B. S. Daya Sagar
Behara Seshadri Daya Sagar also known as B. S. Daya Sagar (born in 1967 in India) is an Indian mathematical geoscientist specializing in
mathematical morphology. He is a professor of
computer science at the
Indian Statistical Institute,
Bangalore. He is known as a specialist in
mathematical morphology,
fractal geometry.
chaos theory, and their applications in
geophysics,
geographical information science, and computational geography. The
Indian Geophysical Union awarded him the
Krishnan Medal in 2002. He is the first Asian to receive the
Georges Matheron Lectureship in 2011. In 2018, he received the IAMG Certificate of Appreciation by the
International Association for Mathematical Geosciences for his work on the Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences. In 2020, Sagar was selected as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) to represent the
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. He, with
Frits Agterberg,
Qiuming Cheng, and
Jennifer McKinley, led the monumental project on the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences to the completion. The first edition of two-volume 1756-page
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Geosciences was published on 21 June 2023 by Springer International Publishers.
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