
CIRA Fellow
Chief, Cooperative Research Programs NOAA/NESDIS StAR
As a research scientist at UMCP from 1994-2000, Dr. Kalluri lead several remote sensing projects which developed consistently calibrated and processed baseline data for global change studies including the NOAA-NASA AVHRR Land Pathfinder dataset, and the Landsat GeoCover dataset. He also lead the development of high performance computing algorithms for land cover dynamics with funding from NSF at UMCP. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Kalluri lead several remote sensing application development projects under NASA’s EOSDIS program for federal, state and local government users. Prior to joining STAR, he was the lead NOAA scientist for algorithms and product generation system development in the GOES-R ground segment project office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center from 2007 to 2015.