Dharumarajan SDr. S. Dharumarajan, Senior scientist in ICAR-National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore, India. He received his PhD degree from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Post Doc from The University of Sydney, Austraia. He has 12 years of experience and expertise in the field of land resource inventorisation, land degradation assessment and digital soil resource mapping. He has handled various research projects financed by ICAR, French Natural Research agency, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Climate Change, Dept. of Space, Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission and World Bank in various capacities. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has been awarded Endeavour Research fellowship - 2016, ISSLUP young scientist award and ICAR-NBSS&LUP foundation day awards. Presently his research is focused on operationalisation of digital soil mapping products and integration of soil data for the wider environmental/earth modeling. Read More Read Less