Salghuna Nair, Ph.D student working under the supervision of Dr. Ramachandra Prasad P. Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), Lab for Spatial Informatics (LSI) won the best paper and best contribution among young researchers for their paper A surrogate approach of identifying Artocarpus heterophyllus species of Attappadi forest, India at the AIT2018 – the IX Conference of the Italian Society of Remote Sensing, Florence,Italy during 4 – 6 July. Salghuna received 300 Euros as prize money.