Associate Editor
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Institutional email ID: prashant.iesd@bhu.ac.in
Assistant Professor, IESD, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005
Associate Editor
https://bhu.ac.in/Site/FacultyProfile/2_171?FA000034
Institutional email ID: prashant.iesd@bhu.ac.in
Assistant Professor, IESD, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005
Dr. Prashant K. Srivastava is currently working at IESD, Banaras Hindu University, as a faculty member. He was affiliated with Hydrological Sciences at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, focusing on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm development, instrumentation, and simulation for various applications. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, UK. Prashant has received several awards, including a NASA Fellowship (USA), a University of Maryland Fellowship (USA), and a Commonwealth Fellowship (UK).
He is leading numerous projects funded by reputable agencies in India and around the world. He also collaborated with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation, as well as with the Indian missions Scatsat-1 1, NISAR, and AVIRIS-NG. He is a visiting faculty member at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Additionally, he is featured among the world's top 2% scientists according to a list by Scopus and Stanford University. Prashant has published over 230 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and 15 books with respected publishers such as Springer, Taylor and Francis, AGU-Wiley, and Elsevier, along with several book chapters.
He holds editorial responsibilities in several reputed national and international journals. He serves as Regional Editor (Asia) for Geocarto International (Taylor & Francis) and as an Associate Editor for several esteemed journals: Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier), GIScience and Remote Sensing (Taylor & Francis), Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (Elsevier), Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (JISRS) (Springer), Water Resources Management (Springer), Sustainable Water Advances and Management (SWAM) (Cell Press), Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing (MDPI), Environment, Development, and Sustainability (Springer), Environmental Processes (Springer), and Bulletin of Environmental and Scientific Research.