CSIR-CIMAP









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Name
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Vineet Kumar
Designation
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Scientist D
Address
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CSIR-CIMAP, Near Kukrail Picnic Spot, Lucknow, 226015
E. mail
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vineetk[dot]cimap[at]csir[dot]res[dot]in
Contact No
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9769064250
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0000000000
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    Remote Sensing (Satellites, UAVs, Sensor-based), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing, Geo-spatial Analytics, Precision Agriculture, Crop Mapping and Monitoring (Phenology, Bio-physical characteristics, Soil moisture, Water requirements, Yield, Stress factors), Modelling and Observation of the Terrestrial Earth System
  • B.Tech. Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • M.Tech. Remote Sensing and GIS
  • Ph.D. Remote Sensing
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa, Canada & Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, - Visiting Researcher (April 2016- July 2016 )
  • Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences - Postdoctoral Researcher (May 2019- October 2022 )
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-United Nations), Rome, Italy, Geospatial Unit, Land and Water Division - Geospatial Data Expert (Consultant) (July 2023- October 2023 )
  • Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, Centre for Geo-informatics, JTSDS - Assistant Professor (November 2023- September 2024 )
  • IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands, Land and Water Management - Lecturer (October 2024- October 2025 )
  • CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow, India, Crop Production and Protection - Scientist-D (March 2026- till date )
  • Best Paper Award,for oral presentation on “Rice crop monitoring using quad-pol SAR data in part of Indo-Gangetic plain of India” by GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India in 2013
  • Ph.D. Teaching Assistantship,To conduct PhD research at IIT Bombay by Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India in 2014-2019
  • Travel Grant,to attend IGARSS-2015 conference at Milan, Italy by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2015
  • Travel Grant,to attend ISPRS Mid Term Symposium-2014 at Hyderabad, India.by Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) in 2014
  • Shastri Research Scholar Fellowship,Visiting Research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI), New Delhi, India in 2016
  • Travel Grant,to attend IGARSS-2017 conference at Texas, USA by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2017
  • Travel Grant,to attend POLINSAR-2017 International Workshop, held at Frascati (Rome), Italy by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India in 2017
  • Travel Grant,to attend a Workshop on promoting collaborations among GEOGLAM/JECAM/Asia-RICE at TARI, Taichung, Taiwanby TARI-Taiwan under JECAM SAR project in 2018
  • Sakshi Jain, Unmesh Khati, and Vineet Kumar. Integrating Dual-pol SAR parameters and Multi-spectral vegetation indices for Wheat crop classification in fragmented land parcels. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 2026
  • Sakshi Jain, Unmesh Khati, Vineet Kumar and R. K. Verma. Detection of Soybean Pod Formation Stage Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE-JSTARS) 2025
  • Tina Nikaein, Paco Lopez-Dekker, Susan Steele-Dunne, Vineet Kumar, and Manuel Huber. Modeling SAR Observables with Combining a Crop-Growth Model and a Machine-Learning. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE-JSTARS) 2023
  • Vineet Kumar, Manuel Huber, Bjorn Rommen and Susan C. Steele-Dunne. Agricultural SandboxNL: A National-scale database of parcel-level, processed Sentinel-1 SAR data. Nature - Scientific Data 2022
  • Maurice Shorachi, Vineet Kumar and Susan C. Steele-Dunne. Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Response to Agricultural Drought in The Netherlands. Remote Sensing (MDPI) 2022
  • Paul Vermunt, Saeed Khabbazan, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Vineet Kumar and Jasmeet Judge. Towards understanding the influence of vertical water distribution on radar backscatter from vegetation using multi-layer water cloud model. Remote Sensing (MDPI) 2022
  • Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, Heather McNairn, and Y. S. Rao. A multi-year cross-validation experiment for estimating rice plant area index (PAI) over the JECAM-India test site from simulated RADARSAT constellation mission (RCM) compact polarimetric SAR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2021
