Faculty

Principal Investigator (PI)

Dr. Dipankar Mandal

Dr. Dipankar Mandal received the B.Tech. degree in agricultural engineering from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, India, in 2015, and the M.Tech and Ph.D. dual degree in geoinformatics and natural resources engineering from the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2020. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Ottawa. Dr. Mandal was a recipient of the Shastri Research Student Fellowship Award by the Shastri Indo–Canadian Institute, India, from 2018 to 2019. He was the recipient of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society India Best Ph.D. thesis award, in 2020, and the ‘Excellence in Ph.D. Research’ from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in 2021, for his doctoral work entitled “Retrieval of Biophysical Parameters for Agricultural Crops using Polarimetric SAR Data” and outstanding contribution toward improvement of diverse techniques for agricultural applications utilizing synthetic aperture radar remote sensing data. He worked at Kansas State University as Postdoctoral fellow from 2021 to April 2024 in the domain of precision agriculture. Currently, Dr. Mandal is an Assistant Professor at School of Agro and Rural Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. His research interest includes digital agriculture and remote sensing including SAR polarimetry for crop classification, vegetation biophysical parameter estimation, deriving radar vegetation indices, and remote sensing based crop insurance, geospatial technologies and spatial planning.