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Vinay Kumar

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Designation Scientist/Engineer - SF
Department Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Department
Field of Expertise Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Mail Address Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Department Indian Institute of Remote Sensing ISRO, Govt. of India 4, Kalidas Road, Dehradun- 248001 India.
  • Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
  • Automated endmember extraction
  • Simulation of Hyperspectral data
  • Spatial resolution enhancement of Hyperspectral data using fusion and super-resolution techniques
  • Life member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing
  • Life member of Indian Meteorological Society
  • Life member of Astronautical Society of India
  • M.Tech. - Geomatics, Civil Engineering (IIT Roorkee)
  • B.E.- Mining Engineering (B.I.T. Sindri, Dhanbad)
  • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun (December 2009-till date)
  • Mani, P., Kuriakose, S., Kumar, Kumar V., A., and Dutta, D., (2023) “Enhanced Vegetation species classification using hybrid Gram-Schmidt Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image” ISG-ISRS National Symposium, Pune, India, November 28-30, 2023 (2nd Best Paper Award).
  • Swain, U. K., and Kumar V., (2022) “Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral Images for Enhanced Classification: A Case Study of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India” “MAANCHITRA” CEPT University” on National Remote Sensing Day, August 12, 2022 (2nd Best Paper Award).
  • Swain, U. K., Kumar, P., Bhatt, C. M. and Kumar V., (2022) “Urban Flood Hazard Modelling in a Dense Urban Setup with Inputs from UAV Data.” National Seminar on “Recent Trends in Geospatial Technology for Environment & Health” Dehradun, India, March 24, 2022 (2nd Best Paper Award).
  • Tiwari,V., and Kumar V., (2022) “Simulation of the hyperspectral data from multispectral data” College of Natural Resources Graduate Research Symposium, NC State University, March 23, 2022 (2nd Best Paper Award).
  • Kushwaha, G., Siddiqui, A., and Kumar V., (2020), “Assessing the thermal behaviour of Urban Materials using Hyperspectral Data in Ahmedabad city, India”, National Seminar on Recent Advances in Geospatial Technology and Applications, March 02, 2020, Dehradun, India (2nd Best Paper Award).
  • Qadir A., Kumar V., Srivastava P., and Agrawal S. "Utility of model based Scattering Power Decomposition for LULC feature extraction using POLSAR data" 10th International Conference on Microwaves, Antenna, Propagation and Remote Sensing, ICMARS-2014, Jodhpur, INDIA, December, 2014 (2nd Best Paper Award).
  • Stephen, S., and Kumar, V.(2024) Detection and Analysis of Weed Impact on Sugar Beet Crop Using Drone Imagery. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 51, 2577–2597 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-023-01782-1
  • Mishra, K., Siddiqui, A., Kumar, V., Pandey, K., and Garg, R., (2024). Examining effect of super-resolution on AVIRIS-NG Data. Advances in Space Research, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.05.020
  • Shah M. I., Kumar, V., Kumar S., and Agrawal, S., (2024). Spectral mixture analysis of AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral data for material identification and classification for the part of Kolkata city, Advances in Space Research, ISSN 0273-1177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.12.044
  • Singh, R., Kumar, V. (2023) Evaluating automated endmember extraction for classifying hyperspectral data and deriving spectral parameters for monitoring forest vegetation health. Environ Monit Assess 195,72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10576-w
  • Kumar, V., Pandey, K., Panda, C., Tiwari, V., & Agarwal, S., (2022). Assessment of Different Spectral Unmixing Techniques on Space Borne Hyperspectral Imagery. Remote Sens Earth Syst Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41976-022-00071-8
  • Khatri, S., Kokane, P., Kumar, V., & Pawar, S. (2022). Prediction of waterlogged zones under heavy rainfall conditions using machine learning and GIS tools: a case study of Mumbai. GeoJournal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-022-10731-3
  • Tiwari, V., Kumar, V., Matin, M.A., Thapa, A., Ellenburg, W.L., Gupta, N., & Thapa, S., (2020). Flood inundation mapping- Kerala 2018; Harnessing the power of SAR, automatic threshold detection method and Google Earth Engine. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0237324. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237324.
