Research Interests
Remote Sensing applications in Glaciology, Cryospheric Studies, Urban Heat Island (UHI), Landslides and Geohazards etc.
BioSketch
Research
Role of Elevation and Aspect in Snow Distribution in Western Himalaya
2008
S. K. Jain, A. Goswami, and A. K. Saraf | Elsevier
Journal: Water Resource Management
Flood inundation mapping using NOAA AVHRR data
2006
S. K. Jain, A. K. Saraf, A. Goswami, and T. Ahmad | Elsevier
Journal: Water Resource Management
Accuracy assessment of MODIS, NOAA and IRS data in snow cover mapping under Himalayan conditions
2008
. K. Jain, A. Goswami, and A. K. Saraf | Elsevier
Journal: International Journal of Remote Sensing
Temperature and precipitation trend over 139 major Indian cities: An assessment over a century
2019
P. Mohammad and A. Goswami | Springer
Journal: Modeling Earth Systems Environment
Robustness evaluation of fuzzy expert system and extreme learning machine for geographic information system-based landslide susceptibility zonation: A case study from Indian Himalaya
2019
B. Peethambaran, R. Anbalagan, K. V. Shihabudheen, and A. Goswami | Springer
Journal: Environmental Earth Science
Determination of land surface temperature and its lapse rate in the Satluj River basin using NOAA data
2008
S. K. Jain, A. Goswami, and A. K. Saraf | Elsevier
Journal: International Journal of Remote Sensing
Identification of drought‐vulnerable areas using NOAA AVHRR data
2009
S. K. Jain, R. Keshri, A. Goswami, A. Sarkar, and A. Chaudhry | Elsevier
Journal: International Journal of Remote Sensing
Assessment of Snowmelt Runoff Using Remote Sensing and Effect of Climate Change on Runoff
2009
S. K. Jain, A. Goswami, and A. K. Saraf | Springer
Journal: Water Resource Management
Snowmelt runoff modelling in a Himalayan basin with the aid of satellite data
2010
S. K. Jain, A. Goswami, and A. K. Saraf | Elsevier
Journal: International Journal of Remote Sensing
Application of meteorological and vegetation indices for evaluation of drought impact: A case study for Rajasthan, India
2010
S. K. Jain, R. Keshri, A. Goswami, and A. Sarkar | Springer
Journal: Natural Hazards
Glacier changes using satellite data and effect of climate in Tirungkhad basin located in western Himalaya
2014
R. A. Mir, S. K. Jain, A. K. Saraf, and A. Goswami | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Geocarto International
Detection of Changes in Glacier Mass Balance Using Satellite and Meteorological Data in Tirungkhad Basin Located in Western Himalaya
2014
R. A. Mir, S. K. Jain, A. K. Saraf, and A. Goswami | Elsevier
Journal: journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Decline in snowfall in response to temperature in Satluj basin, western Himalaya
2015
R. A. Mir, S. K. Jain, A. K. Saraf, and A. Goswami | Springer
Journal: Journal of Earth Systems and Science
Accuracy assessment and trend analysis of MODIS-derived data on snow-covered areas in the Sutlej basin, Western Himalayas
2015
R. A. Mir, S. K. Jain, A. K. Saraf, and A. Goswami | Taylor & Francis
Journal: International Journal of Remote Sensing
Kedarnath disaster 2013: causes and consequences using remote sensing inputs
2016
P. K. Champati Ray, S. L. Chattoraj, M. P. S. Bisht, S. Kannaujiya, K. Pandey, and A. Goswami | Springer
Journal: Natural Hazards
A comparative appraisal of ground water resources using GRACE-GPS data in highly urbanised regions of Uttar Pradesh, India
2017
P. K. Gautam, P. K. Champati, A. Singh, A. Goswami, S. Kannaujiya, and S. Arora | Springer
Journal: Sustanability and Water Resources Management
Modeling relationship between land use land cover changes, land surface temperature and urban heat island in Indore City of Central India
2023
K. J. Gohain, A. Goswami, P. Mohammad, and Shamita Kumar | Springer
Journal: Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Application of 1D and 2D hydrodynamic modeling to study glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) and its impact on a hydropower station in Central Himalaya
2019
A. Sattar, A. Goswami, and A. V. Kulkarni | Springer Netherlands
Journal: Natural Hazards
Predicting the impacts of urban development on seasonal urban thermal environment in Guwahati city, northeast India
2022
Pir Mohammad and Ajanta Goswami | Elsevier BV
Journal: Building and Environment
Landslide susceptibility mapping of Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India Using Artificial Intelligence Models
2020
Kumari Sweta, Ajanta Goswami, Bipin Peethambaran, IM Bahuguna, and A.S. Rajawat | Springer
Journal: Bulletins of Engineering Geology
Estimation of Surface Temperature Lapse Rate Over the Uttarakhand Region Using 107 Station Data and MODIS-LST Data
2022
