 Session Chair at RITTERSAAL, day 2, 28.11.2017 Morning oral session in “The International Conference SGEM Vienna Green 2017 (SGEM 2017) Vienna, Austria, November 27 – 30, 2017.  Invited Talk on “Future of Aviation” from 16 to 18.15 hours on 19 October in 19th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS-2017), Sochi – Russia, 14-22 October 2017.  Reynold Speaker and Organizing Committee Member in 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Satellite & Space Missions Barcelona, Spain, May 11 – 13, 2017.  Excursion and Invited Talk at Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Hyderabad – India, 16-23 November 2016.  Excursion and Invited Talk at Department of Civil Engineering, Nottingham University (UK), Ningbo – China, 29-30 June 2016.  Awarded Bonn University Research Scholarship from the Department of Geography for short term research work at Bonn, Germany 2016-2016.  Collaborate Samara State Aerospace University, Russia with Hokkaido University, Japan on Arctic Science (Indigirka River, Eastern Siberia) 2015-2016.  Awarded Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF) grant for establishment of a laboratory of Advance Technology for Earth Remote Sensing, Russia 2015-2016.  Awarded Honorary Title from Great Britain (UK), Visit University of Leicester, England - UK as an Honorary Visiting Fellow 2014.  Awarded European Union Social fund through Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports for Education Development in Czech Republic 2013-2015.  Awarded Boise State University fellowship in Civil Engineering Department for short term research work, Boise, Idaho 837250-1002 USA 2013-2014.  Give Conference Opening Ceremony Speech as Reynold Speaker & Session Co-chair in “1st International Conference on Earth Science & Climate Change” at Chicago Northbrook, USA, August 21-22, 2012.  Awarded National Academy of Sciences (NAS) fellowship through National Research Council (NRC), Central Government of USA; Washington DC - USA 2011-2012.  Awarded World Forest Institute International Fellowship, Portland – USA 2010-2011.  Excursion and Invited Talk at Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), Bogor –Indonesia 01-03 March 2011.  Awarded CNPq-TWAS Fellowship by the Academy of Science for the Developing world, Italy and Brazilian National Council for Scientific & Technological Development, Brazil 2008–2012.  Awarded Belgian Government Scholarship (Flemish Ministry of Education and Training), Brussels, Belgium. Nominated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of India, New Delhi 2007–2008.  Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by the Indian Space Research Organization, Department of Space, Government of India 2005-2006.

• Quantitative estimation of land surface variables for natural resources management in the context of global change from satellite remote sensing. • Spatio-temporal analysis of remotely sensed data to bring improved information for natural resource monitoring, management and modeling. • Applications of remote sensing and GIS in different fields such as land use/cover change, vulnerability, climate change, urbanization, environmental monitoring and assessment.