1. Contributed a Chapter in a book titled “Fresh Fingerprints: Cases on Innovations in Public Service Delivery”, a book by Ms. Lekha Kumar (Ex-Director-DAR&PG, GOI, New Dehli) and Dr. Anjali Kaushik (Professor- MDI, Gurgaon). The book is an attempt to document effective and creative usage of ICT applications in India. Therefore, innovation will be the consistent theme across the book. The emphasis of the book will be on e-Governance initiatives that have had a transformational effect and that have been or have the potential to be sustainable, scalable and replicable. (ISBN 13:978-1-25-902782-6) & (ISBN 10:1-25-902782-1), McGrawHill Publication


2. Contributed Book Chapter on "Contextual soft classification approaches for crops identification using multi-sensory remote sensing data: Machine learning perspective for satellite images" – published in Book for publication in Springer Publication Paper ID # 106344 – “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - ISSN 2194-5357.


3. Contributed a Chapter in a book titled “Satellite Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics for Sustainable Environment (SRSGSE)” by Department of Remote Sensing, Banasthali University, Rajasthan. The book is expected to be published with CRC’s Taylor & Francis (T&F) ISBN 9781498719681. The book chapter accepted is “Geospatial Envision of Land Resource Development Plan for Sustainable Nurturing”.


4. Published book chapter on "Geo-spatial enabled Water Resource Development Plan for Decentralized Planning in India: Myths and Facts" in book “ Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling of Land and Water Resources” by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis (T&F), pp-179-196, 2021

Evaluated Research Proposal on “Earth Observation System based Development of Forest Fire Management System for Mount Abu And Kumbhalgarh Forest areas in Rajasthan” proposed by Dr. Mahesh Kumar Gaur, Bangur P.G. College, Pali Marwar, Rajasthan, which was forwarded by Ministry of Environment & Forest, Government of India, Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, New Delhi.

1. Acted as Reviewer in Landscape and Urban Planning Journal, Elsevier publication, USA, 2013


2. Acted as Reviewer for National Conference on “Information and Communication Technology (NCICT)” organized by NYSS College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur.


3. Shri A. N. Khobragade is selected as a member in Reviewer Panel of GEOIST. GEOIST- Department of Remote Sensing, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, 2013


4. Reviewer for 4th International Conference on Computing Communication Control and Automation - ICCUBEA 2018 in association with IEEE Pune Section & PCMC College of Engineering Pune, 2018


5. Reviewed Research Letter TRES-LET-2019-0492.R1 in International Journal of Remote Sensing, IJRS, 2019


6. Reviewed 3 papers in IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Applications-21 (IICCICA-21), Nagpur.


7. Reviewed RSL Research Letter ID # TRES-LET-2019-0492.R1 Remote Sensing Letters, 2021


8. Reviewer of "Big Geo-spatial Data and Data Science", Clausius Scientific Press, 2022


9. Reviewed papers for ICIS23: International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Approaches, Technologies, and Network -2023


10. Reviewed 6 papers of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2023

1. Acting as Member in Board of Studies of Industrial IoT Department, Priyadarshini College of Engineering & Technology, Nagpur, 2023 and VNIT College for Computer Science Engineering.


2. Editorial Board Member for International Journal “Advances in Remote Sensing & GIS”


3. Editorial Board member of "Journal of Image Processing Theory and Applications", 2022, Clausius Scientific Press


4. Acted as Editor-in-Chief of "Geoscience and Remote Sensing" Journal”, 2022, Clausius Scientific Press


5. Editorial Board member of Journal on Remote Sensing by Pisco Med Publishing, 2018


6. Program Committee member for International Computer Science On-line Conference CSOC 2016 by Republic of ZChek.


7. Program Committee member for 17th International Conference on Imaging and Signal Processing (ICISP 2015), supported by Elsevier Proceedia CS.

1. Member of “State Level Task Force” Committee constituted under AMRUT 2.0 Mission for 24 x 7 water supply in AMRUT Cities in Maharashtra.


2. Participated as Technical Committee Member in process of work allotment to NGO/Vendors of NMC pertaining to RAY project by Slum Rehabilitation Agency (SRA), Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Nagpur.


3. Participated as Technical Committee Member of 26th National Geography Conference on “Recent trends geography and Environmental Studies”, organized by Maharashtra Geography Council and Shivaji Science College, Amravati, 2009.


4. Acted as Technical member in committee constituted for “Augmentation of MRSAC Hardware and Software Infrastructure” including Storage Area Network (SAN) device at MRSAC, Nagpur.

1. Delivered many invited talks under SKEP training organized by IEEE Bombay Section


2. Delivered many lectures on Urban GIS for municipal Management in Maharashtra for Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA), Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation, etc.


