Ph.D. from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE 1977

M.Tech from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS 1972

• N Jacob, R Krishnan, IV MuraliKrishna - Fuzzy logic approach for sustainable land use planning - International Journal of Geoinformatics - Bangkok – under communication
• Kiranmai C, IV Muralikrishna, Venugopala Reddy- Spatial data mining for Forest management- IGARSS05- IEEE Society conference - Korea, July 2005
• IV Muralikrishna, C Kiranmai and Venugopala Reddy A- Spatial and collateral data mining for crime analysis – MAPMIDDLE EAST conference – 2005- Dubai- April 2005.
• C Sitha, IV Muralikrishna and BL Deekshatulu- Image fusion and information extraction – IGARSS 05 – IEEE Society conference- Korea - July 2005
• Malleswari B, IV Muralikrishna and K Lalkishore - GPS DATUM CONVERSION – International Conference on Systenic, Cybernetics and informatics- Hyderabad - January 2005
• Malleswari B, IV Muralikrishna and K Lalkishore - Performance evaluation of GPS coordinates using Kalman filter - Indian journal of space and radio physics (Under communication)

Research and Operational Developmental and consultancy
projects executed /in progress during 1997-2005

• Iintegrated Study for Sustainable Development (IMSD) of Kadaura Block, Jalaun District, U.P. – Funded by NRSA
  
• Environmental Impact Assessment of Indira Priyadarsini Jurala Project, Gadwal, Mahboobnagar District (A.P) - Funded by WALAMTARI
• Preparation of Cadastrally correlated maps and Digitization of G-zone of Vasi-
  
• virar region for Bombay Metropolitin. - Funded by NRSA.
• Creation of digital cadastral database for part of Hyderabad city -Funded by Survey and Land Records Department, Government of A.P.
• Land use/Land cover Change Analysis with special reference to Jhum Cultivation, West Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya.- Funded by NRSA.
• Land use/Land cover Mapping of Guntur, Krishna & West Godavari District of A.P. on 1:50,000 Scale. – Funded by Department of Agriculture, Govt. of A.P.
• Land use/Land cover Assessment Study of Haripur – Jaipur – Pyala Section Gas Pipeline Corridor. - Funded by NRSA
• Soil Mapping for Reserved Forest Blocks, Vikarabad Range–AP Forest Dept
• Remote Sensing and Image processing – Infrastructure Development – TAPTEC Project – Funded by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.
• Integrated approach for Urban Ecology study of Hyderabad city and its environs for developmental planning and Management - Funded by University Grants Commission, New Delhi.
• GIS application for environmental Impact Assessment of irrigation project – A Case study of Nagarjuna Sagar Right bank canal command area - Funded by INCID , Ministry of Water Resources, Govt. of India.
• Preparation of District wise Land Resources Data Hand book of A.P.- Funded by Department of Agriculture, Govt. of A.P.
• GIS for Rural Land use planning – R & D Project – Funded by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.
• EIA and Land use Evaluation for Soil and ground water contamination in Bichhri village, Udaipur, Rajasthan – A Remote Sensing and GIS based approach – Funded by NPC, Ministry of Environment and forests, Govt of India
• Integrated approach for land use emissions – Funded by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
• Preparation of Land Use/Land Cover map and Hydrogeomerphological map for part of Visakhapatnam district in Sarada river basin – Funded by Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI).
• Optimal Land use planning of Nalgonda , Chittoor and Nellore districts of AP – Funded by Dept of Agriculture , Govt of AP.
• Environmental Impact Assessment /Environmental Management Plan (EIA/EMP) studies for Veligondla Irrigation Project - Funded by Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) & Irrigation and Command area development department, Govt. of A.P.
• Environmental Impact Assessment /Environmental Management Plan (EIA/EMP) studies for Sri Ram Sagar Flood flow Canal Project - Funded by Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) & Irrigation and Command area development department, Govt. of A.P.
• Rational Land use planning for Warangal, Medak, Srikakulam and Cuddapah districts of AP – Funded by Dept of Agriculture, Govt. of AP
• Environmental Impact Assessment /Environmental Management Plan (EIA/EMP) studies for Bhima Lift Irrigation Project - Funded by Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) & Irrigation and Command area development department, Govt. of A.P.
• An Integrated Approach involving Remote Sensing, GIS, Global Positioning Systems and Ham Radio Communication for Disaster Management –TAPTEC Project - Funded by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.
• Environmental Impact Assessment/Environmental Manage Plan (EIA/EMP) studies for Yeleru Reservoir Project - Funded by Environmental Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) & Irrigation and Command area development department, Govt. of A.P.
• District Performance Evaluation Using Geospatial Tecjhnology – Centre For Good Governance, 2003
  