Priyanka Negi, Ajanta Goswami, Girish Chandra Joshi | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Geocarto International
Variability of ambient black carbon concentration in the Central Himalaya and its assessment over the Hindu Kush Himalayan region
2022
Praveen Kumar Singh, Bhupesh Adhikary, Xintong Chen, Shichang Kang, Shankar Prasad Poudel, Tshering Tashi, Ajanta Goswami, Siva Praveen Puppala | Elsevier
Journal: Science of the Total Environment 858 (2023) 160137
A Statistical Technique for noise identification and restoration of Hyperspectral Image cube
2022
Ajanta Goswami, Bikram Bannerjee, Bharat Joshi, Abhishek Kumar, Hrishikesh Rai, and Angana Saikia | Elsevier BV
Journal: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment
Exploring different indicators for quantifying surface urban heat and cool island together- A case study over two metropolitan cities of India
2021
Pir Mohammad and Ajanta Goswami | Springer
Journal: Environment, Development and Sustainability (ENVI)
Performance Assessment for Three Statistical Models of Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping in Local Scale: A Case Study for a Part of Indian Himalaya
2021
Kumari Sweta, Dr. Ajanta Goswami, Dr. Rituraj Nath and Dr. I.M. Bahuguna | Springer
Journal: Journal of Earth System Science
Framework for Geospatial Flood Exposure Mapping of Schools in Himalayan Region for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilient School Design
2022
Shalu Mathuria, Harshit Sosan Lakra, Ajanta Goswami, Aditi Parihar, Rajib Shaw | Elsevier
Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Machine learning algorithm-based prediction of land use land cover and land surface temperature change to characterize urban heat island phenomena over Ahmedabad city, India
2021
Pir Mohammad, Ajanta Goswami, Sarthak Chouhan and Shailesh Nayak | Elsevier
Journal: Urban Climate
Monitoring of glacier characteristics and its mass balance using multi-dimensional approach over the glaciers of Chandra basin, western Himalayas
2021
Akansha Patel, Ajanta Goswami, Jaydeo K Dharpure, Thamban Meloth, Parmanand Sharma, Lavkush Patel | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Hydrological Science Journal
The Dynamics of Meteorological Droughts Over a Semi-Arid Terrain in Western India: A Last Five Decadal Hydro-Climatic Evaluation
2021
Amit Vishwakarma and Ajanta Goswami | Elsevier
Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development
Assessment of snow cover variability and its sensitivity with hydro-meteorological factors in the Karakoram and Himalayan region
2021
J. K. Dharpure, A. Goswami, A. Patel, A. V. Kulkarni and Snehmani | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Hydrological Science Journal
Assessment of trends and multi-decadal changes in groundwater level in parts of the Malwa region, Punjab, India
2021
Sashikanta Sahoo, Sabyasachi Swain, Ajanta Goswami, Radhika Sharma, Brijendra Pateriya | Elsevier
Journal: Groundwater for Sustainable Development
Quantifying diurnal and seasonal variation of surface urban heat island intensity and its associated determinants across different climatic zones over Indian cities
2021
Pir Mohammad and Ajanta Goswami | Taylor and Francis
Journal: GIScience Remote Sensing
Future Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard of the South Lhonak Lake, Sikkim Himalaya
2021
Ashim Sattar, Ajanta Goswami, Anil V Kulkarni, Adam Emmer, Umesh K Haritashya, Simon Allen, Holger Frey, Christian Huggel | Elsevier
Journal: Geomorphology
Regional mass variations and its sensitivity to climate drivers over glaciers of Karakoram and Himalayas
2021
Akansha Patel, Ajanta Goswami, Jaydeo K Dharpure, Thamban Meloth, Anil Kulkarni, Parmanand Sharma | Taylor and Francis
Journal: GIScience Remote Sensing
Quantification of groundwater recharge and its spatio-temporal variability in the Ganga river basin
2021
J. K. Dharpure, A. Goswami, A. Patel, and A. V. Kulkarni | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Geocarto International, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1–22
Strain-partitioned dextral transpression in the Great Boundary Fault Zone around Chittaurgarh, NW Indian Shield
2021
D. C. Srivastava, A. Goswami, and A. Sahay | Cambridge University Press
Journal: Geol. Mag., pp. 1–15, 2021
Estimation of mass and energy balance of glaciers using a distributed energy balance model over the Chandra river basin (Western Himalaya)
2021
Akansha Patel, Ajanta Goswami, Jaydeo K Dharpure, Thamban Meloth, Parmanand Sharma, Anil Kulkarni and Sunil Oulkar | John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Journal: Hydrlogical Processes
Spatial variation of surface urban heat island magnitude along the urban-rural gradient of four rapidly growing Indian cities
2021
