Domain
AI-driven tools and research for forest ecosystem management and community forest governance, spanning species mapping, biomass estimation, and local-language AI agents that support forest-dependent communities.
Monocular metrology · instance segmentation
Metric tree diameter from a single RGB frame — trunk segmentation plus pinhole projection, no reference object or specialised hardware.
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Field geodata capture · spatial modelling
Geospatial data platform: an offline-first Android capture app and a web platform, running the inventory and boundary mapping pipelines.
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Biomass estimation · carbon stocks
Above-ground biomass from DBH, species, and height via species-specific allometric equations.
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Blockchain marketplace · forest produce
Blockchain-powered marketplace app digitising the forest-produce trade for women-led producer companies — from KYC onboarding to on-chain receipts.
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Species recognition · research dataset
CNN bark-image species ID and large-scale benchmark dataset, published in Nature Scientific Data.
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Research tooling · RAG + interviews
Van Gyan knowledge RAG and Van Samvad interview chatbot for community forest research.
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Multi-sensor fusion · species distribution
Species distribution modelling on fused SAR + optical satellite stacks — landscape-scale vegetation layers, deployed across four states.
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Forest rights · claim workflow
Claim filing and tracking system for Community Forest Resource rights under the Forest Rights Act — prefilled claims, stage-by-stage tracking, and offline use.
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Speech pipeline · LLM synthesis
Indic-language voice agent — multi-speaker transcription and diarisation fused with geospatial field data, answered back as speech.
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Knowledge RAG · literature discovery
Vector search over forest-governance literature, field reports, and policy documents.
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Multilingual interview agent
Multilingual interview chatbot for stakeholders in JFM, FRA, PESA, and related institutions.
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