Dr. Sartajvir Singh is currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer at the Center of Excellence in Socio-Environmental Sustainability for River Sand Mining (SENSRS) and Project Director (ICSSR Project) at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. He is a digital image analyst with expertise in remote sensing and earned his PhD in Electronics & Communication Engineering (Outstanding Thesis Awardee, 2018) after completing his M. Tech (Gold Medalist) and B.Tech with Distinction. He is a Registered Indian Patent & Trademark Agent and a DGCA-approved drone operator, with 70+ innovations (35+ patents granted) and 90+ SCI/Scopus-indexed publications. He has secured over four Crore (INR) research funding, received multiple fellowships, held editorial positions, and is an IEEE Senior Member, advancing electronics, image processing, and geospatial intelligence.Dr. Vishakha Sood is working as Scientist at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, Punjab. She has been awarded with Women Scientist (WoS-A) Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India for three years i.e., 2022-2025. She received her PhD in 2020 for “Detection of Snow/Ice over North Indian Himalayas using satellite imagery. She has received the M. Tech and B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Himachal Pradesh University (in 2008) and M. Tech from Punjab Technical University (in 2011). She has also done MBA (Human Resource) from Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) Deemed to be University in 2010. She received the "Outstanding Performance Award" in CESA-FIESTA 2023 Symposium from IIT, Ropar. She has more than 10 years of experience in the field of academics, research and administration. She has authored many SCI-indexed articles (IEEE, T&F, ELSEVIER, and SPRINGER), SCOPUS indexed book chapters and holds many inventions. Her research interests include satellite sensors, remote sensing, and digital image analysis. She is IEEE Senior Member and active member of various societies as Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), Punjab Science Congress (Punjab Academy of Sciences) and IEEE Sensors council, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Digital Library and IEEE Women in Engineering. She is editing various Special Issues in the Journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMAS) –Springer and Frontiers in Earth Sciences and in addition, various books with Elsevier.Dr. Reet Kamal Tiwari received his M.Sc. degree in geology, M.Tech. degree in remote sensing and geographic information systems, and PhD degree in Earth sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India, in 2007, 2009, and 2015, respectively. In 2013, he joined the Centre for Glaciology, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, India, as a scientist. Since March 2017, he has been an assistant professor with the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. His research interests include geospatial technology applications in the fields of snow, ice and glaciers, climate change, natural resource management, environmental monitoring, and planetary sciences. He has secured over 15 Crore (INR) research funding, received multiple fellowships, held editorial positions, and is an IEEE Senior Member, advancing electronics, image processing, and geospatial intelligence. He is Senior IEEE member and an active member of various international and national societies, such as Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), and the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).Dileep Kumar Gupta received his doctoral degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. Dr. Dileep received several reputed awards like UGC-NET, GATE, UGC research fellowship and DST international travel support. He has published 30+ research articles in different peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings/book chapters. He is an expert in algorithm development for soil moisture and crop variables retrieval using different ground based and space borne active and passive microwave sensor. He is also an expert of different machine learning algorithms for remote sensing data processing. Prof. David G. Long has been on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Brigham Young University since 1990 where he teaches classes in radar, remote sensing, communications, and signal processing. He is the Director of the BYU Center for Remote Sensing and Head of the Microwave Earth Remote Sensing Laboratory. He served as Associate Dean of the BYU College of Engineering 2012-2016 and has been a principal investigator (PI) on several NASA projects in scatterometry, climate studies, rain observation, soil moisture and SAR. He is the PI for the Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (www.scp.byu.edu) and is a long-term member of the Ocean Vector Winds Science Team (OVWST), among others. His publication record incl udes over 152 journal papers, three books and over 300 conference papers. He has received several NASA Award of Achievement and Team Recognition awards. He is a founding Associate Editor for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. His research interests include microwave remote sensing, spaceborne scatterometry, synthetic aperture radar, signal processing, estimation theory, resolution enhancement, and polar ice
