Ravi Shankar Dwivedi obtained Master and Ph D. degrees in Agricultural Chemistry from University of Allahabad, India  in 1973 and 1977, respectively, and Advanced Training in Remote Sensing from the University of Berlin, Germany in 1979, the undersigned had joined the National Remote Sensing Agency in   December1977. He pursued his research career in applications of   geospatial technologies in soil resources inventory and mapping the dynamics of land degradation processes i.e. soil erosion by water and wind, soil salinization and/or alkalinization, waterlogging, soil pollution due to aquaculture, mining, etc. In addition, he also contributed significantly  to forecasting national-level  acreage and production estimates of  wheat and rice crops. The testimony of such effort is reflected in terms of research articles (84) in national and international journals, awards (from Indian Society of Remote Sensing, and Doreen Mashler Team Award; and fellowships of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India, Indian  Geophysical Union and A.P Academy of Sciences. He has edited three books on remote sensing applications, and authored   two books- Remote Sensing of Soils with Springer Verlag, and Geospatial Technologies  for Land Degradation Assessment and Management   with CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.. He had been  Associate Editor, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing published by American Society for Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (2022 & 2023) .He has been associated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad as Academic Advisor/ Guest Faculty for M.Tech programme in Spatial Information Technology since June,2012 .