Rakesh Kumar

Research Associate-III at Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun
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Location
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, IN
Languages
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Hindi Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Maithili Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Telugu Elementary proficiency

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Experience

    • Research Associate-III
      • Jun 2020 - Present

    • India
    • Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Research Fellow
      • 2015 - 2017

       Carbon flux monitoring and modelling using CO2 flux tower and Remote Sensing and GIS. Processing, corrections and gap filling of eddy covariance system based flux data Estimation of CO2 fluxes from Eddy Covariance data Estimation of NEE, NPP and GPP for Haldwani Reserve Forest, Nainital, India  Carbon flux monitoring and modelling using CO2 flux tower and Remote Sensing and GIS. Processing, corrections and gap filling of eddy covariance system based flux data Estimation of CO2 fluxes from Eddy Covariance data Estimation of NEE, NPP and GPP for Haldwani Reserve Forest, Nainital, India

    • Academic Associate
      • 2013 - 2014

       Planning, designing and formulation of REDD-plus pilot project of Timli Forest Range of Uttarakhand. Collection of data from field and socio-economic survey Digital Image Processing and GIS related works  Development of reading materials on forest and climate change Capacity building of various stakeholders in REDD-plus  Planning, designing and formulation of REDD-plus pilot project of Timli Forest Range of Uttarakhand. Collection of data from field and socio-economic survey Digital Image Processing and GIS related works  Development of reading materials on forest and climate change Capacity building of various stakeholders in REDD-plus

    • M. Tech Trainee
      • 2011 - 2012

      M.Tech Project:Forest cover monitoring and prediction using different statistical models Monitoring and prediction forest cover change in part of Kanker, Chhattisgarh, India. To identify and analyze the explanatory variables associated with forest cover change. Forest cover change dynamics prediction using three different land change simulation models (CA-Markov-MCE, Logistics Regression and neural network based Multy-Layer Perceptron) Comparative evaluation of prediction models Comparative evaluation of three different land change simulation models (CA-Markov-MCE, Logistics Regression and neural network based Multy-Layer Perceptron)

    • Junior Project Fellow
      • Aug 2009 - Feb 2010

      MoEFCC Project: Assessment of economic contribution of NTFP of Chir Pine in economy of forest dwellers in North India Field survey and data collection from field. Preparation of maps of NTFP collection and processing locations in different states. Base layer creation of major roads, water body and forest type boundaries etc. in GIS environment. Presentation and documentation work. MoEFCC Project: Assessment of economic contribution of NTFP of Chir Pine in economy of forest dwellers in North India Field survey and data collection from field. Preparation of maps of NTFP collection and processing locations in different states. Base layer creation of major roads, water body and forest type boundaries etc. in GIS environment. Presentation and documentation work.

    • Junior Research Fellow
      • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

      Himachal Forest Dept. project: Soil organic carbon (SOC) pool assessment in the part of Giri catchment in Himachal Pradesh Digital image processing and analysis of satellite data for LULC map Creation of LULC, DEM, Aspect classes, Slope classes, river network and Watershed map Spatial Analyst of raster and vector data Geo-statistical analysis of soil sampling data and preparation SOC inventory maps Himachal Forest Dept. project: Soil organic carbon (SOC) pool assessment in the part of Giri catchment in Himachal Pradesh Digital image processing and analysis of satellite data for LULC map Creation of LULC, DEM, Aspect classes, Slope classes, river network and Watershed map Spatial Analyst of raster and vector data Geo-statistical analysis of soil sampling data and preparation SOC inventory maps

    • M.Sc. Trainee
      • Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

      M.Sc. Dissertation: Long term land use land cover change analysis using Remote Sensing & GIS techniques. LULC change dynamics in part of Western Ghat from 1930 to 2000 On screen visual interpretation of Landsat images and change detection LULC Prioritization of area for conservation. M.Sc. Dissertation: Long term land use land cover change analysis using Remote Sensing & GIS techniques. LULC change dynamics in part of Western Ghat from 1930 to 2000 On screen visual interpretation of Landsat images and change detection LULC Prioritization of area for conservation.

Education

  • Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO & Andhra University, Vishakhapattanam
    M. Tech, Remote Sensing and GIS
    2010 - 2012
  • Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
    M. Sc., Environment Management
    2007 - 2009
  • Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
    B.Sc., Zoology (H)
    2002 - 2006
  • Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Pachadhi, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
    10+2, (Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Literature)
    2000 - 2002
  • Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Pachadhi, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
    Matriculation, (Maths, Science, Literature and Social Studies)
    1995 - 2000

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