Dinesh Babu Irulappa-Pillai-Vijayakumar

Researcher-Chargé de recherche

Laboratory of Forest Inventory (LIF)
Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN)
14 rue Girardet
Nancy
France - 54000
E-mail: Dinesh-Babu.Irulappavijay@ign.fr

Education

• PhD in Forest Science (2012-2015), Université Laval, Québec, Canada
• Master of Science in Geo-information Science and Earth observation for Natural Resources Management(2009-11), ITC- Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Master of Technology in Remote Sensing (2006-08), Anna University, Chennai, India
• Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (2002-06), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru college of Agriculture and Research Institute, Karaikal, Pondicherry, India

Awards

• Fonds de Soutien au doctorat -Prime IV- Department of Wood Science and Forestry, Laval university, Québec, Canada
• Fonds de Soutien au doctorat -Prime II- Department of Wood Science and Forestry, Laval university, Québec, Canada
• Fonds de Soutien au doctorat -Prime I - Department of Wood Science and Forestry, Laval university, Québec, Canada
• Quebec International Tuition Fee Exemption For Indian Students- Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi, India
• Doctoral Research Scholarship- Nature and Research Fund of Quebec, Canada
• Erasmus Mundus Window Lot 15 - European Union Scholarship, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• First Rank University Holder Gold Medal Award for scoring highest GPA in M.Tech Remote Sensing from Anna University, Chennai
• Best Student Gold Medal Award in B.Sc (Agriculture)

Publications

• Irulappa Pillai Vijayakumar, D.B., Raulier, F., Bernier, P.Y., Paré, D., Gauthier, S., Bergeron, Y. and Pothier, D (2017) Fire disturbance data improves the accuracy of remotely sensed estimates of aboveground biomass for boreal forests in eastern Canada. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 8, 71-82
• Bergeron, Y. Irulappa Pillai Vijayakumar, D.B, Ouzennou,H. Raulier,F. Leduc, A. and Gauthier. S (2017) Projections of future forest age class structure under the influence of fire and harvesting: implications for forest management in the boreal forest of eastern Canada. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 90, Issue 4
• Irulappa Pillai Vijayakumar, D.B., Raulier, F., Bernier, P.Y., Paré, D., Gauthier, S., Bergeron, Y. and Pothier, D (2016) Cover density recovery after fire disturbance controls landscape aboveground biomass carbon in the boreal forest of eastern Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 360:170 - 180.
• Irulappa Pillai Vijayakumar, D.B., Raulier, F., Bernier, P.Y., Gauthier, S., Bergeron, Y. and Pothier, D (2015) Lengthening the historical records of fire history over large areas of boreal forest in eastern Canada using empirical relationships. Forest Ecology and Management, 347:30 - 39.
• Naveen Kumar Sidda , Aneta J. Florczyk , Francisco J. López-Pellicer , Dinesh Babu I.V , Rubén Béjar & F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria  (2013): Expeditious management pattern towards digital earth, International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI:10.1080/17538947.2012.753474