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Pradeep Garg is currently serving as Professor in Geomatics Engineering Group, Civil Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee. He is B.Tech (Civil Engg.) and M.Tech both from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee). He is a recipient of Gold Medal at IIT Roorkee to stand first during M.Tech programme, Commonwealth Scholarship Award for doing Ph.D. from University of Bristol (UK), and Commonwealth Fellowship Award to carry out post-doctoral research work at University of Reading (UK). He joined IIT Roorkee in 1982, and gradually advancing his career rose to the position of Head of the Civil Engg Department at IIT Roorkee in 2015, and then Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun from 2015-2018. He was given additional charge of Vice Chancellor of a Govt. Medical University in Dehardun, for about 8 months. Prof. Garg has published more than 310 technical papers, undertaken 27 research and 94 consultancy projects and guided about 73 M.Tech and 29 Ph.D. Thesis. He has authored text books on (i) Remote Sensing, (ii) Geoinformatics, (iii) Introduction to UAVs, (iv) Digital Land Surveying, and (v) Digital mapping of soil, and (vi) Remote Sensing and Its Applications, and Edited three books and produced two technical films on Story of Mapping. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, out of which he is a Fellow member of 8 societies. [Editor]