Srinagar, Nov. 29 -- Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir student has won ESRI India Master's scholarship in geographic information systems (GIS).

Mahreen Zahra, a master's student from the Remote Sensing and Geo-informatics Lab (RSGL), Division of Soil Science, Faculty of Horticulture, has emerged victorious in the highly competitive master scholarship in GIS from ESRI India, a GIS software solutions company.

Mahreen has won this year's scholarship after participating in a rigorous competition that has received multiple entries from the brightest students across the country. Her proposal on the "Effect of seasonal environmental covariates on digital soil mapping using machine learning and deep le...