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Key Notes
- Journal(s): 17
- Conference(s): 24
- Book Chapter(s): 5
- Text Book(s): 1
- PhD: Current - 3 Awarded - 1
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PUBLICATIONS4
DOCTORAL STUDENTS2
PROJECTSResearch Areas
Remote Sensing, Stochastic Hydrology,
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
| Degree | Institute | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | 2018 |
| Master of Technology | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | 2013 |
COURSES HANDLED
| Course | L-T-P | Credit | Degree Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geospatial Statistics(CE46023) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Principles of Remote Sensing(CE46001) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Geospatial Data Processing and Modeling(CE46004) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Geomatics(CEM01) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Remote Sensing(CE306) | 2-0-0 | 2 | UG |
| Thermal, Microwave and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing(CE46026) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Principles of Remote Sensing(CE5501) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Thermal, Microwave and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing(CE5562) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Atmospheric Remote Sensing(CE5564) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Argo Remote Sensing(CE5565) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
| Applications of Remote Sensing & GIS in Water Resources & Environmental Engineering(CE5768) | 3-0-0 | 3 | PG |
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal(s)
A Percentile-Based Dynamic Threshold Run Theory (pDTRT) for Characterizing Agricultural Drought Using ESACCI Soil Moisture,
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M*., ,
Springer,
Water Resources Management ,
vol.40,
pp.,
2026
A Geospatial Multi-Criteria AHP-based Evaluation of Groundwater Potential Zones in the Krishna River Basin, India,
By Hussain Palagiri, Vignesh Badshetty, Madhumita Sahooand Manali Pal* ,
Taylor and Francis,
International Journal of River Basin Management,
vol.,
pp.,
2026
Computation of Ecosystem Service Values with Spatio-Temporal Variations in LULC for Tier-1 Cities in India,
By Swetha, D., Sudardeva, N., Pal, M*., & Reddy, K. V. ,
Springer,
Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing ,
vol.,
pp.,
2026
Hybrid machine learning and metaheuristic optimization approach for accurate prediction of pier scour depth under clear-water and live-bed scour condition,
By Behera, P., Padhi, E., and Pal, M., ,
Elsevier,
Expert Systems with Applications ,
vol.320,
pp.,
2026
Short-term satellite soil moisture for agricultural drought characterization over Godavari basin, India,
By Palagiri, H., Pal, M*., Maity, R., ,
Springer,
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ,
vol.197,
pp.1-24,
2025
Closure to “Application of Hybrid AI Models for Accurate Prediction of Scour Depths under Submerged Circular Vertical Jet”,
By Guguloth, S., Pandey, M., and Pal, M. ,
ASCE,
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,
vol.30,
pp.,
2025
Evaluating the performances of ANN, SVR, RF and XGBoost in prediction of maximum temperature and heatwave days over Rajasthan,
By Bhoopathi, S., Katukam, S., Reddy, A.L., and Pal, M*.,,
ASCE,
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,
vol.,
pp.,
2024
Application of ESACCI SM product-assimilated to a statistical model to assess the drought propagation for different Agro-Climatic Zones of India using copula,
By Palagiri, H., Sudardeva, N., and Pal, M,
Elsevier,
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ,
vol.127,
pp.103701,
2024
Application of Hybrid AI Models for Accurate Prediction of Scour Depths under Submerged Circular Vertical Jet,
By Guguloth, S., Pandey, M., and Pal, M. ,
ASCE,
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering ,
vol.29 (3),
pp.,
2024
Agricultural Drought Risk Assessment in Southern Plateau and Hills using Multi Threshold Run Theory,
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M,
Elsevier,
Results in Engineering ,
vol.22,
pp.102022,
2024
Parametric and non-parametric indices for agricultural drought assessment using ESACCI soil moisture data over the Southern Plateau and Hills, India,
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M*., ,
Elsevier,
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ,
vol.134,
pp.1-17,
2024
Evaluating the performances of SVR and XGBoost for Short- range Forecasting of Heatwaves across different Temperature zones of India,
