Publications

Peer Reviewed Papers:      

1. Malikah, S., Avila, S., Garcia, G., & T. Lakhankar (2024). Historical Climate Trends and Extreme Weather Events in the Tri-State Area: A Detailed Analysis of Urban and Suburban Differences. Climate, 12(3), 32.
2. Trossi-Torres, G., Muñoz-Barreto, J., Morales-Vélez, A. C., Rodriguez-Fernández, E., Martínez-Sánchez, O., & T. Lakhankar (2024). Assessing streamflow forecast accuracy for flash flood events in Puerto Rico. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 52, 101697.
   
3. Agonafir, C., Lakhankar, T., Khanbilvardi, R., Krakauer, N., Radell, D., & N. Devineni (2023). A review of recent advances in urban flood research. Water Security, 19, 100141.
   
4. Agonafir C., Lakhankar T., Khanbilvardi R., Krakauer N., Radell D., N. Devineni (2022) A machine learning approach to evaluate the spatial variability of New York City’s 311 street flooding complaints, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 97, 101854, ISSN 0198-9715.
5. Abdelkader, M., Temimi, M., Colliander, A., Cosh, M.H., Kelly, V.R., Lakhankar, T. and A. Fares (2022). Assessing the Spatiotemporal Variability of SMAP Soil Moisture Accuracy in a Deciduous Forest Region. Remote Sensing, 14(14), p.3329.
6. Agonafir C., Lakhankar T., Khanbilvardi T., Krakauer N., and D. Radell (2022) A review of recent advances in urban flood modeling and mitigation techniques, accepted in Water Security.
7. Sthapit, E., Lakhankar, T., Hughes, M., Khanbilvardi, R., Cifelli, R., Mahoney, K., Currier, W.R., Viterbo, F. and A. Rafieeinasab (2022). Evaluation of Snow and Streamflows Using Noah-MP and WRF-Hydro Models in Aroostook River Basin, Maine. Water, 14(14), p.2145.
8. Agonafir, C., Pabon, A. R., Lakhankar, T., Khanbilvardi, R., & N. Devineni (2022). Understanding New York City street flooding through 311 complaints. Journal of Hydrology, 605, 127300.
9. Holtzman NM, Anderegg LD, Kraatz S, Mavrovic A, Sonnentag O, Pappas C, Cosh MH, Langlois A, Lakhankar T, Tesser D, N. Steiner (2021). L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand. Biogeosciences. 18(2):739-53.
10. Fang, L., Zhan, X., Yin, J., Liu, J., Schull, M., Walker, J.P., Wen, J., Cosh, M.H., Lakhankar, T., Collins, C.H. and D.D. Bosch (2020). An Intercomparison Study of Algorithms for Downscaling SMAP Radiometer Soil Moisture Retrievals. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21(8), pp.1761-1775.
11. Chiu, J., Paredes-Mesa, S., Lakhankar, T., Romanov, P., Krakauer, N., Khanbilvardi, R., & R. Ferraro (2020). Intercomparison and Validation of MIRS, MSPPS, and IMS Snow Cover Products Advances in Meteorology, 2020.
12. Krakauer, N. Y., Lakhankar, T., and G. H. Dars (2019). Precipitation Trends over the Indus Basin. Climate, 7(10), 116. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7100116
13. Krakauer, N. Y., Lakhankar, T., and D. Hudson (2019). Trends in Drought over the Northeast United States. Water, 11(9), 1834. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11091834
14. Bhattacharjee A., Anadón JD, Lohman D., Doleck T., Lakhankar T., Shresta B., Thapa P., Devkota D., Tiwari S., Jha A., Siwakoti M., Devkota NR, Jha PK, and N. Krakauer (2017) The impact of climate change on biodiversity in Nepal: current knowledge, gaps and opportunities, Climate, 5(4), 80; doi:10.3390/cli5040080.
