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Dr. SOORAJ KRISHNAN

Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization

Remote Sensing
Water Resources
Areas of Interest

Soil moisture
Land surface modeling
Land surface temperature
Land use land cover analysis
Microwave Remote Sensing
Hydrology

Educational Summary


Course University Year
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 2024
M.Tech. (Water Resources & Hydro Informatics) University of Calicut 2015
B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) University of Calicut 2012

Experience


From Date To Date Institution Name Designation
2024-06-06 0000-00-00 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Research Associate
2018-01-01 2022-11-20 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Teaching Assistant
2015-08-10 2017-06-30 Jyothi Engineering College Assistant Professor

Achievements


Achievement Year
Mentor of student innovative project ”Compact Total Station”, which was presented in all Kerala project competition, Yuva Mastermind 2017, conducted by Malayala Manorama 2017
IEEE Member

Papers Published


S. Krishnan, J. Indu, ”Assessing the Potential of Temperature/Vegetation Index Space to infer Soil Moisture over Ganga Basin", Journal of Hydrology, Volume 621, 2023, 129611, ISSN 0022-1694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129611
S. Krishnan, A. Pradhan, and J. Indu, ”Estimation of high-resolution precipitation using downscaled satellite soil moisture and SM2RAIN approach", Journal of Hydrology, Volume 610, 2022, 127926, ISSN 0022-1694, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127926
S. Krishnan, A. S. Nair, J. Indu, R. J. Casulleras, & R. G. Foguet ”Brightness temperature and emissivity retrieved from a portable L-band radiometer", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022, 43:7, 2503–2516. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2022.2063039
S. Krishnan, A. S. Nair and J. Indu, "Simulation of Passive Microwave Data Toward Efficient Assimilation Over Indian Subcontinent," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 851–855, May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2986011
S. Krishnan, A. S. Nair and J. Indu, "Monitoring Land Surface using Terrestrial L-band Radiometer," 2019 IEEE Recent Advances in Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Technologies, Standards and Applications (TENGARSS), 2019, pp. 109–111. 10.1109/TENGARSS48957.2019.8976034
S. Krishnan, N. Sajikumar, and K.S. Sumam (2016), ”DEM Generation Using Cartosat-I Stereo Data and its Comparison with Publically Available DEM Data," Procedia Technology, 24(7), pp. 295–302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2016.05.039
Terrestrial water budget through radar remote sensing (In the book: Radar Remote Sensing) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128234570000057?via%3Dihub

Conferences / Workshop / FDPs Attended


Sooraj Krishnan, Akhilesh. S. Nair, J. Indu, R. Jove-Casulleras, and R. Gonzalvez-Foguet, ’Brightness Temperature (TB) and Emissivity Retrieved from a Portable L-band Radiometer, International Soil Moisture School, 15–17 March 2023, IIT Bombay, Mumbai (Poster Presentation)
Sooraj Krishnan and J. Indu, ’Land Surface Temperature/Vegetation Index Space for Soil Moisture Assessment over Ganga Basin’ EGU22, the 24th EGU General Assembly, 23–27 May 2022 in Vienna, Austria (Virtual-Oral Presentation)
Sooraj Krishnan, Akhilesh S. Nair, and J. Indu, ’Addressing Scale Issues in Microwave Brightness Temperature (TB) using Coupled LSM-RTM Modeling and In-Situ Measurements’, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 9–13, 2019. (Poster Presentation)
Sooraj Krishnan, Akhilesh S. Nair, and J. Indu, ’Monitoring Land Surfaces Using Terrestrial L-band Radiometers’, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Conference (TENGARSS'19), Kochi, October 17–20, 2019. (Oral Presentation)
Akhilesh Nair, Ankita Pradhan, Sooraj Krishnan, and J. Indu, ’Data Assimilation to Study the Influence of Uncertainty in the Land Surface Model’, AOGS, 16th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 28 July–2 August 2019. (Poster Presentation)
National Conference ’Next Frontiers in Civil Engineering: Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure’ (NFiCE 2018), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, November 30–December 1, 2018. (Volunteer)
Sooraj Krishnan, N. Sajikumar, and K.S. Sumam, ’DEM generation using Cartosat-I stereo data and its comparison with publicly available DEM’ in the International Conference (CEASIDE 2015), Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur, December 2015 (Oral Presentation)
Short-term Training Programme on ”Aseismic Design Of Structures" at Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, between March 11th and 15th, 2013

Projects Guided


Projects Name Details Year
Land-use and Land cover Change Detection in Thrissur District using ArcGIS Land use analysis 2017
Water Quality Assessment and Remedial Measures for Traditional Sources of Vallathol Nagar Grama Panchayath’ Spatial analysis of water quality 2016