Profile of Dr. Debasish Roy

• B.Sc. in Agriculture (Hons.): Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Coochbehar, W.B
• M.Sc. in Agricultural Physics: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
• Ph.D. in Agricultural Physics: Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi

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Journal Articles

• Roy, D., Ghosh, T., Das, B., Jatav, R. and Chakraborty, D., 2025. Smartphone-Based Image Analysis and Interpretable Machine Learning for Soil Moisture Estimation Across Diverse Indian Soils. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, p.101655. IF:4.5
• Roy, D., Das, B., Singh, P., Santra, P., Deb, S., Bhattacharya, B.K., Govind, A., Jatav, R., Sethi, D., Ghosh, T. and Mukherjee, J., 2025. Assessing the accuracy of multi-model approaches for downscaling land surface temperature across diverse agroclimatic zones. Scientific Reports, 15(1), p.10824. NAAS: 9.8; IF:3.8
• Roy, D., Vashisth, A., Krishnan, P., Mukherjee, J., Meena, M.C., Biswakarma, N., Rathore, P., Bag, K. and Kumari, S., 2024. Delayed sowing and its ramifications: biophysical, yield and quality analysis of wheat cultivars in the northwest Indo‐Gangetic plains. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 104(11), pp.6831-6843. NAAS: 9.3; IF:3.3
• Das, B., Rathore, P., Roy, D., Chakraborty, D., Jatav, R.S., Sethi, D. and Kumar, P., 2022. Comparison of bagging, boosting and stacking algorithms for surface soil moisture mapping using optical-thermal-microwave remote sensing synergies. Catena, 217, p.106485. NAAS: 11.40; IF:5.4
• Das, B., Rathore, P., Roy, D., Chakraborty, D., Bhattacharya, B.K., Mandal, D., Jatav, R., Sethi, D., Mukherjee, J., Sehgal, V.K. and Singh, A.K., 2023. Ensemble surface soil moisture estimates at farm-scale combining satellite-based optical-thermal-microwave remote sensing observations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 339, p.109567. NAAS: 11.60; IF:5.6
• Pooniya, V., Zhiipao, R.R., Biswakarma, N., Jat, S.L., Kumar, D., Parihar, C.M., Swarnalakshmi, K., Lama, A., Verma, A.K., Roy, D. and Das, K., 2021. Long-term conservation agriculture and best nutrient management improves productivity and profitability coupled with soil properties of a maize–chickpea rotation. Scientific Reports, 11(1), p.10386. NAAS: 9.8; IF:3.8
• Biswakarma, N., Pooniya, V., Zhiipao, R.R., Kumar, D., Shivay, Y.S., Das, T.K., Roy, D., Das, B., Choudhary, A.K., Swarnalakshmi, K. and Govindasamy, P., 2023. Identification of a resource-efficient integrated crop management practice for the rice-wheat rotations in south Asian Indo-Gangetic Plains. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 357, p.108675. NAAS: 12; IF:6
• Ghosh, T., Das, B., Roy, D., Chakraborty, D. and Sethi, D., 2024. Evaluation of infiltration models based on simple multicriteria decision making across various soil types and land uses in India. Environmental Earth Sciences, 83(19), p.567. NAAS: 8.8 ; IF:2.8
• Roy, D., Das, B., Jatav, R., Sethi, D., Rathore, P. and Chakraborty, D., 2022. Spatial mapping of soil moisture in an agricultural farm through geostatistical approach. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science, 70(1), pp.61-68. NAAS: 5.34
• Roy, Debasish., Vashisth, Ananta., Krishnan, P., Mukherjee, J. and Goyel, A., 2018. Effect of weather parameter on growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop under semi-arid environment. Journal of Agricultural Physics, 18(1), pp.99-106. NAAS: 5.02
• Ghosh, T., Chakraborty, D., Das, B., Sehgal, V.K., Roy, D., Dhakar, R. and Bag, K., 2023. Estimation of actual evapotranspiration using the simplified-surface energy balance index model on an irrigated agricultural farm. Journal of Agrometeorology, 25(3), pp.365-374. NAAS: 5.45
• Banerjee, K., Dutta, S., Das, B., Roy, D., Sen, S., Mandal, B.P. and Chatterjee, A., 2025. Crop type discrimination through low cost proximal RGB imaging and multivariate analysis. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 18(1), p.31. NAAS: 4.0; IF: 1.95
• Vashisth, , Roy, D., Goyal, A., Krishnan, P. (2022). Influence of meteorological parameters on wheat yield under different sowing conditions. MAUSAM, 73(1), 161-172. NAAS: 6.70; IF: 0.70
• Thomas, P., Mondal, S., Roy, D., Meena, M., Aggarwal, B., Sharma, A., Chakraborty, D. (2020). Exploring the relationships between penetration resistance, bulk density and water content in cultivated soils. Journal of Agricultural Physics, 20(1), 22. NAAS: 5.02
• Jatav, R., Roy, D., Kumar, V., Thomas, P., Mondal, S., Yadav, R., Chakraborty, D. (2018). Conservation agriculture impact on soil hydro-physical properties in maize-wheat Journal of Agricultural Physics, 2, 168-172. NAAS: 5.02
• Ananta, V., Avinash, G., & Debasish, R. (2018). Pre-harvest maize crop yield forecast at different growth stages using different models under semi-arid region of International Journal of Tropical Agriculture, 36(4), 915-920. NAAS: 4.35
• Sarkar, S., Das, S., Dutta, S., Bera, B., Bera, M., Roy, , Middya, M.M.H. and Choudhury, M.R., 2024. Economic analysis of the behavior of prices and market arrivals of tomatoes–A case study of West Bengal, India. Agricultural & Rural Studies, 2(2), pp.0008-0008.

