Nitin Bhatia
Research Officer (Remote Sensing)
James Cook University
From 2005 to 2022, the main node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies was headquartered at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland (Australia)
Research Officer (Remote Sensing)
James Cook University
Contact:
e-mail: nitin.bhatia@jcu.edu.au
er.nitinbhatia@gmail.com
Phone: +61 (07) 4781 6360
Dr. Bhatia was born on 10th October 1982 in New Delhi, India. In 2003, he received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aryabhatt Polytechnic (now Aryabhatt Institute Of Technology), Delhi. In 2006, he received his engineering degree in computer science (IT) from Indraprastha University (GGIPU), Delhi. He received his M.Sc. degree in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation in 2010 from Department of Earth Observation Science (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands in collaboration with Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), India. In the meantime, he worked as a software developer in the period of 2006—2008 and as a catastrophic modeller in the period of 2010—2011. He then pursued his Ph.D. research in Remote Sensing from ITC, University of Twente, Netherlands. The Ph. D. was a collaboration between Flemish Institute of Technological Research (VITO), Belgium, and Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
His industrial and research experiences in remote sensing image processing include deep learning (AI), land-use/land-cove change, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, estimation/optimization of atmospheric condition parameters, Geo-spatial modelling. His recent research areas include deforestation modelling with spatial data and socio-economic indicators, and time series analysis.
Doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2425954
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.10.008
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1425565
Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060947
Doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730602
DOI: 10.1109/WHISPERS.2014.8077513
DOI: 10.1109/WHISPERS.2014.8077515
Bhatia N., Tolpekin V.A, Biesemans J., Reusen I., Sterckx S., Stein A., “Exploration of the correlation structure of the atmospheric condition parameters in support of the design of uncertainty propagation methods for hyperspectral image processing workflows”, Poster presentation, EARSeL conference, Nantes, France 2013.
Bhatia N., Biesemans J., Tolpekin V.A., Reusen I., Sterckx S., Stein A. “Optimizing atmospheric condition parameters range to avoid over/under-estimation of uncertainty” Poster presentation in Whispers 2014, 25-27 June 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bhatia N., Biesemans J., Tolpekin V.A., Reusen I., Sterckx S., Stein A., “Global Sensitivity Analysis of Water vapour concentration and Visibility for Atmospheric correction” Oral presentation in Whispers 2014, 25-27 June 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bhatia N., Kumar A., Tolpekin V.A, “Hyperspectral image denoising inter scale orthonormal wavelet shrinkage”, selected for Oral presentation in Indian Society of Remote Sensing, ISRS National symposium -2009, Nagpur.
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