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Prof. Narayana Rao Bhogapurapu

Assistant Professor Gr-II

Department of Civil Engineering

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Room No: CE 30/2 +91-870-2462127 bnarayanarao@nitw.ac.in https://narayana-rao.github.io Bio Sketch

    Key Notes

    • Journal(s): 14
    • Conference(s): 27
    • Book Chapter(s): 1

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    Research Areas

    Applications of SAR Data: Agriculture, Forestry, and Urban
    Bio-Geophysical Parameters Estimation from SAR Data
    SAR Data Analysis for Planetary Studies
    Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing
    EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
    Degree Institute Year
    Doctor of Philosophy Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 2023
    Master of Technology National Institute of Technology Warangal 2018
    Bachelor of Engineering Andhra University 2016
    COURSES HANDLED
    Course L-T-P Credit Degree Level
    Thermal, Microwave and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing(CE46026) 3-0-0 3 PG
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    PUBLICATIONS
    Journal(s)
    Retrieval of Surface Soil Moisture at Field Scale Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data, By P. D. Roy, S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, and S. Chakraborty , MDPI, Sensors, vol., pp., 2025
    Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Using Multi-Frequency SAR Data and Machine Learning Algorithms, By P. K. Bellam, M. K. Gumma, N. Bhogapurapu, and V. R. Keesara, MDPI, Land, vol.11, pp.2105, 2025
    An Evidence Modified Gaussian Process Classifier (EM-GPC) for Crop Classification Using Dual-Polarimetric C- and L- Band SAR Data, By S. S. Ghosh, D. Mandal, S. Kumar, N. Bhogapurapu, B. Banerjee, P. Siqueira and A. Bhattacharya , IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol., pp., 2024
    A new InSAR temporal decorrelation model for seasonal vegetation change with dense time-series data, By N. Bhogapurapu, P. Siqueira and J. Armston, IEEE, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol., pp., 2024
    Soil permittivity estimation over vegetative fields using dual polarimetric SAR data, By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, I. Hajnsek, A. Bhattacharya, and P. Siqueira, Elsevier, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, vol., pp., 2024
    Soil Moisture Retrieval Over Croplands Using dual-pol L-band GRD SAR Data, By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, D. Mandal, A. Bhattacharya, L. Karthikeyan, H. McNairn and Y. S. Rao, Elsevier, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol.271, pp.112900, 2022
    Soil Permittivity Estimation Over Croplands Using Full and Compact Polarimetric SAR Data, By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, A. Bhattacharya, C. L´opez-Mart´ınez, I. Hajnsek, and Y. S. Rao, IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol., pp., 2022
    Field-Scale Soil Moisture Estimation Using Sentinel-1 GRD SAR Data, By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, S. Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao, Elsevier, Advances in Space Research, vol., pp., 2022
    Gaussian process regression model for crop biophysical parameter retrieval from multi-polarized C-band SAR data, By S. S. Ghosh, S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, S. Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and H. McNairn, MDPI, Remote sensing, vol., pp., 2022
    Unsupervised Classification of Crop Growth Stages with Scattering Parameters from Dual-Pol Sentinel-1 SAR Data, By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, S. Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and H. McNairn, MDPI, Remote Sensing, vol., pp., 2021
    Rice Phenology Mapping Using Novel Target Characterization Parameters from Polarimetric SAR Data, By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, A. Bhattacharya, D. Mandal, J. Lopez-Sanchez, H. McNairn, and A. C. Frery, TF, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol., pp., 2021
    Dual-polarimetric descriptors from Sentinel-1 GRD SAR data for crop growth assessment, By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, A. Bhattacharya, D. Mandal, J. Lopez-Sanchez, H. McNairn, C. L´opez-Mart´ınez and Y. S. Rao, Elsevier, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol.178, pp.20-35, 2021
    Synergistic Use of TanDEM-X and Landsat-8 Data for Crop-type Classification and Monitoring, By S. Dey, U. Chaudhuri, N. Bhogapurapu, J. Lopez-Sanchez, B. Banerjee, A. Bhattacharya, D. Mandal, and Y. S. Rao, IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol., pp., 2021
    PolSAR tools: A QGIS plugin for generating SAR descriptors, By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, D. Mandal, A. Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao, JOSS, Journal of Open Source Software, vol., pp., 2021
    Conference(s)
    Use of NISAR data for studying ecosystems - early results By Paul Siqueira, Bruce Chapmanb, Josef Kellndorferc, Kyle McDonald, Sassan Saatchi, Alexandra Christensen, KC Cush- man, Brandi Downs, Jessica Martinez, Naiara Pinto, Erika Podest, Naveen Ramachandran, Leandra Sethares, Nicholas Steiner, and N. Bhogapurapu, EUSAR, 2026
    Modeling seasonal InSAR coherence over deciduous forest with dense time-series data By N. Bhogapurapu, P. Siqueira, and J. Armston , IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2025
    Above Ground Biomass mapping over the North American boreal region using ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 ScanSAR data By N. Bhogapurapu, P. Siqueira, and L. Bourgeau-Chavez, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2025
    Permittivity estimation of lunar regolith using hybrid- polarimetric SAR data By N. Bhogapurapu, Avik Bhattacharya and Y. S. Rao, IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2025
    Canopy height estima- tion using C- and L-band InSAR coherence over savannas and dry forests By N. Bhogapurapu, P. Siqueira, J. Armston, M. Urbazaev, K. Wessels, and L. Duncanson , IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2024