• Urban Infrastructure Management – Centre For Good Governance, 2003
  Catchment Area Treatment And Command Area Development – Bhima Project- Karnataka, 2005

• Invites speaker / session chairman – MAP MIDDLE EAST _ Dubai April 2005
• Invited Speaker – Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Conerence February 2004
• Invited Speaker – International Conference on Hazards mitigation and disaster management- India Meteorological Society, February 2004
• Invited Speaker Geospatial Education at Map India Conference – New Delhi January 2004
• Geoinformation and Technology Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA, March 2002
• Delivered Key Note address on GIS trends and issues during Australian Urban Regional Information Systems Conference – AURISA – November 2001 , Australia
• Geoinformation and Technology Association Conference- San Diego-USA- March 2001
• International Conference on Robust methods in GIS, Zurich, Switzerland, March, 2001
• International IT conference on GIS education-Hong Kong, 2000
• Disaster Management- International Network meet USA
• CEOS Meeting at AIT, Bangkok, 2000
• EO Education, CEOS Meeting, Dehradun 2000
• Remote Sensing –National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA 2000
• GIS Conference, Towson University, Baltimore, USA 2000
• Intl Symposium on Advanced Informatics, NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan-2000

• Some Titles of completed Sponsored Research and consultancy projects up to end of 1996

• Littoral processes monitoring with Ministry of Shipping and Transport and Port-Trust of Madras, Vizag and Paradip.  1981

• Ocean color and Fishing potential evaluation with Central Marine Fisheries research Institute, Cochin, Kerala.  1982
• Brackish water area estimation , Development Authority, Govt. of A.P   1985
• Estimation of coastal erosion and accretion for Short Area Development Authority, Govt. of A.P. 1986
• Indo-FRG project on "Microwave Remote Sensing" Collaboration with IIT, Madras, ONGC, Bombay and ZSI 1985
• PAVAN-TERRA-Indo- Russian Manned Space Experiment data evaluation. 1984
• Formulated several proposals for State Remote Sensing Centres      Establishment and Infrastructure development. 1985
• Geographical Information for Rural Land Use and Environmental Management-MHRD 1992
• European Remote Sensing Satellite-Utilization of Synthetic Aperture Radar data. 1992
• Marine Bio-Optical Modelling-1992
• Terrain evaluation-MHRD 1992
• Cadastral land Records Management and GIS development for Municipal application
• GIS for Urban environmental management, UGC 1996
• Mangrove ecosystems - Ministry of Environment, 1996
• Water Resources Assessment and performance evaluation of Nagarjuna Sagar Left Bank canal,1996

INSTITUTION                       YEAR            DEGREE
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Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras           1972        M. Tech (Master of Tech )-
                                                                    Water Resources Engg-

Indian Institute                  1977        Ph.D   in  Engineering Faculty of Science, Bangalore                                        Numerical modeling of  Stratified flows

EMPLOYMENT:
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Period                      Name of Institution             Designation
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August 1974 to        Indian Institute of science CSIR-Research

February 1977         Bangalore                            fellow

February1978 to      Hydraulic Engg RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
                                   Indian Institute of Technology. Madras

