Shefali Agrawal

• Indian Society of Remote Sensing
• ITC alumni association
• Indian National Cartographic Association

• M.Sc. (Physics) with specialization in Electronics
• PGD Integrated Map and Geoinformation production, ITC, The Netherlands
• PGD in Systems Management
• B. Sc (Physics, Maths. and Chemistry)

• Group Director, Geospatial Technology & Outreach Program Group, IIRS (2022 October onwards)
• Group Head, Geospatial Technology & Outreach Program Group, IIRS
• Head, Phogrammetry & Remote Sensing IIRS
• Scientist at IIRS (1993 onwards)
• Project Scientist at IIRS (1992-1993)

• M.Sc Gold Medalist
• Astronomical Society of India and ISRO award for best Women Scientist

Journal Referee

• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo-information, Elsevier
• Journal of Geomatics (ISG)
• Advanced Space Research
• IGRASS

• R.D.Garg, Shefali Agrawal, V.K. Dadhwal, 2008; Evaluation of approaches for AWiFS multi date registration; International journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 10(2008) 175-180.
• Stibig H-J, Roy P.S., Agrawal S., Upik R, Joshi P., Beuchle, R., Hildanus , Mubareka, S. , and Fritz S., 2007. A land cover map for South and Southeast Asia derived from SPOT VEGETATION data. Journal of Biogeography 34: 625-637
• P. Mayaux, H. Eva, J. Gallego, A. Strahler, M. Herold, A. Shefali, S. Naumov, E. De Miranda, C. Di Bella, C. Ordoyne and I. Kopin, 2006. Validation of the Global Land Cover 2000 Map. IEEE transactions in Geosciences and remote sensing Vol 44 No.7.
• P.S. Roy, P.K. Joshi, S. Singh, S. Agrawal, D. Yadav, C. Jegannathan, 2006. Biome mapping in India using vegetation type map derived using temporal satellite data and environmental parameters. Ecological Modelling, 197:148-158.
• P. Kumar Joshi, P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal , Deepshikha Yadav, 2006. Vegetation cover mapping in India using multi- temporal 3 IRS Wide Field Sensor (WiFS) data. Remote sensing environment 103: 190-202.
• Stutee Gupta, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and P.S. Roy, 2006. Degradation of tropical evergreen forests in Mokokchung, Nagaland, India. International Journal of ecology and environmental sciences VOL (32) No. 4, December 2006
• Joshi, P.K., S. Singh, S. Agrawal, P.S. Roy and P.C.Joshi (2004). Aerospace Technology for Forest Vegetation Characterization and Mapping in Central India. Asian Journal of Geoinformatics 4(4): 1-8.
• Shukla Y., S. Agrawal, C. Jeganathan and P.S. Roy, 2004. Surface parameter mapping usng SPOT-4 Vegetation and IRS- WiFS Satellite data for Assessment of Vegetation in Arid and Semi- Arid Regions of Rajasthan. Journal of Arid Land Studies, VOL 14, October 2004.
• Joshi, P.K., P.C. Joshi S. Singh, S. Agrawal and P.S. Roy (2004). Tropical forest covers type characterization in Central Highlands of India, using multi-temporal IRS-1C WiFS data. Indian Journal of Forestry 27(2): 157-168.
• Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi, Yogita Shukla and P.S. Roy, 2003. Evaluation of Spot-Vegetation multi temporal data for classifying vegetation in South Asia. Current Science 84(11): 1440-1448
• Joshi, P.K., Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and P.S. Roy, 2001. Land cover assessment in Jammu & Kashmir using phenology as discriminant – An approach using Wide swath satellite (IRS – WiFS). Current Science, 81(4), pp. 392-398.
• Joshi, P.K., Shefali Agrawal, Sarnam Singh, P.S. Roy, 2001. Photosynthetically Zonation of Gujarat, Western India – Potential of Wide Field Sensor (IRS1C/1D), Current Science, Vol. 80, No. 8.
• Hari Prasad V., Agrawal Shefali, and A. K. Chakraborty, 1997. Surface soil moisture assessment using landsat TM middle infrared band data, Asian Pacific Remote Sensing and GIS Journal vol 9 No. 2 January 1997

