospatial Modeling for Environmental Management (ePub)

Shruti Kanga is an associate professor and coordinator at the Center for Climate Change and Water Resources, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, India. Previously she was an assistant professor at Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi and also served as Research Associate in Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF). She received her PhD in 2013 from the Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi. She has worked in the areas of forest fires risk modeling and management, tourism, resource management etc.

Suraj Kumar Singh is an associate professor and coordinator at the Center for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur. Previously he worked as an assistant professor at the Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ), Ranchi. He has also served as Research Associate in National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2012 from the Department of Remote Sensing, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi. He has experience in the area of water logging and flood hazards, geospatial applications in water resources, disaster management, hydrogeomorphology, urban planning and wasteland mapping.

Gowhar Meraj is a Young Scientist Fellow, in the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India's Scheme for Young Scientist and Technologists (SYST) at Department of Ecology, Environment, and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Previously he worked at the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and as a consultant with World Bank Group, New Delhi for its South Asia Water Initiative Program. He has done his M Phil. and M Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Kashmir, India. He has more than nine years of experience in research and teaching in various themes related to satellite remote sensing and GIS. He has published over 40 articles in various international and national