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2023 [28] Rajiv Sinha, Kumar Gaurav, Kanchan Mishra, and Surya Gupta (2023). “The Kosi Megafan, India: Morphology, Dynamics, and Sedimentology, In book: Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars, Cambridge University Press, DOI: 10.1017/9781108525923.014 [27] Singh, Abhilash, Kumar Gaurav, Gaurav Kailash Sonkar, and Cheng-Chi Lee. "Strategies to measure soil moisture using traditional methods, automated sensors, remote sensing, and machine learning techniques: review, bibliometric analysis, applications, research findings, and future directions." IEEE Access (2023). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3243635 [PDF] [26] Singh, Abhilash, and Kumar Gaurav. "Deep learning and data fusion to estimate surface soil moisture from multi-sensor satellite images." Scientific Reports 13, no. 1 (2023): 2251. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28939-9 [PDF] [25] Singh, Abhilash, Manish Mehra, Amit Kumar, M. Niranjannaik, Dev Priya, and Kumar Gaurav. "Leveraging hybrid machine learning and data fusion for accurate mapping of malaria cases using meteorological variables in western India." Intelligent Systems with Applications 17 (2023): 200164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200164 [PDF] 2022 [24] Niranjannaik, M., Amit Kumar, Zafar Beg, Abhilash Singh, Somil Swarnkar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Groundwater Variability in a Semi-Arid River Basin, Central India." Hydrology 9, no. 12 (2022): 222. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9120222 [PDF] [23] Singh, Abhilash, M. Niranjannaik, Shashi Kumar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Comparison of Different Dielectric Models to Estimate Penetration Depth of L-and S-Band SAR Signals into the Ground Surface." Geographies 2, no. 4 (2022): 734-742. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2040045 [PDF] (Invited Contribution) [22] Kumar, Amit, Raghvender Pratap Singh, Swatantra Kumar Dubey, and Kumar Gaurav. "Streamflow of the Betwa River under the Combined Effect of LU-LC and Climate Change." Agriculture 12, no. 12 (2022): 2005. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12122005 [PDF] [21] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, and Gaurav Kumar. "Impact of Structural Barriers on the Morphology and Ecology of the Himalayan Rivers." In Handbook of Himalayan Ecosystems and Sustainability, Volume 2, pp. 165-187. CRC Press. [PDF] (Book Chapter) [20] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, Kumar Gaurav, Atul Kumar Rai, Sitaram Taigor, and Zafar Beg. "Integrating satellite altimeter data and geomorphic in‐stream flow tool to assess reach average hydraulic habitat of the Ganga River dolphin." Ecohydrology (2022): e2497. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eco.2497 [PDF] [19] Beg, Zafar, Suneel Kumar Joshi, Digvijay Singh, Sudhir Kumar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Surface water and groundwater interaction in the Kosi River alluvial fan of the Himalayan Foreland." Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 194, no. 8 (2022): 556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10192-8 [PDF] [18] Singh, Abhilash, Mood Niranjan Naik, and Kumar Gaurav. "Drainage congestion due to road network on the Kosi alluvial Fan, Himalayan Foreland." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 112 (2022): 102892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102892 [PDF] [17] Kumar, Amit, Abhilash Singh, and Kumar Gaurav. "Assessing the synergic effect of land use and climate change on the upper Betwa River catchment in Central India under present, past, and future climate scenarios." Environment, Development and Sustainability (2022): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02260-3 [PDF] [16] Beg, Zafar, Kumar Gaurav, Abhilash Singh, and Sampat Kumar Tandon. "Assessing the palaeohydrology of the lost Saraswati River in the Punjab-Haryana plains, Northwest India from satellite data." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585 (2022): 110716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110716 [PDF] 2021 [15] Rai, Atul Kumar, Zafar Beg, Abhilash Singh, and Kumar Gaurav. "Estimating discharge of the Ganga River from satellite altimeter data." Journal of Hydrology 603 (2021): 126860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126860 [PDF] [14] Singh, Abhilash, Kumar Gaurav, Atul Kumar Rai, and Zafar Beg. "Machine learning to estimate surface roughness from satellite images." Remote Sensing 13, no. 19 (2021): 3794. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193794 [PDF] [13] Gaurav Kumar, François Métivier, A. V. Sreejith, Rajiv Sinha, Amit Kumar, and Sampat Kumar Tandon. "Coupling threshold theory and satellite-derived channel width to estimate the formative discharge of Himalayan foreland rivers." Earth Surface Dynamics 9, no. 1 (2021): 47-70. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-47-2021 [PDF] 2020 [12] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, and Kumar Gaurav. "Assessing the impact of large barrages on habitat of the Ganga River dolphin." River Research and Applications 36, no. 9 (2020): 1916-1931. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3715 [PDF] [11] Singh, Abhilash, Kumar Gaurav, Ganesh Kumar Meena, and Shashi Kumar. "Estimation of soil moisture applying modified dubois model to Sentinel-1; a regional study from central India." Remote Sensing 12, no. 14 (2020): 2266. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142266 [PDF] 2019 [10] Sinha Rajiv, jain vikrant, Gaurav, Kumar. (2019). "Geomorphic Changes and Sediment Dynamics in Rivers: Causes and Consequences." In: Water Futures of India: Status of Science and Technology. Indian Academy of Sciences (INSA) and IIScPress (2019): 401-450.[PDF] (Book Chapter) [9] Singh, Abhilash, Ganesh Kumar Meena, Shashi Kumar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Evaluation of the penetration depth of L-and S-band (NISAR mission) microwave SAR signals into ground." In 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), pp. 1-1. IEEE, 2019. [PDF] (Conference Proceeding) [8] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, Kumar Gaurav, Niladri Dasgupt, Syed Ainul Hussain, and Rajiv Sinha. "Eco-geomorphic assessment of the Varanasi Turtle Sanctuary and its implication for Ganga River conservation." Current Science 116, no. 12 (2019): 2063-2071. https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/116/12/2063.pdf [PDF] 2018 [7] Singh, A., Meena, G. K., Kumar, S., and Gaurav, K. "Analysis of the effect of incidence angle and soil moisture content on the penetration depth of L- and S-band SAR signals into the ground surface.", ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., IV-5, 2018: 197-202. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-5-197-2018 [PDF] (Conference Proceeding) 2017 [6] Gaurav, Kumar, S. K. Tandon, Olivier Devauchelle, Rajiv Sinha, and François Métivier. "A single width–discharge regime relationship for individual threads of braided and meandering rivers from the Himalayan Foreland." Geomorphology 295 (2017): 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.07.004 [PDF] Non-IISERB publications [5] Gaurav, Kumar, François Métivier, Olivier Devauchelle, Rajiv Sinha, Hugo Chauvet, Morgane Houssais, and Hélène Bouquerel. "Morphology of the Kosi megafan channels." Earth Surface Dynamics 3, no. 3 (2015): 321-331. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-321-2015 [PDF] [4] Sinha, Rajiv, Jawed Ahmad, Kumar Gaurav, and Guillaume Morin. "Shallow subsurface stratigraphy and alluvial architecture of the Kosi and Gandak megafans in the Himalayan foreland basin, India." Sedimentary Geology 301 (2014): 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2013.06.008 [PDF] [3] Sinha, R., K. Gaurav, S. Chandra, and S. K. Tandon. "Exploring the channel connectivity structure of the August 2008 avulsion belt of the Kosi River, India: Application to flood risk assessment." Geology 41, no. 10 (2013): 1099-1102. https://doi.org/10.1130/G34539.1 [PDF] [2] Gaurav, Kumar, Rajiv Sinha, and P. K. Panda. "The Indus flood of 2010 in Pakistan: a perspective analysis using remote sensing data." Natural hazards 59 (2011): 1815-1826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9869-6 [PDF] [1] Das, Iswar, Gaurav Kumar, Alfred Stein, Arunabha Bagchi, and Vinay K. Dadhwal. "Stochastic landslide vulnerability modeling in space and time in a part of the northern Himalayas, India." Environmental monitoring and assessment 178 (2011): 25-37 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1668-0 [PDF].

