Civil Engineering Department

Primary Research on Natural Hazards (Landslides and Floods) using Earth Observation and In-Situ Imaging systems
Earth Observation, AI, Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, InSAR
Rapid Response to Natural Hazards using Earth Observation based cloud computing
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Primary Research on Natural Hazards (Landslides and Floods) using Earth Observation and In-Situ Imaging systems

Earth Observation, AI, Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, InSAR

Rapid Response to Natural Hazards using Earth Observation based cloud computing

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Award	Awarding Organisation	Year
National Geographic Society's Explorer	Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University	2020
National University of Singapore Research Scholarship	National University of Singapore	2013

From	To	Designation	Organisation
2020	Ongoing	Assistant Professor	IIT Roorkee
2018	2020	Research Fellow	Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University

Degree	Subject	University	Year
Ph.D.	Natural Hazards	National University of Singapore	2018
M.Tech.	Remote Sensing	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay	2013
B.Tech.	Civil Engineering	G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology	2011

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Ziegler, A. D., Wasson R. J., Bhardwaj, A., Sundriyal, Y. P., Sati, S. P., Juyal, N., Nautiyal, V., Srivastava, P., Gillen, J. and Saklani, U. (2014). Pilgrims, progress, and the political economy of disaster preparedness – the example of the 2013 Uttarakhand flood and Kedarnath disaster. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10349

2.

Bhardwaj, A., Ziegler, A. D., Wasson, R. J. and Chow, W. T. L. (2017). Accuracy of rainfall estimates at high altitude in the Garhwal Himalaya (India): A comparison of secondary precipitation products and station rainfall measurements. Atmospheric Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.01.005

3.

Lin, Y. N., Yun, S-H., Bhardwaj, A. and Hill, E. M. (2019). Urban flood detection with Sentinel-1 multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations in a Bayesian Framework: A case study for Hurricane Matthew. Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.3390/rs11151778

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Bhardwaj, A., Wasson, R. J., Ziegler, A. D., Chow, W. T. L. and Sundriyal, Y. P. (2019). Characteristics of rain-induced landslides in the Indian Himalaya: A case study of the Mandakini Catchment during the 2013 flood. Geomorphology. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.01.010

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Tay, C.W.J, Yun, S-H, Chin, S.T., Bhardwaj, A., Jung, J. and Hill, E.M. (2020). Rapid flood and damage mapping using synthetic aperture radar in response to Typhoon Hagibis, Japan. Scientific Data. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0443-5

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Tay, C.W.J, Yun, S-H, Chin, S.T., Bhardwaj, A., Jung, J. and Hill, E.M (2020). Rapid flood and damage mapping using synthetic aperture radar in response to Typhoon Hagibis, Japan. Scientific Data,. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0443-5

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Wagenaar, D., Curran, A., Balbi, M., Bhardwaj, A., Soden, R., Hartato, E., Sarica, G.M., Ruangpan, L., Molinario, G. and Lallemant, D. (2020). Invited perspectives: How machine learning will change flood risk and impact assessment,. , Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/nhess 20 1149 2020

8.

Bhardwaj, A. (2021). Application of Artificial Intelligence in Disaster Response. Artificial Intelligence: Technologies, Applications, and Challenges, 183-194, Chapman and Hall/CRC. DOI: 10.1201/9781003140351

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Ziegler, A.D., Wasson, R.J., Sundriyal, Y., Srivastava, P., Sasges, G., Ramchunder, S.J., Ong, C.E., Nepal, S.K., McAdoo, B.G., Gillen, J., Bishwokarma, D., Bhardwaj, A. and Apollo, M. (2021). A call for reducing tourism risk to environmental hazards in the Himalaya. Environmental Hazards. DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2021.1984196

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Bhardwaj, A., Wasson, R.J., Chow, W.T.L. and Ziegler, A.D (2021). High-intensity monsoon rainfall variability and its attributes: a case study for Upper Ganges Catchment in the Indian Himalaya during 1901-2013. Natural Hazards. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04431-9