By Bhoopathi, S., Kumar, N., Somesh., and Pal, M*., ,
Elsevier,
Applied Computing and Geosciences,
vol.24,
pp.1-13,
2024
Assimilation of Remote Sensing based Surface Soil Moisture to Develop a Spatially Varying Vertical Soil Moisture Profile database for entire Indian Mainland,
By Pal M., and Rajib Maity ,
Elsevier,
Journal of Hydrology,
vol.601,
pp.,
2021
Development of a Spatially-Varying Statistical Soil Moisture Profile Model by Coupling Memory and Forcing using Hydrologic Soil Groups,
By Pal M., and Maity, R. ,
Elsevier,
Journal of Hydrology,
vol.570,
pp.141-155,
2020
Long-lead Prediction of ENSO Modoki Index using Machine Learning algorithms,
By Pal M., Maity, R., Ratnam, J.V., Nonaka, M., and Behera, S.K.,,
Nature,
Scientific Reports ,
vol.365 ,
pp.,
2020
Satellite based Probabilistic Assessment of Soil Moisture using C-band Quad-polarized RISAT 1 data,
By Pal M., Rajib Maity, M. Suman, S.K. Das, P. Patel and H.S. Srivastava ,
IEEE ,
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
vol.55(3),
pp.1351-1362,
2017
Statistical Modelling of Vertical Soil Moisture Profile: Coupling of Memory and Forcing,
By Pal M., Rajib Maity and Sayan Dey ,
Springer,
Water Resources Management ,
vol.30(6),
pp.1973-1986,
2016
Conference(s)
Reorganization of Heatwave Day Regimes across India under Recent and Near Future Warming
By Bhoopathi, S., & Pal, M. ,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) ,
2026
Spatiotemporal Assessment of Ecosystem Services in a Tier-II Indian City: A Case Study of Visakhapatnam (1995–2022)
By Agrahari, S., Swetha , D., and Pal, M.,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) ,
2026
Ecohydrological Modelling of Annual Water Yield and Water-Related Ecosystem Services in the Semi-Arid Region of Warangal, India
By Dasari, S., Pal, M., and Keesara, V. R.: ,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) ,
2026
An Enhanced Run Theory for Agricultural Drought Characterization using Satellite Soil Moisture Data
By Palagiri, H. and Pal, M,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) ,
2025
Spatiotemporal Impact of LULC Changes on Ecosystem Service Values in Bengaluru (1995–2022)
By Swetha, D., Pal, M., and Sudardeva, N., ,
International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy & Society (ICWEES 2025),
2025
Suspended Sediment Concentration Analysis Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Approach
By Srikanth, B., Pal, M., and Harshith,C. ,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) ,
2025
Comparison of parametric and nonparametric standardized indices for detecting droughts over the Indian region
By Palagiri, H., Swain, S. S., & Pal, M. ,
American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting ,
2025
Evaluating The Performance Over Ml-Based Of Xgboost Over Mlr For Heatwave Prediction
By Srikanth, B, and Pal, M.,
41st IAHR World Congress ,
2025
Development of VSMP for Krishna basin using SMAP
By Sudardeva, N., and Pal, M., ,
12th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, (Riverflow 2024),
2024
Agricultural Drought Risk Assessment in Telangana using SSMI Based Multi Threshold Run Theory
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M., ,
Roorkee Water Conclave 2024,
2024
Impact of Urbanization on Ecosystem Service Value: A Spatiotemporal Analysis in National Capital Territory (NCT) – Delhi
By Swetha, D., and Pal, M., ,
29th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water resources, River & Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2024),
2024
Assessing the applicability of different ML techniques for Predicting Heatwave Days
By Srikanth, B., and Pal, M. ,
AGU Fall Meeting 2024,
2024
Drought characterization in semi-arid agro-climatic zone of India using multi-satellite soil moisture data
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M., ,
AGU Fall Meeting,
2024
Prediction of heatwave days over Rajasthan using SVR
By Srikanth, B., and Pal, M., ,
27th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2023),
2023
Agricultural Drought Risk Assessment in Southern Plateau and Hills using Multi Threshold Run Theory
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M., ,
27th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2022),
2023
Agricultural Drought Monitoring using Satellite based Surface Soil Moisture Data
By Palagiri, H., and Pal, M., ,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) 2023,
2023
Development of Vertical Soil Moisture Profile for the Godavari basin using SMAP data
By Sudardeva, N., and Pal, M., ,
27th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2022),
2023
Agricultural drought monitoring by ESA CCI soil moisture product
By Pal Manali, and Palagiri, H., ,
40th IAHR World Congress ,