February 1978 to     Ocean Engineering Centre         Lecturer

March 1979            Indian Institute of Technology. Madras

March 1979            DEPARTMENT OF SPACE Scientist SF and
                                  Government of INDIA Head Marine
                                  to Applications Division

June1987               NRSA – HYDERABAD
                           IIRS - Dehradun

• Visiting Professor at Centre For environmental Remote Sensing – Chiba University, Chiba, Japan during the year 1999-2000.
• Visiting Professor, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, July 2004 -USA
  

  Address for correspondence –
  Dr Iyyanki V Murali Krishna
  
  Work:
  Director (R and D),
  Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, IST Building,
  Kukatpally, HYDERABAD 500072 . AP, India
  
  Home: 13-6-436/A/16, Lakshmi Nagar,Mehdipatnam Ring Road
  HYDERABAD 500028 . AP,  India

  Phones     Work + 91 (040) 2305 8716 Fax: + 91 (040) 2305 8716

  Home + 91 (040) 2352 0000 or 91 (040) 2351 3254

  Mobile 98480 49624 E mail iyyanki@icorg. org or ivm@ieee.org

  Date of birth:    12 October 1948

Membership of professional bodies:

• Member   -IEEE(USA)
• Life Member - Indian Society of Remote Sensing
• Life Member - Indian association of Hydrologists
• Life Member - Indian Water Resources Society
• Life Member - Association of Exploration Geophysics
• Life Member - Indian National Cartographic Association
• Life Member - Indian Society for Technical Education

Ph D Thesis 16 Nos (Completed) – 12 under progress
MS Thesis 3 Nos
MCA Thesis 22 Nos
M Tech Thesis 81 Nos

Dr B L Deekshatulu
Former Direcotr NRSA and UNCSSET-AP, 
East Marredpally
Secunderabad 500 003 AP,
India- Phone 773 2423

Prof Karl Harmsen
Former Rector ITC, Netherlands
Director, UNCSSET-AP, 4 kalidasa Road, DEHRADUN 28 001,
Uttaranchal, India

Prof A P Cracknell          Dr R Navalgund
University of Dundee    Director, NRSA
Dundee DD1 4 HN          Bala Nagar
Scotland- UK                  HYDERABAD 500037
UK                                     INDIA

Prof Y Sugimori
President, PORSEC
CEReS, Chiba University
CHIBA, 234-8052 , Japan

• MAPMIDDLEEAST Conference- April 2005
• GSDI conference, February 2004
• GITA conference at Tampa, Fl, USA, March 2002
• International conference on RS and GIS. Bhopal, January 2002
• Australian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association- AURISA- Melbourne Nov 2001
• Geoinformation and Technology Association Conference- San Diego-USA- March 2001
• International Conference on Robust methods in GIS, Zurich, Switzerland , March, 2001
• International IT conference on GIS education-Hong Kong, 2000
• Disaster Management- International Network meet USA
• CEOS Meeting at AIT, Bangkok, 2000
• EO Education, CEOS Meeting, Dehradun 2000
• Remote Sensing –National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA 2000
• GIS Conference , Towson University, Baltimore, USA 2000
• Intl Symposium on Advanced Informatics, NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan-2000
• Geo Asia Conference-Singapore 1999
• IEEE-IGARSS 1999- Hamburg, Germany
• NASDA-ESCAP Workshop at Manila , Philippines -ACRS 1998
• PORSEC at Qingdao, China 1998
  IEEE-IGARSS 97 at Singapore 1997
  

  Participation in International Programs up to 1996

  GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht 2045, West Germany-Spent 10 Weeks and participated in MARSEN study and 4 week Sea truth data during Aug-Oct1979.

