Sustainable Development Perspectives in Earth Observation

Dr. Mukunda Dev Behera is an associate Professor in the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to this, he has worked for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Dr. Behera has made outstanding contributions to the fields of forest remote sensing, land and water resource management, and ecological climatology by theorizing, modeling, and conducting innovative experiments and field-based measurements with satellite remote sensing. He has developed innovative protocols and new methods for estimating a range of vegetation photosynthetic/ structural variables including leaf area index, canopy height, aboveground biomass and productivity using suite of satellite data products and modeling. He has over 110 peer-reviewed journal publications, and has co-edited several books. He serves the editorial boards of several reputed environmental journals and contributed to IPCC AR-6 of WG-II. Dr. Swadhin K. Behera is a distinguished scientist in climate variability and predictability studies. He has been working at JAMSTEC for over 20 years and is significantly involved in the climate analyses, prediction and application research with a particular emphasis on the role of oceans in tropical and extratropical climate variations. Using Earth Observation data and numerical modelling, Dr Behera studies interannual variability and coastal circulation in East Asia. He currently heads the Application Laboratory and also serves as an adjunct Professor in the University of Tokyo. He has published over 150 articles in highly cited international journals and has edited several books including “Tropical and extratropical air-sea interactions” (Elsevier). Dr. Saroj Kanta Barik is Director of the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. Before joining CSIR, he was Head of the Department of Botany, and Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. For the past three decades, he has been active in diverse areas of research such as bio-prospection and conservation, ecological modeling, population and molecular ecology, and impact of climate change on species and ecosystems. His group has been successfulin using satellite data to predict the distributional range and impact of climate change on several forest species. He has published 110 research papers, 12 books and 40 technical and research reports. Fourteen students have been awarded Ph.D. degrees under his supervision. Dr. Mrutyunjaya Mohapatra is the Director General of Meteorology in the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Government of India. He is also the Permanent Representative of India and Member of the Executive Council for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). He has significantly contributed to the improvement in cyclone warning services by IMD,and led upgradation of cyclone warning services in a holistic manner using Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). He has received appreciations from the WMO and Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences for providing timely and accurate tropical cyclone advisories to Myanmar during cyclone, Nargis in 2008. He has published more than 110 research papers and 15 Books. Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, a government secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, and the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Dr. Mohapatra previously held the position of Director-cum-Vice Chancellor of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Prior to this, he worked as the Director of National Rice Research Institute (formerly CRRI), India. He has worked at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi as a researcher and teacher for about 20 years. He is a scientist of global specializing in the area of molecular genetics and genomics. Dr. Mohapatra has over 145 research papers in national and international journals of repute and several book chapters.

• 1. Inter-linkage among Climate, Terrestrial and Marine systems: Sustainable Development PerspectivesMukunda Dev Behera, Swadhin Kumar Behera, Saroj Kanta Barik, Mrutyunjaya Mohapatra and Trilochan MohapatraSection A - Agriculture, Water and Climate Change2. Geospatial Applications for Crop Assessment: Sustainable Development PerspectiveV M Chowdary3. Agroforestry for Sustainable livelihood: Role of Geo-informatics, ICT and Citizen ScienceRaj Kumar Singh4. Sustaining Floriculture and Floral Fragrance in a Changing ClimateSaroj Kanta Barik5. Crop Insurance using Geo-information: a Strategy for Climate Change mitigationBikash Ranjan Parida6. Terrestrial water cycle in future climatePramit Kumar Deb Burman7. Impacts of Ocean-Atmospheric phenomena on Hydro-climatic extremesSarmistha Singh8. Coastal Water Resources Management and Geospatial TechnologySabyasachi Swain9. Dam Break analysis and Geo-informatics TechniquesRatnakar SwainSection B - Forest and land cover Systems and Climate Change10. Biodiversity, Climate Change and Remote Sensing: Adaptation and Mitigation ProspectiveMukunda Dev Behera11. Linking Meteorological and Phenological Observations in ForestsJaya Prakash12. Earth Observation for Monitoring of Shifting CultivationPulakesh Das13. Role of phenology as discriminant in vegetation type mappingMukunda Dev Behera14. Satellite-based Monitoring of Agriculture Resilience Succeeding Watershed DevelopmentAbigith baby15. Assessment of Agroforestry Land Use Systems for Sustainable Agriculture Development: A Geospatial Perspective using AI Shivam Trivedi16. Earth Observation based Mapping and Site Suitability analysis of Coffee Agro-Ecosystem in the face of Climate ChangeR Subramoniam17. Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Surface Dynamics of High-Altitude Wetlands Using Earth-Observation DatasetsMukunda Dev BeheraSection C - Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics and Climate Change Sea Level Change in Asia18. The Antarctic climate system: recent changes and their driversPranab Deb19. Sea Level Change in AsiaDhrubajyoti Samanta20. An overview of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Global warming interlinkPrabir K. Patra21. Advances in Earth Observation Satellites for Global Air Quality MonitoringJayanarayanan Kuttippurath22. Assessment of Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations using GISRam Avtar23. Forecasting Carbon Dioxide emission using Machine LearningMukunda Dev Behera and Pringale Kumar Das24. Role of ocean and Climate in Terrestrial ecosystemsSwadhin Kumar Behera25. Significant Rise in Aerosol Concentration in Past Two Decades over an Industrial AreaMukunda Dev Behera