  • Siddiqui, A., Chauhan P., Kumar, V., Jain, G., Deshmukh, A. & Kumar P., (2020). Characterization of urban materials in AVIRIS-NG data using a mixture tuned matched filtering (MTMF) approach, Geocarto International, DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2020.1720312.
  • Chander, S., Gujrati, A., Hakeem, K.A., Garg, V., Issac, A.M., Dhote, P.R., Kumar, V. and Sahay, A., 2019. Water quality assessment of River Ganga and Chilika lagoon using AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral data. Current Science, 116(7), p.1172.
  • Singh, S.K., Jain, G., Siddiqui, A., Naik, S., Rathore, B.P., Garg, V., Snehmani, Kumar, V., Bahuguna, I.M., Sharma, S.A., Shekhar, C. and Thakur, P.K., 2019. Characterization and retrieval of snow and urban land cover parameters using hyperspectral imaging. Current Science,116(7), p.1182.
  • Kumar, V., Mohan, A., Agarwal, S. and Siddiqui, A., “Evaluating the Close Range Hyperspectral Data for Feature Identification and Mapping.” Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, (2018), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-018-0889-5.
  • Chander, S., Gujrati, A., Hakeem, K.A., Garg, V., Issac, A.M., Dhote, P.R., Kumar, V. and Sahay, A., 2019. Water quality assessment of River Ganga and Chilika lagoon using AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral data. Current Science, 116(7), p.1172
  • Singh, S.K., Jain, G., Siddiqui, A., Naik, S., Rathore, B.P., Garg, V., Snehmani, Kumar V., Bahuguna, I.M., Sharma, S.A., Shekhar, C. and Thakur, P.K., 2019. Characterization and retrieval of snow and urban land cover parameters using hyperspectral imaging. Current Science, 116(7), p.1182
  • Garg, V., Senthil K. A., Aggarwal, S.P., Kumar, V., Dhote, P.R.,Thakur, P.K., Nikam, B.R., Sambare, R.S., Siddiqui, A., Muduli, P.R. & Rastogi, G. 2017. Spectral similarity approach for mapping turbidity of an inland waterbody. Journal of Hydrology, 550, 527-537
  • Dhingra, P., Siddiqui, A., Kumar, V., Mohapatra, P., & Reddy, K. V.. 2017. A Knowledge-based approach to urban land use classification using AVIRIS imagery and LiDAR data. Asian Journal For Convergence In Technology (AJCT ) -UGC LISTED, 3(3)
  • Kumar, V., Agrawal P., and Agrawal S " ALOS PALSAR & Hyperion Data Fusion for LULC Feature Extraction " in Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing - Springer DOI 10.1007/s12524-016-0605-2.
  • Kumar, V. and Garg, R. D., “Comparison of different mapping techniques for classifying hyperspectral data.” Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 40, No. 3 (2012), 411-420.
  • Kumar, V. and Garg, R. D., “Evaluation of spectral characteristics of Urban Land Use Using Hyperspectral Data.” Journal of the Water and Land Use Management, Vol. 1 (2010), Page 86-96.
  • Kumar, V., Rajan S. V., and, Persello C. (2023). Synergistic fusion of spaceborne polarimetric SAR and hyperspectral data for land cover classification. In S. Kumar, P. Siqueira, H. Govil, & S. Agrawal (Eds.), Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing (1st ed., p.). New Delhi: CRC Press Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003204466-8
  • Kumar, V., Nyamaa T., and Chatterjee. R. S. (2023). Scatterer Based Deformation Monitoring Induced due to Mining by DInSAR Techniques. In S. Kumar, P. Siqueira, H. Govil, & S. Agrawal (Eds.), Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing (1st ed., p. In Press). New Delhi: CRC Press Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003204466-16
  • Mishra K., Siddiqui A., Kumar, V. (2022). Experiments Synergizing Machine Learning Approaches with Geospatial Big Data for Improved Urban Information Retrieval. in Handbook of “Research on Machine Learning”, M. Mangla, S.K. Shinde, V. Mehta, N. Sharma and S.N. Mohanty Ed., (1st edition CRC Press, Taylor and Francis). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003277330

    • Lecture Notes
  • Kumar, V., " Working Principle of Spectro-radiometer and Procedures of Spectral Data Collection " in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Volume-I, Lecture Notes International Training Course on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and its Applications, First edition-2013, Center for Space Science & Technology Education in Asia & The Pacific (CSSTEAP), IIRS, Dehradun.
