Dr. Arundhati Misra
Work Status: Retired
Last Designation: undefined, NA
Areas of Interest:
SAR, Microwave Radiometer, Scatterometer, mm-Sounder, Interferometric SAR, Polarimetric SAR, Image processing, Hyperspectral data analysis etc
Specialisation:
Microwave Remote Sensing signal and data processing , advanced technique development and applications.
Major Professional Contributions:
1. First person in India to have developed the complex SAR signal processing algorithm for Spaceborne Seasat SAR.
2. Development and operationalisation of ERS-1 SAR processor in India.
3. Designed and developed the first processor for Airborne SAR(ASAR) of ISRO.
4. Design and development of a parallel processor based SAR processing algorithm. Received the ‘100 MFLOPS PARAM Award’ as a team member.
5. As PM for MSMR DP, designed, simulated and developed the Operational Software for ISRO’s first spaceborne microwave radiometer.
6. First optimal configuration designing for spaceborne millimeter wave sounder for Temperature and Humidity Sounding (TSU and HSU) of ISRO.
7.Guest Scientist to DLR, Oberpffafenhofen(Munich), Germany, where she designed and developed the DInSAR (Differential Interferometric SAR) processor for DLR’s airborne ESAR, sensor.
8. Deputed by ISRO, as a member of the CEOS Working Group on Cal-Val at the International forum, where she represented India for the Remote Sensing Cal-Val activities of ISRO sensors and products.
9. Prestigious ISRO Team award for her contribution in the SAR Processor Development work in India’s first state of the art Spaceborne SAR, RISAT-1 Project of ISRO.
10. Deputy Project Director of Data Products for the Joint ISRO-CNES(France) Project, ‘Meghatropiques’
11. Involved in the prestigious ISRO-NASA SAR project, NISAR project.
12. First in_house software tool, MIDAS (MIcrowave Data Analysis Software) Tool, to cater to data analysis of SAR data was envisioned by her and operationized.
13. Under her guidance, AVHYAS(AdVanced HYperspectral data Analysis Software)Tool was developed in house and operationalised.
14. Contributed to the Chandrayan-II project’s Orbiter data analysis, for DFSAR data.
15. She has contributed to more than hundred research publications, apart from ISRO’s Internal Technical Reports.
16. 2 patents, and 5 copyrights, and 2 more copyrights are under processing.
Consultancy Areas:
1. Microwave Remote Sensing Data Processing.
2. Advanced Technique Development
3. Data Analysis Software tool development and operationalization
Sector Associated With:
1. Spaceborne and Airborne Sensors of ISRO
2. Microwave Remote Sensing Data Processing.
3. Advanced Technique Development
4. Data Analysis Software tool development and operationalization
Sectors Interested to Offer Service:
1. Microwave Remote Sensing Data Processing.
2. Advanced Technique Development
3. Data Analysis Software tool development and operationalization
Professional Experience
Software simulation, Processor and algorithm development for Microwave Remote Sensing Sensors.
Applications driven analysis algorithm development.
She has contributed to more than hundred research publications, apart from ISRO’s Internal Technical Reports.
2 patents, and 5 copyrights, and 2 more copyrights are under processing
Keywords
Microwave Remote Sensing Sensors
Data processing
Simulation & algorithm
SAR, InSAR, DInSAR, Polarimetry
Hyperspectral data analysis
Data analysis tools
Education
BE ETCE, Electronics, Communication Theory, Analog circuits, Digital systems, Radar, Antenna, EM Theory, Programming languages etc, Jadavpur University,Kolkata, 1984
ME ETCE(Computer Specialization), Computer organization, Operating Systems, Computer architecture, DBMS, Programming languages, etc, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1986
PhD CSE, Microwave Remote Sensing Data Processing, Image Processing, Research Methodology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, 2017
Awards and Recognitions
1. 100 MFLOPS PARAM Award of CDAC for Parallel SAR Processor design & development on CDAC's 1st PARAM computer.
2. ISRO Team award for SAR Processor Development work in India’s first state of the art Spaceborne SAR, RISAT-1 Project of ISRO
INAE Section Affiliated
VI: Electronics and Communication Engineering
Year of Election to Fellowship
2024
Year of Birth
1962
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