Peer review declaration

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. • Type of peer review : Double-Blind review process was followed. • Conference submission management system : EasyChair Conference Mangement System • Number of submissions received : 52 • Number of submissions sent for review : 38 • Number of submissions accepted : 17 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100) : 17/52 X 100 = 32.69% • Average number of reviews per paper : 2.7 • Total number of reviewers involved : 42 • Any additional info on review process : We used Turnitin software for initial screening and papers with similarity index more than 25% was rejected. Remaining papers were sent for review. Papers were reviewed on the basis of scope of the paper to the conference, originality, novelty, completeness, technical quality and adequate references. The review reports were shared with the authors to incorporate the suggestions. The final camera ready papers were collected and verified. • Contact person for queries : Name : Dr. Geetha Ganesan Affiliation: Advanced Computing Research Society Email : geetha@advancedcomputingresearchsociety.org