GeoAI for Environmental Management
Applications of various AI-based models for environmental management, including deforestation monitoring, urban tree cover change and canopy height prediction, forest health assessment, nature resources management, and a brief about advanced Foundation models and LLMs.
Dr. Pulakesh Das
Technical Lead in GIS Division at Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation
Dr. Pulakesh Das received his PhD degree in 2019 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He did postdoctoral research in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, USA. Pulakesh holds a master’s degree in Remote Sensing and GIS from Vidyasagar University, India. He has more than 13 years of experience in applying geoinformatics in environmental studies. He is currently working as a Technical Lead, Agriculture in the GIS division at Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation (MPSEDC), India. Previously, he worked at the World Resources Institute India from December 2019 to January 2023. He taught for two years (from September 2017 to December 2019) in the Department of Remote Sensing & GIS at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has authored 60 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters. His work focuses on land use and land cover modelling, deforestation monitoring, forest health monitoring, ecosystem resilience, landscape restoration, hydrological modelling, agriculture practices monitoring, crop damage assessment, natural resources management, and climate change impact studies.