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Murali Krishna Gumma is affiliated with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in India. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Environmental Engineering.

Gumma's scholarly work covers several main topics, including Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Smart Agriculture and AI, Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement, and Agricultural Economics and Practices.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Pranay Panjala
  • Pavan Kumar Bellam
  • Anthony Whitbread
  • Kumara Charyulu Deevi
  • Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla

Gumma has published multiple papers in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to AgriEngineering, Geocarto International, Sustainability, Communications Earth & Environment, and Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.

Recent papers by Murali Krishna Gumma include:

  • Crop type identification and spatial mapping using Sentinel-2 satellite data with focus on field-level information, 2020, Geocarto International
  • Multiple agricultural cropland products of South Asia developed using Landsat-8 30 m and MODIS 250 m data using machine learning on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud and spectral matching techniques (SMTs) in support of food and water security, 2022, GIScience & Remote Sensing

Additional notable papers in which Gumma was involved are:

  • Dynamics and drivers of land use and land cover changes in Bangladesh, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • Global cropland-extent product at 30-m resolution (GCEP30) derived from Landsat satellite time-series data for the year 2015 using multiple machine-learning algorithms on Google Earth Engine cloud, 2021, USGS professional paper
  • Characterizing and mapping cropping patterns in a complex agro-ecosystem: An iterative participatory mapping procedure using machine learning algorithms and MODIS vegetation indices, 2020, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Best Publications

  • A 30-m landsat-derived cropland extent product of Australia and China using random forest machine learning algorithm on Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform

    Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla;Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Adam Oliphant;Jun N. Xiong

  • Global irrigated area map (GIAM), derived from remote sensing, for the end of the last millennium

    Prasad S. Thenkabail;Chandrashekhar M. Biradar;Praveen Noojipady;Venkateswarlu Dheeravath

  • Automated cropland mapping of continental Africa using Google Earth Engine cloud computing

    Jun N. Xiong;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Murali Krishna Gumma;Pardhasaradhi G. Teluguntla

  • Nominal 30-M Cropland Extent Map of Continental Africa by Integrating Pixel-Based and Object-Based Algorithms Using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Data on Google Earth Engine

    Jun N. Xiong;Prasad S. Thenkabail;James C. Tilton;Murali Krishna Gumma

  • Mapping rice areas of South Asia using MODIS multitemporal data

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Andrew Nelson;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Amrendra N. Singh

  • Selection of Hyperspectral Narrowbands (HNBs) and Composition of Hyperspectral Twoband Vegetation Indices (HVIs) for Biophysical Characterization and Discrimination of Crop Types Using Field Reflectance and Hyperion/EO-1 Data

    P. S. Thenkabail;I. Mariotto;M. K. Gumma;E. M. Middleton

  • A global map of rainfed cropland areas (GMRCA) at the end of last millennium using remote sensing

    Chandrashekhar M. Biradar;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Praveen Noojipady;Yuanjie Li

  • Mapping seasonal rice cropland extent and area in the high cropping intensity environment of Bangladesh using MODIS 500 m data for the year 2010

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Murali Krishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Aileen Maunahan;Saidul Islam;Saidul Islam

  • Mapping cropland extent of Southeast and Northeast Asia using multi-year time-series Landsat 30-m data using a random forest classifier on the Google Earth Engine Cloud

    Adam J. Oliphant;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla;Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla;Jun Xiong;Jun Xiong

  • Irrigated area mapping in heterogeneous landscapes with MODIS time series, ground truth and census data, Krishna Basin, India

    Trent W. Biggs;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Murali K. Gumma;Christopher A. Scott

  • Mapping of groundwater potential zones across Ghana using remote sensing, geographic information systems, and spatial modeling.

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Paul Pavelic

  • Mapping rice-fallow cropland areas for short-season grain legumes intensification in South Asia using MODIS 250 m time-series data

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Pardhasaradhi G. Teluguntla;Mahesh N. Rao

  • Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Agricultural Crops

    P S Thenkabail;M K Gumma;P Teluguntla;I A Mohammed

  • Mapping Irrigated Areas of Ghana Using Fusion of 30 m and 250 m Resolution Remote-Sensing Data

    Muralikrishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Fujii Hideto;Andrew Nelson

  • Agricultural cropland extent and areas of South Asia derived using Landsat satellite 30-m time-series big-data using random forest machine learning algorithms on the Google Earth Engine cloud

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Pardhasaradhi G. Teluguntla;Adam Oliphant

  • Assessing future risks to agricultural productivity, water resources and food security: How can remote sensing help?

    P. S. Thenkabail;J. W. Knox;M. Ozdogan;M. K. Gumma

  • A Holistic View of Global Croplands and Their Water Use for Ensuring Global Food Security in the 21st Century through Advanced Remote Sensing and Non-remote Sensing Approaches

    Prasad S. Thenkabail;Munir A. Hanjra;Venkateswarlu Dheeravath;Muralikrishna Gumma

  • Irrigated areas of India derived using MODIS 500 m time series for the years 2001–2003

    Venkateswarlu Dheeravath;Prasad S. Thenkabail;G. Chandrakantha;P. Noojipady

  • Influence of Resolution in Irrigated Area Mapping and Area Estimation

    N. M. Velpuri;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Murali K. Gumma;Chandrashekhar M. Biradar

  • Temporal changes in rice-growing area and their impact on livelihood over a decade: A case study of Nepal

    Murali Krishna Gumma;Devendra Gauchan;Andrew Nelson;Sushil Pandey

  • Assessing Future Risks to Agricultural Productivity, Water Resources and Food Security

    P.S. Thenkabail;J.w. Knox;M. Ozdogan;M.K. Gumma

Frequent Co-Authors

Prasad S. Thenkabail
Prasad S. Thenkabail United States Geological Survey
Russell G. Congalton
Russell G. Congalton University of New Hampshire
Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson University of Twente
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Chandrashekhar Biradar International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Egypt
Hugh Turral
Hugh Turral International Water Management Institute
Hari D. Upadhyaya
Hari D. Upadhyaya International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Trent W. Biggs
Trent W. Biggs San Diego State University
Mutlu Ozdogan
Mutlu Ozdogan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Rajeev K. Varshney
Rajeev K. Varshney Murdoch University

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