Complete list of publications

Journal Publications

1.   Singh, H., Varade, D., van Wyk de Vries, M., Adhikari, K., Rawat, M., Awasthi, S., Rawat, D., 2023. Assessment of potential present and future glacial lake outburst flood hazard in the Hunza valley. A case study of Shisper and Mochowar glacier. Science of the Total Environment (SCI, Q1, IF:10.753), 868, 161717. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161717

2.        Awasthi, S., Varade, D., Bhattacharjee, S., Singh, H., Shahab, S., Jain, K., 2022. Assessment of Land Deformation and the Associated Causes along a Rapidly Developing Himalayan Foothill Region Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 SAR Datasets. Land (SCIE, Q1, IF: 3.905), 11, 2009. DOI: 10.3390/land11112009

3.        Awasthi A., Varade D., Thakur P.K., Kumar A., Singh H., Jain K., Snehmani., 2022. Development of a Novel Approach for Snow Wetness Estimation Using Hybrid Polarimetric RISAT-1 SAR Datasets in North-Western Himalayan Region. Journal of Hydrology (SCI, Q1, IF:6.75). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128252

4.        Awasthi S., Jain K., Bhattacharjee S., Gupta V., Varade D., Singh H., Narayan A.B., Budillong A., 2022. Analyzing urbanization induced groundwater stress and land deformation using time-series Sentinel-1 datasets applying PSInSAR approach. Science of the Total Environment (SCI, Q1, IF:10.75). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157103

5.        Mahmoodzada, A. B.*, Varade, D., Shimada S., Rezazada, A. F., Mahmoodzada, A. S., Jawher, A. N., Toghyan, M., 2022. Capability assessment of Sentinel-1 data for estimation of snow hydrological potential in the Khanabad watershed in the Hindu Kush Himalayas of Afghanistan. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (ESCI), 100758. DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100758

6.        Shubham, A., Varade, D.*[1], 2021. Recent Advances in the Remote Sensing of Alpine Snow: A Review. GIScience and Remote Sensing (SCIE, Q1, IF: 6.397), 58(16), 852-888. DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2021.1946938

7.        Mahmoodzada, A. B., Varade, D., Shimada S., 2020. Estimation of Snow depth in the Hindu Kush mountains of the Khanabad watershed in Afghanistan using dual polarimetric observations of Sentinel-1 data. Remote Sensing (SCIE, Q1, IF: 5.349), 12 (17): 2788. DOI: 10.3390/rs12172788.

8.        Varade, D.*, Manickam, S., Dikshit, O., Singh, G., Snehmani., 2020. Modelling of Early Winter Snow Density using Fully Polarimetric C-band SAR Data in the Indian Himalayas. Remote Sensing of Environment2 (SCI, Q1, IF: 13.85), 240, 111699, 1-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111699

9.        Varade, D.*, Singh, G., Dikshit, O., Manickam, S., 2020. Identification of Snow using Fully Polarimetric SAR Data based on Entropy and Anisotropy. Water Resources Research (SCI, Q1, IF: 6.16), 56, e2019WR025449. DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025449

10.     Varade, D.*, and Dikshit, O., 2020. Assessment of winter season land surface temperature in the Himalayan regions around the Kullu area in India using Landsat-8 data. Geocarto International (SCIE, Q2, IF: 3.450), 35(6), 641-662. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2018.1520928

11.     Varade, D.*, Maurya A.K., Dikshit, O., Singh, G., Manickam, S., 2019. Snow Depth in Dhundi: An Estimate based on Weighted Bias Corrected Differential Phase Observations of Dual Polarimetric Bi-temporal Sentinel-1 Data. International Journal of Remote Sensing (SCI, Q2, IF: 3.531), 41(8), 3031-3053. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1698076

12.     Varade, D.*, and Dikshit, O., 2019. Potential of multispectral reflectance for assessment of snow geophysical parameters in Solang valley in the lower Himalayas. GIScience and Remote Sensing (SCI, Q1, IF: 6.397), 57(1), 107-126. DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2019.1672365.

13.     Varade, D.*, Maurya, A.K., Dikshit, O., 2019. Unsupervised Band Selection of Hyperspectral Data Based on Mutual Information Derived from Weighted Cluster Entropy for Snow Classification. Geocarto International (SCIE, Q2, IF: 3.450), DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1665717. 

