Position: postdoktorand
Branch: Department of Remote Sensing
Workplace: ÚVGZ AV ČR, v. v. i.Bělidla 4aBrno603 00
Email: raj.r@czechglobe.cz
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Research Focus
- Satellite remote sensing of vegetation
- Process-based modelling of vegetation primary production
- Bayesian inversion of a process-based model
- Radiative transfer modelling for the retrieval of vegetation characteristic from remotely sensed data
- Processing of eddy covariance data acquired at the flux towers
- Integration of field/remote sensing data and process-based model
Education
- 2006: M.Sc. in Physics, Patna University, India
- 2009: M.Sc. in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, Under Joint program of Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, India and Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
M.Sc. thesis: Analyzing the effect of different aggregation approaches on remotely sensed data
- 2016: Ph.D., Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
PhD thesis: Quality assured estimates of forest gross primary production – Integration of flux tower data and a process-based simulator
Appointments
- 2009-2011: Research scholar, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, India
- 2016-2017: Post-doctoral researcher, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
- 2018- present: Post-doctoral researcher, Global Change Research Institute (CzechGlobe) CAS, Brno, Czech Republic
Important research visits and fellowships
- 2011: Fellowship from Erasmus Mundus mobility program for PhD study
- 2012: Travel grant from European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) to attend 10-days training course on “Regional Experiments for Land-atmosphere Exchange (REFLEX)” in Albacete, Spain
Membership
- A lifetime member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing
- Member of European Geosciences Union
Brief scientometrics
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahul_Raj11
6 publications, 47 citations, H index 4 (according to Scopus)
Selected publications:
Raj, R., Hamm, N.A.S., and Kant, Y. (2013) Analyzing the effect of different aggregation approaches on remotely sensed data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 34(14), 4900-4916.
Raj, R., Hamm, N.A.S., van der Tol, C., and Stein, A. (2014) Variance-based sensitivity analysis of BIOME-BGC for gross and net primary production. Ecological Modelling, 292, 26-36.
Raj, R., Hamm, N.A.S., van der Tol, C., and Stein, A. (2016). Uncertainty analysis of gross primary production partitioned from net ecosystem exchange measurements. Biogeosciences, 13 (5), 1409-1422.
Raj, R., Hamm, N.A.S., van der Tol, C., and Stein, A. (2018). Bayesian integration of flux tower data into process-based simulator for quantifying uncertainty in simulated output. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (1), 83-101.
Selected conference presentations:
Raj, R., Lukeš, P., Homolová, L., Brovkina, O., Šigut, L., and Bayat, B. (2018a) Integration of flux tower data and remotely sensed data into the SCOPE simulator: A Bayesian approach: oral presentation at the 3rd ICOS science conference, 11-13 September 2018, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Bayat, B., van der Tol, C., Vorhoef, W., and Raj, R. (2018b) Daily photosynthesis estimation in drought conditions using remote sensing observations and in-situ measurements: poster presentation at the 3rd ICOS science conference, 11-13 September 2018, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Raj, R., Homolová, L., Lukeš, P., Kováč, D. (2019) Exploring the potential of light use efficiency derived from eddy covariance and reflectance measurements for spatial simulations of gross primary production: poster presentation at the 11th EARSeL SIG imaging spectroscopy workshop, 06-08 February 2019, Brno, Czech Republic.
