I V Murali KrishnaDR. IV MURALI KRISHNA, Dr Raja Ramanna Distinguished Fellow Government of India, has his Ph D from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Engineering Faculty and M Tech from IIT Madras. He was formerly, Adjunct Professor, Asian Institute of Technoogy, Bangkok. Prior to that he was a faculty member and Professor in Spatial information Technology during 1990-2008 at JNT University at Hyderabad and former Director of Research and Development Centre at JNT University, and is basically an Environment and Water Resources Engineer with expertise in Geospatial Technology, Terrain mapping, Environmental Management, Climate Change, Numerical Modelling and Environmental impact assessment. Earlier he worked as Faculty in Ocean Engineering centre at IIT -Madras during 1978-79 and Scientist National Remote Sensing Centre/ISRO, Department of Space during 1980s for 8 years. He has executed several projects for government of India. He is a member of MOEF, NNRMS committee, Government of India and consultant to Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad from 2008 onwards for 4 projects on Bhu Bharati Land survey project evaluation, Manuals for EIA, Reorganization of Hazardous waste Management Division of MOEF, GOI and assessment of impact of climate change on Agriculture. He has co-authored books on Climate Change and Weather Modification Technologies and chapters on Global Data Base Design, ISPRS Publication Edited by Ryutaro Tateishi, Chiba University, Japan and Remote sensing applications in Marine Science and Tech. Edited by AP Cracknell, Univ of Dundee Scotland /published by European Space Agency. He has more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals to his credit and has guided 40 Ph.D studies to date. Read More Read Less