Book Chapter

• Roy, D., Biswakarma, N., Ghosh, T., Bag, K., Sarkar, A., Paul, K., Das, B., Chowdhury, S. and Hari Krishna, B., 2024. Climate change on seeds physiology. In Climate Change Impacts on Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum (pp. 347-382). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore
• Rathore, P., Prajapati, R., Roy, D., Das, B. and Chakraborty, D., 2023. Perspective Chapter: Downscaling of Satellite Soil Moisture Estimates. New Insights in Soil-Water Relationship.

Copyright

• Das, B., Roy, D., Chakraborty, D., and Rathore, P. (2025). LST: Land Surface Temperature Retrieval for Landsat-8.

Presentations and webinars

• National Fellow, (2021). Online Training Programme on Geo-informatics in agriculture using open- source data and analysis platforms. Division of Agricultural Physics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India (1st – 5th March 2021)
• Roy, Debasish., Singh, Raghuveer., Das, Bappa., Sethi, Deepak., Chakraborty, Debashis. Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Soil Moisture Estimation Using a Smartphone. National Seminar on Agrophysics for Smart Agriculture held at NASC Complex, New Delhi from 22-23 February
• Ghosh, , Roy, Debasish., Das, Bappa., Chakraborty, Debashis. A Comparative Evaluation of Infiltration Models Across Soils and Land Uses. National Seminar on Agrophysics for Smart Agriculture 22-23 February 2022, NASC Complex, New Delhi.
• Participated and attended the National Webinar on ‘Managing Agro-Chemicals for Crop and Environmental Health’ during February 25-26, 2022, and presented a paper entitled ‘Surface soil moisture mapping from satellite observation: An Ensemble approach’ in Oral Presentation Session on February 25,
• Participated in the Fifth International Agronomy Congress organized Indian Society of Agronomy at PJTSAU, Hyderabad (India) from 23-27 November
• Awarded certificate for having completed the course “Overview of RS & GIS Applications for Natural Resource Management” conducted by this institute from November 13, 2017, to December 01, 2017.
• Awarded certificate for having completed the course on “Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and its Applications” conducted by this institute from February 19, 2018, to March 13,
• Awarded certificate for having completed the course on “Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Carbon Forestry” conducted by this IIRS from February 16, 2017, to March 10,
• Participated in poster presentation International symposium on “Advance in Agro meteorology for managing the climatic risk of farmers” 11-13 February 2019, New Delhi,
• Participated at ISPRS-GEOGLAM-ISRS post workshop International Tutorial on “Advances in Remote Sensing for Agriculture” 21-22 February 2019, New Delhi.
• National workshop Popularization of Remote sensing-based maps & Geospatial information jointly organized by ISRS & ISRO
• Participated at XIV Agricultural Science Congress Innovations for Agricultural Transformation held in New Delhi, February 20-23, 2019.

A. Department of Remote Sensing & GIS

M. debasishroy@rpcau.ac.in

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ORCHID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3316-7168

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