Chris Justice

Prof. Dr. Chris Justice

Dept. of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, USA

Biography

Meghavi Prashnani earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and is faculty at UMD, serving as Project Coordinator for NASA Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program. She is a remote sensing researcher with a primary focus on satellite-based crop monitoring. Previously, she worked as a Remote Sensing and GIS Expert at the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC), New Delhi, on agriculture monitoring, drought assessment, and crop insurance using microwave and optical satellite data combined with in-situ data. She has also served as a Scientist at ISRO's North Eastern Space Application Centre on disaster risk reduction and UAV-based precision farming, and at DRDO's Center for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Bengaluru, on hyperspectral image classification. Chris Justice earned a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, UK and is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He is the Project Scientist for LCLUC Program and P.I. for NASA Harvest. He is the Land Discipline Co-Lead for the NASA MODIS and Suomi-NPP VIIRS Science Team, Chair of the international GOFC/GOLD Program, and Co-Chair of the international GEOGLAM Initiative on global agricultural monitoring. His research focuses on land cover and land use change, land observations and data products, global agricultural monitoring, and associated information technology and decision support systems.

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