RADHAKRISHNAN T
April 23, 2024 2026-03-10 12:07RADHAKRISHNAN T
Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Analytics, Web and Mobile GIS Applications, Remote Sensing and Geo-AI, Spatial Modeling and Geostatistics, GIS-based Decision Support Systems, Geospatial Technology Applications in Agriculture and Environment
Radhakrishnan T works as Assistant Professor in the area of Geospatial Analytics. He holds Masters in Geography and M.Tech in Remote Sensing. His key teaching/research areas include Geoinformatics, Geospatial Technology Applications, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Analytics and data modelling, Spatial Statistics, Web GIS and Mapping and Geospatial surveying.
He had worked in Informations Verarbeitung Leverkusen (IVL) India Pvt.Ltd., and International Engineering Services prior to joining IIITMK in 2006. He is also the Course Coordinator of M.Sc Geospatial Analytics. He has served as Project Investigator in several Geospatial Technology Projects funded by various organizations (Govt.of India and Govt.of Kerala). Conducted over 40 training/capacity building programs in Geoinformatics and related areas. Guided academic projects (M.Tech, B.Tech and MCA). Spearheaded setting up of an advanced and state-of-the-art Geoinformatics Lab in the institute.
Published several papers in conferences and symposia. He is a Guest Faculty to institutions like Govt. Engineering College – Barton Hill, College of Engineering-Thiruvananthapuram, Institute of Management in Government, State Institute of Rural Technology and Development, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), etc. He also serves as Governing Council Member Cyberdome (Kerala Police), Secretary (ISRS Thiruvananthapuram Chapter) and Treasurer(IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Kerala Chapter). He has served as key resource person to over a dozen workshops during the last two years.
- Geographic Information System
- Advanced Geospatial Analytics, Advanced Geospatial Programming, Spatial Data Analytics
- Web and Mobile GIS, Geospatial Applications in Agriculture (PGDeG), Geospatial Technology Applications
Journals:
- Radhakrishnan, T., Manojkumar T.K. (2024). Spatial Prediction of Soil Micronutrients using Supervised Self-Organizing Maps. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 15, 101033. doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2024.101033
- Radhakrishnan, T., Manojkumar T.K. (2023). Citation network analysis of geostatistical and machine learning based spatial prediction. Spatial Information Research, 31(6), 625–636. doi:10.1007/s41324-023-00526-0
- Radhakrishnan, T., Manojkumar T.K. (2023). A novel ensemble method for Spatial Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon. Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, 38(2), 3625–3637. doi:10.5281/zenodo.777248
- Lukose C. M., Kumar R.A., Radhakrishnan T. (2023). Seasonal Analysis of GroundWater Recharge using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques. 2023 International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS). doi:10.1109/migars57353.2023.10064600
- Radhakrishnan, T., Manojkumar T.K., Pillai, S. K. K., & Lalitha, L. P. P. (2019). Geostatistical Modeling of Soil Nutrients and Development of a Mobile Application for Site-specific Fertilizer Recommendation. 2019 IEEE Recent Advances in Geoscience and Remote Sensing. doi:10.1109/tengarss48957.2019.8976057
- Kumar, R. A., Aslam, M. K. M., Raj, V. P. J., Radhakrishnan, T., Kumar, K. S., & Manojkumar, T. K. (2016). A statistical analysis of soil fertility of Thrissur district, Kerala. 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE). doi:10.1109/icdse.2016.7823953
- Sthanu, L. K., Sarasamma, J. D., Radhakrishnan, T., & Chellappan, M. (2013). Soil Quality Mapping Studies Using Nematodes as Bioindicators. Open Journal of Soil Science, 3(7), 323–335. doi:10.4236/ojss.2013.37037
- Manoj, O., John Jo, V., Amith , M. E., Anuja, V. R., Hareesh, M., Suparna, . A., Thulasimani, . P., Pradeep, B., Radhakrishnan, T., Jessy, M. D., Site-Specific Online Fertilizer Recommendations in Small Cardamom (Elettaria Cardamomum (L.) Maton through CardSApp Offers Fertilizer Savings and Higher Economic Returns. Plant Sci. Today 2024, 11.
