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Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Arun M Saranathan

(SR RESEARCH SCIENTIST)

Arun M Saranathan's Contact Card & Information.
Email: fnu.arunmuralidharansaranathan@nasa.gov
Org Code: 619
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 619
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC

Positions/Employment


Senior Research Scientist

SSAI/ NASA GSFC-619.0 - Greenbelt, MD

2021 - Present

Perform machine learning model development, in particular for application to remotely sensed hyper-spectral and multi-spectral satellite datasets.


Graduate Research Assistant

University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Amherst

January 2013 - July 2021

Adapting tools from machine/deep learning, signal and image processing for analysis of remotely sensed hyperspectral data of the Martian surface.

Education


University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering

  • Dissertation Title: Automated identification and mapping of interesting mineral spectra in CRISM images.



University of Massachusetts, Amherst | M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professional Societies


IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society

2013 - Present


American Geophysical Union

2022 - Present

Publications


Refereed

2024. "Assessment of advanced neural networks for the dual estimation of water quality indicators and their uncertainties.", Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 5 1383147 [https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2024.1383147] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Towards global long-term water transparency products from the Landsat archive.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 299 113889 [10.1016/j.rse.2023.113889] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Multi-Parameter Retrieval of Water Quality Indicators from Bayesian and Mixture Density Networks.", IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 3946-3949 [10.1109/igarss52108.2023.10281433] [Proceedings]

2023. "Per-pixel uncertainty quantification and reporting for satellite-derived chlorophyll-a estimates via mixture density networks.", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61 1-18 [10.1109/tgrs.2023.3234465] [Journal Article/Letter]