About the Speaker:

Prof Vinay Kumar Dadhwal completed his PhD in Plant Physiology (1983) from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He joined ISRO in June 1983 at Space Applications Centre and was with ISRO/DOS till his superannuation in July 2021. He has headed three ISRO/DOS units, namely Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun (2004-2010), National Remote Sensing Centre(NRSC), Hyderabad (2011-2016) and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology(IIST), Thiruvananthapuram (2016-2021) and joined NIAS as Chair Professor in August 2021. He has extensive research experience in the use of earth observation data for agriculture, land transformation, land surface processes, disaster management information support, hydrology and terrestrial carbon cycle. At NIAS he continues his research on quantification and modelling of terrestrial carbon cycle of India.