3. Deliver lecture at Workshop on “SNPUPR Rajeev Awas Yojana(RAY) Nagpur City Level Workshop” focusing on Integration of GIS & MIS implementation under RAY project, which is jointly organized by Regional Centre for Urban & Environmental Studies(RCUES-Banglore), Support to National Policies for Urban Poverty Reduction‘ (SNPUPR) Programme of Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, MoHUPA, Government of India, in coordination with All India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG-Mumbai) and Slum Rehabilitation Authority, NMC, Nagpur.


4. Delivered lecture on Regional Workshop on “Role of GIS in RAY implementation” at Regional Workshop on “Slum-free India: Operationalizing Rajiv Awas Yojana” at Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre (RRSC), Nagpur organized by ISRO and Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India, New Delhi.


5. Delivered lecture on “SISDP inputs to IWMP project” in workshop held by Agriculture Dept. (GoM) and MRSAC under project of Integrated Water Mission Project (IWMP) at Nagpur.


6. Delivered lecture on “Digital Image Processing” during workshop for Forest Department (Kundal Academy) at MRSAC, Nagpur.


7. Deliver talk on “Machine Learning Approaches On Satellite Image Processing” in ATAL FDP 2023, India


8. Delivered session on “Strategic Planning for PhD & PG” at Social Welfare Department, Dec-2021


9. Invitation as a Chief Guest & Expert Speaker for the Induction Programme of Department of Industrial Internet of Things, Aug-2023


10. invited talk for National Workshop on "Protected Habitat Management using Digital Image Processing & GIS" at Central Agricultural University, Zhansi, UP, India, Sep -2023


11. Conducted Seminar on "Remote Sensing Technologies: Present & Future" organized by Tech-NXT Association, India, Sep- 2023


12. Deliver expert lecture on "Advances in Geo-spatial Technologies" during EduTech Future Track Event and Robotics Exhibition, Bhandara, Maharashtra, India, May 2023

Guided almost 50 students across streams like Computer Science & Engineering, Remote Sensing, Urban Planning, Mater of Computer Applications, Geoinformatics, and Agriculture disciplines under programs B.E./B.Tech. /M.Tech./M.C.A./M.Sc. etc belonging to Universities like V.N.I.T. Deemed University, Nagpur University, M.N.I.T.- Bhopal, An Autonomous Institution of M.H.R.D., Govt. of India, TERI University, Bansthali University, Punjabrao Deshmukh Krushi Vidyapeeth, Akola, and an autonomous institution like G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. He has guided final year engineering students under mentorship program of Silicon India Network sponsored by Microsoft, Yahoo, Infosys, etc.

1. Design syllabus for Geo-informatics courses of Town & Country Planning (TCPO), Ministry of Housing & Urban Affair, New Delhi


2. Acted as External Examiner for subject “Data Mining Techniques” for M.Tech. (Computer Science) Program at G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur.


3. Acted as External Examiner for subject “Advance Remote Sensing” under course “Post


4. Graduate Diploma in Geo-informatics” at Dhanwate National College, Nagpur.


5. Set subject papers for Nagpur University under course “Post Graduate Diploma in Geo-informatics” for subject “Advance GIS & GPS II and Principles of Mapping and Cartography”.

1. Programming languages like ArcObjects, MapObjects, ArcAvenue, GML, C, C++, Java 7, and VB.Net 2008, JAVAFX. HTML5, etc.


2. GIS softwares like ArcGIS9.0/9.1/9.2/10, ArcMap, ArcInfo, ArcCatalog, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, and AutoCAD Civil 3D, GRASS, and QGIS etc.


3. Exposure to GIS tools like GeoServer, Open Jump, PostGIS, Openlayers, GeoAPI, JAI, Fusion Tables, HTML Image Mapper3.2, Network Analyst 3.3, Google Sketch up, etc.


4. Satellite Image Processing Softwares like ERDAS IMAGINE 2011, ENVI 4.8, GeoMatica 2012, MATLAB 2010, LIBSVM, WEKA, and OCTAVE etc.


5. Software Testing tools like Mercury Win Runner, Mercury Load Runner V8.1, Citrix, Team Viewer.


6. Mobile computing tools like Android SDK, S-Pen SDK, Google API, etc.

Arc Avenue

1. Application Development using ArcView3.2a
2. GIS Utilities using Arc Avenue ArcView3.3
3. Facility Management

Map Objects & Arc Objects

1. Application customization by ActiveX Component embedded VB6.0
2. Development of civic body utility mapping & facility management.
3. Decision support system development for rural and urban district administration.
4. Development of GIS applications in Disaster Management.