P. Mohammad and A. Goswami | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Geocarto International
Landslide Susceptibility Zonation with Special Emphasis on Tectonic Features for Occurrence of Landslides in Lower Indian Himalaya
2021
R. R. Nath, M. L. Sharma, A. Goswami, K. Sweta, and N. Pareek | Springer
Journal: J. Indian Soc. Remote Sens
A Spatio-Temporal Assessment and Prediction of Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity Using Multiple Linear Regression Techniques Over Ahmedabad City, Gujarat
2021
P. Mohammad and A. Goswami | Springer
Journal: Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Prioritization of sites for Managed Aquifer Recharge in a semi-arid environment in western India using GIS-Based multicriteria evaluation strategy
2021
A. Vishwakarma, A. Goswami, and B. Pradhan | Elsevier BV
Journal: Groundwater sustainable development
snow cover characterization and its linkage with climate change over the Chenab river basin, western Himalayas
2020
J. K. Dharpure, A. Patel, A. Goswami, A. V. Kulkarni, and Snehmani | Taylor and Francis
Journal: GIScience Remote Sensing
Rainfall variability over the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra river basins: A spatio-temporal characterisation
2021
A. Patel, A. Goswami, J. K. Dharpure, and M. Thamban | Elsevier
Journal: Quaternary International
A comparative evaluation of supervised machine learning algorithms for township level landslide susceptibility zonation in parts of Indian Himalayas
2020
B. Peethambaran, R. Anbalagan, D. P. Kanungo, A. Goswami, and K. V. Shihabudheen | Elsevier
Journal: Catena
Assessing the impact of land use land cover changes on land surface temperature over Pune city, India
2021
K. J. Gohain, P. Mohammad, and A. Goswami | Elsevier
Journal: Quaternery International
Drought characterization using the Combined Terrestrial Evapotranspiration Index over the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra river basins
2020
J. K. Dharpure, A. Goswami, A. Patel, A. V. Kulkarni, and T. Meloth | Taylor & Francis
Journal: Geocarto International
Lake Evolution, Hydrodynamic Outburst Flood Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis in Central Himalaya
2020
A. Sattar, A. Goswami, A. V. Kulkarni and A. Emmer | MDPI
Journal: Water
Hydrodynamic moraine-breach modeling and outburst flood routing - A hazard assessment of the South Lhonak lake, Sikkim
2019
A. Sattar, A. Goswami, and A. V. Kulkarni | Elsevier
Journal: Science of the Total Environment
Development and Evaluation of a New ‘Snow Water Index (SWI)’ for Accurate Snow Cover Delineation
2019
A. Dixit, A. Goswami, and S. Jain | MDPI
Journal: Remote Sensing
The impact of the land cover dynamics on surface urban heat island variations in semi-arid cities: A case study in Ahmedabad City, India, using multi-sensor/source data
2019
P. Mohammad, A. Goswami, and S. Bonafoni | MDPI
Journal: Sensors
Glacier-surface velocity derived ice volume and retreat assessment in the Dhauliganga basin, central Himalaya – A remote sensing and modeling-based approach
2019
A. Sattar, A. Goswami, A. V. Kulkarni, and P. Das | Frontiers Media S.A
Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science
Inter-Seasonal characterization and correlation of Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) and Canopy Urban Heat Island (CUHI) in the Urbanized Environment of Delhi, India
2023
Atul Kumar, Mahua Mukherjee and Ajanta Goswami | Elsevier
Journal: Remote Sensing Application: Society and Environment
Modeling potential glacial lake outburst flood process chains and effects from artificial lake-level lowering at Gepang Gath Lake, Indian Himalaya
2023
Ashim Sattar, Simon Allen, Martin Mergili, Wilfried Haeberli, Holger Frey, Anil V. Kulkarni, Umesh K. Haritashya, Christian Huggel, Ajanta Goswami, RAAJ Ramsankaran | American Geophysical Union
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface
Honors And Awards
Teaching Engagements
Students
Glacial lakes dynamics using earth observation techniques
01 Jun 2015 - 01 Jun 2019
Other Supervisors: Dr. Anil V. Kulkarni, IISc Bengaluru, Scholar: Ashim Sattar
Interferometry to study subsidence at Ndiaye Bop, a village located in the region of Thies, Ethiopia
16 Oct 2017 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Kader Ba
Slope stability studies in and around Mussoorie township, Uttarakhand, India
01 Jun 2013 - 01 Jun 2019
Other Supervisors: Prof. R. Anbalagan, Scholar: Bipin Peethambaran
Urban heat island study and modeling optimal urbanization pattern in selected Indian cities
01 Jun 2016 - 01 Jun 2021
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Pir Mohammad
Impact of climate change variability on glacier mass balance in regional, basinal and local scale.
