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1. Lal, P., Singh, G., Das, N.N. et al., An Analytical Approach for Uncertainty Estimation in SMAP High-Resolution Soil Moisture Retrievals. Submitted in the Remote Sensing on Environment.  

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2. Lal, P., Singh, G., Das, N.N., Lohman, R.B., 2025. Validation of the NISAR Multi-Scale Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm across various Spatial Resolutions and Landcovers using the ALOS-2 SAR data. J Remote Sens. 0729. https://doi.org/10.34133/remotesensing.0729

3. Rathore, J., Kumari, S., Tripathy, P., Mahto, S.S., Lal, P., 2025. 2024 Brazil Floods: Mapping the extent and impacts in Eastern Rio Grande do Sul using geospatial techniques. Natural Hazards Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2025.03.011 

4. Sarkar, S., Lal, P., Sears, M., Lupi, F., 2024. Evaluating the impact of fertilizer and crop prices on phosphorus concentrations in Great Lakes watersheds. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 3, 756–773. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.145

5. Lal, P., Singh, G., Das, N.N., Entekhabi, D., Lohman, R.B., Colliander, A., 2024. Uncertainty estimates in the NISAR high-resolution soil moisture retrievals from multi-scale algorithm. Remote Sensing of Environment 311, 114288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114288

6. Lal, P., Singh, G., Das, N.N., Entekhabi, D., Lohman, R., Colliander, A., Pandey, D.K., Setia, R.K., 2023. A multi-scale algorithm for the NISAR mission high-resolution soil moisture product. Remote Sensing of Environment 295, 113667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113667

7. Lal, P., Shekhar, A., Gharun, M., Das, N.N., 2023. Spatiotemporal evolution of global long-term patterns of soil moisture. Science of The Total Environment 867, 161470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161470 

8. P. Lal, G. Singh, N. N. Das, A. Colliander and D. Entekhabi, "Assessment of ERA5-Land Volumetric Soil Water Layer Product Using In Situ and SMAP Soil Moisture Observations," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 19, pp. 1-5, 2022, Art no. 2508305, https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2022.3223985.  PDF 

9. Kumar, A., Mondal, S., Lal, P., 2022. Analysing frequent extreme flood incidences in Brahmaputra basin, South Asia. PLoS ONE 17, e0273384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273384

10. Lal, P., Dubey, A.K., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Dwivedi, C.S., 2022. Measuring the control of landscape modifications on surface temperature in India. Geocarto International,  37:27, 15736-15753. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.2102224 

11. Diksha., Kumar, A., Lal, P., 2022. Analysing Climatic Variability and Extremes Events in the Himalayan regions focusing on Mountainous Urban Agglomerations. Geocarto International, 37:26, 14148-14170. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2022.2086635 

12. Kumar, A., Manisha, Lal, P., Prasad, A., Tripathy, P., Saikia, P., 2022. Analyzing urban damage and surface deformation based hazard-risk in Kathmandu city occurred during Nepal earthquake (2015) using SAR interferometry. Advances in Space Research, Advances in Spaceborne SAR Remote Sensing for Characterization of Natural and Manmade Features - Part 2 70, 3892–3904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.02.003 

13. Kumari, S., Lal, P., Kumar, A., 2022. Spatial heterogeneity for urban built-up footprint and its characterization using microwave remote sensing. Advances in Space Research, Advances in Spaceborne SAR Remote Sensing for Characterization of Natural and Manmade Features - Part 2 70, 3822–3832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.03.025 

14. Lal, P., Shekhar, A., Kumar, A., 2021. Quantifying Temperature and Precipitation Change Caused by Land Cover Change: A Case Study of India Using the WRF Model. Front. Environ. Sci. 9, 766328. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.766328

15. Lal, P., Kumar, A., Prasad, A., Kumar, S., Saikia, P., Dayanandan, A., Roy, P.S., Khan, M.L., 2021. COVID-19 pandemic hazard–risk–vulnerability analysis: a framework for an effective Pan-India response. Geocarto International, 37:25, 9098-9109. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.2012529

16. Dubey, A.K., Lal, P., Kumar, P., Kumar, A., Dvornikov, A.Y., 2021. Present and future projections of heatwave hazard-risk over India: A regional earth system model assessment. Environmental Research 201, 111573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111573

17. Lal, P., Kumar, A., Saikia, P., Das, A., Patnaik, C., Kumar, G., Pandey, A.C., Srivastava, P., Dwivedi, C.S., Khan, M.L., 2022. Effect of vegetation structure on above ground biomass in tropical deciduous forests of Central India. Geocarto International 37, 6294–6310. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.1936213 

18. Lal, P., Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Kumari, S., Saikia, P., Dayanandan, A., Adhikari, D., Khan, M.L., 2020. The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment. Science of The Total Environment 732, 139297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139297 

19. Kumar, S., Lal, P., Kumar, A., 2021. Influence of Super Cyclone “Amphan” in the Indian Subcontinent amid COVID-19 Pandemic. Remote Sens Earth Syst Sci 4, 96–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41976-021-00048-z

20. Lal, P., Kumar, A., Bharti, S., Saikia, P., Adhikari, D., Khan, M.L., 2021. Lockdown to Contain the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity to Create a Less Polluted Environment in India. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 21, 200229. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2020.05.0229

21. Lal, P., Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Kumari, S., Saikia, P., Dayanandan, A., Adhikari, D., Khan, M.L., 2020a. The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment. Science of The Total Environment 732, 139297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139297

22. Lal, P., Prakash, A., Kumar, A., 2020b. Google Earth Engine for concurrent flood monitoring in the lower basin of Indo-Gangetic-Brahmaputra plains. Nat Hazards 104, 1947–1952. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04233-z

23. Kumar, S., Lal, P., Kumar, A., 2020. Turbulence of tropical cyclone ‘Fani’ in the Bay of Bengal and Indian subcontinent. Nat Hazards 103, 1613–1622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04033-5

24. Lal, P., Prakash, A., Kumar, A., Srivastava, P.K., Saikia, P., Pandey, A.C., Srivastava, P., Khan, M.L., 2020c. Evaluating the 2018 extreme flood hazard events in Kerala, India. Remote Sensing Letters 11, 436–445. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2020.1730468

Book Chapter's

1. Kumar, A., Kumar, S., Lal, P., Saikia, P., Srivastava, P.K., Petropoulos, G.P., 2021. Chapter 1 - Introduction to GPS/GNSS technology, in: Petropoulos, G. p., Srivastava, P.K. (Eds.), GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences. Elsevier, pp. 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818617-6.00001-9

Conference Peer-Reviewed Publication

1. Lal, P., Dubey, A.K., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Dwivedi, C.S., 2019. SAR – OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING BASED FOREST COVER AND GREENNESS ESTI-MATION OVER INDIA. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. IV-5/W2, 49–56. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-5-W2-49-2019

2. Lal, P., Vaka, D.S., Rao, Y.S., 2018. MAPPING SURFACE FLOW VELOCITIES OF SIACHEN AND GANGOTRI GLACIERS USING TERRASAR-X AND SENTINEL-1A DATA BY INTENSITY TRACKING. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. IV–5, 325–329. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-5-325-2018