Y. S. Rao
Born
India
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
Alma materAndhra University
IIT Bombay
Known forSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry, Satellite crop monitoring
Scientific career
FieldsRemote sensing
InstitutionsIIT Bombay
Websitewww.csre.iitb.ac.in/ysrao

Dr. Y. S. Rao is a professor at the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.[1][2][3] He is working in the field of microwave remote sensing and land based applications for more than 34 years.[4] His early research was focused on the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry for landslides and land deformation monitoring, Digital Elevation Model generation, snow and glacier monitoring. He is also actively involved in developing several techniques for soil moisture estimation using passive and active microwave remote sensing data for more than 25 years.[4] His current research involves SAR Polarimetry for crop characterization, classification, biophysical parameter retrieval using linear and compact-pol[5] SAR data. Apart from applications, he has also contributed in the field of Polarimetric SAR system calibration and software tool development.[6][4][7]

Education

Rao received the M.Sc. degree in physics from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 1992.[2][8]

Professional career

He joined the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in 1985, as a senior research assistant and then became a research scientist in 1999. During 2005–2009, he was a senior research scientist and then associate professor from 2009 to 2014. He is currently a professor since 2015.[1][2] He was engaged in both passive and active microwave remote sensing for several applications viz. soil moisture,[9][10][11][12][13] flood mapping,[14] and crop inventory mapping.[15][16] He has participated in several space borne campaigns for collecting synchronous ground-truth data and has experience in handling various data set for several applications of cryosphere,[17][18][19][20] agriculture,[21][22] water-resources.[23][24] His current research interests include application of polarimetry for geophysical parameter retrieval[25][23] and SAR interferometry for DEM[26][27] and land deformation.[28]

He is actively involved in teaching several courses including Principles of Remote Sensing, Microwave Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Advanced Concepts in Polarimetric SAR Data Analysis for M.Tech. and Ph.D. students for the last 12 years.[1] He is also invited for lectures/training programs in several Institutes/Universities. He has conducted numerous training programmes for Indians on SAR and InSAR related activities as a member of task group, and also organized international programmes with the help of DLR Germany, CNES France and University of Cape Town, South Africa.[4]

