Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Hari Shanker Srivastava,
https://www.iirs.gov.in/Dr-Hari-Shankar-Srivastava
Institutional email ID: harishanker_srivastava@iirs.gov.in ; ppeg@iirs.gov.in
Group Head, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS/ISRO), Dehradun - 248 001
Dr. Hari Shanker Srivastava is a senior scientist and faculty member at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), Dehradun, India. He is currently serving there as the Group Head, Programme Planning & Evaluation Group (PPEG). He is also a faculty member of ISRO’s EDUSAT-based distance learning program. Dr. Srivastava received his M.Sc. degree (Gold medallist) in Physics from Kanpur University, Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, with a focus on synthetic aperture radar (SAR). He joined the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India, in 1991.
Over the past 34 years, he has contributed significantly in various microwave remote sensing projects on soil moisture estimation, agricultural studies, crop yield estimation, wetlands, forestry, human settlement, InSAR, PolSAR, PolInSAR, and absolute radiometric calibration/validation of ERS-1, ERS-2, and RISAT-1 SAR using multiparametric microwave data from ground-based scatterometers, ISRO airborne SAR, ERS-1 SAR, ERS-1/2 tandem mission, L-band JERS-1 SAR, X-C-L SIR-C/X-SAR, RADARSAT-1 SAR, ENVISAT-1 ASAR, RADARSAT-2 PolSAR, C-L-P fully polarimetric DLR E-SAR, hybrid polarimetric RISAT-1 SAR, and passive AMSR-E and SMOS. He was a Co-Principal Investigator for the European Space Agency’s SMOS Cal/Val Announcement of Opportunity (AO) Project and the Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT-2 (SOAR) AO project.
He has authored over 150 research publications and has received more than 2000 citations. Dr. Srivastava is a reviewer for various journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, International Journal of Remote Sensing, PloS, JARS, JISRS, SPIE, IGARSS and InGARSS He has mentored numerous M.Tech. and M.Sc. students in microwave remote sensing applications and is currently supervising three Ph.D. students registered with IIT Roorkee, India, and IIT Dhanbad, India.
