Radar Remote Sensing

Prashant Kumar Srivastava is working at IESD, Banaras Hindu University as a faculty and is also a visiting scholar with the Hydrological Sciences division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. He received several awards such as NASA Fellowship, University of Maryland Fellowship, Commonwealth Fellowship, Early Career Research Award (ECRA, DST, India), CSIR as well as UGC– JRF-NET (2005, 2006). He is leading number of projects funded from reputed agencies in India as well as world. He is also a collaborator with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation as well as Scatsat-1, NISAR, AVIRIS-NG missions of India. He has published 130+ peer-reviewed journals and seven books. He is also acting as Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Remote Sensing (MDPI), Journal of Earth System Science, Environment Development and Sustainability, Environmental Processes, Cogent Environmental Sciences, Co-editor-in-Chief Bulletin of Environmental and Scientific Research and Guest Editor of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, IJSLUP and JSRS.

Remote Sensing Laboratory, IESD, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Dileep Kumar Gupta received his doctoral degree from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. Dr. Dileep received several reputed awards like UGC-NET, GATE, UGC research fellowship and DST international travel support. He has published 30+ research articles in different peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings/book chapters. He is an expert in algorithm development for soil moisture and crop variables retrieval using different ground based and space borne active and passive microwave sensor. He is also an expert of different machine learning algorithms for remote sensing data processing.

IESD, Banaras Hindu University, India

Dr. Tanvir Islam is presently with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and specializes in remote sensing observations. Currently, he is engaged with the development of advanced microwave calibration and retrieval algorithms for NASA’s Earth observing missions. Prior to joining NASA/JPL in 2015, he was with the NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, and worked on the development of satellite remote sensing algorithms, with an emphasis on microwave variational inversion techniques (2013-2015). He also held visiting scientist positions at the University of Tokyo, as part of the NASA/JAXA precipitation measurement missions (PMM) algorithm development team, in 2012, and at the University of Calgary, in 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, in 2012. Dr. Islam was the recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Commendation from the University of Bristol (nominated for a University Prize for his outstanding Ph.D. thesis), in 2012, the JAXA visiting fellowship award, in 2012, the CIRA postdoctoral fellowship award, in 2013, the Calgary visiting fellowship award, in 2015, and the Caltech postdoctoral scholar award, in 2015. He has served as a lead guest editor for a special issue on “Microwave Remote Sensing” for the Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (Elsevier), and currently serving on the editorial board of Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (EGU) and Scientific Reports (Nature). He has published four books and more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals. His primary research interests include microwave remote sensing, radiometer calibration, retrieval algorithms, radiative transfer theory, data assimilation, mesoscale modeling, cloud and precipitation system, and artificial intelligence in geosciences.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

Dawei Han is professor of Hydroinformatics in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol. His research interests include hydrological modelling, Real-time Flood Forecasting, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Change impact, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, natural hazards, and microwave remote sensing applications

Professor of Hydroinformatics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, UK

Rajendra Prasad is a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). He has published 60+ research articles in different peer reviewed journals/conference proceedings/book chapters. He is an expert in the bistatic scatterometer measurement and studying scattering mechanism of crop/vegetation and soil surface parameters and their monitoring using soft computational techniques. He also has experience with various remote sensing datasets like active and passive microwave, optical and hyperspectral for the accurate retrieval of soil moisture, and different vegetation properties.

Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India