Arasumani Muthusamy

12/2021 - today Postdoc, Earth Observation and Geoinformation Science Lab, University of Greifswald, Germany.

6/2019 - 11/2021 Postdoc, Dr V.V Robin´s Lab, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati, India.

2016 - 2019 PhD Remote Sensing in Forest, Ecology and Environment, The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Ministry of Education) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati, India.

2014 - 2016 PGD: Earth Observation and Geo-Information Science, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dehradun.

2012 - 2014 Master of Earth Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Technology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai.

2009 - 2012 Bachelor of Statistics, St. Joseph's College, Trichy.

• Arasumani M, Bunyan M, Robin V V (2021) Opportunities and challenges in using remote sensing for invasive tree species management, and in the identification of restoration sites in tropical montane grasslands. Journal of the Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111759.
• Arasumani M, Singh A, Bunyan M, Robin V V (2021) Testing the efficacy of hyperspectral (AVIRIS-NG), multispectral (Sentinel-2) and radar (Sentinel-1) remote sensing images to detect native and invasive non-native trees. Biol Invasions. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02543-2.
• Lele A, Arasumani M, Vishundas C K, Joshi V, Jathanna D, Robin V V (2020) Elevation and landscape change drive the distribution of a montane, endemic grassland bird. Ecology and evolution, 14, 775–7767.
• Arasumani M, Khan D, Vishnudas C K, Muthukumar M, Bunyan M (2019) Invasion compounds an ecosystem-wide loss to afforestation in the tropical grasslands of the Shola Sky Islands. Biological Conservation, 203, 141–150. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.019.
• Arasumani M, Khan D, Das A, Lockwood I, Stewart R, Kiran R A, Muthukumar M (2018) Not seeing the grass for the trees: Timber plantations and agriculture shrink tropical montane grassland by two-thirds over four decades in the Palani Hills, a Western Ghats Sky Island. PloS one, 2, e0190003. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190003.