01 Jun 2018 - 01 Jun 2022
Other Supervisors: Dr. Thamban Meloth, NCPOR, GOA, Scholar: Akansha Patel
Cryospheric studies in the Indian Himalayas
01 Jun 2018 - 01 Jun 2022
Other Supervisors: Dr. Anil V. Kulkarni, IISc Bengaluru, Scholar: Jaydeo Kumar Dharpure
Drought characterization and its effect on groundwater in Saurashtra, India
01 Jun 2016 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Amit Vishwakarma
Modeling black carbon and its radiative forcing on northern Himalaya
01 Jun 2016 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. Anil V. Kulkarni, IISc Bengaluru, Scholar: Praveen Kumar Singh
Assessment of hydrological budget and its variability in large Himalayan basins
01 Jun 2017 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. Sanjay Jain, NIH, Roorkee, Scholar: Abhilasha Dixit
Glacial lake dynamics, its hazard assessment and hydrodynamic modeling of glacial lake outburst flood in western Himalayas, India
01 Jun 2017 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. Anil V. Kulkarni, IISc Bengaluru, Scholar: Rohit Kumar
Variability of heat wave and its controlling factors over Indian sub-continent
01 Jun 2017 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Shashi Gaurav Kumar
Integration of seismicity in landslide susceptibility in a part of the north-western Himalayas
01 Jun 2017 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Shweta Kumari
Identification of subsurface Palaeo-hydrological features and their significance on groundwater potential in the arid region of NW India
01 Jun 2017 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. B. Pateriya, PRSC, Ludhiyana, Scholar: Sashikant Sahoo
Impact of Climate Change on Rainfall runoff in Alaknanda Basin; A physical model-based approach
01 Jun 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. Girish Chandra Joshi, Senior Consultant, Govt of Uttarakhand, Dehradun, Scholar: Priyanka Negi
Snowmelt Runoff Modelling for Alaknanda Basin
01 Jun 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: Prof. C.S.P. Ojha, Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Scholar: Rajeev Ranjan
Spectral Reconstruction of Hyperspectral Data from Multispectral Data and Mineral Mapping of Mineralized Area
01 Jun 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Saraah Imran
Spectral Characterization of Lunar Surface and Their Terrestrial Analogs
01 Jun 2020 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. Prakash Chauhan, Director, NRSC, ISRO Hyderabad, Scholar: Richa Upadhyay
Polar Research (Antarctica & Arctic)
01 Jun 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Pradeep Kumar
Mass Wasting-Upliftment Induced Volume Balance in Indian Himalayas and Its Relation to Tectonic Strain
01 Jun 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: Dr. Tapas Martha, Scientist/Engineer ‘SG’, NRSC, ISRO Hyderabad, Scholar: Priyom Roy
Other Supervisors: Professor N.K. Goel, Dept. of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee, Scholar: Tapas Kumar Nahak
Other Supervisors: Dr. Praveen Kumar Thakur, Scientist/Engineer ‘SG’, IIRS, ISRO, Dehradun, Scholar: Mayank Upadhyay
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Joshal Kumar Bansal
Artifical Recharge and its Impact Assessment in a part of Rajasthan State
01 Jun 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: Prof. A.K. Saraf, Dept. of Earth Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Scholar: Sourav Sundar Das
Prototype and Design Guideline Development for Flood Resilient School Design
01 Jun 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: Prof. Harshit Soshan Lakra, Dept. of Architecture, IIT Roorkee, Scholar: Shalu Mathuria
Other Supervisors: Supervisor: Prof Michel Jaboyedoff, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Scholar: Shobhana Lakhera
Miscellaneous