Santosh Karanam
Guest Software Developer
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Santosh Karanam joined IIASA in 2019 and currently works as a guest full stack developer in the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program where he develops and supports software applications to aid and enhance the institute’s research.Karanam has a Bachelor of Engineering from the Bangalore Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India, and 10 years of software development experience in companies like Honeywell and DellEMC.
Last update: 29 JUN 2022
Publications
Laso Bayas, J.C. , Milenkovic, M., Sturn, T., Weinacker, R., Hofhansl, F. , Shishodia, M., Karanam, S., Crocket, L., Subash, A., See, L. , & McCallum, I. (2025). Geo-Quest mobile application: Easy and accurate Earth Observation-enhanced ground data collection. In: The Living Planet Symposium, 23—27 June, 2025, Vienna, Austria.
Milenkovic, M., Hofhansl, F. , Sturn, T., Weinacker, R., Karanam, S., Wild, B., Hollaus, M., McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2024). Citizen Science Mobile App and Data in Support of Forest Mapping. In: OEMC Global Workshop, October 2024, Laxenburg, Austria.
Orduña-Cabrera, F. , Sandoval-Gastelum, M., McCallum, I. , See, L. , Fritz, S. , Karanam, S., Sturn, T., Javalera Rincón, V. , & Gonzalez-Navarro, F.F. (2023). Investigating the Use of Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning to Produce In-Situ Crop Type Information. Geographies 3 (3) 563-573. 10.3390/geographies3030029.
See, L. , Soja, B., Kłopotek, G., Sturn, T., Weinacker, R., Karanam, S., Georgieva, I. , Pan, Y., Crocetti, L., Rothacher, M., Navarro, V., Fritz, S. , & McCallum, I. (2023). Collecting volunteered geographic information from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS): experiences from the CAMALIOT project. International Journal of Digital Earth 16 (1) 2818-2841. 10.1080/17538947.2023.2239761.
Boogaard, H., Pratihast, A.K., Laso Bayas, J.. , Karanam, S., Fritz, S. , Van Tricht, K., Degerickx, J., & Gilliams, S. (2023). Building a community-based open harmonised reference data repository for global crop mapping. PLoS ONE 18 (7) e0287731. 10.1371/journal.pone.0287731.