Conservation of Saline Wetland Ecosystems: An Initiative Towards Un Decade of Ecological Restoration

Professor (Dr.) Laxmi Kant Sharma serves as Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science, as well as the Proctor of the Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India. He obtained both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany, focusing on ecology and environment, from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Additionally, he holds a PG Diploma and an M. Tech. in Remote Sensing & GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (ISRO), Dehradun, India. Prof. Sharma has previously served at the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT-Mesra), Ranchi, and the Central University of Jharkhand. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed international journal articles and 25 national articles, authored three books, and edited one. He is also an editorial board member of various international journals.

Since 2021, Prof. Sharma has been contributing significantly to the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) and the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN. His work focuses on environmental systems, land-use changes, climate impacts, and human-environment interactions. He has extensively worked with multi-sensor advanced remote sensing data, including optical, thermal, microwave, hyperspectral, and LiDAR (GEDI). His research has received support from the Space Application Centre (ISRO) under the RISAT, NISAR, and AVIRIS-NG programs, along with support from NRSC (ISRO) and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (GoI). His work has been cited by esteemed institutions such as the University of British Columbia, Canada, for the 3-PG model, and has been recognized by scientific institutions and media, particularly for his studies on the Thar Desert, Aravalli hills, and Sambhar Lake.

Dr. Rajashree Naik serves as an Assistant Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh (VIT-AP) University, India. Prior to this, she worked at the Uttarakhand Space Application Centre. Dr. Naik earned her Ph.D. from the Central University of Rajasthan, where she focused on the Integration of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data with Climatic Variabilities for Assessment of the Sambhar Lake Ecosystem (A Ramsar Site) of Rajasthan, India. She holds a PG Diploma in Remote Sensing from the prestigious Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and an M.Sc. from the Central University of Rajasthan, where her journey in environmental science began.

Dr. Naik has received numerous awards and grants, including the International Travel Award from the Society of Wetland Scientists, the Training and Travel Grant from the British Ecological Society, the Student Research Grant from the Ecological Society of America, the Wetzel Award from the International Society of Limnology, the Central Universities Common Entrance Test-India Scholarship, and the Summer Research Fellowship by the Indian Academy of Sciences. She serves as the Indian Ambassador for the International Society of Limnology, Germany, and is part of the Student Section of the Society of Wetland Scientists and the Executive Team of Young Ecosystem Services Specialists. Dr. Naik has authored one book and has numerous published works in esteemed journals.

拉克什米·坎特·夏爾馬教授（博士）擔任印度阿傑梅爾拉賈斯坦中央大學環境科學系的教授及系主任，並擔任該校的監考官。他在印度斋浦尔的拉賈斯坦大學獲得了植物學的碩士和博士學位，專注於生態學和環境。此外，他還擁有印度遙感研究所（ISRO）德拉敦分院的遙感與地理資訊系統（GIS）研究生文憑和碩士學位。夏爾馬教授曾在比爾拉科技學院（BIT-Mesra）和中央賈坎德大學任職。他已發表超過100篇經過同行評審的國際期刊文章和25篇國內文章，著作三本書籍並編輯一本。他也是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員。

自2021年以來，夏爾馬教授在國際自然保護聯盟（IUCN）的生態系統管理委員會（CEM）和世界保護區委員會（WCPA）中做出了重要貢獻。他的工作重點在於環境系統、土地利用變化、氣候影響和人類與環境的互動。他廣泛使用多傳感器的先進遙感數據，包括光學、熱成像、微波、高光譜和激光雷達（LiDAR，GEDI）。他的研究得到了印度空間應用中心（ISRO）在RISAT、NISAR和AVIRIS-NG計劃下的支持，並獲得了NRSC（ISRO）和印度環境、森林與氣候變化部的支持。他的工作曾被加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學引用，特別是3-PG模型，並受到科學機構和媒體的認可，尤其是他對塔爾沙漠、阿拉瓦利山脈和桑巴湖的研究。

拉賈什里·奈克博士擔任印度安得拉邦維洛爾科技大學（VIT-AP）的助理教授。在此之前，她曾在烏塔拉坎德空間應用中心工作。奈克博士在拉賈斯坦中央大學獲得博士學位，研究重點為多光譜和高光譜數據與氣候變異的整合，以評估拉賈斯坦的桑巴湖生態系統（拉姆薩爾地點）。她擁有印度空間研究組織（ISRO）的遙感研究生文憑，以及拉賈斯坦中央大學的碩士學位，這是她環境科學之旅的起點。

奈克博士獲得了多項獎項和資助，包括濕地科學家協會的國際旅行獎、英國生態學會的培訓和旅行資助、美國生態學會的學生研究資助、國際湖沼學會的韋策爾獎、中央大學聯合入學考試-印度獎學金，以及印度科學院的夏季研究獎學金。她擔任德國國際湖沼學會的印度大使，並參與濕地科學家協會的學生部門及年輕生態系統服務專家的執行團隊。奈克博士著有一本書，並在多本知名期刊上發表了多篇作品。