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At IWMI, he was involved in Global Irrigated Area Mapping project as one of the key researchers. He conducted a massive groundtruth mission in India and played a key role is GIAM data analysis. He also contributed to the Crop and Drought monitoring system for Sri Lanka. For over 1 year, Praveen administered the IWMI Spatial Data Gateway or it's Dat... a Storehouse Pathway (IWMIDSP). IWMIDSP is a well recognized Global Public Goods (GPG) with over 2,000 visitors from over 70 Countries every month. His role included capacity building, support for the development of the RS/GIS Unit, and provide RS-GIS expert services to IWMI researchers at headquarters and regional offices. He was actively involved in Asian Post-Tsunami rapid response mapping and monitoring for relief efforts and in building Tsunami Satellite Sensor Data Catalogue. He lead building and training of Geo Spatial Metadata for IWMI and Challenge Program (CP) basins, which is also made accessible through Clearinghouse servers making available for the Global GIS community. He is proficient in many leading Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) software packages such as ERDAS Imagine, ERMapper, ArcGIS and ArcView. He is knowledgeable in remote sensing data from a wide array of sensors such as Landsat, SPOT, IRS, MODIS, and AVHRR and also has very good understanding of remote sensing theory. Praveen has played highly significant team role in GIAM, IWMIDSP, and Tsunami Satellite Sensor Data Catalogue. All of this resulted in the team awards during 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 2007, the IWMIDSP, GIAM, Tsunami Team was recognized by the Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI) for "Special achievement in GIS" (SAG award) for their innovative spatial data portals, science applications, and Tsunami work. In 2006, the GIAM got the best team award during IWMI's annual research meeting (ARM). In 2005, "Team Initiative 2005" during IWMI's ARM2005 for Tsunami mapping efforts.Read More