8th - 10th July 2022 - Bangalore.
Title: “Digital Elevation Models (DEM): An Important Source of Data for Earth and Planetary Geoscientists”
Speaker’s Profile:
B. S. Daya Sagar is a Full Professor of the Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU) at the Indian Statistical Institute.
Sagar received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Geoengineering and Remote Sensing from the Faculty of Engineering, Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam, India, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He is also the first Head of the SSIU. Earlier, he worked in the College of
Engineering, Andhra University, and Centre for Remote Imaging Sensing and Processing (CRISP), The National University of
Singapore in various positions during 1992-2001. He served as Associate Professor and Researcher in the Faculty of Engineering
& Technology (FET), Multimedia University, Malaysia, during 2001-2007. Sagar has made significant contributions to the field of
geosciences, with special emphasis on the development of spatial algorithms meant for geo-pattern retrieval, analysis, reasoning,
modeling, and visualization by using concepts of mathematical morphology and fractal geometry. He has published over 85 papers
in journals and has authored and/or guest-edited 11 books and/or special theme issues for journals. He recently authored a book
entitled "Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISci," CRC Press: Boca Raton, 2013, p. 546. He recently co-edited two
special issues on "Filtering and Segmentation with Mathematical Morphology" for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal
Processing (v. 6, no. 7, p. 737-886, 2012), and "Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing in India" for IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing (v. 10, no. 12, p. 5149-5328, 2017). His recent book
Handbook of Mathematical Geosciencesâ€, Springer Publishers, p. 942, 2018 crossed 900000 downloads. He was elected as
a member of New York Academy of Sciences in 1995, as a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society in 2000, as a Senior Member
of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society in 2003, as a Fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union in 2011, and as a fellow
of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2022. He is also a member of the American Geophysical Union since 2004, and a life
member of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG). He delivered the "Curzon & Co - Seshachalam
Lecture - 2009" at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures (SRELS), Bangalore, and the "Frank Harary Endowment Lecture -
2019" at International Conference on Discrete Mathematics - 2019 (ICDM - 2019). He was awarded the 'Dr. Balakrishna
Memorial Award’ of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences in 1995, the Krishnan Medal of the Indian Geophysical
Union in 2002, the 'Georges Matheron Award - 2011 with Lectureship' of the IAMG, and the Award of IAMG Certificate
of Appreciation - 2018. He is the Founding Chairman of Bangalore Section IEEE GRSS Chapter. He has been recently
appointed as an IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for a two-year period
from 2020 to 2022. He is a member of the AGU Honors & Recognition Committee (HRC). He is on the Editorial Boards of
Computers & Geosciences, Frontiers: Environmental Informatics, and Mathematical Geosciences. He is also the Editor-In-Chief
of the Springer’s Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences. For more details about him, the following webpages may be
referred at http://www.isibang.ac.in/~bsdsagar, https://en.wikipedia/wiki/B._S._Daya_Sagar,
https://in.linkedin.com/in/bs-daya-sagar-a015495