- Main area of research: Agro-informatics and Rural
Development
- Expertise: Geo-Spatial Technology in Rural Extension
Activities; Rural-Informatics in decision making; Remote
Sensing and
Geographical Information Systems in the study of soils, rural
land-use planning and watershed / conservation management
- Independently carried out research projects on Agro-Informatics/Rural-Informatics
(Principal Investigator) : 6
# Watershed management information systems
# Village Level Information System
# SDSS/LUP
# WebLUP / WebLUSA
# GramyaVikas
# GeoSense
- With group (Co-Principal Investigator) : 10
Natural resources /wastelands/agricultural
land use pattern/desertification/drought
- Attended and presented results
in international symposia / meetings and published in international
refereed journals
(about 40)
- Tools Developed:
# Stand-alone SDSS/LUP – 2001
# prototype WebLUP –2003
# Off-the-shelf VLIS – 2004
# WebLUSA - 2007
# GramyaVikas - 2008/09
- Geo-ICT Tools/Models Recognition:
IBSRAM (now IWM):
# Rule-based soil erosion- 1999
# SDSS/LUP – 2001
MoRD:
# GramyaVikas
- Our prototype
models (1) Rule-based soil erosion (of the watershed management
information system-WATMIS); and (2)
SDSS/LUP) are included in the Land Management computer tools
from the developing regions (http://203.209.62.252/landman/about.html)
- Academic
Courses Taught:
# Natural Resources Management,
# Rural-Informatics,
# Remote Sensing & GIS in Soils/Agriculture/Land Use
- Board Member, Asian Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Japan (http://www.jsai.or.jp/afita/);
and Executive Member, Indian Society of Agricultural Information
Technology (http://www.insait.org)
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Future Activities:
# ICDS through multi- mode technologies
(GeoICT / Mobile telephony / Village Resource Centers)
# Precision Agriculture
# Geo-data mining/ geo-visualization
# Workshops/ Conference in India/Japan on GeoSense
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