Publications

2023

[28] Rajiv Sinha, Kumar Gaurav, Kanchan Mishra, and Surya Gupta (2023). “The Kosi Megafan, India: Morphology, Dynamics, and Sedimentology, In book: Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars, Cambridge University Press, DOI: 10.1017/9781108525923.014

[27] Singh, Abhilash, Kumar Gaurav, Gaurav Kailash Sonkar, and Cheng-Chi Lee. "Strategies to measure soil moisture using traditional methods, automated sensors, remote sensing, and machine learning techniques: review, bibliometric analysis, applications, research findings, and future directions." IEEE Access (2023). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3243635 [PDF]

[26] Singh, Abhilash, and Kumar Gaurav. "Deep learning and data fusion to estimate surface soil moisture from multi-sensor satellite images." Scientific Reports 13, no. 1 (2023): 2251. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28939-9 [PDF]

[25] Singh, Abhilash, Manish Mehra, Amit Kumar, M. Niranjannaik, Dev Priya, and Kumar Gaurav. "Leveraging hybrid machine learning and data fusion for accurate mapping of malaria cases using meteorological variables in western India." Intelligent Systems with Applications 17 (2023): 200164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2022.200164 [PDF]

2022

[24] Niranjannaik, M., Amit Kumar, Zafar Beg, Abhilash Singh, Somil Swarnkar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Groundwater Variability in a Semi-Arid River Basin, Central India." Hydrology 9, no. 12 (2022): 222. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9120222 [PDF]

[23] Singh, Abhilash, M. Niranjannaik, Shashi Kumar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Comparison of Different Dielectric Models to Estimate Penetration Depth of L-and S-Band SAR Signals into the Ground Surface." Geographies 2, no. 4 (2022): 734-742. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies2040045 [PDF] (Invited Contribution)

[22] Kumar, Amit, Raghvender Pratap Singh, Swatantra Kumar Dubey, and Kumar Gaurav. "Streamflow of the Betwa River under the Combined Effect of LU-LC and Climate Change." Agriculture 12, no. 12 (2022): 2005. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12122005 [PDF]

[21] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, and Gaurav Kumar. "Impact of Structural Barriers on the Morphology and Ecology of the Himalayan Rivers." In Handbook of Himalayan Ecosystems and Sustainability, Volume 2, pp. 165-187. CRC Press. [PDF] (Book Chapter)

[20] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, Kumar Gaurav, Atul Kumar Rai, Sitaram Taigor, and Zafar Beg. "Integrating satellite altimeter data and geomorphic in‐stream flow tool to assess reach average hydraulic habitat of the Ganga River dolphin." Ecohydrology (2022): e2497. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eco.2497 [PDF]

[19] Beg, Zafar, Suneel Kumar Joshi, Digvijay Singh, Sudhir Kumar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Surface water and groundwater interaction in the Kosi River alluvial fan of the Himalayan Foreland." Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 194, no. 8 (2022): 556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10192-8 [PDF]

[18] Singh, Abhilash, Mood Niranjan Naik, and Kumar Gaurav. "Drainage congestion due to road network on the Kosi alluvial Fan, Himalayan Foreland." International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 112 (2022): 102892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102892 [PDF]

[17] Kumar, Amit, Abhilash Singh, and Kumar Gaurav. "Assessing the synergic effect of land use and climate change on the upper Betwa River catchment in Central India under present, past, and future climate scenarios." Environment, Development and Sustainability (2022): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02260-3 [PDF]

[16] Beg, Zafar, Kumar Gaurav, Abhilash Singh, and Sampat Kumar Tandon. "Assessing the palaeohydrology of the lost Saraswati River in the Punjab-Haryana plains, Northwest India from satellite data." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585 (2022): 110716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110716 [PDF]

2021

[15] Rai, Atul Kumar, Zafar Beg, Abhilash Singh, and Kumar Gaurav. "Estimating discharge of the Ganga River from satellite altimeter data." Journal of Hydrology 603 (2021): 126860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126860 [PDF]

[14] Singh, Abhilash, Kumar Gaurav, Atul Kumar Rai, and Zafar Beg. "Machine learning to estimate surface roughness from satellite images." Remote Sensing 13, no. 19 (2021): 3794. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193794 [PDF]

