Ongoing PhD Students

          

Swarnendu Sekhar Ghosh

PhD Student, CSRE, IIT Bombay

Mr. Swarnendu Sekhar Ghosh received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering and M.tech degree in Applied Mathematics. He is currently working in MRS Lab as a Ph.D. student. His current research is focused on the retrieval of biophysical crop parameters estimation using PolSAR data.

Research Interest: 

  • Remote sensing of vegetation
  • SAR Polarimetry
  • Bio-geophysical Parameter retrieval
  • Statistical learning

          

Abhinav Verma

PhD Student, CSRE, IIT Bombay

Mr. Verma has received an integrated master in technology degree in Geo-informatics from Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi. He is currently a Ph. D. scholar at the MRSLab. His research aims to advance and apply radar remote sensing datasets for different land cover applications. He is particularly interested in developing new dual- and compact-polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data methodologies useful in land cover characterization.

Research Interest: 

  • SAR Polarimetry
  • Target characterization
  • Urban area monitoring/change dynamics
  • Crop characterization

          

Sandeep Kumar

PhD Student, CSRE, IIT Bombay

Mr. Sandeep Kumar received his Master’s (Int. MTech) in Geoinformatics from the Central University of Jharkhand. As a PhD student, his current research is focused on the Modelling of Forest Disturbances Using Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Data.

Research Interest: 

  • Remote Sensing of Vegetation
  • Vegetation Disturbace
  • Forest Fire

          

Ashmitha Nihar

PhD Candidate, CSRE, IIT Bombay

Ashmitha is a Ph.D. scholar at MRSLab specializing in crop characterization using SAR polarimetry. Her research focuses on the evolution of crop geometry and its manifestation in radar scattering across phenological stages. She received her B.Tech in Agricultural Information Technology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and her M.Tech in Remote Sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO.

Research Interest: 

  • SAR Polarimetry
  • Crop characterization
  • Land surface phenology extraction
  • Crop biophysical parameter retrieval

        

Bhavana K

Dual degree (M.Tech. + PhD) Student, CSRE, IIT Bombay

Ms. Bhavana K holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. She is currently associated with the lab as a dual-degree (M.Tech. + Ph.D.) student in Geoinformatics and Natural Resources Engineering. Her research focuses on spatiotemporal analysis of urban vegetation dynamics using SAR polarimetry. She is also involved in the fusion of multi-temporal SAR and Optical datasets to track urban ecological shifts. .

Research Interest: 

  • SAR Polarimetry
  • Urban Vegetation Mapping
  • Green Urban Dynamics
  • Data Fusion