About

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Mr. Sayanta Ghosh has been working in the field of Geospatial Technology Applications for the last seven years in different reputed national institutes and CSIR labs in India.

Presenlty, he is working as the Area Convenor of Centre for Geospatial Technology Application (CGTA) under the Land Resources Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India. Major activities of his present engagement are Forest Biomass Assessment using Multisource Earth Observation Data. He is basically handling the RS-GIS activities of various projects of the Land Resources division such as modelling spatial carbon stock and carbon sequestration potential of different LULC classes, Carbon Stock Assessment, Soil Organic Carbon Mapping, Vulnerability Assessment of forest & biodiversity, etc.

He has experience in multiscale weather and climate modeling, specifically extreme weather modeling for high altitude areas. He has adequate knowledge in the applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Agriculture and Crop Monitoring, Environmental Impact Assessment, Forestry and Ecology, Water Resources, Integrated Disaster Modeling over GIS platform. Mr. Sayanta Ghosh has presented his research findings at various international conferences in different countries including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Turkey, Germany, Austria, U.S.A., Canada, and Nepal. As of now, he has more than 25 publications in his credit in various reputed scientific journals and international conference proceedings. He has been a life member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Meteorological Society (IMS), Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH). Also, he has been a regular member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), European Geosciences Union (EGU) and Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE). He has received many awards including INSPIRE scholarship from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and Best Oral Presentation award in the prestigious “International Conference on Technological Interventions for Sustainability” (CHEM-CONFLUX²²).