Thota Sivasankar

About

Dr. Thota Sivasankar is currently working as an Assistant Professor - Selection Grade in School of Computer Science of UPES, India. He received M.Tech. degree in Remote Sensing from Andhra University, and Ph.D. degree on Microwave Remote Sensing from I.I.T. (I.S.M.), Dhanbad while he was working at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO. His primary research focuses on the use of geospatial intelligence for natural resource management and disaster management applications.

Employment

• UPES Assistant Professor - Selection Grade
  2025 - Present
• NIIT University Assistant Professor
  2020 - 2024
• North Eastern Space Applications Centre Research Scientist
  2016 - 2019
• Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Research Fellow
  2014 - 2016

Education

• Indian School of Mines Ph.D.
  2015 - 2019
• Andhra University College of Engineering M.Tech. (Remote Sensing)
  2011 - 2014
• RVR and JC College of Engineering B.Tech.
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Soil moisture estimation underneath crop cover using high incidence angle C-band Sentinel-1 SAR data
  Kuwait Journal of Science 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.kjs.2023.07.007
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• Development of an interactive web-based geovisual analytics platform for analysing crime data
  2023 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology & Applications (ISWTA) 2023 DOI: 10.1109/iswta58588.2023.10249483
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• Exploitation of optical and SAR amplitude imagery for landslide identification: a case study from Sikkim, Northeast India
  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09119-6
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• Performance evaluation of multi-parametric synthetic aperture radar data for geological lineament extraction
  International Journal of Remote Sensing 2021 DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2020.1856963
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• An Investigation on Sudden Change in Water Quality of Brahmaputra River Using Remote Sensing and GIS
  National Academy Science Letters 2020 DOI: 10.1007/s40009-020-00938-8
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• Evaluation of Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 Dual Polarization SAR Data for Crop Type Classification
  Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies 2020 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5027-4.ch003
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• Status and Opportunities for Forest Resources Management Using Geospatial Technologies in Northeast India
  Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies 2020 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5027-4.ch011
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• Automatic Flood Mapping using Sentinel-1 GRD SAR Images and Google Earth Engine: A Case Study from North East India
  National Symposium on Innovations in Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development with special emphasis on NER 2019
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• POTENTIAL OF C-BAND HYBRID POLARIMETRIC RISAT-1 SAR DATA FOR WHEAT CROP HEIGHT ESTIMATION
  ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 2019 DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w6-637-2019
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• Estimation of Above Ground Biomass Using Support Vector Machines and ALOS/PALSAR data
  VIETNAM JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES 2019 DOI: 10.15625/0866-7187/41/2/13690
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