  • Kumar, V., " Fusion of Hyperspectral remote sensing data with optical and microwave datasets" in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Volume-I, Lecture Notes International Training Course on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and its Applications, First edition-2013, Center for Space Science & Technology Education in Asia & The Pacific (CSSTEAP), IIRS, Dehradun.
  • Agrawal S., and Kumar, V., " Microwave Remote Sensing Sensors," in Microwave Remote Sensing, Volume-I, Lecture Notes International Training Course on Microwave Remote Sensing and its Applications, First edition-2011, Center for Space Science & Technology Education in Asia & The Pacific (CSSTEAP), IIRS, Dehradun.
  • Singh P. and Kumar V., "Evaluation of Chandrayaan-2 IIRS data for Lunar Surface Exploration," 2023 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), Bangalore, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/InGARSS59135.2023.10490347
  • Mani, P., Kuriakose, S., Kumar V., Kumar, A., and Dutta, D., (2023) “Enhanced Vegetation species classification using hybrid Gram-Schmidt Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image” ISG-ISRS National Symposium, Pune, India, November 28-30, 2023. (Best Paper Award)
  • Rachit, and Kumar V., (2023) “Hyperspectral image analysis for water quality assessment of Ganga river stretch at Buxar” ISG-ISRS National Symposium, Pune, India, November 28-30, 2023.
  • Swain, U. K., and Kumar V., (2023) “Comparative Analysis of Classification Algorithms for Pre- and Post-Minimum Noise Fraction Transformation of PRISMA Hyperspectral Data” InGARSS-2023, Bangalore, India, Day, December, 2023.
  • Singh, P., and Kumar V., (2023) “Evaluation of Chandrayaan – 2 IIRS Data for Lunar Surface Exploration” InGARSS-2023, Bangalore, India, Day, December, 2023.
  • Tapete D., Jaiswal R. K., Licciardi G., Sacco P., Gupta P. K., Raju P. V., Raj G. B., Sahadevan A. S., Ahmad T., Lyngdoh R. B., Kumar V.., Agrawal S., and Choudhary K. K., “Scientific Research and Applications Development Based on Exploitation of PRISMA Data in the Framework of ASI – ISRO Earth Observation Working Group Hyperspectral Activity” IGARSS-2023, California, USA 16-21, July 2023,
  • Samaddar, T., and Kumar V., (2022) “Alteration mineral mapping using AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral data in the gold bearing Gadag Schist belt, Karnataka, India” ISRS-ISG-GeoSmart India symposium, Hyderabad, India, November 15-17, 2022.
  • Swain, U. K., and Kumar V., (2022) “Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral Images for Enhanced Classification: A Case Study of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India” “MAANCHITRA” CEPT University” on National Remote Sensing Day, August 12, 2022. (Best Paper Award)
  • Swain, U. K., Kumar, P., Bhatt, C. M. and Kumar V., (2022) “Urban Flood Hazard Modelling in a Dense Urban Setup with Inputs from UAV Data.” National Seminar on “Recent Trends in Geospatial Technology for Environment & Health” Dehradun, India, March 24, 2022. (Best Paper Award)
  • Tiwari,V., and Kumar V., (2022) “Simulation of the hyperspectral data from multispectral data” College of Natural Resources Graduate Research Symposium, NC State University, March 23, 2022. (Best Paper Award)
  • Kushwaha, G., Siddiqui, A., and Kumar V., (2020), “Assessing the thermal behaviour of Urban Materials using Hyperspectral Data in Ahmedabad city, India”, National Seminar on Recent Advances in Geospatial Technology and Applications, March 02, 2020, Dehradun, India (Best Paper Award).
