Dr. Aqil Tariq

Dr. Aqil Tariq was born in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Currently, I, am working in the Department of Wildlife, Fishries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA I completed Ph. D (Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) from LIESMARS, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. I did one Master of Science in Geography and second Master of Science in Remote Sensing and GIS.  I, also received excellent student award from Wuhan University China. 
My research interest areas are very broad i.e. wildfire and vegetation dynamics in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems, agricultural expansion, 3D Geoinformation, Urban analytics, spatial analysis to examine land use/land cover, Geospatial data science, Urban planning, Crop identification /Forest Fire/Land subsidence using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Satellite imagery, Agriculture monitoring, Forest monitoring, forest cover dynamics, spatial statistics, multi-criteria algorithms, Ecosystem sustainability, Hazards risk reduction, Statistical analysis and modeling, Flash flood, flood prediction, flood forecasting, flood damage assessment, flood warning (Google Earth Engine, HEC-RAS, FlowR, RAMMS, GeoClaw, COSI-Corr, SfM, AHP and FR) using machine learning, Python, R and MATLAB.

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