15. Mandal R.A., Jha P.K., Krakauer N., Jha A., and T. Lakhankar (2017) Assessing Cost Effective Management Options of Eichhornia crassipes in Ecotourism Ramsar Sites, Nepal, International Journal of Agricultural Science, Research and Technology in Extension and Education Systems (IJASRT in EESs), Volume 7-2, Page 79-83.
16. Olivieri J.N., Muñoz-Barreto J., Tirado-Corbalá R., Lakhankar T., and A Fisher (2017) Comparison and downscale of AMSR2 soil moisture products with in-situ measurements from the SCAN-NRCS network over Puerto Rico, Hydrology, 4(4), 46; doi:10.3390/hydrology4040046.
17. Nilawar A, Calderlla C., Lakhankar T., Waikar M., and J. Muñoz, (2017), Satellite Soil Moisture Validation using Hydrological SWAT Model: A Case Study of Puerto Rico, USA, Hydrology, 4(4), 45; doi: 10.3390/hydrology4040045.
18. Krakauer, N.Y.; Lakhankar, T.; J.D. Anadon (2017) Mapping and Attributing Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Trends for Nepal. Remote Sensing. Vol: 9(10): Pages 986, doi:10.3390/rs9100986.
19. Seo D., Lakhankar T., Cosgrove B., Khanbilvardi R. and X. Zhan (2017) Applying SMOS Soil Moisture data into the National Weather Service (NWS)’s Research Distributed Hydrologic Model (HL-RDHM) for flash flood guidance application, In Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Volume 8, 2017, Pages 182-192, ISSN 2352-9385.
20. Pérez-Díaz C.L., Lakhankar T., Romanov R., Muñoz J., Khanbilvardi J. & Yunyue Yu (2017) Evaluation of MODIS land surface temperature with in situ snow surface temperature from CREST-SAFE, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 38 , Iss. 16,2017.
21. Pérez Díaz, C.L.; Muñoz, J.; Lakhankar, T.; Khanbilvardi, R.; P. Romanov (2017). Proof of Concept: Development of Snow Liquid Water Content Profiler Using CS650 Reflectometers at Caribou, ME, USA. Sensors 2017, 17, 647.
22. Mandal RA, NY Krakauer, A Jha, T Lakhankar, MP Sharma, PK Jha (2016), Effect of seasonal variables on cow milk production of smallholders at Voltar, Gorusinghe and Jholpe villages in Nepal, Wayamba Journal of Animal Science, 8: 1467645923
23. Jha, A.K.; Malla, R.; Sharma, M.; Panthi, J.; Lakhankar, T.; Krakauer, N.Y.; Pradhanang, S.M.; Dahal, P.; M.L. Shrestha (2016) Impact of Irrigation Method on Water Use Efficiency and Productivity of Fodder Crops in Nepal. Climate 2016, 4, 4.
24. Dahal, P., Shrestha, N., Shrestha, M., Krakauer, N., Panthi, J., Pradhanang, S., Jha A. and T. Lakhankar, (2016). Drought risk assessment in central Nepal: temporal and spatial analysis. Natural Hazards, 1–20. doi:10.1007/s11069-015-2055-5
25. Pérez Díaz, C.L.; Lakhankar, T.; Romanov, P.; Khanbilvardi, R.; Y. Yu (2015) Evaluation of VIIRS Land Surface Temperature Using CREST-SAFE Air, Snow Surface, and Soil Temperature Data. Geosciences, 2015, 5, 334-360.
26. Corona, J.A.I.; Muñoz, J.; Lakhankar, T.; Romanov, P.; R. Khanbilvardi (2015) Evaluation of the Snow Thermal Model (SNTHERM) through Continuous in situ Observations of Snow’s Physical Properties at the CREST-SAFE Field Experiment. Geosciences, 5, 310-333.
27. Krakauer, N.Y.; Pradhanang, S.M.; Panthi, J.; Lakhankar, T.; , A.K. Jha (2015), Probabilistic Precipitation Estimation with a Satellite Product. Climate, 3, pages 329-348.
28. Pradhanang, U.B.; Pradhanang, S.M.; Sthapit, A.; Krakauer, N.Y.; Jha, A.; T. Lakhankar (2015) National Livestock Policy of Nepal: Needs and Opportunities. Agriculture 5, 103-131.