  • Guest Scientist at DLR (Formerly DFVLR)-German Aerospace Research Establishment Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany-October 1979to April 1980.
  • Participated in Ocean Color Workshop at JRC, Ispra, Italy.
  • Attended post-Graduate Summer School at University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland in September 1980.
  • Faculty at Summer School On Remote Sensing Applications at University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, August, during 1982, 1984 and 1990 .
  • 15th Liege Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics at Liege, Belgium, May, 1983,
  • COSPAR meeting at GRAZ, AUSTRIA 1984.
  • COSPAR meeting and topical meeting at Toulouse, France, 1986.
  • French Oceanographic Institute, Paris/Brest 1984.
  • AI based Expert System for Image Processing-GKSS, Geesthact,Germany-1990.

  Special Programs :

  • Founder Editor of Geospatial Today – Journal 2002-2003
  • Conceived, planned and organized ICORG - International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS-Feb 1992, the first International Remote Sensing Conference in India. This was followed with ICORG 94 ICORG 97 and ICORG in February 2001
  • Conducted Geographical Information Systems Tutorial Workshops in during 1992-96 GPS and Object Oriented GIS Courses during 1997.
  • Principles of GIS and Web based GIS in 2000.and 2001.
  • Designed and conducted 5 Orientation and Refresher courses each of 4 week duration on Spatial information Technology during 2001-2004 through JNTU Academic Staff College, Hyderabad

  PAPER publications / Presentations: Recent 1999-2005

  • Digital image fusion - IGARSS Conference Seoul- Korea, July 2005
  • Spatial data mining – IGARSS Conference Seoul- Korea, July 2005
  • GIS and internet education- ISPS Working Group on Internet education– Work shop February 2001
    
  • Global Hydrological Data Base- Chapter in ISPRS WG publication on Global Data

  Bases edited by Ryutaro Tateishi, Japan 2000

  •  Forest Biomass and carbon cycle evaluation- IGARSS , Hamburg 1999

  •  Small world application for electric utilities mapping , Singapore,1999

  •  EO education- Dehradun 2000

  •  Marine GIS- Havana ,Cuba 2000

  •  Coastal Zone management, Baltimore, 2000

  • GIS education- Conference at ITC Netherlands August 1999

  Papers Presented / Published up to 1998 (list incomplete) 

  1. Muralikrishna IV and Ratna Devanathan-Circulation and salinity distribution in coastal inlets-Coastal Engineering Journal, Elsevier Publishing House,November1978, The Netherlands.

  2. Muralikrishna I V and Sarma KVN-Buoyant jet discharges into finite ambient waters- journal of Hydraulics division American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol.105,No.HY5, May 1979.

  3. Muralikrishna IV- Longitudinal dispersion in dead Zones-discussion.Journal of hydraulics division,American Society of Civil Engineers, July 1978.

  4. Muralikrishna IV and Raman H-Hydraulic modeling of stratified lakes. Journal of Hydraulics division, American Society of Civil Engineers, February 1978.

  5. Muralikrishna I V -Horizontal buoyant jets in quiescent shallow water. Journal of Environ mental Engineering, Proc.American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol.105.EE2,April 1979.

  6. Murlalikrishna I V and Sarma K V N- A theoretical investigation of arrested salt wedge, West Indies, Journal of Engineering, Vol.7,No.2.December1979.

  7. Muralikrishna I V- Ocean color study in Arabian sea, Chapter 14 Remote Sensing applications in marine science and technology NATO ASI Series edited by AP Cracknel Reidel publishing Company.

  8. Muralikrishna I V- Landsat applications to suspended sediment evaluation Chapter 15, Remote Sensing application Company.

  9. Muralikrishna I V- Optimal Remote Sensing of Coastal environment. Remote Sensing of Shelf sea Hydrodynamics,edited by JCJ Nihoul, Elsevier Publishers,Netherlands,

  10. Muralikrishna I V- Remote Sensing applications in civil engineering published by European Space Agency (ESA),edited by Prof.AP Cracknell,1984.

