Dr. Surantha Salgadoe

Head of the Department
Lecturer (Probationary)

Department of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening
Faculty of Agriculture & Plantation Management
Wayamba University of Sri Lanka,
Makandura, Gonawila (NWP)

Office: +94 3122 99704
Mobile: +94 712936114
Email: surantha@wyb.ac.lk, surantha_a@yahoo.com

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Dr. S Salgadu

I am a precision plant pathologist whom develops remote sensing technologies to manage (diagnose, quantify and monitor) plant diseases. My professional life begins with the acquisition of B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.) degree majoring in Horticulture and Landscape gardening from the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka (WUSL) in 2012 and Hig. Dip in Computer technology (University of Colombo). Immediately I was recruited as a demonstrator to the department of Horticulture and Landscape gardening and then was appointed as Lecturer (Prob.) in 2014. Since 2012 I have been researching on plant diseases in a range of crops including fruits, vegetables, flowers, field and plantation crops.  Expertise in disease diagnosis, understanding disease behavior, designing management strategies. I believe multidisciplinary approaches with new technology allows better agricultural crop management. In my career I have got the opportunity to internationally collaborate with Australia, PARG-UNE (Precision Agriculture Remote Sensing Group, University of New England)

Curriculum Vitae

  • Crop Remote sensing,
  • Precision agriculture
  • Precision Plant pathology
  • Plant pest and disease management
  • Agricultural crops and production
  • First Place in 3MT 2018 Competition, School of Science & Technology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
  • PhD project research funds from Australian Federal Government ‘Rural R&D’ for Profit scheme and Hort Innovation Australia (Horticulture Innovation).
  • University of New England Research Award (UNERA), Australia, 2016.
  • Winner of “finance assistance for higher studies” awarded for teachers in Universities, offered by the University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka, 2016.
  • Research grant awarded as Co-investigator from Wayamba University research grants 2015 (SRHDC/RP/04/13-04)

Selected publications in refereed journals

  • Salgadoe, A.S.A.; Robson, A.J.; Lamb, D.W.; Schneider, D. A Non-Reference Temperature Histogram Method for Determining Tc from Ground-Based Thermal Imagery of Orchard Tree Canopies. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 714. (View)
  • A Salgadoe, A.J. Robson, D.W. Lamb, E.K. Dann and C. Searle (2018). Quantifying the Severity of Phytophthora Root Rot Disease in Avocado Trees Using Image Analysis. Remote Sensing 2018, 10, 226. (View)

Conference proceedings

  • Surantha Salgadoe, Andrew Robson, David Lamb, Elizabeth Dann (2018). Remote Sensing techniques for managing Phytophthora root rot in avocado. 21st Precision Agriculture Symposium, Society of Precision Agriculture Australia (SPAA), (10th -11th September 2018), Pg. 12-16. (View in ResearchGate)

Poster presentations

  • A Salgadoe, A.J. Robson, D.W. Lamb, E.K. Dann and C. Searle (2018). Non-invasive techniques for determining Phytophthora root rot severity in avocados (2017 – Short Abstract-poster). Science Protecting Plant Health 2017, 26th-28th September, Brisbane, QLD.

Articles (magazine)

  • Surantha Salgadoe (2018). Remote sensing of crops for economical and sustainable agriculture in Sri Lanka. Newsletter of the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Vol. 2,01.
  • Surantha Salgadoe (2019). Early detection to stop disease spread. Precision Ag News, Society of Precision Agriculture Australia (SPAA),Vol. 15, 2.
  • Research grant awarded as Co-investigator from Wayamba University research grants 2015. (SRHDC/RP/04/13-04)
  • University of New England Research Award (UNERA), Australia, 2016.
  • “Finance assistance for higher studies” awarded for teachers in Universities, offered by the University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka, 2016.

Reviewer

  • Remote sensing
  • Potato Journal