Rahul Dev Garg

Rahul Dev Garg is Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee. He is B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee. He has about 28 years of experience in the field of Geomatics at ISRO and IIT. His research interests are land surveying, satellite image processing, optical thermal microwave and hyperspectral remote sensing, sub-surface investigations using GPR (ground penetrating radar), GIS and GPS, UAV, LiDAR. He has supervised 22 PhDs and 57 M.Tech. theses. He has published 127 research papers in international/ national refereed journals with high impact factors, one Book, 11 Book Chapters and presented 151 papers in the Conferences in India and abroad. He is involved in a number of international/ national research projects and consultancy work. He is Associate Editor of ‘Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing’, 45 years old prestigious publication by Springer. He has won prestigious ISRS-SPECK Award in year 2003. He has been conferred five times 'Best Paper Awards'. He was awarded 15 months fellowship by The Netherlands government to pursue research work at ITC, The Netherlands. He has organized 28 international and national training courses and delivered expert lectures in different parts of country and abroad. He is Fellow of IEI and IWRS, senior member of IACSIT, Singapore and member of several professional bodies. Received ‘National Geospatial Award 2018’ by Indian Society of Remote Sensing. Received ‘Uttarakhand Eminent Engineers Award 2018’ by Institution of Engineers (India), Uttarakhand State Chapter. He has been conferred 'Outstanding Teacher Award 2012' by IIT Roorkee for Excellence in Teaching and Research. Also, received “Excellence Award 2017” by Institution of Engineers (India), RLC.

Publications

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...
Machine Learning-Based Handling of Geospatial Big Data From Hyperspectral Sensors for Urban Area Characterization
Machine Learning-Based Handling of Geospatial Big Data From Hyperspectral Sensors for Urban Area Characterization
Kavach Mishra, Rahul Dev Garg. © 2023. 32 pages.
Investigating urban processes requires detailed built-up surface material composition information, which is possible through constant monitoring by recently launched spaceborne...