- Karthika Mohan, Radhakrishnan T, Manojkumar T. K, Girish M.S,Modelling Spatial Variability of Load Carrying Capacity of Soil Using GIS, International Journal of Recent Development in Engineering and Technology (ISSN 2347 – 6435 (Online)) 2 (6), 72-76, June 2014
- Gopinath, A. K., & Radhakrishnan, T. (2011). Flood Mitigation Study on a GIS Platform for an Ungauged Catchment: A Case Study. Water Resources Management VI. doi:10.2495/wrm110131
Workshops & Training Programs
- Radhakrishnan T., and Manojkumar Thananthu Krishnan. ‘Citation Network Analysis of Geostatistical and Machine Learning Based Spatial Prediction’. Spatial Information Research, May 2023.
- Radhakrishnan T., Manojkumar Thananthu Krishnan, “A Novel Ensemble Method for Spatial Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon”, Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing, 2023, 38 (2): 3625-3637.
- Radhakrishnan T., Manojkumar T.K., Sudhis Kumar K.P., Lal Prakash P.L, “Geostatistical Modeling of Soil nutrients and development of a mobile application for site-specific fertilizer recommendation”, 2019 IEEE Recent Advances in Geoscience and Remote Sensing : Technologies, Standards and Applications (TENGARSS), Kochi, India, 2019, pp. 148-150, doi: 10.1109/TENGARSS48957.2019.8976057
- Kumar, R. A., Aslam, M. K., Raj, V. P., Radhakrishnan, T., Kumar, K. S., & Manojkumar, T. K. (2016). A statistical analysis of soil fertility of Thrissur district, Kerala. 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Engineering (ICDSE).
- Prithivi K., Nikhil P., Radhakrishnan T., “Plant species diversity index mapping using sentinel-2 satellite imagery in western part of Pathanamthita district”, Hinweis International Conference on Computer Science, Cyber Security and Information Technology (CCIT), April 22, 2023, Kochi.
- Sthanu, L. K., Sarasamma, J. D., Iyer, R. T., & Chellappan, M. (2013). Soil quality mapping studies using nematodes as Bioindicators. Open Journal of Soil Science, 03(07), 323-335.
- Karthika Mohan, Radhakrishnan T, Manojkumar T. K, Girish M.S,Modelling Spatial Variability of Load Carrying Capacity of Soil Using GIS, International Journal of Recent Development in Engineering and Technology (ISSN 2347 – 6435 (Online)) 2 (6), 72-76, June 2014,
Ajith, Kumar R., Radhakrishnan, T., Manoj, Kumar T. K., Dawn, Sivan and Satheesh, Kumar K.. “7 Software Development: No-Code and Low- Code with Generative AI”. Generative AI for Software Development: Code Generation, Error Detection, Software Testing, edited by S. Balasubramaniam and Seifedine Kadry, De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 145-174. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677798-007
- Kerala Transportation Database Management System (K-TDMS) – National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC)
- LRIS Web GIS Upgradation and Relaunch Project – Kerala State Land Use Board
- Health Equity Research Initiative in India – Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
- Web-based Spatial Decision Support System for Disease Mapping, Monitoring, and Disease Spread Modeling – Department of Animal Husbandry – 2014-2023
- Design and development of integrated mobile and web application for zero emission project and upgradation/enhancement of Web application for Water Quality Analysis – Haritha Keralam Mission – Nov-2023
- Design and Development of a Mobile Application for Modernizing Rubber Board Extension System – Rubber Board of India, Govt. of India – Feb 2022
- Design and Development of Web GIS-based Portal for Management of Hydrographic Data – Hydrographic Wing, Department of Ports and Fisheries – Oct 2021
- Comprehensive Rubber Information System Project – Rubber Board of India, Govt. of India – Sep 2021
- Web based Spatial Decision Support System for Disease Mapping, Monitoring and Disease Spread Modeling PHASE 8 TO PHASE 11-2021
