Dr V Rajesh Chowdhary has more than a decade of experience in the field of Remote Sensing & GIS. He has obtained his doctorate in Remote Sensing & GIS from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and worked for three years as Research Associate. Currently, he is serving as Associate Professor at International Institute of Information Technology, Pune. He has obtained his Master and Bachelor degree from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Pune, India and Jawaharlal Technological University Kakinada, India respectively. His research interest includes RS&GIS application in Urban Planning & Management, Urban Disaster Risk Reduction & Management, Forest Carbon Stock, Ionospheric Modelling, Space Weather, GNSS, Web GIS, and Open GIS.

 

His key research projects includes, ASEAN- India Collaborative R&D project titled “Development of near real time regional TEC mapping at low-latitude Asean region using GNSS stations” as lead PI along with Thai and Malaysian partners, ASEAN-India S&T Development Fund (AISTDF), 2019-2021, Indo -Thai joint project on “Service Oriented Participatory Platform for Local SDI : Smart Civic Services for Second Tier Cities in Thailand and India” as Co-PI from Indian side, funded by Department of Science & Technology, International division, Indian government, 2019-2022, Research on ionospheric Scintillations in Asia (RISA) using GNSS, 2011- 2014 and Local ionospheric scintillation analysis (LISA) using GNSS stations in Thailand, 2014-2016 respectively, funded by US AOARD (United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development) and Collaborative Research for the Regional Forum on Climate Change on the topic “Developing new methods to monitor forest carbon in Asian tropical forests” 2016 – 2018.

 

He has conducted various workshops and trainings in the field Geoinformatics across India and Thailand for academic & professional bodies.

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