Technical Projects & Reports

• P.S. Roy, Shefali Agrawal, Yogita Shukla and P.K. Joshi, 2004. Land Cover Mapping using Spot VEGETATION data for South Central Asia. IIRS Publication.
• Contributed in the document Harmonization, mosaicing and production of the Global Land Cover 2000 database (Beta Version), JRC Publication under preparation
• Joshi, P.K., Deepshikha Yadav, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and P.S. Roy, 2002. Mapping of Biome in India using IRS 1C WiFS data set, ISRO-GBP Report
• P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi and Stutee Gupta, 2000. Assessment of forest cover information in the parts of Northeastern India and Myanmar using WiFS data, IIRS-JRC Project Publication
• P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi and Stutee Gupta, 2000. Assessment of forest cover information in the parts of Northeastern India and Myanmar using Landsat TM data, IIRS-JRC Project Publication
• Biome Level Classification of Vegetation in Western India- An Application of Wide Field Sensor (WiFS) Authors: P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and P.K. Joshi, IGBP in India 2000, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, pp. 371-387.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Sites in Northeast Indian and Northern Myanmar. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) April 2000.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Sites in Northeast Indian and Northern Myanmar. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) July 2000.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Sites in Northeast Indian and Northern Myanmar. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) July 2000.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Site in Western Ghats in Southern India. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) October 2000.
• Biome Level Characterization of Indian Vegetation using IRS- WiFS Data. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (ISRO-GBP Project) 2004.
• Forest Cover assessment in Asia, 2002. (editor). Proceedings of the International Workshop on ‘International Workshop on Tropical Cover Assessment and Conservation Issues in South East Asia’, 12-14 February 2002, IIRS, Dehradun, India,

• Agrawal S., Tiwari P. S., Pande H., Dadhwal V.K., 2008. Comparitive analysis of DSM filering techniques applied on satellite stereo dataset. ACRS, Colombo, Srilanka.
• P.K. Champati ray, Alltanshagai Shirnen, J.Perumal, Shefali Agrawal, R.C. Lakhera. Assessment of Geomorphic response and landform evolution due to active tectonics at Himalayan frontal Thrust. Submitted at International Conference on Techtonics of the Indian Subcontinent [TOIS], 3-6 March 2008, IIT Bombay.
• Sarmistha Banerjee, Shefali Agrawal, Connie Blok. 2007 . A Conceptual Design of Visualization of temporal vegetation data. 2007.. Map world Forum 22- 25th January 2007, Hyderabad.
• Relief characterization using Digital Elevation Model derived from Cartosat Stereo. 2006. Shefali Agrawal, R.D. Garg, S.K. Mittal and P.K. Champati ray, ISPRS commission IV symposium on Geospatial databases for sustainable development 25-30 Sept 2006, GOA India
• P.S. Roy and Shefali Agrawal, 2003. Perspectives on Indian Scenario in Emerging Urban Information System. Presented during the ISPRS WG IV/4 Tutorial on Spatial data infrastructure for Urban Planning and Mangement at IIRS, 6-8th November, 2003 India
• S.K.Govil and Shefali Agrawal, 2003. Digital Mapping as an emerging Technology in Surveying and Mapping in Urban Areas. Souvenir of the XXIII INCA Congress on Cartography for Sustainable Development from village Level Upwards. Dehradun , 2nd-5th December 2003.
• Shefali Agrawal, P.S. Roy (2002). Spatial Data infrastructure for Sustainable Development of Natural resources Proceedings of the ISPRS commission VII symposium, “Resource and environmental monitoring, Hyderabad, India, December 3-6
• Shefali Agrawal, Sarnam Singh, P.K. Joshi and P.S. Roy, 2001. Phenology based classification Model for vegetation mapping using IRS-WiFS. In workshop on classification methods, March 28th-29, 2001 ISPARA, Italy
• Narayan Hari, Kulkarni M.N, Agrawal Shefali, 2001 Landuse/Landcover Detection in Doon Valley using Digital Image processing at ICORG conference, Hyderabad February 2001.
• Kumar Anil, D Surya Srinivas, Agrawal Shefali, and Govil, S.K., 1999. Landscape Characterisation using IRS 1C stereo data in the International conference on Geoinformatics for Natural Resources Assessment, Monitoring and Management( Geoinformatics-Beyond 2000), 2000, IIRS, Dehradun, India
• Singh Sarnam, Agrawal Shefali, Joshi P.K., and Roy P.S., 1999. Biome level classification of vegetation in western India -An application of wide field view sensor (WiFS), Joint workshop of ISPRS WG I/1, I/3 and IV/4: Sensor and mapping from space, Hannover.
• Singh Sarnam, Agrawal Shefali, Joshi P.K., and Roy P.S., 1999. Vegetation mapping through phenological variability using multidate IRS 1C/1D -WiFS data XIX International congress, Vasco-De-Gama (Goa), India.
• Saran Sameer, Agrawal Shefali, Porwal M.C, and Roy P.S., 1999. Application of Fast Fourier transformation for contextual classification of land cover features: A case study in Bandwan block of Purulia district (W.B), in ICAPRDT' 99, 27-29th Dec. 1999, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
• P.S. Roy, P.K. Joshi, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and Deepshikha Yadav, 2002. Biome Level Characterisation of Indian Vegetation using IRS-1C WiFS Data. Presented in ‘International Workshop on Tropical Cover Assessment and Conservation Issues in South East Asia’, 12-14 February 2002, IIRS, Dehradun, India, pp. 165-192.
• P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi and D. Yadav, 2002. Towards a Biome Level Characterisation (BLC) – model for Indian subcontinent. Proceedings of the ISPRS commission VII symposium, “Resource and environmental monitoring, Hyderabad, India, December3-6
• Roy, P.S., Singh Sarnam, Agrawal Shefali, et. al , 2002. TREES II- Tropical Forest Assessment in India and Northern Myanmar. In International workshop of Tropical Forest cover Assessment and conservation issues in Southeast Asia, February 12th – 14th, 2002, Dehradun, India