14.     Maurya, A.K., Varade, D.*, Dikshit, O., 2019. Effect of Pansharpening in Fusion Based Change Detection of Snow Cover Using Convolutional Neural Networks. IETE Technical Review (SCIE, Q3, IF: 1.932), DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2019.1657043

15.     Varade, D.*, Dikshit, O., Manickam, S., 2019. Dry/wet snow mapping based on the synergistic use of dual polarimetric SAR and multispectral data of the Solang Valley in the Indian Himalayas. Journal of Mountain Science (SCIE, Q4, IF: 2.371), 16(6), 1435-1451. DOI: 10.1007s11629-019-5373-3  

16.     Varade, D.*, Maurya A.K., Dikshit, O., 2019. Unsupervised hyperspectral band selection using ranking based on denoising error matching approach. International Journal of Remote Sensing (SCI, Q2, IF: 3.531), 40(20), 8031-8053. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1608388

17.     Varade, D.*, and Dikshit, O., 2019. Improved assessment of atmospheric water vapor content in the Himalayan regions around the Kullu Valley in India using Landsat‐8 data. Water Resources Research (SCI, Q1, IF: 6.16), 55, 462–475. DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023806 

18.     Varade, D.*, Sure, A., and Dikshit, O., 2018. Potential of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2A composite for Land Use Land Cover Analysis. Geocarto International (SCIE, Q2, IF: 3.450), 34(14), 1552-1567. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2018.1497096

19.     Varade, D.*, Maurya, A.K., and Dikshit, O., 2018. Development of Spectral Indexes in Hyperspectral Imagery for Land Cover Assessment. IETE Technical Review (SCIE, Q3, IF: 1.932), 36(5), 475-483. DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2018.1503569

20.     Maurya, A.K.*, Varade, D., and Dikshit, O., 2018. HICF: A MATLAB package for hyperspectral image classification and fusion for educational learning and research. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-5, 181–188. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-181-2018

21.     Varade, D.*, and Dikshit, O., 2018. Estimation of surface snow wetness using Sentinel-2 multispectral data. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences[2], IV-5, 223–228. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-5-223-2018

22.     Varade, D.*, and Dikshit, O., 2014. Enhancement of snow cover change detection with sparse representation and dictionary learning. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences[3], XL-8, 543–548. DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-8-543-2014

* Indicates corresponding author

[1] Both first authors and corresponding authors

2 Ranked 1 out of 32 Remote Sensing

[2] ISPRS Annals are listed in DOAJ, CPCI Web of Science and SCOPUS, published by Copernicus

[3] ISPRS Archives are listed in DOAJ CPCI Web of Science and SCOPUS, published by Copernicus

Conference Publications and Abstracts

1. Varade D., Singh H., Maurya A.K., Dikshit O., 2022. Fusion of Hyperion and Sentinel-1 data for the Assessment of Snow Properties. International virtual conference on Development and Application of Geomatics, NIT Warangal, 2022.

2. Singh, H., Varade D., Awasthi, S., 2022. Estimation of Glacier Velocity using Senitnel-1A for Satopanth and Bhagirathi Kharak glaciers in Himalayas. International virtual conference on Development and Application of Geomatics, NIT Warangal, 2022.

3. Singh, H., Varade, D., Awasthi S., 2022. Snow cover Variability to climate change in Hindu Kush Himalayas Using Google Earth engine. 8th APECS International Online Conference, 2022, Online. Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - APECS Int. Online Conference 2022

4. Singh, A. P., Singh, H., Varade, D., 2022. Assessment of urban density changes in the peri-urban areas of Jammu region in India. International Symposium on Remote Sensing 2022. Online. https://isrs2022.sciforum.net/#session2412

5. Singh, H., Rawat, M., Varade D., 2022. Qualitative Snow grain mapping in the Upper Himalayan region using PRISMA Hyperspectral data or Assessment of PRISMA hyperspectral data for the retrieval of qualitative snow grain size. International Symposium on Remote Sensing 2022. Online. https://isrs2022.sciforum.net/#session2412

6. Singh, H., Shrivastava, P., 2022. Understanding cloudburst events through atmospheric numerical model and satellite observations. International Conference on Advances in Mechanics, Modelling, Computing and Statistics (ICAMMCS-2022), BITS Pilani, Online.

7. Mahmoodzada, A. B., Varade, D., Shimada, S., Okazawa, H., and Vinay, C., 2021. Average quantifying the snowmelt dominant river erosion in Afghanistan between 2004-2020, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-10888, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10888.

8. Dhar, S., Tiwari, A., Balasubramanian, N., Devaraju, B., Dikshit, O., Prakash, J., Mishra, P., Agarwal, D., Sharma, V., Varade, D., Laha, A., Kumar, A., Singh, S., Bihari Narayan Singh, A., Goyal, R., and Kumar, V., 2021. Establishment of State-of-the-Art Geodesy Village in India: Current status and Outlook, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-16068, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-16068.

