Environmental Remote Sensing Research
Department of Botany | WyGISC
University of Wyoming 		Elsevier Book Cover
Volume editor: Ramesh Sivanpillai
[Published in Nov 2015]
Ramesh Sivanpillai PhD, GISP
Research Scientist - Senior
E: sivan@uwyo.edu
P: 1-307-766-2721
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3547-9464
Researcher ID: A-7242-2009
ResearchGate: ResearchGate

I'm a faculty member in the Botany Department and the Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC). I'm an adjunct faculty in the Department of Ecosystem Science & Management (ESM) and the Science & Math Teaching Center (SMTC).

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Teaching

My Remote Sensing and Environmental Sciences courses emphasize active learning and require students to apply the concepts for understanding the processes and acquire problem solving skills. Students are expected to engage in the learning process rather than assimilate information and reproduce it in tests and exams.

More information about my UW courses can be found in the Teaching section.

Research

My overall research interest is Environmental Remote Sensing and my current research projects focus on mapping and monitoring a) vegetation, b) water bodies (lakes and reservoirs), c) crop growth in small farms, and d) land cover/land use (LCLU). I work with remotely sensed data collected from satellite and airborne platforms to study vegetation types, conditions, and changes over time in small fields to large river deltas in the US and abroad.

Information on current and past research projects are in the Research section.

Service

Current

  • Associate Editor (2009 - Present) Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS), published by the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
  • Associate Editor (2015 - ) Frontiers of Earth Science (FES), published by the Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Previous

  • AmericaView Board of Directors (2004-2012) as its Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair
  • Vice Chairman of the Rocky Mountain Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ASPRS-RMR (2009-2012).
  • Chair of the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Applications (W2) Working Group of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) (2012 - 2014).

URL: http://www.uwyo.edu/sivan
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Updated by Ramesh Sivanpillai on Oct 10, 2016
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