• Agrawal S., Pande H., Tiwari P. S., 2008. Evaluation of Geometric Accuracy and Optimum Control Requirement for 3-D Reconstruction Using Rational Function Model. EOAM Project Report, IIRS, Dehradun.
• Agrawal S., Tiwari P. S., Pande H., 2005. IRS P-6 Evaluation Study: To Evaluate Influence of Spatial and Radiometric resolution on Class Seperability. Project Report, IIRS, Dehradun.
• P.S. Roy, Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi and Yogita Shukla, 2004. Land Cover Mapping using Spot VEGETATION data for South Central Asia. IIRS Publication.
• Contributed in the document Harmonization, mosaicing and production of the Global Land Cover 2000 database (Beta Version), JRC Publication.
• P.S. Roy, P.K. Joshi, Sarnam Sing, Shefali Agrawal, Deepshikha YAdav, C. Jegannathan, 2004. Biome Level Characterization of Indian Vegetation using IRS – WiFS data”. IIRS publication
• Joshi, P.K., Deepshikha Yadav, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and P.S. Roy, 2002. Mapping of Biome in India using IRS 1C WiFS data set, ISRO-GBP Report
• P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi and Stutee Gupta, 2000. Assessment of forest cover information in the parts of Northeastern India and Myanmar using WiFS data, IIRS-JRC Project Publication
• P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal, P.K. Joshi and Stutee Gupta, 2000. Assessment of forest cover information in the parts of Northeastern India and Myanmar using Landsat TM data, IIRS-JRC Project Publication
• Biome Level Classification of Vegetation in Western India- An Application of Wide Field Sensor (WiFS) Authors: P.S. Roy, Sarnam Singh, Shefali Agrawal and P.K. Joshi, IGBP in India 2000, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, pp. 371-387.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Sites in Northeast Indian and Northern Myanmar. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) April 2000.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Sites in Northeast Indian and Northern Myanmar. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) July 2000.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Sites in Northeast Indian and Northern Myanmar. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) July 2000.
• Assessment of Forest Cover in Selected Test Site in Western Ghats in Southern India. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (TREES I Project) October 2000.
• Biome Level Characterization of Indian Vegetation using IRS- WiFS Data. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (NRSA), Dehradun (ISRO-GBP Project) 2004.
• Forest Cover assessment in Asia, 2002. (Editor). Proceedings of the International Workshop on ‘International Workshop on Tropical Cover Assessment and Conservation Issues in South East Asia’, 12-14 February 2002, IIRS, Dehradun, India,

M. Sc/PG Diploma/M. Tech/ B. tech project supervision

Research Project

• Wasteland development planning
• TREES II programme: Monitoring of the Tropical Wet Evergreen Forest cover and land use. Participated in TREES (Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observations by Satellite) project supported by European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
• Biome level characterization of Indian Vegetation
• Monsoon variability studies with Regional Climate Models using satellite derived surface parameters.
• Preparation and Evaluation of georeferenced multi-date AWiFS VI datasets
• Evaluation of Geometric Accuracy and Optimum Control Requirement for 3-D reconstruction using Rational Function Mode
• Global Land cover mapping project using Spot-4 Vegetation (VGT) data (TREES project-phase2) in collaboration with Space Application Institute, JRC Italy: Project manager
• Generating DEM and micro relief analysis using CARTOSAT data of Dehradun Area.
• Preparation of Orthoimage using IRS 1C/1D stereo data sets
• Influence of spatial and radiometric resolution on class separability in IRS P6 data set.