Abdul Qadir

Abdul Qadir is a researcher at NASA Harvest since September 2022, focusing on developing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) based models for crop mapping and assessing the impact of war on food security. Concurrently, Abdul works at the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, where efforts involve understanding agriculture change hotspots in Russia and Ukraine using space technology. Previous experience includes a role as a Graduate Research Assistant, where Abdul contributed to Machine Learning models for agriculture monitoring, a software development internship at Esri analyzing GeoAI Studio modules, and research at the University of Delaware on crop responses to changing weather conditions. Abdul holds a PhD in Geospatial Sciences from the University of Maryland and has degrees in Geospatial Data Science and Physical Sciences from the University of Delaware and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, respectively.