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Remote Sensing/GIS & Irrigation Analytics Consultant | ET, Crop Water Use, Groundwater & Climate Systems

Profile Summary

I am an India–US trained geospatial, irrigation and agriculture systems scientist with over 20 years of experience delivering operational remote sensing, evapotranspiration (ET) and water productivity analytics for irrigation, agriculture and environmental programs. I have worked in the Remote Sensing Services Laboratory at Utah State University and as a remote sensing and irrigation consultant with Davids Engineering (California), supporting irrigation districts, water agencies and growers using SEBAL, METRIC, thermal and multispectral satellite and airborne data. Currently, I lead national-scale digital agriculture and geospatial programs in India as Dean of Post-Graduate Studies and Head of the Centre for Geospatial Technologies, where we apply satellite, drone and AI-based analytics for crop health, groundwater, climate resilience and irrigation performance. I help clients translate satellite and field data into decision-ready outputs — ET maps, crop coefficients, crop stress indicators, groundwater potential, and water-productivity metrics — that can be used in research, policy, farm management and development projects.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Agricultural Engineering
• ★ Remote Sensing
• ★ Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• ☆ Environmental Engineering and Technology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Image Processing
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Earth & Atmospheric Science
• ☆ Geographic Information Systems
• ☆ Environmental Science
• ☆ Environmental Management & Protection
• ☆ Information Retrieval

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Professor

Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences

June 2013 - Present

Staff Agricultural/Irrigation Engineer/Remote Sensing Specialist

Davids Engineering Inc.

August 2006 - May 2013

Graduate Research Assistant

Remote Sensing Services Lab, Utah State University

August 2003 - August 2006

Education

Ph.D. in Irrigation Engineering (Irrigation and Drainage Engineering)

Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture

July 2013 - June 2017

Master of Science in Irrigation Engineering (Biological and Irrigation Engineering)

Utah State University

August 2002 - August 2006

Certifications

• Application and Implementation of Mapping Evapo-Transpiration at High Resolution with Internalized Calibration (METRIC)

  Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV

  February 2012 - Present

Publications

OTHER

Kumar, N., Lal, D., Suryavanshi, S., Sheering, A., Rawat, V., Anand, A., Ahmad, A., Kumar, M.(2024). Applicability of Geospatial tools for long-term sediment deposit analysis including its methods of reclamations. A case study of Ganga River Basin, India . Research Square.

Kumar, N., Lal, D., Suryavanshi, S., Sherring, A., Rawat, V., Anand, A., Ahmad, A., Kumar, M.(2024). Applicability of HEC RAS & Microwave Remote Sensing Techniques in Flood Evacuation. A Case Study of Gandak River, Bihar, India . Research Square.

Kumar, M., Mahato, L.L., Suryavanshi, S., Singh, S.K., Kundu, A., Dutta, D., Lal, D.(2022). Future prediction of water balance using SWAT and CA-Markov methods under recent climate projections: A case study of the Silwani watershed (Jharkhand), India . Research Square.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Kumar, M., Mahato, L.L., Suryavanshi, S., Singh, S.K., Kundu, A., Dutta, D., Lal, D.(2024). Future prediction of water balance using the SWAT and CA-Markov model using INMCM5 climate projections: a case study of the Silwani watershed (Jharkhand), India . Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31. (41). p. 54311-54324.

Kumar, M., Singh, S.K., Kundu, A., Tyagi, K., Menon, J., Frederick, A., Raj, A., Lal, D.(2022). GIS-based multi-criteria approach to delineate groundwater prospect zone and its sensitivity analysis . Applied Water Science. 12. (4).

Lamat, R., Kumar, M., Kundu, A., Lal, D.(2021). Forest fire risk mapping using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and earth observation datasets: a case study in the mountainous terrain of Northeast India . SN Applied Sciences. 3. (4).

Pyngrope, O.R., Kumar, M., Pebam, R., Singh, S.K., Kundu, A., Lal, D.(2021). Investigating forest fragmentation through earth observation datasets and metric analysis in the tropical rainforest area . SN Applied Sciences. 3. (7).

Mahato, L.L., Kumar, M., Suryavanshi, S., Singh, S.K., Lal, D.(2021). Statistical investigation of long-term meteorological data to understand the variability in climate: a case study of Jharkhand, India . Environment Development and Sustainability. 23. (11). p. 16981-17002.

Kumar, N., Kumar, M., Sherring, A., Suryavanshi, S., Ahmad, A., Lal, D.(2020). Applicability of HEC-RAS 2D and GFMS for flood extent mapping: a case study of Sangam area, Prayagraj, India . Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 6. (1). p. 397-405.

Ahmed, H.A., Singh, S.K., Kumar, M., Maina, M.S., Dzwairo, R., Lal, D.(2020). Impact of urbanization and land cover change on urban climate: Case study of Nigeria . Urban Climate. 32.

Kennao, P., Lal, D., Kesharwani, L.(2019). Crime Scene Mapping using Differential GPS and Geospatial Techniques for Simulated Outdoor Crime Scenes . Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine. 1. (10). p. 1387-1396.

Murmu, P., Kumar, M., Lal, D., Sonker, I., Singh, S.K.(2019). Delineation of groundwater potential zones using geospatial techniques and analytical hierarchy process in Dumka district, Jharkhand, India . Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 9.

Kumar, N., Lal, D., Sherring, A., Issac, R.K.(2017). Applicability of HEC-RAS & GFMS tool for 1D water surface elevation/flood modeling of the river: a Case Study of River Yamuna at Allahabad (Sangam), India . Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 3. (4). p. 1463-1475.

BOOK CHAPTER

Marak, S.R., Kumar, M., Kundu, A., Dutta, D., Pebam, R., Chattoraj, K.K., Lal, D.(2023). Shifting cultivation in the East Garo Hills, Meghalaya (India): an Earth observation perspective . Water Land and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability Insight Towards Management Conservation and Ecosystem Services Volume 2 Science of Sustainable Systems. 2. p. 439-458.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Riahtam, N.B., Nongkynrih, J.M., Sarma, K.K., Raju, P.L.N., Mishra, A.R., Lal, D., Kharsahnoh, A.M., Sahkhar, D.J.(2018). Assessment of shifting cultivation dynamics in East Garo Hills District, Meghalaya, India . Iop Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 169. (1).

Ashish, J.K.J., Laloo, B., Kyndiah, A.K., Lal, D.(2017). Assessment and validation of remotely sensed rainfall data(TRMM) for the state of Meghalaya, India . 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing Space Applications Touching Human Lives Acrs 2017. 2017-October.