Educational qualification:

• B. Tech. (Agril. Engg.) First Class with Distinction (85.20%) – July 1997
• M. Tech. (IDE) First Class with Distinction (85.50%) - March 2000
• Ph. D. First Class with Distinction (88.50%) - March 2015
• Postdoctoral Research Scholar/Fellow at Washington State University, USA - January 2020 to June 2021

Service experience (as on 20.07.2021): 19 Years and 10 Months

Research achievement:

      Externally funded research projects: 08

• RKVY Research Projects: 02 (IWRAS and GWR) during 2014-2022
• Internationally Collaborative Research Project: 04 (NAHEP CAAST-CSAWM, IIWM IWMI-MPKV on EEWPICC, CCKN-IA and ProSOIL) during 2017-2022
• Ad-hoc project: 01 (Crop coefficient-POCRA) during 2020-2022
• Product testing project: 01 (POLY4) during 2019-2022

Publications: 43 with citation (H-index:04 and Citations:37)

(NAAS rating>6: 06, NAAS rating 4 to 6: 19, NAAS rating<4: 12 and Impact factor>2: 06)

Co-Editor of the Journal of Agricultural Research and Technology since 2016

Specialized trainings attended: 15 (related to RS and GIS applications in water resources, hyperspectral remote sensing, spectroradiometry, soft computing techniques, real time irrigation management, spatial data infrastructure for irrigation management, subsurface drainage systems, C# programing, MATLAB applications, etc.)

Teaching:

• Participated in the course curricula development as per ICAR’s IV Dean, V Dean (for UG courses) and NCG (for PG courses),
• Taught various courses of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering to B. Tech. M. Tech and Ph. D.  students
• Recognized University teacher to supervise/guide post graduate students,  
• Guided 4 M. Tech. (IDE) students, Member Advisory Committee of 15 M. Tech. (IDE/SWCE) students, 3 M. Sc. (Agri.) students, 8 Ph.D. (IDE/SWCE) students, 2 Ph.D. (Agronomy) students and 1 Ph.D. (SSAC) student, Guided 8 research projects of B. Tech. (AE) students

        Extension:

• Trainings/Workshops/Seminars organized: 12  
• Lectures delivered in workshops/farmer’s training: 20
• TV talks: 02
• Radio talks: 04

Developments: Establishment and development of GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Hydro Informatics Laboratory and Soil-Plant-Water Analysis laboratory at Dr. ASCAET, Lysimeter complex at IWM farm, instrument cell, UAV, RS and GIS facilities under CAAST-CSAWM project.

       Award(s):

• Shri. Bansilal Mulchand Dayama, Gold Medal,
• ISAE Convention Memorial Gold Medal
• Prof. A. A. Memon award
• Engineering Achievement Award by the Institution of Engineers (India),
• Best Paper Presentation Award(s) in national and international conferences: 03

       Membership of professional Societies:

• Institution of Engineers (India) (LM-152457-1)
• Association of Agrometeorologist (LM-886)
• Indian Society of Remote Sensing (LM-4254)
• Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (LM-10593)
• Journal of Agriculture Research and Technology (LM-1252)

       Research areas of interest:

• UAV, RS and GIS applications in water management
• Precision agriculture
• IOT applications in agriculture
• Irrigation water management

        Important publications (NAAS rating>6):

• S. A. Kadam, S. D. Gorantiwar, N. P. Mandre and D. P. Tale. 2020. Crop Coefficient for Potato Crop Evapotranspiration Estimation by Field Water Balance Method in Semi-Arid Region, Maharashtra, India. Potato Research, Journal of the European Association for Potato Research. Potato Res. DOI 10.1007/s11540-020-09484-8 (NAAS rating 6.86)
• S. K. Dingre, S. D. Gorantiwar and S. A. Kadam. 2020. Correlating the field water balance derived crop coefficient (Kc) and canopy reflectance-based NDVI for irrigated sugarcane. Precision Agriculture. DOI 10.1007/s11119-020-09774-8 (NAAS rating 9.36)
• S. A. Kadam, S. D. Gorantiwar, S. N. Das and A. K. Joshi. 2016. Crop evapotranspiration estimation for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using remote sensing data in semi-arid region of Maharashtra. J. Indian Society of Remote Sensing, DOI 10.1007/s12524-016-0594-1. (NAAS rating 6.76)
• S. A. Kadam and S. D. Gorantiwar. 2014. Spectral reflectance characteristics, vegetation and leaf area index for sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.). J. of Agrometeorology, Vol. 16(2), pp. 183-186. (NAAS rating 6.16)
• S. A. Kadam and S. D. Gorantiwar. 2015. Assessing leaf area index of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop with Hyperspectral field reflectance measurements. J. of Agrometeorology, Vol. 17(2), pp. 250-253. (NAAS rating 6.16)
• P. B. Jadhav, S. A. Kadam and S. D. Gorantiwar. 2015. Comparison of methods for estimating reference evapotranspiration (ETo) for Rahuri region.  J. of Agrometeorology, Vol. 17(2), pp. 204-207. (NAAS rating 6.16)
• Nigel Pickering, Abhilash Chandel, Lav Khot, Mingliang Liu, Troy Peters, Sunil Kadam, Behnaz Molaei, Jon Yoder, Kirti Rajagopalan, Claudio Stockle, Georgine Yorgey, Dan Haller, Michael Barber and Rajendra Khanal. 2021. Evapotranspiration estimation: comparison of evapotranspiration methods used in Washington state. The Water Report, Envirotech Publication Inc, Eugene, Oregon, USA
• Sunil A. Kadam, Claudio O. Stockle, Mingliang Liu, Zhongming Gao and Eric Russell. 2021. Comparison of Earth Engine Evaporation Flux (EEFlux) Versus Eddy Covariance Estimation of Evapotranspiration in Rainfed crops. Remote Sensing, MPDI Journal. (NAAS rating 10.36 - Accepted for publication)