Prashant Patil, M.Tech. Remote Sensing & GIS

Mr. Prashant Patil is working as a consultant in Remote Sensing & GIS in CRP Dry land Systems working on high resolution mapping of land use land cover maps, climate change, biomass and productivity estimation. Mr. Patil received B.Sc. (Forestry) degree from University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India and M.Tech. (Remote Sensing & GIS) from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Department of Space, ISRO, Dehradun, India. He has worked in Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun as a junior research fellow under ISRO-GBP, Nation Carbon Project. He has worked in vegetation carbon pool estimation (Non-destructive method) in different parts of country with his immense knowledge and hard work he has contributed for establishing methodology on national level and completed field work, data entry and biomass and carbon mapping of 16 study sites of different parts of country. He has worked in RMS, Hyderabad in FAO project and worked on land use land cover mapping, biomass and carbon estimation of Cambodia and Siberia (Russia) and generated block wise GIS data sets for entire forests of Siberia (Russia). He has worked in a short term project in ATREE and Academy of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Dehradun, India on LULC mapping of Van-Panchayats by using Remote Sensing & GIS and field survey and encouraged appropriate Van-Panchayat conservation practices in Himalayan state by the local community through restoration of deteriorated traditional water bodies, revitalization of degraded lands and protection of endangered species of trees in 22 select model villages of the Pauri Gahrwal, Almora and Nainital districts, Uttrakhand, India. Mr. Patil has authored over 11 publications in International and National journals and presented papers in different conferences.