- Development of a Web Application for Compilation and Management of Water Quality Testing Results – Haritha Keralam Mission, Govt. of Kerala – Jul 2020
- Design and Development of Mobile App for Census of Rubber Area & Web-based Dashboard for Administration and Management – Rubber Board of India, Govt. of India – Jun 2020
- Collaborative Research Project on Integrating GIS-based Soil Fertility Assessment of Cardamom Tract and App-based Fertilizer Recommendation for Climate-Resilient Cardamom Cultivation – Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board – Nov 2020
- Design and Development of an Integrated Mobile and Web-based Application for Herd Book Scheme and Progeny Testing – Kerala Livestock Development Board – Dec 2019
- Design, Development, and Hosting of Web GIS-based Watershed Information System for Kerala – Kerala State Land Use Board – Jan 2018
- Conceptualizing, Design, and Development of Mobile App and Web GIS Application for Location-specific Soil Nutrient Status Mapping & Fertilizer Recommendation System – Soil Survey and Soil Conservation, Govt. of Kerala – Jan 2018
- Assessment of Carbon Storage and Floral Diversity of Sacred Groves in Three Districts of Southern Kerala Supported by Technology Assisted Information Management – Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India – Jan 2018
- Online System for Evaluation and Monitoring of Sub-Mission Activities for Haritha Keralam Mission – Haritha Keralam Mission – Dec 2017
- Developing Customizable Mobile Application using Open Source Technology for Spatial Data Collection – Kerala State Land Use Board – Aug 2016
- Conceptualization, Design, and Implementation of Web GIS for Soil Fertility Mapping and Fertilizer Recommendation System for Rubber Growing Regions & Mobile App for Fertilizer Recommendation – Rubber Board of India, Govt. of India – 2015–2017
- Design, Development, and Implementation of an Enterprise Geographical Information System for Kerala – Kerala State Land Use Board – Mar 2013
- Design, Development, and Implementation of Web GIS-based Land Resources Information System for Kerala – Kerala State Land Use Board – 2011–2017
Funding Agencies & Grant Amounts
- Department of Animal Husbandry – ₹49.1 Lakhs
- Haritha Keralam Mission – ₹42 Lakhs
- National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) – ₹11.80 Lakhs
- Kerala State Land Use Board – ₹41.85 Lakhs
- Kerala State Land Use Board – (Various projects, 2011–2018)
- Rubber Board of India, Govt. of India – (Various projects, 2015–2022)
- Soil Survey and Soil Conservation, Govt. of Kerala – (2018)
- Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India – (2018)
- Kerala Livestock Development Board – (2019)
- Hydrographic Wing, Department of Ports and Fisheries – (2021)
- Cardamom Research Institute, Spices Board – (2020)
- Over 25 years of experience in Geospatial Technology Applications
- Conducted over 40 training/capacity building programs in Geoinformatics and related areas
- Guided M.Tech, B.Tech, and MCA academic projects
- Set up an advanced Geoinformatics Lab at IIITMK/DUK
- Guest Faculty at institutions such as Govt. Engineering College – Barton Hill, College of Engineering-Trivandrum, Institute of Management in Government, State Institute of Rural Technology and Development, SCTIMST
- Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC) member, Dept of E & C, MIT Manipal
- PG advisory Committee member of Kerala Agriculture University
- External Examiner(PG), Department of Geography, Kannur University
- First Prize, Kerala State e-Governance Award (2018) – Mobile Application “Mannu” for Soil Fertilization Recommendation
- Semi-Finalist, SKOCH Award for Mobile application on Mannu and Hydrography Project
Achievements
- Bhumika Project featured as Story No. 37 in 75 Digital Transformation Stories from across India – MeitY