P.K. Garg

Pradeep Garg is currently serving as Professor in Geomatics Engineering Group, Civil Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee. He is B.Tech (Civil Engg.) and M.Tech both from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee). He is a recipient of Gold Medal at IIT Roorkee to stand first during M.Tech programme, Commonwealth Scholarship Award for doing Ph.D. from University of Bristol (UK), and Commonwealth Fellowship Award to carry out post-doctoral research work at University of Reading (UK). He joined IIT Roorkee in 1982, and gradually advancing his career rose to the position of Head of the Civil Engg Department at IIT Roorkee in 2015, and then Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun from 2015-2018. He was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of a Govt. Medical University in Dehardun, for about 8 months. Prof. Garg has published more than 310 technical papers, undertaken 27 research and 94 consultancy projects and guided about 73 M.Tech and 29 Ph.D. Thesis. He has authored text books on (i) Remote Sensing, (ii) Geoinformatics, (iii) Introduction to UAVs, (iv) Digital Land Surveying, and (v) Digital mapping of soil, and (vi) Remote Sensing and Its Applications, and Edited three books and produced two technical films on Story of Mapping. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, out of which he is a Fellow member of 8 societies.

Publications

Emerging Trends, Techniques, and Applications in Geospatial Data Science
Emerging Trends, Techniques, and Applications in Geospatial Data Science
Loveleen Gaur, P.K. Garg. © 2023. 309 pages.
With the emergence of smart technology and automated systems in today’s world, big data is being incorporated into many applications. Trends in data can be detected and objects...
Geospatial Information Based Digital Twins for Healthcare
Geospatial Information Based Digital Twins for Healthcare
Pradeep K. Garg. © 2023. 14 pages.
A digital twin refers to a virtual model of a process, product, or service. It is a bridge between the physical world and digital world. Due to its obvious benefits, more...
Understanding Geospatial Data
Understanding Geospatial Data
Pradeep Garg. © 2023. 14 pages.
Geospatial data is described by its location on the Earth. There are many sources of geospatial data (e.g., remote sensing, point cloud data, LiDAR, GPS, Internet, IoT, etc.)...
Applications of Deep Learning for Vehicle Detection Using Geospatial Data
Applications of Deep Learning for Vehicle Detection Using Geospatial Data
Arghya Biswas, Pradeep Kumar Garg. © 2023. 16 pages.
This chapter details initially acquiring an open-source UAV dataset and creating a Google Earth dataset of vehicles, and creating the metadata for these images. Then training a...
IoT-Based Smart and Precision Agricultural Applications
IoT-Based Smart and Precision Agricultural Applications
Pankaj P. Tasgaonkar, Rahul Dev Garg, Pradeep Kumar Garg, Rahul Tiwari, Kaveri Sangamnerkar. © 2023. 12 pages.
Smart agriculture involves designing, developing, and applying an innovative method in the farming sector using information and communication technologies. IoT proves to be an...
The Internet of Things-Based Technologies
The Internet of Things-Based Technologies
Pradeep Kumar Garg. © 2021. 29 pages.
The internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings, and other objects—embedded with software, electronic devices, sensors, and network...