He supervises doctoral and masters research on both PolSAR and InSAR applications. Dr. Rao is the principal and co-principal investigator of numerous projects sponsored by European Space Agency (ESRIN/ESA); German Aerospace Centre (DLR); the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India; Snow & Avalanche Study Estt (SASE), Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL), Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE)- Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Government of India; Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO); Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research (SAMEER), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India; and GEOGLAM-JECAM SAR Inter-Comparison Experiment.[4] He has authored more than 100 scientific publications in refereed international-national journals and conference proceedings.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Faculty | Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), IIT Bombay".
  2. 1 2 3 "Y.S.Rao's Homepage". www.csre.iitb.ac.in. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "People-MRSLab".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Yalamanchili Subrahmanyeswara Rao" (PDF).
  5. ↑ Raney, R.K. (Winter 2007). "Hybrid-Polarity SAR Architecture". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 45 (11): 3397–3404. Bibcode:2007ITGRS..45.3397R. doi:10.1109/tgrs.2007.895883. ISSN 0196-2892. S2CID 14851919.
  6. ↑ "Contacts and Acknowledgement | PolSARpro | ESA". earth.esa.int. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Software Development for Polarimetric SAR Data Processing: PolSDP". ResearchGate. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "Yalamanchili S. Rao". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  9. ↑ Rae, K.S.; Raju, S.; Rao, Y.S. (1991). "Model for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture and Surface Roughness Parameters from Multifrequency Backscattering Coefficients". [Proceedings] IGARSS'91 Remote Sensing: Global Monitoring for Earth Management. Vol. 2. pp. 397–400. doi:10.1109/igarss.1991.579166. ISBN 978-0879426750. S2CID 62264358.
  10. ↑ Ijjas, G.; Rao, K.S.; Rao, Y.S. (1991). "Efficiency of 1.4 and 2.7 GHZ Radiometers Data for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture Profile". [Proceedings] IGARSS'91 Remote Sensing: Global Monitoring for Earth Management. Vol. 2. pp. 765–768. doi:10.1109/igarss.1991.579998. ISBN 978-0879426750. S2CID 62102635.
  11. ↑ IJJAS, G.; RAO, Y. S. (Winter 1992). "Passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture from aircraft in Hungary". International Journal of Remote Sensing. 13 (3): 471–479. Bibcode:1992IJRS...13..471I. doi:10.1080/01431169208904050. ISSN 0143-1161.
  12. ↑ Rao, K. S.; Narasimha Rao, P. V.; Subrahmanyeswara Rao, Y.; Chandra, Girish; Suresh Raju, C.; Bapat, M. V. (Fall 1988). "A study on the effect of the soil texture on passive microwave remote sensing". Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. 16 (3): 55–63. Bibcode:1988JISRS..16...55R. doi:10.1007/bf02998739. ISSN 0255-660X. S2CID 129417213.
  13. ↑ Rao, Y.; Sharma, S.; Garg, V.; Venkataraman, G. (2006). "Soil Moisture Mapping over India using Aqua AMSR-E Derived Soil Moisutre Product". 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. pp. 2999–3002. doi:10.1109/igarss.2006.770. ISBN 978-0780395107. S2CID 39047996.
  14. ↑ Rao, Y. S.; Sharma, Sonika (1 December 2006). Kogan, Felix; Habib, Shahid; Hegde, V. S; Matsuoka, Masashi (eds.). "Monitoring of flood over Gujarat region using AQUA AMSR-E derived surface soil moisture". Disaster Forewarning Diagnostic Methods and Management. SPIE. 6412: 641208. Bibcode:2006SPIE.6412E..08R. doi:10.1117/12.697525. S2CID 140672195.
  15. ↑ Kumar, Vineet; Mandal, Dipankar; Rao, Y. S.; Meadows, Peter (2017). "Hybrid and dual linear polarimetric RISAT-1 SAR data for classification assessment". 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). pp. 1028–1031. doi:10.1109/igarss.2017.8127130. ISBN 9781509049516. S2CID 31775525.
  16. ↑ Turkar, Varsha; De, Shaunak; Rao, Y. S.; Shitole, Sanjay; Bhattacharya, Avik; Das, Anup (2013). "Comparative analysis of classification accuracy for RISAT-1 compact polarimetric data for various land-covers". 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS. pp. 3586–3589. doi:10.1109/igarss.2013.6723605. ISBN 9781479911141. S2CID 39185190.
  17. ↑ Rao, Y. S.; Venkataraman, G.; Singh, G. (1 December 2006). "ENVISAT-ASAR data analysis for snow cover mapping over Gangotri region". In Valinia, Azita; Uratsuka, Seiho; Misra, Tapan (eds.). Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment V. SPIE Conference Series. Vol. 6410. SPIE. p. 641007. Bibcode:2006SPIE.6410E..07R. doi:10.1117/12.693845. S2CID 129109511.
  18. ↑ Kumar, V.; Rao, Y.; Venkataraman, G.; Sarwade, R.; Snehmani (2006). "Analysis of Aqua AMSR-E Derived Snow Water Equivalent over Himalayan Snow Covered Regions". 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. pp. 702–705. doi:10.1109/igarss.2006.184. ISBN 978-0780395107. S2CID 1583994.
  19. ↑ y.s. Rao, G. Venkataraman (2004). "SAR interferometry for DEM generation and movemnet of Indian glaciers". IEEE International IEEE International IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004. Vol. 2. pp. 1128–1131. doi:10.1109/igarss.2004.1368612. ISBN 978-0780387423. S2CID 30338062.
  20. ↑ Rao, Y. S. (2011), "Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry for Glacier Movement Studies", Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1133–1142, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_618, ISBN 9789048126415
  21. ↑ Kumar, Vineet; McNairn, Heather; Bhattacharya, Avik; Rao, Yalamanchili Subrahmanyeswara (2017). "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. 10 (12): 5163–5174. Bibcode:2017IJSTA..10.5163K. doi:10.1109/jstars.2017.2757041. ISSN 1939-1404. S2CID 35935745.
  22. ↑ Mandal, Dipankar; Kumar, Vineet; Bhattacharya, Avik; Rao, Yalamanchili Subrahmanyeswara; Siqueira, Paul; Bera, Soumen (2018). "Sen4Rice: A Processing Chain for Differentiating Early and Late Transplanted Rice Using Time-Series Sentinel-1 SAR Data With Google Earth Engine". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 15 (12): 1947–1951. Bibcode:2018IGRSL..15.1947M. doi:10.1109/lgrs.2018.2865816. ISSN 1545-598X. S2CID 56172393.
  23. 1 2 Ponnurangam, G. G.; Jagdhuber, Thomas; Hajnsek, Irena; Rao, Y. S. (2016). "Soil Moisture Estimation Using Hybrid Polarimetric SAR Data of RISAT-1". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 54 (4): 2033–2049. Bibcode:2016ITGRS..54.2033P. doi:10.1109/tgrs.2015.2494860. ISSN 0196-2892. S2CID 7932702.
  24. ↑ Ponnurangam, G. G.; Rao, Y. S. (22 May 2017). "Evaluation of different orientation angle distributions within the X-Bragg scattering model for bare soil moisture estimation". International Journal of Remote Sensing. 38 (15): 4379–4395. Bibcode:2017IJRS...38.4379P. doi:10.1080/01431161.2017.1320447. ISSN 0143-1161. S2CID 134834334.
  25. ↑ Mandal, Dipankar; Kumar, Vineet; Bhattacharya, A.; Rao, Y. S.; McNairn, Heather (2018). "Crop Biophysical Parameters Estimation with a Multi-Target Inversion Scheme using the Sentinel-1 SAR Data". IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. pp. 6611–6614. doi:10.1109/igarss.2018.8518700. ISBN 9781538671504. S2CID 53231047.
  26. ↑ Deo, Rinki; Rossi, Cristian; Eineder, Michael; Fritz, Thomas; Rao, Y. S. (2015). "Framework for Fusion of Ascending and Descending Pass TanDEM-X Raw DEMs" (PDF). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 8 (7): 3347–3355. Bibcode:2015IJSTA...8.3347D. doi:10.1109/jstars.2015.2431433. ISSN 1939-1404. S2CID 35278122.
  27. ↑ Rao, Y. S.; Deo, R.; Nalini, J.; Pillai, A. M.; Muralikrishnan, S.; Dadhwal, V. K. (27 November 2014). "Quality assessment of TanDEM-X DEMs using airborne LiDAR, photogrammetry and ICESat elevation data". ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. II-8: 187–192. Bibcode:2014ISPAn.II8..187R. doi:10.5194/isprsannals-ii-8-187-2014. ISSN 2194-9050.
  28. ↑ Vaka, Divya Sekhar; Rao, Y. S. (2018). "Deformation of Bhuj Earthquake Area Obtained with Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Analysis of Alos L-Band Sar Data". IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. pp. 513–516. doi:10.1109/igarss.2018.8519072. ISBN 9781538671504. S2CID 53231271.
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