Rakesh Kumar
Research Associate-III at Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Indian Council Of Forestry Research And EducationÊ(Icfre), Dehradun
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India
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Associate-III
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Jun 2020 - Present
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Technical Associate
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2018 - 2020
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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
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India
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Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Research Fellow
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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
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Academic Associate
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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
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M. Tech Trainee
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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)
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Junior Project Fellow
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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.
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Junior Research Fellow
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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
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M.Sc. Trainee
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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.
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Education
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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO & Andhra University, Vishakhapattanam
M. Tech, Remote Sensing and GIS -
Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
M. Sc., Environment Management -
Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
B.Sc., Zoology (H) -
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Pachadhi, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
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Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Pachadhi, Darbhanga, Bihar, India
Matriculation, (Maths, Science, Literature and Social Studies)