Lalitha ManickamDr. Lalitha Manickam, Scientist in ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore, India. She received her PhD degree in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. She wa awarded IPI JRF for MSc program and DCSCMS-SRF award (Remote sensing for agricultural applications) for PhD from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. She has specialized in Soil survey, mapping, pedotransfer functions, modelling and soil spectral studies. She has published over 50 research papers in soil resource assessment, mapping, and land degradation, over 10 book chapters and more than 25 proceedings in national and international conferences. She has 3 best paper awards by Indian Institute of Soil Science, New Delhi, Indian Society of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur and Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology in association with University of agricultural science, Dharwad, Karnataka. Her research interests are in the field of Soil survey and mapping, Land degradation assessment, Soil spectral studies and Land resource measurement and monitoring. Read More Read Less