introduction/brief CV
Rangaswamy Madugundu received the M.Sc. degree in Botany from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree (Environmental science and technology) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India, in 2009. Since 2011, he has been working as an Assistant Professor with the Precision Agriculture Research Chair, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 2003 to 2008, he was a Research Fellow with the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, India. From 2008 to 2011, he served as a Project Scientist (RS&GIS) for the World Bank sponsored project “Monitoring and Evaluation of Watersheds” with the Antrix Corporation Ltd., Bangalore, India, and also served as a GIS expert for the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) at Watershed Development Department, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore, India. His research interests include forest biomass and carbon sequestration, evapotranspiration and water productivity mapping of agricultural fields, and NPP of desert farming systems using Eddy covariance and remotely sensed data.
publications
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To understand water productivity of crops cultivated in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, this study was conducted to generate a reliable crop type map using a multi-temporal satellite data (…
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for hydrological modeling and efficient crop water management in hyper-arid climates.
A field study was carried out to investigate the seasonal variations in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) water use efficiency (WUE) using Eddy Covariance (EC) measured CO2 and H2O fluxes,…
courses
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Reseaerch on Precision Agriculture with the use of Plant Physiological, Ecological remote sensing and GIS techniques.