2023
Assessing Ecosystem Service Values under Anthropogenic Influences for Hyderabad
By Sudardeva, Sandeep Kumar .C (CO), Umesh . T (CO), Aakansh Patel (CO), Manali Pal ,
3rd International Workshop on BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (BDCC),
2023
Comparative Analysis of SVR and ANN in Heatwave Prediction over Rajasthan
By Pal, M., Srikanth, B., and Anusha M., ,
27th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2022),
2022
Drought Monitoring using Satellite Soil Moisture Data over Godavari Basin, India
By Palagiri, H., Pal, M., Maity, R., ,
International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2021),
2021
Evaluation of Machine Learning algorithms for long-lead forecasting of ENSO Modoki Index
By Pal, M., Rajib Maity, J.V. Ratnam, M. Nonaka, and S. K. Behera, ,
AGU Fall Meeting,
2021
Spatially-Varying Statistical Soil Moisture Profile Model by Coupling Memory and Forcing using Hydrologic Soil Groups to Estimate Vertical Soil Moisture Profile
By Pal Manali, and Rajib Maity ,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly ,
2020
Probabilistic Assessment of Soil Moisture using C-band Quad-polarized Remote Sensing Data from RISAT1
By Pal Manali, M. Suman, S. K. Das and Rajib Maity ,
European Geosciences Union General Assembly ,
2017
Text Book(s)
Soft Computing and Geospatial Techniques in Water Resources Engineering, Select Proceedings of HYDRO 2023
By Pandey, M., Jayakumar, K.V., Pal, M., and Singh, V.P.,
(Published by: Springer, Singapore),
,
2024
Book Chapter(s)
Development of VSMP for the Krishna basin using SMAP data.
By Sudardeva & Pal Manali. in
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Liverpool, UK, 2nd- 6th September, 2024,
CRC Press,
Conference Proceedings,
2025
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Agricultural Drought in Krishna River Basin
By Palagiri Hussain and Pal Manali in
Developments and Applications of Geomatics. DEVA 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering,
Springer, Singapore,
Conference Proceedings,
2024
Development of Vertical Soil Moisture Profile for the Godavari Basin using SMAP Data
By Sudardeva, and Pal, M., in
Soft Computing and Geospatial Techniques in Water Resources Engineering, Select Proceedings of HYDRO 2023,
Springer, Singapore,
Conference Proceedings,
2024
rediction of Heatwave Days Over Rajasthan Using SVR and RF Algorithms,
By Srikanth, B., and Pal, M in
Climate Change Impact on Water Resources. Select Proceedings of HYDRO 2023,
Springer, Singapore,
Conference Proceedings,
2024
A Case Study on Estimating the Ecosystem Service Values (ESVs) Under Anthropogenic Influences for Chennai and Hyderabad
By Sudardeva, and Pal, M. in
River, Sediment and Hydrological Extremes: Causes, Impacts and Management. Disaster Resilience and Green Growth,
Springer,
NA,
2023
PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
Stochastic Modelling for High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval using L&S band NISAR Observations
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: Space Applications Centre, ISRO, NISAR-UP
Project Cost (INR): 3500000
Date of Commencement: 17-04-2026
Duration: 37 Months
Status: Ongoing
Type: Research
Sponsor: Space Applications Centre, ISRO, NISAR-UP
Project Cost (INR): 3500000
Date of Commencement: 17-04-2026
Duration: 37 Months
Status: Ongoing
Project Title: Development of Global Vertical Soil Moisture Profile Database using SMAP Data
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Project Cost (INR): 1994040
Date of Commencement: 21-01-2022 Date of Completion: 20-01-2024
Duration: 25 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Project Cost (INR): 1994040
Date of Commencement: 21-01-2022 Date of Completion: 20-01-2024
Duration: 25 Months
Status: Completed
RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
Current PhD Students
Dasari Swetha
Area of Research:
Estimation of Ecosystem Service Values for various Land Use
N. Sudardeva
Area of Research:
Development of global vertical soil moisture profile using s
Srikanth Bhoopathi
Area of Research:
Evaluation of performances of AI/ML algorithms in Heatwave p
Previous PhD Students
Hussain Palagiri
(2025)
Area of Research:
Drought Monitoring using satellite retrieved soil moisture d
CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME / GIAN
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Program Co-ordinator of Geoinformatics of Civil Engineering Department (October, 2024 - July, 2026)
- Faculty-In-Charge, Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering (August, 2024 - July, 2026)
- Warden (Rajendra Prasad HoR and Vishwesvaraya HoR) (July, 2024 - June, 2025)
Last updated on July 10, 2026