Dr. Manohar Yadav

Assistant Professor
GIS Cell
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: ssmyadav[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +91-532-227-1344(O) +91-9559753727(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:

Delivered an expert talk in India Geospatial Forum, International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India. [Feb 2014]

Delivered an expert talk in Faro 3D User Conference Asia Pacific, Bangalore, India. [Sept 2015]

Delivered an invited talk in National Conference on the theme Mapping Urbanization in India from Socio-Spatial Perspectives, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi, India. [August 2018]

Delivered an invited talk on “Seeing the transportation corridors with 3D data: LiDAR-based mapping.” in a three days’ Workshop on IGIS (indigenous GIS & Image processing (IP) platform), Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd & NITs (North India). [July 2020]

Delivered an invited talk on “LiDAR Remote Sensing: Fundamentals and Application” in a five days’ workshop on Role of Geospatial Technology in New Era of Development - An Indigenous Initiative, Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd & School of Civil Engineering, Lovely Professional University. [Sept 2021]

Delivered an invited lecture on “LiDAR-based Earth Observation: An Integral Part of Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities” in NIDM Training-cum-Workshop Programme organized by CED, MNNIT Allahabad and National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Govt. of India. [Nov. 2022]

Award and Honors:

Received best paper publication award - Indian Society of Remote Sensing for paper titled “Developing Basic Design and Mathematical Framework for a Mobile Mapping System - A Case Study Using Available Sensors.” published in Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (SCI-Exp.) in 2014. [Award Year 2015]

Received session best paper award - Dignified Researchers Publication, Engineering and Technology Research Group for paper titled “Automatic Road Detection using Satellite Images” presented in International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology held in Pattaya (Thailand). [Award Year: 2016]

Nominated to represent India as one of the members of Indian delegation team of eight expert members in ISO/TC 211 54th Plenary & WG6 meeting in Vienna, Austria during 9-13 May 2022.

Nominated to represent India as one of the members of Indian delegation team of ten expert members in International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC 211 56th Plenary meeting in Jeonju, South Korea during 18 & 19 May 2023.

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:

Organized Self-sponsored Summer Training cum Internship Programme in Geoinformatics & Civil Engineering (STIPGCE-2019) as Course Coordinator [June 10- July 06, 2019]

Organized three days Industry sponsored (Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd.) Workshop on IGIS (indigenous GIS & Image processing (IP) platform) as Coordinator [July 27- July 29, 2020; Participants ~ 350]

Organized International Conference on Technology and Innovations for Sustainable Development (TISD-2023) as Secretary [October 27 - October 29, 2023]

On-going Projects:

India-European Union (EU) Consortium Research Project “Sustainable Energy system for Achieving Novel Carbon neutral Energy communities (SUSTENANCE)”; A multinational multi-institutional research project jointly funded by DST India and European Commission (Horizon 2020) [Total Project Cost: € 6 681 064,35 ~ INR 5,910 Lakhs] [Sole investigator and PI, from MNNIT Allahabad]

Research Project “Multi-sensor-multi-platform LiDAR systems integrated with a camera and artificial intelligence for sustainable forest management and urban tree inventories”, Council of Science & Technology U.P. (CSTUP) funding [Total Cost ~ 13.86 Lakhs] [PI]

Research Project “Indian Standards for Mobile LiDAR Surveying and Mapping”, DST funding [approved for funding - Total Cost ~ 63.18 Lakhs] [PI]

Research project entitled "Airborne LiDAR data quality assessment" - Terms of Reference Accepted - BIS (India)

Projects Completed:

Research Project “Development of software package for DEM generation and road extraction using LiDAR data”, funded by TEQIP-II [Total Cost = 2 Lakhs]; Duration - 2014-2016 (Completed) [PI]

Research Project “Development of software package for highway applications using mobile LiDAR data”, funded by Research and Consultancy, MNNIT Allahabad [Total Cost = 2 Lakhs] Duration - 2015-2017 (Completed) [PI]

Expert Lectures:

Delivered an expert lecture on “Introduction to LiDAR and its Applications in Civil Engineering", Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay. [October 2020]

Delivered an invited talk in DST-National Meeting on Airborne LiDAR, IIT Kanpur, India. [Jan 2015]

Delivered a guest lecture in TEQIP-II sponsored short term course on Bio-Inspired & Geospatial Techniques (BIOGEOS), Department of Civil Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad, India. [Mar 2015]

Delivered a guest lecture in NNRMS sponsored course on RS & GIS applications, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Department, IIRS Dehradun, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India. [June 2015]

Delivered a guest lecture in a NNRMS sponsored course on RS & GIS applications, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Department, IIRS Dehradun, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India. [June 2016]

Delivered a guest lecture in a Short course on LiDAR Remote Sensing and its Application, Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP), Dehradun – A United Nations affiliated Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific. [May 2017]

Delivered an invited talk on “types of LiDAR” in a six days AICTE- ISTE sponsored Faculty Refresher Program on Advanced Surveying Instruments and Technigues, Civil Engineering Department, All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s Polytechnic, Pune. [June 2021]

Delivered an expert lecture on “Terrain Data Modeling: DEM, DTM, DSM” in DST sponsored Geospatial Program (A 21-days summer school), IIIT Allahabad. [May 2022]

Delivered an expert lecture on “3D mapping using high resolution terrestrial and UAV LiDAR systems: An integral part of Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities” in High-End Workshop (KARYASHALA) on 3D Mapping and Modelling using GIS Software, IIT(BHU) Varanasi. [Nov. 2022]

Overseas Assignments:

MNNIT Allahabad signed DESCA - Horizon 2020 Model Consortium Agreement as one of the International Parties (India) with the European Parties under Mission Innovation (MI), a global initiative of 24 countries and the European Commission (on behalf of the European Union).

Reviewer for Transactions / Journal / Conferences:

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (SCI)

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (SCIE)

Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (SCI)

Automation in construction (SCI)

Journal of Surveying Engineering - ASCE (SCI)

International Journal of Remote Sensing (SCI)

Survey Review (SCI)

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (SCIE)

Mathematical Problems in Engineering (SCIE)

Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (SCIE)

Other Significant Achievements:

Member, Editorial Board - Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS.

Joint M. Tech theses supervision with faculty members from IIT Kanpur

Co-Editor: Abstract proceedings of International Conference of Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development (TISD – 2023) [ISBN: 978-93-93647-45-0]

Goel, S., Yadav, M., Singh, A. K., Lohani, B., 2013. Making mobile mapping systems affordable. geospatial TODAY 12(5): 12-16. (Published as COVER STORY)

Lohani, B., Yadav, M., 2018. Mobile Lidar Systems Today and Tomorrow. GIM INTERNATIONAL, July-August issue: 19-21.

Member of Technical Program Committee of IEEE international conference on theme “Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS) 2023” organized by IEEE Societies; Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRSS) and Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).