¹Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
² Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science (IISc). bharath@ces.iisc.ernet.in
³research scholar at Energy and Wetlands Research Group (EWRG), Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc). vinay@ces.iisc.ernet.in
⁴Faculty at Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
⁵currently Post-doctoral fellow at NASA AMES Research Centre, USA
⁶Group Head, Urban Studies & Geoinformatics, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian

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