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Gumma MK

ICRISAT Geospatial Sceinces and Big Data, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, JNTU College of Engineering

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3760-3935
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Murali Krishna Gumma is Natural resources expert with a Ph.D. in Natural Resources with Geospatial sciences. He is Cluster Leader for Geospatial Sciences and Big Data and Principal Scientist – Geospatial science with ICRISAT, working across Asia and Africa. Before this, he was a Remote Sensing Specialist and PDF at IRRI and a project scientist with IWMI. Murali Krishna has over 26 years’ experience in remote sensing and geographic information systems and their application to agriculture, wetlands, river basin management, natural resource management, water resources, forests, sustainable development, and environmental studies. His work experience spans over 35 countries spread across Asia and Africa. He is currently working on seasonally updated information on dryland cereals and legumes agro-ecologies; characterization of abiotic and biotic stresses in major dryland cereal growing areas; developing the spatial model for selecting best sites for legume cultivation in rice-fallows; estimating the area of adoption of short duration legumes (drought resistance); and impact assessment and supporting multidisciplinary teams across ICRISAT using multi-resolution remote sensing and GIS spatial modelling.

Murali Krishna is the recipient of the John I. Davidson ASPRS President’s Award (2008) for his path-breaking paper on Spectral Matching Techniques in mapping global irrigated areas. In June 2007, he was a key member of the team recognized by ESRI for “special achievement in GIS” (SAG award). He has contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed publications (journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers) and has an H-index of 50 and citations exceeding 9800.

My expertise: Remote sensing and geographic information systems

Publications in ICRISAT’s OAR: http://oar.icrisat.org/view/creators/Gumma=3AM_K=3A=3A.html

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=neGjfVUAAAAJ&hl=en (Citations =>2640, H index=28)

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Murali_Gumma2

Employment

  • ICRISAT Geospatial Sceinces and Big Data Global Cluster leader: Geospatial Sciences and Big Data
    2021 - Present
  • International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Head - RS/GIS Lab
    2013 - Present

Education

  • JNTU College of Engineering Ph.D
    2008 - Present

Projects & Funding

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Publications (110)