Research Interest

Field & Laboratory Experiments

• State-of-the-art observatory to serve as testbeds for path breaking experiments

• Long-term and intensive soil moisture sampling at different scales (point-field-regional-scale) 

• Soil moisture spatiotemporal variability analysis

• Optimal sampling design strategies to balance between representativeness & monitoring cost 

• Soil moisture sensor calibrations

• Measurement, scaling, and estimation of soil hydraulic properties (point to regional-scale)

Remote Sensing for Soil Moisture 

• Microwave remote sensing (Active & Passive) for addressing field-scale soil moisture issues

• Active-Passive Algorithm for high-resolution (100 m - 1 km) soil moisture retrievals  

• Validation of satellite mission's soil moisture products  (Focus: regional-scale) 

• Improving soil moisture products based on local and regional-scale challenging conditions

• Application of high-resolution soil moisture products in hydrology & agriculture

Hydrological & Crop Modelling

• Integrating Hydrological and Crop Models with Data Assimilation for improving simulations

• Nowcast & Forecast of hydrologic state variable, drought indices, plant health, and crop yield 

• Providing uncertainty estimates in the nowcast and forecast

• Evaluation of interactions between hydrological variables and crop biophysical parameters 

• Addressing issues for operational agro-advisory and water management decision-making 

• Sustainable Agricultural Intensification