  • कुमार वि। “मानचित्रण के लिए उच्च स्थानिक अतिवर्णक्रमीय आंकड़ों का मूल्यांकन”, भा॰ सु॰सं॰सं॰ हिन्दी तकनीकी कार्यशाला २४/०२/२०२०, देहारादून, भारत.
  • Mishra K., Siddiqui A., and Kumar V. , “A Comparative Assessment of Efficacy of Super Resolved Airborne Hyperspectral Outputs in Urban Material and Land Cover Information Extraction” ISPRS Technical Commission V, Education & Outreach, Geospatial Technology - Pixel to People, Dehradun, India, November 19-22, 2018.
  • Tiwari V., Kumar V. ., Daminjonovich D. R., Pandey K., and Agrawal S., “ Evaluation of Spectral Reconstruction Technique for Mineral Mapping” AGU (Advance Earth & Space Science)-100, Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., Dec 10-14, 2018.
  • Mishra K., Kumar V. , and Siddiqui A, Land Use-Land Cover Information Extraction from High Resolution Airborne Hyperspectral Data. 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, New Delhi, India, October 23-27, 2017
  • George J., Kumar V. , Tarun B., Kumar S., and Kumar A., Soil classification using airborne hyperspectral data employing various approaches. 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, New Delhi, India, October 23-27, 2017
  • George J., Kumar V. , Danodia A., Kumar S., and Kumar A., Hyperspectral modelling for prediction of soil texture using ASD spectro-radiometer derived soil spectra. 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, New Delhi, India, October 23-27, 2017
  • Tiwari V., Kumar V., Ranade R., Pandey K., and Agrawal S., “Simulation of the hyperspectral data from multispectral data” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), New Beijing, China, July 10-15, 2016.
  • Rajan S. V., Kumar V., and, Persello C., “Pixel level fusion of fully polarimetric data and hyperspectral data for enhanced land cover classification” SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Conference, 10th SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium, New Delhi, India, April 4-7, 2016.
  • Tiwari V., Kumar V., Ranade R., Pandey K., and Agrawal S., “Simulation of the hyperspectral data from multispectral data using python programming language” SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Conference, 10th SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium, New Delhi, India, April 4-7, 2016.
  • Dwivedi M., and Kumar V., “Super resolution mapping using multi viewing CHRIS/PROBA data” SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Conference, 10th SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium, New Delhi, India, April 4-7, 2016.
  • Panda C., Kumar V., Pandey K., and Jyothi G., “Evaluation and effect of various noise reduction techniques performed before atmospheric correction of Hyperion data”, 10th SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium, New Delhi, India, April 4-7, 2016.
  • Shrivastava D., Kumar V., and Sharma R.U., “Automated end member extraction for subpixel classification of multispectral and hyperspectral data”, 10th SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium, New Delhi, India, April 4-7, 2016.
  • Panda C., and Kumar V.," Simulation of Panchromatic Band using Landsat 7 ETM+ Multispectral bands " National Symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India", December 16 – 18, 2015 at Jaipur, India.
  • Tiwari V. and Kumar V., “Integrating LiDAR & Hyperspectral Data For Information Extraction” “National Symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India", December 16 – 18, 2015 at Jaipur, India.
  • Shrivastava D., Kumar V., and Sharma R.U., “Comparative Analysis of EO-1 Hyperion & ALI and Landsat-8 OLI for Landuse Landcover Classification”. “National Symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India", December 16 – 18, 2015 at Jaipur, India.
  • Kumari R., and Kumar V., “Automated Endmember Extraction for Subpixel Classification of Hyperspectral Data”. “National Symposium on “Geomatics for Digital India", December 16 – 18, 2015 at Jaipur, India.
  • Tiwari V., Kumar V., Ranade R., Pandey K., and Agrawal S. “Simulation of the Hyperspectral Data From Multispectral Data Using Open Source Programming Environment” OSGEO-India: FOSS4G 2015 - Second National Conference "Open Source Geospatial Tools in Climate Change Research and Natural Resources Management” 8-10th June 2015.
