Geospatial Techniques in Climate Change Monitoring and Environmental Mapping: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Risk Reduction

Jung-Sup Um received his PhD (Geography) from University of Aberdeen, UK in 1997. He is currently a Professor of Geography at Kyungpook National University. His field of interest is applications of Cyber-Physical systems, focused on smart drones about Remote Sensing and GIS. He has been awarded thirteen times Outstanding Research Awards for significant and lasting research contributions. He is editor in Chief of the journal Spatial Information Research from 1995. Editors of several books and author of more than 100 publications journals (h – Index 13, i10 – Index 28; Citations 931), He has many national and international projects. He has several patents and has received many national & international awards.

Dr. Anindita Nath former researcher at Department of construction engineering in Jadavpur University, Kolkata and currently working as a faculty in the Department of Geography at Bankim Sardar College, West Bengal, India. In the year 2021, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interests include coastal hazards and management, geospatial application, climate change, land degradation and management, landslide hazards and management, flood assessment and riverbank erosion, land use modelling, environmental issues and management, and sustainable development. She has published numerous research papers in leading national and international journals and book chapters to international reputations. She is an associated as a co-supervisor of doctoral student with the collaboration of University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India. She is an associate as the reviewer of a reputed journals published by Elsevier, Springer-Nature.

Dr. Bappaditya Koley currently working as a Head, Department of Geography at Bankim Sardar College, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. In 2021, he successfully obtained his PhD degree in Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His areas of research interest include applied geomorphology, geo-informatics, natural hazards and disasters, climate change, coastal management, environmental issues, land use modelling, and sustainable development. He has also completed minor research project on “Forestry, Fishery and Sustainable Livelihood: An Assessment for some selected areas of the Indian Sunderbans as a co-director, funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (Eastern Regional Centre, Kolkata), Govt. of India. As a center co-coordinator in Bankim Sardar College, he was conducted two courses in IIRS Outreach Programmes during 2019 – 2023, organized by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), Dehradun. He has also contributed several national and international research articles and book chapters in international reputed. He has associated as the reviewer of some reputable journals published by Elsevier, Springer-Nature and Taylor & Francis.

Tanupriya Choudhury completed his PhD in 2016 from Jagannath University Jaipur. With a total of 15 years of experience in both teaching and research, Dr. Choudhury holds the position of Visiting Professor at Daffodil International University Bangladesh. Currently, he is working as a Professor, at Graphic Era Deemed to be University Dehradun India. Recently recognized for his outstanding contributions to education with the Global Outreach Education Award for Excellence in Best Young Researcher Award at GOECA 2018. His areas of expertise encompass Human Computing, Soft Computing, Cloud Computing, and Data Mining among others. Notably accomplished within his field thus far is filing 25 patents and securing copyrights for 16 software programs from MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development). He is also serving as an Editor in reputed Journals. He currently serves as the Honorary Secretary in IETA (Indian Engineering Teacher’s Association-India), alongside his role as the Senior Advisor Position in INDO-UK Confederation of Science, Technology and Research Ltd., London, UK, and International Association of Professional and Fellow Engineers-Delaware-USA.