About
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Affiliation/s: UMass Amherst and Caltech
My work focuses on the advancements and applicability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques for crop and forest monitoring, ground deformation mapping, and soil moisture estimation. In my work, I have devised a novel methodology to estimate soil moisture over croplands solely using dual-pol GRD SAR data. The advantages of this method include continuous monitoring of soil moisture over a larger scale at higher resolutions. Besides, I have also developed a novel methodology to estimate soil moisture using full and compact polarimetric SAR data. On the other hand, monitoring and quantifying vegetation content directly helps better estimate soil moisture. In this regard, I have developed different vegetation descriptors for dual-pol GRD SAR data. Besides, these descriptors are also capable of estimating crop biophysical parameters. These techniques are successfully implemented using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Earth Engine (GEE), and Google Colaboratory (Google Colab). These novel techniques and strategies might be helpful in developing operational agricultural crop monitoring platforms through the Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring (JECAM) international research network as well as upcoming satellite missions. My current focus is developing algorithms for forest canopy height estimation using InSAR and LiDAR data. My career objective is to obtain a researcher position in the field of remote sensing application to agriculture and forestry to associate myself with a progressing science and the nation. Besides, I want to put my expertise to the best use for the remote sensing, agricultural, and forest ecosystems community, as well as widen my technical spectrum.
Awards, Fellowships, & Grants
| Name of award | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph. D. Thesis Award | This prestigious award is given to Ph.D. Candidates for outstanding research carried out as part of their doctoral work at IIT Bombay. | August 2024 |
| IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize (MTStP) | This prestigious award is given to a student who has presented an outstanding paper at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). | July 2022 |
| IEEE GRSS Travel Grant | This grant is awarded by IEEE GRSS society to support the travel for participating in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). | July 2022 |
| Visiting scholar Fellowship | This competitive fellowship award is provided by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States. | Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 |
| Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship | This competitive fellowship award is provided by United States – India Educational Foundation (USIEF). | 2022 |
| Earth Observation Fellowship | This competitive fellowship award is provided by the CropIn Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. India. | July 2021 - Dec 2021 |
| Shortlisted as EO-browser Custom script contest 2019 | Sentinel-hub and the Copernicus EU Earth Observation programme and the European Space Agency organized EO-browser custom script contest for globally scripting hackathon | 2020 |
| Ph.D. Assistantship | This competitive fellowship award is provided by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. | 2019 - 2022 |
| M.Tech Assistantship | This competitive fellowship award is provided by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. | 2016 - 2018 |
| Post-matric scholarship | This competitive sponsorship award is provided by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. | 2012 - 2016 |
courses/CERTICATIONS
IEEE GRSS Mikio Takagi Student Prize
GRSS Expert lecture-2021
PolInSAR 2021 Tutorial
APSAR 2021 Tutorial
Echos in Space : EO College 2019
NPTEL-2017
SKILLS
Programming
C
C++
Python
MATLAB
R
Javascript
Software and Tools
QGIS
PolSARpro
ESA-SNAP
ArcMap
ERDAS IMAGINE
ENVI
Open Layers
git
Cloud based platforms
Google Earth Engine
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Planetary Computer
Google Cloud
NASA-ESA: Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform
Synergistic activity
Peer Recognition:
Verified Publons account: https://publons.com/researcher/4144298/narayanarao-bhogapurapu/
- Session chair in sessions: TU1.R8, THU4.R7, and FR1.R7 in IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium-IGARSS 2023, Pasadena, United States of America.
- Session manager in sessions: MO2.R6, TU2.R15, WE1.R1, WE2.R10, THU2.R15, FR2.R5 in IEEE Interna-tional Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium-IGARSS 2020, Hawaii, United States of America.
- Session manager in sessions: : Tutorial HD-3, Young Professional Events, FR2.H2 in IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2021, Gujarat, India.
- Session manager in sessions: WE1.R2, FR2.R1 in IEEE International India Geoscience and Remote SensingSymposium 2020, Gujrat, India.