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Kumar, K., Papnai, A., Kuri, M. and Bhardwaj, A. (2023). Monitoring of Landslides between Tehri and Koteshwar Dams in Uttarakhand, Himalayas. INCOLD Journal (A Half Yearly Technical Journal of Indian Committee on Large Dams). Volume: 12 Number: 1 Pages: 18-24

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Kundal, S., Chowdhury, A., Bhardwaj, A., Garg, P.K., Mishra, V. (2023). GeoBIA-based semi-automated landslide detection using UAS data: a case study of Uttarakhand Himalayas. SPIE Future Sensing Technologies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2666770

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Anand, A., Gaur, C., Bhardwaj, A. (2023). Identification of 3-D Landslide Displacement in the Outer Himalayas from Temporal High-Resolution Digital Surface Models Obtained Using Terrestrial Laser Scans. In: Hazarika, H., Haigh, S.K., Chaudhary, B., Murai, M., Manandhar, S. (eds) Natural Geo-Disasters and Resiliency. IC-CREST 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9223-2_39

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Kumar, K., Bhardwaj, A. (2023). Surface displacement monitoring at Joshimath region, Uttarakhand using SBAS-InSAR. IEEE India Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/InGARSS59135.2023.10490398

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Kumar, K., Bhardwaj, A., Arya, D.S. (2024). Deformation monitoring around dam and reservoir in Indian Himalayas using SBAS-InSAR method. SPIE Future Sensing Technologies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022840

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Kundal, S., Bhardwaj, A., Garg, P.K. (2024). Multi-temporal UAV-based displacement study of a rock-debris slope in Upper Indian Himalayas. SPIE Future Sensing Technologies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3023020

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Mahdi, M., Garg, S., Cigna, F., Teatini, P., Bhardwaj, A., Matin, M.A., , Zarei, A., Madani, K. (2024). Sustainability Nexus AID: landslides and land subsidence. Sustainability Nexus Forum. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-024-00549-7

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Soudagar, R., Bhardwaj, A. (2025). Enhanced large-scale flood mapping using data-efficient unsupervised framework based on morphological active contour model and single synthetic aperture radar image. Journal of Environmental Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124836

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1. Title:- Estimation of flood extents in South and Southeast Asia using ALOS-2 SAR data
Sponsor: JAXA	Sanctioned Year: 2019-20	Role: PI

2. Title:- Satellite Imagery Computer Vision Modelling for Landuse Landcover
Sponsor: National Geographic Foundation for Science and Exploration, South Korea	Sanctioned Year: 2020-21	Amount: ₹ 36.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

3. Title:- Rapid Estimation of Flood Extents Using Synthetic Aperture Radar and Deep Learning
Sponsor: SERB, New Delhi	Sanctioned Year: 2021-22	Amount: ₹ 28.63 Lakhs	Role: PI

4. Title:- Application of UAV to estimate 3D surface displacement due to landslides in the Upper Ganges Catchment in Indian Himalayas
Sponsor: SRIC, IIT Roorkee	Sanctioned Year: 2021-22	Amount: ₹ 20.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

5. Title:- Guidelines for the Assessment of Hillslope Instability using Instrumentation & Real-Time Monitoring
Sponsor: Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH)	Sanctioned Year: 2023-24	Amount: ₹ 433.00 Lakhs	Role: Co-PI

6. Title:- Object Detection using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Sponsor: Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO)	Sanctioned Year: 2024-25	Amount: ₹ 699.45 Lakhs	Role: PI

7. Title:- Remote Sensing and Rainfall Based Decision Support System for Landslides in Uttarakhand
Sponsor: Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment (DGRE), DRDO, Chandigarh under the CARS Scheme	Sanctioned Year: 2024-25	Amount: ₹ 29.70 Lakhs	Role: PI