[13] Gaurav Kumar, François Métivier, A. V. Sreejith, Rajiv Sinha, Amit Kumar, and Sampat Kumar Tandon. "Coupling threshold theory and satellite-derived channel width to estimate the formative discharge of Himalayan foreland rivers." Earth Surface Dynamics 9, no. 1 (2021): 47-70. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-47-2021 [PDF]

2020

[12] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, and Kumar Gaurav. "Assessing the impact of large barrages on habitat of the Ganga River dolphin." River Research and Applications 36, no. 9 (2020): 1916-1931. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3715 [PDF]

[11] Singh, Abhilash, Kumar Gaurav, Ganesh Kumar Meena, and Shashi Kumar. "Estimation of soil moisture applying modified dubois model to Sentinel-1; a regional study from central India." Remote Sensing 12, no. 14 (2020): 2266. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142266 [PDF]

2019

[10] Sinha Rajiv, jain vikrant, Gaurav, Kumar. (2019). "Geomorphic Changes and Sediment Dynamics in Rivers: Causes and Consequences." In: Water Futures of India: Status of Science and Technology. Indian Academy of Sciences (INSA) and IIScPress (2019): 401-450.[PDF] (Book Chapter)

[9] Singh, Abhilash, Ganesh Kumar Meena, Shashi Kumar, and Kumar Gaurav. "Evaluation of the penetration depth of L-and S-band (NISAR mission) microwave SAR signals into ground." In 2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC), pp. 1-1. IEEE, 2019. [PDF] (Conference Proceeding)

[8] Sonkar, Gaurav Kailash, Kumar Gaurav, Niladri Dasgupt, Syed Ainul Hussain, and Rajiv Sinha. "Eco-geomorphic assessment of the Varanasi Turtle Sanctuary and its implication for Ganga River conservation." Current Science 116, no. 12 (2019): 2063-2071. https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/116/12/2063.pdf [PDF]

2018

[7] Singh, A., Meena, G. K., Kumar, S., and Gaurav, K. "Analysis of the effect of incidence angle and soil moisture content on the penetration depth of L- and S-band SAR signals into the ground surface.", ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., IV-5, 2018: 197-202. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-5-197-2018 [PDF] (Conference Proceeding)

2017

[6] Gaurav, Kumar, S. K. Tandon, Olivier Devauchelle, Rajiv Sinha, and François Métivier. "A single width–discharge regime relationship for individual threads of braided and meandering rivers from the Himalayan Foreland." Geomorphology 295 (2017): 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.07.004 [PDF]

Non-IISERB publications

[5] Gaurav, Kumar, François Métivier, Olivier Devauchelle, Rajiv Sinha, Hugo Chauvet, Morgane Houssais, and Hélène Bouquerel. "Morphology of the Kosi megafan channels." Earth Surface Dynamics 3, no. 3 (2015): 321-331. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-321-2015 [PDF]

[4] Sinha, Rajiv, Jawed Ahmad, Kumar Gaurav, and Guillaume Morin. "Shallow subsurface stratigraphy and alluvial architecture of the Kosi and Gandak megafans in the Himalayan foreland basin, India." Sedimentary Geology 301 (2014): 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2013.06.008 [PDF]

[3] Sinha, R., K. Gaurav, S. Chandra, and S. K. Tandon. "Exploring the channel connectivity structure of the August 2008 avulsion belt of the Kosi River, India: Application to flood risk assessment." Geology 41, no. 10 (2013): 1099-1102. https://doi.org/10.1130/G34539.1 [PDF]

[2] Gaurav, Kumar, Rajiv Sinha, and P. K. Panda. "The Indus flood of 2010 in Pakistan: a perspective analysis using remote sensing data." Natural hazards 59 (2011): 1815-1826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9869-6 [PDF]

[1] Das, Iswar, Gaurav Kumar, Alfred Stein, Arunabha Bagchi, and Vinay K. Dadhwal. "Stochastic landslide vulnerability modeling in space and time in a part of the northern Himalayas, India." Environmental monitoring and assessment 178 (2011): 25-37 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1668-0 [PDF].