Dr. Surendar Manickam

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsRemote Sensing,Polar Research
KeywordsSAR Polarimetry Decomposition, Landslide, Flood, Disaster Management, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Snow
Honours and awards

2016: Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral research award

2016: Award for the excellence in thesis work for the year of 2014-16 for my PhD thesis from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

2014: Best paper award at Geomatrix 2014, National conference for the paper entitled "Snow Wetness Estimation Using Full and Dual PolSAR Data"

2013: Selected for the international training programme on Glaciology at IISC, Bangalore, India conducted under the guidance of Prof. Helgi Bjornsson, University of Iceland

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityVellore
InstitutionVellore Institute of Technology
InstituteCentre for Disaster Mitigation & Management
Homepagehttps://vitdirectory.vit.ac.in/page/faculty/18821

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Matthias BraunInstitut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2016

Programme(s)

2016Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs