Title of the proposed session: Satellite Remote Sensing for Hydrological Applications Names and Affiliations: Convener: Dr. Prashant K. Srivastava Research Scientist Hydrological Sciences (Code 617) ESSIC/NASA GSFC Room No. G208, Building 33 Greenbelt, Maryland-20771, USA Office Phone: 301-614-6384; Mobile: 301-329-1010 Email: prashant.k.srivastava@nasa.gov; Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development Banaras Hindu University, India Email: prashant.just@gmail.com Co-convener: Prof. Dawei Han Water and Environment Research Center Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol, United Kingdom Email: cedh@bristol.ac.uk Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS) Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012 India Dr. Manika Gupta Research Scientist Hydrological Sciences (Code 617) NASA GSFC Greenbelt, Maryland-20771, USA Email: manika.gupta@nasa.gov Tanvir Islam, PhD Research Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth Science Section (329B), M/S 183-518 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 Email: tanvir.islam@jpl.nasa.gov
Dr. George P. Petropoulos Senior Lecturer in Remote Sensing & GIS Department of Geography and Earth Sciences University of Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion Wales, United Kingdom E-mail: george.petropoulos@aber.ac.uk Introduction and Objectives Information on our planet s water resources is indispensable to a number of practical applications related to both society and ecosystems. Globally, the monitoring of the Earth s water resources has developed into a very important and urgent research direction, especially in the face of climate change. Yet, the amount of water available throughout the world is already limited, and demand will continue to rise as population grows. In this context, there is a growing need to monitor and obtain a better understanding of its use, which will provide information that can assist towards the development of effective water management strategies and infrastructures. This can be of crucial importance, particularly to regions on which the amount of water available is limited. As compared to other natural resources, modelling and management of water is complicated in practice. The launch of numerous Earth Observation (EO) sensors from advanced satellites such as SMOS, Landsat8, GCOM- W1, SMAP, GPM, TRMM, Radar etc has the potential to reshape the water world, when used on a geospatial modeling framework. These instruments provide necessary data that can make up for the lack of on-the-ground monitoring of water resources around the world. Hence, the use of satellite in and sophisticated computational techniques for the management of water can play an important role in the future of water resources. Remote Sensing have gained considerable interests in recent decades among the hydrological science communities for solving and understanding various complex problems and approaches towards water resource development. Therefore the primary aim of this session is to advance the scientific understanding, development, and application of remote sensing technologies to address a variety of areas related to hydrological applications. In this essence, a session is needed to putting together a collection of the recent developments and rigorous applications of the satellites in combination with GIS, artificial intelligence and hybrid techniques. By using the datasets from satellite missions, this session will promote the synergistic and multidisciplinary activities among scientists and users working in the field remote sensing and hydrological sciences. The satellite remote sensing for hydrological applications includes, but not limited to: Hydro-environmental applications, Soil moisture and Precipitation retrieval Sensitivity analysis of satellite datasets for hydrological applications Uncertainty in satellite datasets uses for hydrological prediction Agro-informatics and agricultural water management,
Water Quality and quantity Groundwater level monitoring Geo-informatics New algorithms and Computational advancement Decision-making algorithm towards water resources Natural disaster management such as flood and drought etc This session will have several scopes of interests in water resources on a remote sensing platform. We believe that this session would be attended by the people with a common interest in geo-spatial techniques, remote sensing, sustainable water resource development, applications and other diverse backgrounds within earth, environmental and hydrological sciences field. This session would be beneficial for the academician, scientists, environmentalists, meteorologists, environmental consultants, computing experts working in the area of water resources and remote sensing. Target contributors Contributors are expected from top organizations of world such as Cardiff University, UK; University of Sydney, Australia; The City College of New York, NY, USA; University of Aberystwyth, UK; University of Maryland, USA; Monash University, Australia; NOAA, Maryland; NASA JPL, NASA GSFC, Information Technologies Institute, Turkey; George Washington University; University Putra Malaysia; Malaysia; Nanjing Normal University, China; Seoul University, Korea; Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Iran; Tsukuba University, Japan; Jawaharlal Nehru University, India; United Nation University, Japan; IGNOU, New Delhi India; UTM, Malaysia, University of Calgary, Canada, Water Resource Engineering, IIT Delhi, University of Bristol, UK; India, IIT Bombay, India; Indian Institute of Sciences, India; Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria; Space Applications Centre, India; Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Ministry of Malaysia, Malaysia; University of Al- Mustansiriyah, Iraq; University of Leicester, UK; German Aerospace Center, Germany; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; European Space Agency, Italy; School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; The University of New South Wales, Australia; Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria; National Agricultural Research Institute, Serekunda; Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS), Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal; University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan; Bursa Orhangazi University, Bursa, Turkey; University of Edinburgh, UK; Yamaguchi University, Japan; Warmadewa University, Indonesia; National Institute of oceanography, Goa; Banaras Hindu University, India; Agricultural University of Athens, Greece; China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, China; National Technical University of Athens, Greece; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan and SEVERAL OTHERS Non standard resources 15-20 display boards for posters and a seminar room with capacity of at least 60 people. Computer, mini Mic and projector will be needed for presentations with/without assistance.
Brief Bio of Organizers Dr. Prashant K Srivastava Dr. Prashant K Srivastava received the B.Sc. degree in Agriculture Sciences from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), and M.Sc. degree in Environmental Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. He has worked as an Assistant professor for few years in India and then moved to Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, for his PhD sponsored and funded by British High Commission, U.K. under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP). His Ph.D. research focused on the soil moisture retrieval algorithm development for SMOS satellite and mesoscale modelling for hydrological applications. Dr. Prashant is currently working as a research scientist with ESSIC/NASA GSFC, Hydrological Sciences laboratory on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development and its applications. He has been a recipient of many awards including University of Maryland fellowship, Commonwealth fellowship, U.K., CSIR (twice), MHRD and UGC fellowships from India. He has published 75+ peer reviewed international journal papers and edited five books in the area of remote sensing, hydrology and computational intelligence published by Springer, Taylor and Francis and Elsevier USA with the titles Computational Intelligence Techniques in Earth & Environmental Sciences (Springer Netherlands), Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research (Springer Switzerland), Geospatial techniques in water Resource Development (CRC press, Taylor and Francis, USA). Sensitivity analysis for Earth Observation Modelling (Elsevier, USA-to be appeared in end of 2015) and Satellite soil moisture retrieval: techniques and applications (Elsevier, USA-to be appeared in end of 2015) and several book chapters. Apart from that, He has number of International/National conferences and workshop experiences with good presentation skills. He acts as a convenor at the European Geosciences Union for the session Uncertainty & Sensitivity Analysis in Geosciences for last two years and also involved as a chairperson, scientific committee, and advisory board member in number of other international conferences. He is serving as editorial board member in 5 journals published by Springer, European Water Resource Association etc. Presently he is member of Environmental Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH), International Society for Agrometeorology (INSAM), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) etc. Prof. Dawei Han Prof. Dawei Han received his PhD degree from the University of Salford, UK, in Radar applications in hydrology. He is currently a professor of Remote Sensing & Hydroinformatics in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Bristol, UK. His research work focuses on Hydroinformatics, Real-time Flood Forecasting, lumped hydrological modelling, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Climate Change, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, Water Resources Management, Natural Hazards, Systems and Environmental engineering. He is author/co-author of +200 peerreviewed journal articles, number of international conferences and editor of seven books. He is seerving as editor of four journal related to climate change and hydrology. He has carried out various projects on weather radar rainfall and numerical weather prediction to aid flood risk assessment, downscaling of
global circulation model for climate change, etc. He is presently Fellow of Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (FCIWEM), Chartered Engineer (Engineering Council), Chartered Water and Environmental Manager (CIWEM) Visiting Professor, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), NERC College Member (NERC), EPSRC Peer Review College Member (EPSRC), Member of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), Member of International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), Member of International Water Association (IWA) etc. Dr. George P. Petropoulos Dr. George Petropoulos received his PhD in 2008 from the University of London, UK, specialising in Earth Observation Modelling. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Remote Sensing & GIS in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences (DGES) at Aberystwyth University, UK. His research work focuses on exploiting Earth Observation (EO) data alone or synergistically with land surface process models for computing key state variables of the Earth's energy and water budget, including energy fluxes and soil surface moisture. He is also conducting research on the application of EO technology to land cover mapping and its changes occurred from either anthropogenic activities (e.g. urbanization, mining activity) or natural hazards (mainly floods). He is author/co-author of +40 peer-reviewed journal articles, +65 international conferences and of +10 book chapters, and editor of a three books published by Taylor & Francis, Elsevier USA. He is Editorial Board Member: Remote Sensing (MDPI), Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (SPIE), ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (MDPI), Computational Ecology and Software, Ecological Processes (Springer). Dr. Manika Gupta Dr. Manika Gupta received her PhD Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in water resources applications and presently working as a research scientist in Hydrological Sciences (Code 617) laboratory, NASA GSFC on satellite data applications for agricultural water management. She has published 35+ peer reviewed international journal papers and edited two books in the area of remote sensing published by Springer. Dr. Manika Gupta has been a recipient of many awards including NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship (USA), EIPRS (Australia), COSPAR (China), CSIR, ICMR and UGC fellowships from India. Currently, she is serving as an editorial board member of two journals related to remote sensing and environmental sciences. Presently she is member of Environmental Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH), International Society for Agrometeorology (INSAM), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) etc. Dr. Tanvir Islam Dr. Tanvir Islam received the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. His Ph.D. research was focused on the remote sensing of precipitation through the use of radar polarimetry, especially, towards algorithm developments and data quality improvements. Following his Ph.D., he joined the University of Tokyo as a visiting scientist, more specifically, as part of the
NASA/JAXA precipitation measurement missions. From 2013-2015, he worked with the NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, working on the development of satellite remote sensing algorithms, with an emphasis on microwave variational inversion techniques. Currently, he is working NASA JPL with Earth sciences group at Pasadena, USA. Dr. Tanvir was the recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Commendation from the University of Bristol for his outstanding Ph.D. thesis, the JAXA visiting fellowship award, in 2012, and the CIRA postdoctoral fellowship award, in 2013. He has been a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has published 45+ peer reviewed international journal papers and edited two books in the area of remote sensing and computational intelligence published by Springer. Prof. D Nagesh Kumar Prof. Nagesh received his PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in hydrology. Presently he is a professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research interests include Climate Hydrology, Water Resources Systems, Climate Change, Impact on Water Resources, ANN, Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy logic, MCDM and Remote Sensing & GIS applications in Water Resources Engineering. He has published more than 150 papers in leading international journals and conferences in his research fields. He has co-authored two text books viz., Multicriterion Analysis in Engineering and Management published by PHI, New Delhi and Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrologic Modeling published by Cambridge University Press, U.K. He is Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Editorial Board of Open Hydrology Journal, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and Journal of Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. He is a member, Working Group on Climate Change, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), Spain. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Society for Hydraulics. He is a member of the AGU, IAHR, ASCE, IAHS (UK), IS-MCDM (USA) and Indian Society of Remote Sensing.