Mathematical Morphology in Geomorphology and GISci (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138374591)

B.S. Daya Sagar is an associate professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, where he is also the founding head of the Systems Science and Informatics Unit. He has written more than 80 papers and is the editor of Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society: Multidisciplinary Research and Review Journal. Dr. Sagar is a senior member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society; a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, American Geophysical Union, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, and Association for Computing Machinery; and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Indian Geophysical Union. He has been a recipient of several honors, including the Georges Matheron Award from the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences. His research interests include mathematical morphology and fractal geometry and their applications to terrestrial surface and associated features as well as geomorphologic information retrieval, quantitative geomorphometry, allometry, granulometry, scaling analysis, quantitative spatial reasoning, and spatiotemporal modeling.