Professional Membership:
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (S’19 M'23)
- American Geophysical Union (S’22 M'23)
- Indian Society of Remote Sensing (Life Member’21 – L-5619)
Reviewer: Journals/Conferences/Projects
- Journal:
- Remote Sensing of Environment
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
- Nature Scientific data
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- International Journal of Remote Sensing
- Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
- IEEE Access
- Current Science Journal
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Progress In Electromagnetics Research
- Conference:
- ICETCI 2021 : International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence
- M2GARSS 2022: IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Summary
Narayanarao B. (Postdoctoral Fellow)
2023 - present
Research interests: InSAR | Forest canopy height estimation | above ground biomass estimation
Institute: University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Education
PhD (Geoinformatics and natural resources engineering)
2019 - 2023
Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Thesis title: Soil moisture estimation over croplands using PolSAR data
Advisors: Prof. Y.S.Rao & Prof. Avik Bhattacharya
CPI: 9.45/10.0
Master of Technology (Remote sensing & GIS)
2016 - 2018
Institute: National Institute of technology Warangal, India
Thesis title: Subsurface physical parameters sensitivity analysis using GPR modelling and simulations
Advisors: Prof. K. V. Reddy & Mr. D. K. Pandey
CPI: 8.95/10.0
Bachelor of Engineering (civil)
2012 - 2016
Institute: Andhra University, India
Thesis title: Analysis of multi-storied office building (manual design)
Advisor: Prof. K. Santosh Kumar
CPI: 8.45/10.0
Professional Experience
Visiting scholar
January 2022 - January 2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Forest height estimation using InSAR techniques
Teaching assistant
2019 - 2022
CSRE, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Level: Post graduate
- GNR647: Microwave Remote Sensing
- GNR792: Communications Skills
- GNR617: Image Interpretation Laboratory
- GNR621: Natural Resources: Hydrosphere, Cryosphere and Atmosphere
- GNR401: Remote sensing and Image Processing
Earth Observation Fellow
July 2021 - December 2021
CropIn Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
- Large scale high-resolution soil moisture product development using EO data
Masters In-plant Training
July 2017 - May 2018
Space Application center (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India
- Subsurface physical parameters sensitivity analysis using Ground Penetrating Radar modelling and simulations.
Summer In-plant Training
2015
ISCO track sleepers Pvt. ltd. India
- Railway sleepers manufacturing.
Services
My Services
Co-authors & Metrics
Publications
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- Journals
- Conferences
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Paul Siqueira, and John Armston 2024 “A new InSAR temporal decorrelation model for seasonal vegetation change with dense time-series data”. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2024.3434653
S. S. Ghosh, D. Mandal, S. Kumar, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, B. Banerjee, P. Siqueira and A. Bhattacharya 2024 “An Evidence Modified Gaussian Process Classifier (EM-GPC) for Crop Classification Using Dual-Polarimetric C- and L- band SAR Data”. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3470956
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Irena Hajnsek, Avik Bhattacharya, and Paul Siqueira 2023 “Soil permittivity estimation over vegetative fields using dual polarimetric SAR data”. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.rsase.2023.101130
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, Carlos López-Martínez, Irena Hajnsek and Y. S. Rao 2022 “Soil Permittivity Estimation Over Croplands Using Full and Compact Polarimetric SAR Data”. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3224280
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Saeid Homayouni, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao 2022 “Field-Scale Soil Moisture Estimation Using Sentinel-1 GRD SAR Data”. Advances in Space Research. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2022.03.019
Swarnendu Sekhar Ghosh, Subhadip Dey,Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Saeid Homayouni, Avik Bhattacharya, and Heather McNairn 2022 “Gaussian process regression model for crop biophysical parameter retrieval from multi-polarized C-band SAR data”. Remote Sensing. 14(4):934. doi: 10.3390/rs14040934
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya, L. Karthikeyan, Heather McNairn and Y. S. Rao 2022 “Soil Moisture Retrieval Over Croplands Using dual-pol L-band GRD SAR Data”. Remote Sensing of Environment. Volume 271, 2022, Pages 112900, ISSN 0034-4257 doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.112900
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Saeid Homayouni, Avik Bhattacharya, and Heather McNairn 2021 “Unsupervised Classification of Crop Growth Stages with Scattering Parameters from Dual-Pol Sentinel-1 SAR Data”. Remote Sensing. 13 (21), 4412. doi: 10.3390/rs13214412
Subhadip Dey, Ushasi Chaudhuri, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Juan Lopez-Sanchez, Biplab Banerjee, Avik Bhattacharya, Dipankar Mandal, and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Synergistic Use of TanDEM-X and Landsat-8 Datafor Crop-type Classification and Monitoring”. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3103911
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, Dipankar Mandal, Juan Lopez-Sanchez, Heather McNairn, Carlos Lopez-Martinez and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Dual-polarimetric descriptors from Sentinel-1 GRD SAR data for crop growth assessment”. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 20-35, 178. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.05.013
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Avik Bhattacharya, Dipankar Mandal, Juan Lopez-Sanchez, Heather McNairn, and Alejandro C. Frery 2021 “Rice Phenology Mapping Using Novel Target Characterization Parameters from Polarimetric SAR Data”, International Journal of Remote Sensing. 42:14,5519-5543. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2021.1921876
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao 2021 "PolSAR tools: A QGIS plugin for generating SAR descriptors". Journal of Open Source Software, 6(60), 2970. doi: 10.21105/joss.02970