  11. Muralikrishna I V- Optical Remote Sensing Coastal zone management in civil engineering] published by European Space Agency (ESA), edited by Prof. AP Cracknell,1984.

  12. Muralikrishna I V-Ocean color spectrum analysis and bio-optical modelling-Chapter14 Satellite Oceanography edited by AP Cracknell published by D Reidel Co;1992

  13. Muralikrishna I V- Digital enhancement of satellite data as applied to Antarctica blue ice delineation-

  14. Muralikrishna I V-power spectral analysis for texture classification.

  15. Muralikrishna I V-Remote Sensing for May 90 Cyclone damage Assessment-International Journal of Remote Sensing.

  16. Muralikrishna, I V and Raman H-Velocity Measurement using strain guage techniques- Proceedings International Symposium on Orleans, Lousiana,817-835.

  17. Muralikrishna, I V and Sarma KVN- Effects of Reynolds number on the spread of mixing of buoyant jets-Sixth Australian Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, Adelaide, Australia, December1977.

  18. Muralikrishna,I V- Landsat applications to study of coastal processes XXIICOSPAR sym posium, Bangalore,June 1979.

  19. Muralikrishna,I V and Doerffer R- Thermal Infrared measurement of sea surface temperature,ERIM Remote Sensing Conference held at San Jose,Costa Rica, April 1980.

  20 Muralikrishna,I V-Removal of atmospheric contribution due to scan angle, Conference on Remote Sensing and the atmosphere organized by Remote Sensing Society at Liverpool K, December 1982.

  21. Muralikrishna,I V-Remote sensing applications to ocean studies, Indo_USSR Seminar, Bangalore, February 1983.

  22. Muralikrishna,I V- Estimation of influence of atmosphere during low altitude remote sensing of oceans, International Colloquium on Spectral signature of objects in Remote Sensing Bordeaux, France, September 1983.

  23. Muralikrishna,I V- Study of large scale tidal vortices from Landsat data-ISPRS Congress at Brazil, June 1984.

  24. Muralikrishna, I V- Ocean chlorophyll retrieval algorithms- XV COSPAR meeting, Graz, Ausrtia,June

  25. Muralikrishna,I V- Albedo slicing from meteorological satellite data- XV COSPAR meeting,Graz, Austria.June

  26. Muralikrishna,I V- Optimal utilisation of GIS and Remote Sensing information-Third international conference on Geographical Information Systems Canada, March 1991.

  27. Muralikrishna,I V- Knowledge based techniques in GIS- Third international conference on GIS, Canada, March 1991.

  28. Muralikrishna,I V-Utility of proposed sensors for coastal engineering studies-XV COSPAR meeting at Graz, Australia.

  29. Muralikrishna,I V,G Gandhi, A Sreenivasa Rao and P Kesava Rao - Automated change detection and interfacing with map based information-International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS, Hyderabad, February 1992.

  30. M L Narasimham, I V Muralikrishna, Vazir Mohamad and VV Rao- Some studies on the estimation of physiographic factors for selected catchment in vizag district of A.P. using Landsat TM imagery- International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS, Hyderabad, February 1992

  31. H K Anasuya Devi and I V Muralikrishna-Query language in interface for map data processing in GIS-A cadse study-International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing GIS, Hyderabad, February 1992.

  32. NSSR Murthy and I V Muralikrishna-Knowledge based expert system for image under standing and interpretation for Watershed management-International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS, Hyderabad, February 1992.

  33. P Kesava Rao and IV Muralikrishna-Morphology filters in image processing- International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS, Hyderabad, February 1992.

  34. A Sreenivasa Rao and I V Muralikrishna-Iterative filters in digital image processing-

  International Space Year Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS, Hyderabad, February

  35. I V Muralikrishna- Remote Sensing for numerical modeling of Radiative transfer processes- Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference, Japan, August 1992.

  36. I V Murali Krishna- Forest Biomass estimation and Forest stratification- IGARSS- Sydney, July 2001 (List in complete)