Designation	Organisation	From Period	To Period
O.C. MTech	Geomatics Engg. Group	2020	Ongoing
Secretary	Department Academic Program Committee (DAPC)	2020	2022
Member	Time Table (TT) Committee	2020	2022
Member	Web Management Committee	2020	2022
Member	Department Placement Committee	2020	2022
Convener	Department Faculty Search Committee (DFSC)	2021	2021
Member	Department Research Committee (DRC)	2022	2024
Member	School Academic Program Committee, MFSDSAI	2021	2023
Member	School Administrative Committee, MFSDSAI	2021	2023

S. No.	Membership
1.	Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2.	IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

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S. No.	Project Title	Student Name	Co-Supervisor	Degree	Year
1.	Flood Detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar and Artificial Intelligence	Sarwesh Samdarshi		PG	2022

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S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Registration Year	Co-Supervisor
1.	Displacement of Himalayan Region Landslides using UAV and TLS	Ashok Anand	2020
2.	Estimation of landslide surface displacements using Earth Observation and UAV data for rock debris and soil slopes	Sahil Kundal	2021	Prof. P.K. Garg
3.	Understanding spatial and temporal characteristics of compound disasters in the Indian Himalayas.	Arnab Chowdhury	2021
4.	Investigation of Urban Floods using SAR Polarimetry	Ruma Adhikari	2022
5.	Rapid Mapping of Flood Extents using SAR and Deep Learning	Rasheeda Soudagar	2022
6.	To be decided.	Vinay Arya	2024

S. No.	Course Name	Course Code	Class Name	Semester & Year
1.	Geomatics Engineering-II	CEN-203	II year	Autumn
2.	Geomatics Engineering – II	CEN-203	UG	Autumn Semester 2023-24

S. No.	Visiting Institute	Purpose of Visit	Start Date	End Date
1.	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Collaborate and contribute to the project: Advanced Rapid and Imaging Analysis	10/Feb/2019	16/Feb/2019

S. No.	Title	Organisation	Date
1.	Measurement of horizontal and vertical angles using Total Station	Online Webinar for MMMUT, Gorakhpur	23-Sep-2020
2.	Introduction to Microwave Remote Sensing’ in a short course on ‘Basic of remote sensing, GIS and GNSS’	Online Webinar for Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tamil Nadu	24-Sep-2020
3.	Extreme Rainfall and Landslide Response of the Himalayan Environment	G.B. Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pauri, Garhwal, Uttarakhand	27-Nov-2020
4.	Total Station: An Overview’ and ‘Principle of EDM’ in a short course on ‘Recent Trends in Geoinformatics	BIET, Jhansi	09-Dec-2020
5.	AI for Flood Disaster’ in the 1st Renmin University of China Workshop on AI for Social Good	Renmin University, China	20-Dec-2020
6.	Open Data Sources’ and ‘Python in Analyzing Geospatial Datasets’ in the short term training program on Emerging Trends in Geoinformatics Techniques and Applications	MANIT, Bhopal	02-Mar-2021
7.	AI for Disaster Response in a three-day workshop on Big data applications in a multi-hazard disaster under climate change organized by	IIT Indore and NIDM, New Delhi	22-Dec-2021
8.	Remote Sensing Open Data Sources	Introduction to Geospatial Tools and Technology, ATAL FDP 983	28-Jul-2021
9.	Application of Soft Computing in Image Processing	Introduction to Geospatial Tools and Technology, ATAL FDP 983	30-Jul-2021
10.	AI for Disaster Response	BHARATI VIDYAPEETH’S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING	15-Dec-2021
11.	AI for Disaster Response	BINUS University, Indonesia	07-Dec-2021
12.	Recent Trends and Challenges for Use of AI with Earth Observation Data	IIRS, Dehradun	03-Mar-2023
13.	Introduction to GIS	Greater Noida Campus, IRCON Training	10-Jan-2023

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1.

Bhardwaj, A. and Venkatachalam, G. (2014). Landslide hazard evaluation using artificial neural networks and GIS. Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment: Volume 2. Page No: 397-403

2.