    Enhancing crop type classification from multi-frequency dual-pol SAR data by probabilistic fusion of Gaussian processes By S. S. Ghosh, D. Mandal, S. Kumar, N. Bhogapurapu, B. Banerjee, P. Siqueira, and Avik Bhattacharya, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2024
    Soil organic carbon mapping using Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 SAR data By P. K. Bellam, M. K. Gumma, N. Bhogapurapu, and V. R. Keesara, IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2024
    Phenology- based crop classification from multi-frequency dual-pol sar data utilizing gaussian processes By S. S. Ghosh, D. Mandal, S. Kumar, N. Bhogapurapu, P. Siqueira, B. Banerjee and A. Bhattacharya, 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2023
    Sentinel-1 data sensitivity for soil moisture estimation and its application for in-season monitoring of small land holding farmer plots By D. Murugan, N. Bhogapurapu, J. Roy, A. Bhattacharya, and P. Pankajakshan , IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2023
    Enhancing Plant Area Index Retrieval Using Gaussian Process Regression from Dual-Polarimetric SAR Data By S. S. Ghosh, N. Bhogapurapu, A. Bhattacharya, and S. Homayouni, Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS), 2023
    Estimation of Surface Soil Moisture Using Modified Oh Model and Dual-Polarimetric Sentinel-1 SAR Data By Partha Deb Roy, S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, Somsubhra Chakrabort, IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2023
    Soil permittivity estimation over croplands using PolSAR data By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, A. Bhattacharya, C. L´opez-Mart´ınez, I. Hajnsek, and Y. S. Rao , IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2022
    Scattering Parameters from Sentinel-1 SAR Data for crop growth assessment By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, Saeid Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao, IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS), 2022
    Crop biophysical parameter retrieval using Gaussian process regression from C-band polarimetric SAR data By S. S. Ghosh, S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, S. Homayouni, A. Bhattacharya, and H. McNairn, IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS), 2022
    Ground and Volume Scattering Separation in Compact Po- larimetric Interferometric SAR Data By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, and A. Bhattacharya , URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (URSI-RCRS), 2022
    Crop growth assessment using Sentinel-1 GRD SAR descriptors By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, A. Verma, A. Bhattacharya, C. L´opez-Mart´ınez and P. Pankajakshan, IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (In- GARSS), 2021
    Dual polarimetric SAR signature for human-made target characterization By A. Verma, S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, C. L´opez-Mart´ınez, and A. Bhattacharya, IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2021
    Soil Moisture Estimation Using Simulated NISAR Dual Polarimetric GRD Product over Croplands By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, A. Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2021
    Novel Clustering Technique for Monitoring Crop Phenology Using SAR Data By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, A. Bhattacharya, D. Mandal, H. McNairn and Y. S. Rao, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2021
    Chandrayaan-2 Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR) Full and Compact Polarimetric Data Analysis for the Lunar Surface By N. Bhogapurapu, A. Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2021
    Monitoring wheat crop growth using a new vegetation index from Sentinel-1 GRD SAR data By N. Bhogapurapu, S. Dey, D. Mandal, A. Bhattacharya, and Y. S. Rao, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2021
    Built-up area mapping using full and dual polarimetric SAR data By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, A. Bhattacharya, Alejandro C. Frery, and Paolo Gamba, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2021
    Polarimetric SAR Signature for Crop Characterization By A. Verma, S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, D. Mandal, D. Haldar, A. Bhattacharya, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2021
    Simultaneous evaluation of the target scattering-type parameter and scattering power components from polarimetric SAR images By S. Dey, N. Bhogapurapu, A. Verma, S. Homayouni, C. L´opez-Mart´ınez, and A. Bhattacharya , IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2021
    Soil moisture estimation for wheat crop using dual-pol L-band SAR data By N. Bhogapurapu, D. Mandal, Y. S. Rao and A. Bhattacharya, IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS), 2020
    Vegetation monitoring using a new dual-pol radar vegetation index: A preliminary study with simulated NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) L-band data By D. Mandal, N. R. Bhogapurapu, V. Kumar, S. Dey, D. Ratha, A. Bhattacharya, J. M. Lopez-Sanchez, H. McNairn, Y. S. Rao, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2020
    Soil Moisture retrieval using SAR derived vegetation descriptors in water could model By N. Bhogapurapu, D. Mandal, Y. S. Rao and A. Bhattacharya, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2020
    Book Chapter(s)
    Study of Subsurface Roughness Impact on GPR Performance Using Modelling and Simulation By N. R. Bhogapurapu, Pandey, D.K., Reddy, K.V. and Putrevu, D. in Applications of Geomatics in Civil Engineering , Springer, -, 2020
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    RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
    CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
    AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
    2025
    ISRS I-CON (silver)
    2024
    Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis
    2022
    IEEE Mikio Takagi Student Prize
    ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
     Last updated on March 14, 2026