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Paul Siqueira, John Armston, Mikhail Urbazaev, Konrad Wessels and Laura Duncanson 2024 "Canopy Height Estimation Using C- and L-Band Insar Coherence Over Savannas and Dry Forests," 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2024, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640881 (Invited session)
Swarnendu Sekhar Ghosh, Sandeep Kumar, Avik Bhattacharya, Dipankar Mandal, Biplab Banerjee, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, and Paul Siqueira 2024 "Enhancing Crop Type Classification from Multi-Frequency Dual-Pol SAR Data by Probabilistic Fusion of Gaussian Processes," 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2024, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642521
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, Carlos L ́opez-Mart ́ınez, Irena Hajnsek and Y. S. Rao 2022 "Soil permittivity estimation over croplands using PolSAR data," 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2022, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883708 (Student paper competetion winner)
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Saeid Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao, “Scattering Parameters from Sentinel-1 SAR Data for crop growth assessment,” IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS), 2022. doi: 10.1109/M2GARSS52314.2022.9840171
Swarnendu Sekhar Ghosh, Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Saeid Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and Heather McNairn, “Crop biophysical parameter retrieval using Gaussian process regression from C-band polarimetric SAR data,” IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS), 2022. doi: 10.1109/M2GARSS52314.2022.9839744
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, A. Verma, A. Bhattacharya, Carlos L ́opez-Mart ́ınez and Praveen Pankajakshan, “Crop growth assessment using Sentinel-1 GRD SAR descriptors,” 2021 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), Ahmedabad, India, 2021. doi: 10.1109/InGARSS51564.2021.9791910
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, A. Verma, Saeid Homayouni, Carlos L ́opez-Mart ́ınez, and A. Bhattacharya, “Simultaneous evaluation of the target scattering-type parameter and scattering power components from polarimetric SAR images,” 2021 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), Ahmedabad, India, 2021. doi: 10.1109/InGARSS51564.2021.9791986
A. Verma, Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Carlos L ́opez-Mart ́ınez, and A. Bhattacharya, “Dual polarimetric SAR signature for human-made target characterization,” 2021 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), Ahmedabad, India, 2021. doi: 10.1109/InGARSS51564.2021.9792130
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Soil Moisture Estimation Using Simulated NISAR Dual Polarimetric GRD Product over Croplands”, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR). 2021, pp.1-6 doi: 10.1109/APSAR52370.2021.9688350
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Avik Bhattacharya, Dipankar Mandal, Heather McNairn and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Novel Clustering Technique for Monitoring Crop Phenology”, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR). 2021, pp.1-6 doi: 10.1109/APSAR52370.2021.9688426
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Chandrayaan-2 Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR) Full and Compact Polarimetric Data Analysis for the Lunar Surface”, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR). 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/APSAR52370.2021.9688528
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao 2021 "Monitoring Wheat Crop Growth Using a New Vegetation Index from Sentinel-1 GRD SAR Data," 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, pp. 5921-5924, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554351
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Subhadip Dey, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Soil moisture estimation over canola crop using Simulated NISAR Dual Polarimetric GRD Product”, PolInSAR 2021: The 10th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry.
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Avik Bhattacharya, Alejandro C. Frery, and Paolo Gamba 2021 "Built-Up Area Mapping Using Full and Dual Polarimetric SAR Data," 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, pp. 1693-1696, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553040
Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Avik Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao 2021 “Crop Monitoring Using Sentinel-1 GRD Product in GEE Platform”, PolInSAR 2021: The 10th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry.
Abhinav Verma, Subhadip Dey, Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Dipankar Mandal, Dipanwita Haldar, Avik Bhattacharya 2021 "Polarimetric SAR Signature for Crop Characterization," 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, 2021, pp. 503-506, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553979
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, D. Mandal, Y. S. Rao and A. Bhattacharya, “Soil Moisture Estimation for Wheat Crop Using Dual-Pol L-Band SAR Data,” 2020 IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), Ahmedabad, India, 2020, pp. 33-36, doi: 10.1109/InGARSS48198.2020.9358940
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, D. Mandal, Y. S. Rao and A. Bhattacharya, “Soil Moisture Retrieval Using SAR Derived Vegetation Descriptors in Water Cloud Model,” IGARSS 2020 – 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 4696-4699, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323699
D. Mandal and Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Vineet Kumar, Subhadip Dey, Debanshu Ratha, Avik Bhattacharya, Juan M. Loper-Sanchez, Heather McNairn and Y. S. Rao, "Vegetation Monitoring Using a New Dual-Pol Radar Vegetation Index: A Preliminary Study with Simulated NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) L-Band Data," IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2020, pp. 4870-4873, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324157
Narayanarao Bhogapurapu, Pandey, D.K., Reddy, K.V. and Putrevu, D., 2020. “Study of Subsurface Roughness Impact on GPR Performance Using Modelling and Simulation”. In Applications of Geomatics in Civil Engineering (pp. 471-477). Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-7067-0_36
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