  • Hosseini, M., McNairn, H., Mitchell, S., Robertson, L. D., Davidson, A., Ahmadian, N., Bhattacharya, A., Borg, E., Conrad, C., Dabrowska-Zielinska, K., de Abelleyra, D., Gurdak, R., Kumar, Vineet, Kussul, N., Mandal, D., Rao, Y. S., Saliendra, N., Shelestov, A., Spengler, D., ... Becker-Reshef, I.. A Comparison between Support Vector Machine and Water Cloud Model for Estimating Crop Leaf Area Index. Remote Sensing (MDPI) 2021
  • Vineet Kumar, Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao. Crop characterization using an improved scattering power decomposition technique for compact polarimetric SAR data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2020
  • 10. Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Debanshu Ratha, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Heather McNairn, and Y. S. Rao. Dual Polarimetric Radar Vegetation Index for Crop Growth Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data. Remote Sensing of Environment 2020
  • Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Debanshu Ratha, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Avik Bhattacharya, Heather McNairn, Y. S. Rao, and K.V. Ramana. Assessment of rice growth conditions in a semi-arid region of India using the Generalized Radar Vegetation Index derived from RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR data. Remote Sensing of Environment 2020
  • Dipankar Mandal, Debanshu Ratha, Avik Bhattacharya, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Y. S. Rao, and A. C. Frery. A Radar Vegetation Index for crop monitoring using compact polarimetric SAR data. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing 2020
  • Subhadip Dey, Dipankar Mandal, Laura Dingle Robertson, Biplab Banerjee, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao. In-season crop classification using elements of the Kennaugh matrix derived from polarimetric RADARSAT-2 SAR data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2020
  • Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar and Y. S. Rao. An assessment of temporal RADARSAT-2 SAR data for crop classification using KPCA based support vector machine. GeoCarto International 2020
  • Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez, Avik Bhattacharya, Heather McNairn, and Y. S. Rao. Crop biophysical parameter retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR data with a multi-target inversion of Water Cloud Model. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2020
  • Vineet Kumar, Y. S. Rao, Avik Bhattacharya and Shane Cloude. Classification Assessment of Real vs. Simulated Compact and Quad-Pol Modes of ALOS-2. IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters 2019
  • Debanshu Ratha, Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, and A. C. Frery. A Generalized Volume Scattering Model-Based Vegetation Index from Polarimetric SAR Data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 2019
  • Dipankar Mandal, Mehdi Hosseini, Heather McNairn, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao, Scott Mitchell, Laura D. Robertson, Andrew Davidson, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska. An Investigation of Inversion Methodologies to Retrieve the Leaf Area Index of Corn from C-Band SAR Data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2019
  • Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao. Joint Estimation of Plant Area Index (PAI) and Wet biomass in Wheat and Soybean from C-band Polarimetric SAR Data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2019
  • Siddharth Hariharan, Dipankar Mandal, Siddhesh Tirodkar, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, and J. M. Lopez-Sanchez. A Novel Phenology Based Feature Subset Selection using Random Forest for Multi-temporal PolSAR Crop Classification. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE-JSTARS) 2018
  • Unmesh Khati, Vineet Kumar, Debmita Bandyopadhyay, Mohammad Musthafa, and Gulab Singh. Identification of forest cutting in managed forest of Haldwani, India using ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR data. Journal of Environmental Management 2018
  • Dipankar Mandal, Vineet Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, Y. S. Rao, Paul Siqueria and Soumen Bera. Sen4Rice: A Processing Chain for Differentiating Early and Late Transplanted Rice using Time-Series Sentinel-1 SAR Data with Google Earth Engine. IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters 2018
  • Vineet Kumar, Heather McNairn, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao. Temporal Response of Scattering from Crops for Transmitted Ellipticity Variation in Simulated Compact-Pol SAR Data. IEEE-Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2017
  • Vineet Kumar, Mamta Kumari and S. K. Saha. Discrimination of Basmati and Non-basmati Rice Types using Polarimetric Target decompositions of Temporal SAR Data. Current Science 2016
  • Mamta Kumari, Vineet Kumar and S. K. Saha. Rice Crop Growth Assessment using C-Band RISAT-1 data. Asian Journal of Geo-informatics 2015
  • Vineet Kumar, Mamta Kumari and S. K. Saha. Leaf Area Index Estimation of Lowland Rice using Semi-empirical Backscattering Model. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS-SPIE) 2013