Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing

Dr. Shashi Kumar received the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Patna University, Patna, India, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in Geoinformatics under the joint education program of Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, India, and International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India, in 2019. Since 2009, he has been working as Scientist with the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dehradun, India. Dr. Shashi Kumar is a dedicated researcher contributing to capacity building through education and research in the field of advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing that includes Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR), Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (PolInSAR), and Polarimetric Tomographic SAR (PolTomSAR), its data processing techniques, and applications. Over the past 12 years, Dr. Shashi Kumar has shown intellectual prowess in cutting-edge research works on Polarimetric SAR Remote Sensing (PolSAR), and he has published 50 journal articles, 108 conference papers, 5 newsletters, 12 Book Chapters & Lecture Notes, and 13 project reports. He has shown excellent collaborative skills by doing collaborative research work with scientists and professors from various universities and institutions. He has edited two journal issues on special topics on 'Advances in Spaceborne SAR Remote Sensing for Characterization of Natural and Manmade Features-1, &II' for the COSPAR Journal, Advances in Space Research (ASR).