Biosciences Division

Staff

Tara Hall

Suresh-Kumar Santhana-Vannan

Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008, MS-6407
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone:  (865)241-6181
santhanavans@ornl.gov

Education

  • Master of Science in Meteorology, 2003, University of Maryland, USA
  • Bachelor of Engineering in GeoInformatics, 2001, Anna University, India

Professional Experience         

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2006 – present) -- Oak Ridge, TN
Research staff, Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) and Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI)

  • GIS and informatics specialist
  • Lead Developer for NASA sponsored data archive, ORNL DAAC (http://daac.ornl.gov)
  • Lead for ORNL DAAC MODIS subsetting and visualization  tools and Web based GIS tools for data access http://daac.ornl.gov/tools.shtml 
  • Leadership Team member, ORNL DAAC

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (2005 –2006) -- Oak Ridge, TN
Postmasters research associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

University of Maryland (2003 –2005) -- College Park, MD
Faculty Research Assistant, Department of Geography

Research Interests

  • Engineering data tools to address science problems
  • Data stewardship and long term data preservation
  • Collaborative tools to address climate change and earth science questions

Selected Presentations

  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. Increasing the availability and usability of terrestrial ecology data through geospatial Web services and visualization tools. Invited Speaker, December 2010
  • Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting, 2010,2011. Speaker, Co-organizer for several workshops on data tools and best practices.
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. Demonstration on various ORNL DAAC tools. NASA booth, December 2006,2009.2010
  • The American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN. Introduction to Remote Sensing concepts to public audience. July 2007
  • Workshop on establishing the IndoFlux network, Chennai, India. Data Management Considerations for IndoFlux. July 2006
  • India-United States Conference on Space Science, Applications and Commerce, Bangalore, India. Near-Real Time Satellite Data for Fire Management in India: MODIS Rapid Response System & Web Fire Mapper. July 2004

Selected Publications

S.K. Santhana Vannan, R.B. Cook, J.Y. Pan, B.E. Wilson. A SOAP Web Service for accessing MODIS land product subsets (2011). Earth Science Informatics. DOI:10.1007/s12145-011-0079-2

S.K. Santhana Vannan, R.B. Cook, S.K. Holladay, L.M. Olsen, U. Dadi, B.E. Wilson. A
Web-Based Subsetting Service for Regional Scale MODIS Land Products (2010). IEEE JSTARS, 2(4): 319–328

Yaxing Wei, S.K. Santhana Vannan, R.B. Cook, Discover, visualize, and deliver geospatial data through OGC standards-based WebGIS system (2009), Geoinformatics, doi: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293520

P.V Sundareshwar, R. Murtugudde, G. Srinivasan, S. Singh, K. J. Ramesh, R. Ramesh, S. B. Verma, D. Agarwal, D. Baldocchi, C. K. Baru, K. K. Baruah, G. R. Chowdhury, V. K. Dadhwal, C. B. S. Dutt, J. Fuentes, Prabhat K. Gupta, W. W. Hargrove, M. Howard, C. S. Jha, S. Lal, W. K. Michener, A. P. Mitra, J. T. Morris, R. R. Myneni, M. Naja, R. Nemani, R. Purvaja, S. Raha, S. K. Santhana Vannan, M. Sharma, A. Subramaniam, R. Sukumar, R. R. Twilley, and P. R. Zimmerman. Environmental Monitoring Network for India (2007). Science, 316(5822): 204-205  

D. Roy, P. Frost, C. Justice, T. Landmann, J. Le Roux, K. Gumbo, S. Makungwa, K. Dunham, R. Du Toit, K. Mhwandagara, A. Zacarias, B. Tacheba, O. Dube, J. Pereira, P. Mushove, J. Morisette, S. K. Santhana Vannan, and D. Davies. The Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) regional burned area product validation protocol (2006). International Journal of Remote Sensing, 26(19): 4265–4292

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