Bhardwaj, A., Ziegler, A. D., Wasson, R. J. and Chow, W. T. L. (2017). Characteristics of causative factors causing landslides in a part of the Indian Himalaya. AOGS 14th Annual Meeting. Place: Singapore

3.

Bhardwaj, A., Ziegler, A. D., Wasson, R. J., Chow, W. T. L., and Sharma, M.L. (2017). Identification of trends in intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall events in part of the Indian Himalaya. EGU 2017. Place: Vienna, Austria

4.

Ziegler, A. D., Bhardwaj, A., Wasson, R. J. and Chow, W. T. L. (2017). Estimating the characteristics of extreme rainfall events using a suitable precipitation product in the Garhwal Himalaya in India. EGU 2017. Place: Vienna, Austria

5.

Bhardwaj, A., Yun, S. H., Lin, Y. N. and Hill, E. M. (2019). The application of deep learning to estimate flood extents for urban areas using SAR amplitude and coherence time-series data: challenges and recommendations. AGU 2019. Place: San Francisco

6.

Bhardwaj. A., Singh, S., Bansal, R. (2021). Severity Analysis of Floods in SoutheastAsia. AGU 2021.

7.

Goel, R., Bhardwaj, A., Motagh, M., Haghighi, M. (2022). Estimating Landslide Deformation in the Upper Ganges Catchment Using Sentinel-1 Persistent Scatterer InSAR. AGU. Place: Chicago

8.

Chowdhury, A., Bansal, A. and Bhardwaj, A. (2022). Rainfall Characteristics in the Upper Mandakini Catchment Since the Great 2013 Disaster. AGU Fall Meeting 2022. Place: Chicago

9.

Goel, R. Bhardwaj, A., Motagh, M. and Haghighi, M. (2022). Estimating Landslide Deformation in the Upper Ganges Catchment Using Sentinel-1 Persistent Scatterer InSAR. AGU Fall Meeting 2022. Place: Chicago

10.

Adhikari, R., Bhardwaj, A. and Khati, U. (2022). Investigation of Long-lasting Damage Due to Hagibis Flood Using SAR Polarimetry and ALOS-2 Data in Japan. AGU Fall Meeting 2022. Place: Chicago

11.

Adhikari, R. and Bhardwaj, A. (2023). Evaluation and Comparative Analysis of Quad-polarized L-band Spaceborne SAR Dataset with Various Model-Based Decomposition Techniques for Detection of Urban Flood. AGU Annual Meeting 2023. Place: San Francisco, CA and Online

12.

Kundal, S., Bhardwaj, A. and Garg, P. K. (2023). Estimation of Volume Displacement for Debris Flow Using GCPs-based Temporal UAV Surveys in the Upper Indian Himalayas. AGU Annual Meeting 2023. Place: San Francisco, CA and Online

13.

Arnab Chowdhury, Alok Bhardwaj (2023). Landslide Detection in the Mandakini Catchment of Indian Himalayas since the Great 2013 Disaster. AGU Annual Meeting 2023. Place: San Francisco, CA and Online

14.

Adhikari, R., Tsutsumida, N. and Bhardwaj, A. (2023). An Index-Based Flood Mapping Using Stokes Parameters of Multitemporal SAR Images: 2019 Hagibis Flood Event of Ibaraki, Japan. IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281581 Place: Pasadena, CA, USA

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Kundal, S., Chowdhury, A., Bhardwaj, A., Garg, P. K. and Mishra, V. (2023). GeoBIA-based semi-automated landslide detection using UAS data: A case study of Uttarakhand Himalayas. SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2023. DOI: 10.1117/12.2666770 Place: Yokohama, Japan Page No: 321-329

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Anand, A. and Bhardwaj, A. (2024). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Terrestrial Laser Scanning are used to Monitor Kshetrapal landslides in the Chamoli Hazard Area of Upper Himalayan Region in Uttarakhand, India. EGU General Assembly 2024. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11755 Place: Vienna, Austria

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