Bandaru, Varaprasad

Degrees

Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware - PhD
Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University - MS
Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad - BS

Areas of Interest

Geospatial Modeling of Agricultural Systems
Cropland Carbon Dynamics
Crop Yield Modeling
Biofuels

Research Topics

Yaramasua, R., Bandaru, V., PNVR, K. (2020). Pre-season crop type mapping using deep neural networks. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. (176). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105664

Bandaru, V*., R. Yaramasu, PVNR. Koutilya, J. He, F. Sedano, R. Sahajpal, B. Wardlow, A. Suyker, C. Justice. 2020. PhenoCrop: An integrated satellite-based framework to estimate crop physiological growth stages. International Journal of Applied Earth

Merz, J., V. Bandaru, Q. Hart, N. C. Parker, and B.M. Jenkins. 2018. Hybrid Poplar based Biorefinery Siting Web Application (HP-BiSWA): An online decision support application for siting hybrid poplar based biorefineries.

Bandaru, V., C.S. Daughtry, E.E. Codling, D.J. Hansen, S. White-Hansen, and C.E. Green. 2016. Evaluating Leaf and Canopy Reflectance of Stressed Rice Plants to Monitor Arsenic Contamination. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 13(6):606

Bandaru, V., Y. Pei, Q. Hart, and B.M. Jenkins. 2017. Impact of biases in gridded weather datasets on biomass estimates of short rotation woody cropping systems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 233: 71-79

Kumar, I., K. Feng, L. Sun, V. Bandaru. 2022. Adoption of biomass for electricity generation in Thailand: Implications for energy security, employment, environment, and land use change. Renewable Energy (2020 IF: 8.001).

Personal Website(s)

https://www.smarsgroup.org/

Bandaru Varaprasad

Varaprasad Bandaru
Adjunct Associate Professor, Research Scientist USDA-ARS, Maricopa, AZ

| Plant Physiology and Genetics Research Group, USDA-ARS, Maricopa, AZ

| vbandaru@umd.edu

| 520-316-6357