Dr Devendra Singh has completed his Graduation from the Agra University, UP. Also obtained a master’s degree in Physics with specialization in Electronics from Agra University. After post- graduation, He was selected as Assistant Professor for Physics by Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission. Thereafter, He joined the India Meteorological Department as Meteorologist through UPSC in the year 1992. I successfully completed one year training in advanced meteorology at IMD Pune and was subsequently posted in Air Pollution Lab from 1994 to 1997 and then moved to IMD Delhi office and started R&D for satellite Meteorology. Here He worked in close association with ISRO and NASA. He has completed his Ph.D. in temperature and humidity sounding using infrared and microwave satellite data in the year 2004 from Dr. B .R. Ambedkar University, Agra. He has worked for the Cal/Val programme of ISRO’s Oceanset-1 and was Principal Investigator for the ISRO’s future INSAT-3D satellite for temperature and humidity profiles. He was principal investigator from the Indian side on validation of microwave and infrared soundings under the INDO-US MOU. He has visited several US universities and NASA Centers in connection with research related projects. While serving as Meteorologist, He has undergone training for computer languages such as FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, C++ and gained expertise in IDL language and subsequently developed number of IDL codes for the analysis of satellite data and utilized his expertise in developing Integrated Hybrid Satellite Crop Yield Model (IHSCYM) for crop health monitoring and assessment of crop productivity. The data obtained from this model has been validated by government agencies with 95% accuracy.
He joined the Department of Science and Technology in the year 2006 and continued the development of algorithms using multiple satellites through integrating GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing. He has worked upon a very dynamic and new age technological method of assessing crop composition, crop productivity and crop health on a weekly basis. The particular feature that renders this technology to be cutting edge and at par with other methods is that by using the model developed by him makes it possible to accommodate and compute almost complete data at a village level-which is unprecedented achievement. The method has been successfully tested and validated in the state of Haryana and with nominal increments; it can be extended to the national level. Real time monitoring of crop agriculture crop will be an invaluable input to the Government (States and Central) to make a host of timely interventions like support price, credit availability, import policies, insurance schemes, irrigation schedules etc. He has been closely working with university of Montana, USA for the development of BCG model for the estimation of productivity and University of Wisconsin and USGS, USA for the processing of multiple satellite data. He has also explored the possibility of hyper spectral satellite data for crop classification with Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA. He has undergone training at the European Center for medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) Reading, UK for the utilization of meteorological products in agriculture monitoring. He has written many research papers in International and National Journals and have also contributed for the International Conferences. The list of research papers is enclosed. As a pilot project, He has carried out damage assessment of wheat crop due to hailstorm in the year 2007 over Rewari district of Haryana and flood over four districts of Bihar in the year 2008 and published research papers (list is enclosed). These results were validated by the local administrations of these districts. The crop yield model has been developed by me based on my extensive research incorporating various factors like soil moisture, atmospheric temperature, carbon content parameterization in the crops etc. to increase the robustness and accuracy of computation. He has worked with Ministry of Agriculture Government of India for the monitoring of crop health under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) during the period 2007 to 2010. Due to his expertise in remote sensing and crop health monitoring using various satellite data, his services were asked on loan basis for conceptualizing and establishing the National Centre for Crop Forecasting (NCCF), by the then Secretary of Agriculture Government of India.