  • Kumar V., Qadir A., and Agrawal S. “Dhruvan maapakiya data ka prayog kar bhoo aavran aur bhoomi upyog ke lakshanno ka nishkarshan” Hindi Seminar at NRSC User Interaction Meet (UIM), Hyderabad, INDIA January, 2014
  • Kumar V., Kumar S. and Agrawal S. “Sukshm-tarang sudur sanvedan aur hyperspectral data ke upyog se Dehradun kshetra ka maanchitran” Hindi Seminar at NRSC User Interaction Meet (UIM), Hyderabad, INDIA, February, 2013
  • Nguyen Ba Duy, Chatterjee R.S, and Kumar V., “Retrieval of PolSAR Decomposition Parameters Based Information for Land Use Land Cover” Asia Pacific Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (APEST 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 01 – 02 Feb., 2012.
  • Kumar V., Agrawal P., and Agrawal S “Integration of Microwave and Hyperspectral data for feature extraction” Proceedings of National Symposium on “Empowering Rural India Through Space Technology”, Bhopal, India, 09 – 11 Nov, 2011.
  • Akhmedshina M., Agrawal S., and Kumar V. “Comparison of EO-1 ALI and Hyperion sensors data for mapping land surface features” ISPRS Geospatial world Forum, Hyderabad, INDIA,18 Jan – 21 Jan 2011.
  • Qadir A., Kumar V., Srivastava P., and Agrawal S. "Model based Scattering Power Decomposition for LULC feature extraction using POLSAR data" IIRS Contact News Letter, Volume 16 No. 2, 4-5, Dehradun, INDIA, December, 2014.
    Course Coordination of Educational Programmes:
  • Course Coordinator of M. Sc./PG diploma (Geo-informatics) Elective Module on “Image Analysis” (2021, 2022 & 2023).
  • Course Officer of NNRMS RS & GIS course for Module I, III & IV (2018, 2019 & 2022, 2023).
  • Course Officer of NNRMS RS & GIS course for Module I (2020).
  • Course Officer of CSSTEAP PG diploma RS & GIS course (2018).
  • Course officer of CSSTEAP PG Diploma RS & GIS - module-1 & module-2. (2016)
  • Module coordinator of Module-II (Earth Observation) M. Sc. and PGD (Geoinformatics) and ITEC (2015 & 2016)
  • Course officer of M.Tech./PG Diploma RS & GIS - module-1 (2015)
  • Coordinator of e-learning committee for Paper-2 (Basics of Remote Sensing)
  • Module coordinator of Module-I (Physics of Remote Sensing) M. Sc and PGD (Geo-informatics/NHDRM) and ITEC. (2012, 2013 & 2014)
  • Course officer of NNRMS - module-1, module-3 and module-4 (2012)

    • Training Programmes (Customized Special Courses):
  • Course Coordinator of Short course on ‘Satellite Image Analysis and Photogrammetry’ for the frontline personnel from TBGP, Forest Department, Chennai, 16 Oct 2023 – 10 Nov 2023
  • Course Coordinator of “Emerging Trends in Remote Sensing and its Applications” 17th -28th April, 2023
  • Course Coordinator of one-day online workshop on “UAV Remote Sensing” Nov., 2022.
  • Course Coordinator of CSSTEAP Short course on “Hyperspectral Remote Sensing & its Applications” 16 May - 03 June, 2022
  • Course Coordinator of NDMA sponsored special course on “Application of UAV/Drone technology in Disaster Management” 10-20 Feb., 2020.
  • Course Coordinator of workshop cum training on "Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and its Applications" 09- 20 Dec., 2019
  • Course Officer of 41st IIRS outreach programme on ‘Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and its Applications’ 21st January to 01st February, 2019.
  • Course Officer of 29th IIRS outreach programme on ‘Hyperspectral remote sensing and its Applications’ 19th February to 14th March, 2018.
  • Course Coordinator of CSSTEAP one-month short course on “Microwave Remote Sensing & its applications” (2014)
  • Course Coordinator of CSSTEAP one-month short course on “Hyperspectral Remote Sensing & its applications” (2013)
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