9. Varade, D., Dikshit, O., Singh, G., Manickam, S., Snehmani, 2019. Capability assessment of Sentinel-1 bi-temporal dual polarimetric SAR data for inferences on snow density. IEEE Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC-19), 13-15 December, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. DOI: 10.1109/IMaRC45935.2019.9118717

10. Varade, D., Maurya, A.K., Dikshit, O., 2018. Potential of Information Fusion of Optical and SAR Data for Snow Cover Characterization. IEEE International Conference on Computational and Characterization Techniques in Engineering & Sciences (CCTES-18) 14-15 September 2018, Lucknow, India;  DOI: 10.1109/CCTES.2018.8674121

11. Varade, D., Maurya, A.K., Dikshit, O., 2018. Ppmasks: A Simple and Effective Tool for Basic Land Cover Characterization. IEEE International Conference on Computational and Characterization Techniques in Engineering & Sciences (CCTES-18) 14-15 September 2018, Lucknow, India; 09/2018. DOI: 10.1109/CCTES.2018.8674098

12. Varade, D., Maurya, A.K., Dikshit, O., 2018. Band ranking using hyperspectral denoising error matching approach. 3rd Indian Workshop on Machine Learning (IWML), IIT Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; 07/2018

13. Sure, A., Varade, D., Dikshit, O., 2018. Estimating root zone soil moisture from AMSR2 remotely sensed surface soil moisture data. 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP); 02/2018, DOI: 10.1109/ICMAP.2018.8354490

14. Varade, D., Dikshit, O., 2017. A novel linear physical model for remote sensing of snow wetness and snow density using the visible and infrared bands. Abstract in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Lousiana; 12/2017

15. Sure, A., Varade, D., Dikshit, O., 2017. Factors determining spatio-temporal variations of soil moisture using microwave data. IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing and Communication Technologies (ICETCCT), Dehradun, India; 11/2017, DOI: 10.1109/ICETCCT.2017.8280301

16. Varade, D., Maurya, A.K., Sure A., Dikshit O., 2017. Supervised classification of snow cover using hyperspectral imagery. IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing and Communication Technologies (ICETCCT), Dehradun, India; 11/2017, DOI: 10.1109/ICETCCT.2017.8280302

17. Varade, D., Sure, A., Dikshit, O., 2017. Evaluation of multi-spectral cube from multi-sensor imagery corresponding to hyperspectral imagery.  IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS); 07/2017, DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127039

18. Varade, D., Dikshit, O., 2016. Multi-Sensor based Framework for Snow Cover Classification. International Workshop on Remote Sensing Image Analysis, India-Trento program for Advanced Research (ITPAR), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; 04/2016.

Book Chapters

1.   Pasari, S., Varade, D., Dikshit, O., 2014. Probabilistic Assessment of earthquake recurrence in northeast India: an appraisal from inverse Gaussian distribution. Contribution in Climate Change and Himalaya–Natural Hazards and Mountain Resources, Edited by Sundaresan J., Gupta P., Santosh K.M., Boojh R., 01/2014: pages 241-250; Scientific Publishers (India).

2.   Varade, D., Manickam, S., Singh, G., 2021. Remote Sensing for Snowpack Monitoring and Its Implications. 6. In: Geographic Information Science for Land Resource Management: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 99–117. DOI: 10.1002/9781119786375.ch6

3.   Singh H., Varade D., Mishra K.P., 2022. Cloudburst events in Indian Himalayas: A Historical geospatial perspective. International Handbook of Disaster Research, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8800-3

4.  Chopade B., Varade D., Singh H., Gupta V., 2022. Assessment of adjusted and normalized mutual information variants for band selection in hyperspectral imagery (accepted), Wiley Scrivener, 2023

Datasets Developed

1. Singh A. P., Singh H., Varade D., 2022. Urbanization dynamics of Jammu City in India: An MBRA based approach using Landsat data. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6611017

2. Mahmoodzada, A.B., Varade, D., Shimada S., Okazawa H., 2021. ERA5 Reanalysis Hydrological Parameters and Amu Riverbank Erosion. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4588299

3. Mahmoodzada, A.B., Varade, D., Pragyan, D., Shimada S., 2021. Estimation of Snow Cover Area using multi-sensor data. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4604512

4. Varade, D., Maurya, A.K., Dikshit, O., Singh, G., 2019. Solang Data: Hyperion bad band removed, FLAASH corrected hyperspectral dataset with corresponding ground truth. DOI:  10.13140/RG.2.2.23544.08965

5. Varade, D., Dikshit, O., 2018. Landsat-8, Sentinel-3 OLCI IWV subset of Kullu valley for the autumn 2017 and winter 2018 season. figshare. Dataset. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7441301.v2

6. Varade, D., Maurya, A.K., Dikshit, O., 2018. Dhundi200 Hyperion Data. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10489.93282