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February 17, 2026

Award-winning research led by USGS and BAERI researcher.

ESRI Award for the Best Scientific Paper in GIS for Pardha Teluguntla et al. for Mapping Irrigated and Rainfed Cropland Areas of Conterminous United States (CONUS).

Dr. Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla recently received the 2025 ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.,) Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS (1st Place) for the publication titled: "Landsat-derived rainfed and irrigated-area product for Conterminous United States for the year 2020 (LRIP30 CONUS 2020) using supervised and unsupervised machine learning on the cloud". This award recognizes the most outstanding research papers published in 2025 in the Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS), the official Journal of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).

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Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla presenting certificate of ESRI's Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS -1st Place
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