B. S. Daya Sagar

B. S. Daya Sagar received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geoengineering and remote sensing from the Faculty of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Sagar currently is an Associate Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, India. He is currently heading Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU). Earlier, he worked at the College of Engineering, Andhra University, and the Centre for Remote Imaging Sensing and Processing (CRISP), The National University of Singapore in various positions during 1992–2001. He served as an Associate Professor and a Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia, during 2001–2007. His research interests include GIS, applications of mathematical morphology, digital image processing, fractals and multifractals in extraction, analyses, and modeling of geophysical patterns. He was an elected Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (2000) and was a Member of New York Academy of Science during 1995-1996; presently, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received the first Dr. Balakrishna Memorial Award from Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences in 1995 and Krishnan Medal from the Indian Geophysical Union in 2002.

Biography Updated on 31 January 2010

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