29. Panthi, J.; Dahal, P.; Shrestha, M.L.; Aryal, S.; Krakauer, N.Y.; Pradhanang, S.M.; Lakhankar, T.; Jha, A.K.; Sharma, M.; R. Karki (2015) Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rainfall in the Gandaki River Basin of Nepal Himalaya. Climate, 3, 210-226.

30. Corona, J.A.I.; Lakhankar, T.; Pradhanang, S.; R. Khanbilvardi (2014). Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Weather Forcing Data Analysis for Streamflow Simulation Hydrology,  1, 89-111.

31. M Temimi, T Lakhankar, X Zhan, MH Cosh, NY Krakauer, A Fares, V Kelly, R Khanbilvardi, L Kumassi (2014), Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Ground-Based L-Band Passive Microwave Observations in Northeastern USA, Vadose Zone Research, 13(3). doi: 10.2136/vzj2013.06.0101

32. Krakauer N.Y. , S. M. Pradhanang, T. Lakhankar, and A. Jha, (2013) Evaluating Satellite Products for Precipitation Estimation in Mountain Regions: A Case Study for Nepal, Remote Sensing vol. 5(8), pages 4107-4123.

33. Munoz J., J.A.I. Corona, T. Lakhankar, R. Khanbilvardi, P. Romanov, N. Krakauer, A. Powell (2013) Synergistic Use of Remote Sensing for Snow Cover and Snow Water Equivalent Estimation British Journal of Environment and Climate Change., 3(4): 612-627. DOI : 10.9734/BJECC/2013/7699.

34. Seo D., T. Lakhankar, J. Mejia, B. Cosgrove, and R. Khanbilvardi (2013) Evaluation of Operational National Weather Service Gridded Flash Flood Guidance over the Arkansas Red River Basin, The Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 1-12. DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12087.

35. Lakhankar, T., Muñoz, J., Romanov, P., Powell, A. M., Krakauer, N. Y., Rossow, W. B., and R. M. Khanbilvardi (2013) CREST-Snow Field Experiment: analysis of snowpack properties using multi-frequency microwave remote sensing data, Hydrology Earth System Science, 17, 783-793, doi:10.5194/hess-17-783-2013.

36. Chen C.,T. Lakhankar, P. Romanov, S. Helfrich, A. Powell, R. Khanbilvardi (2012) Validation of NOAA-Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) by Comparison with Ground-Based Measurements over Continental United States. Remote Sensing Vol. 4(5), pages 1134-1145.

37. Lakhankar T., A.E. Azar, N. Shahroudi, A. Powell, and R. Khanbilvardi (2012), Analysis of the Effects of Snowpack Properties on Satellite Microwave Brightness Temperature and Emissivity Data, Journal of Geophysics & Remote Sensing, !:101, doi: 10.4172/jgrs.1000101

38. Ghedira H., J-C. Arevalo, T. Lakhankar, R. Khanbilvardi and R. Blake (2011), Snow Cover Mapping Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data, International Journal of Remote Sensing Applications, Vol.1(6), pages 37-42.

39. Temimi M., T. Lacava, T. Lakhankar, V. Tramutoli, H. Ghedira, R. Ata, and R Khanbilvardi (2011), A multi-temporal analysis of AMSR-E data for flood and discharge monitoring during the 2008 flood in Iowa. Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8020.

40. Seo D., T. Lakhankar, R. Khanbilvardi (2010) Sensitivity Analysis of b-factor in Microwave Emission Model for Soil Moisture Retrieval: A Case Study for SMAP Mission Remote Sensing, Vol. 2(5), pages 1273-1286.

41. Lakhankar T., A.S. Jones, C.L. Combs, M. Sengupta, T.H. Vonder Haar, and R. Khanbilvardi (2010) “Analysis of Large Scale Spatial Variability of Soil Moisture Using a Geostatistical Method. Sensors, Vol. 10(1), pages 913-932.

42. Lakhnakar T., N.Y. Krakauer, R Khanbilvardi (2009), Applications of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for agricultural applications, International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering, Vol. 2(1), pages 81-91.

43. Lakhankar T., H. Ghedira, M. Temimi, M. Sengupta, R. Khanbilvardi, R. Blake (2009) Non-parametric Methods for Soil Moisture Retrieval from Satellite Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing. Vol. 1(1), pages 3-21.

44. Lakhankar T., H. Ghedira, M. Temimi, A.E. Azar, R. Khanbilvardi (2009) Effect of Land Cover Heterogeneity on Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Active Microwave Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing. Vol.1(2) pages 80-91.

Book Chapters

• Khanbilvardi R., T. Lakhankar, A. Powell, and R. Nazari (2014), “Remote Sensing Data and Information for Hydrological Monitoring and Modeling” in Handbook of Engineering Hydrology: Vol. 2: Modeling Climate Changes and Variability, Edited by Saeid Eslamian, to be published by CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group, 584 Pages. February 25, 2014.

Conference Proceedings and Reports:

Stopped updating 2013 onward….

• Lakhankar T., J. Muñoz, P. Romanov, R. Khanbilvardi, and A. Powell (2013) CREST-Snow Analysis and Field Experiment (CREST-SAFE): Continuous In Situ Observations of Snow Physical Properties and Microwave Emission, 27th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 6–10 January 2013 in Austin, TX.

• D Seo, R Khanbilvardi, T Lakhankar, B Cosgrove (2013) Assimilation of SMOS soil moisture data and incorporation to the HL Research Distributed Hydrologic Model (HL-RDHM) AGU Fall Meeting, 2013  #ED31F-04

2012

• NY Krakauer, N Chaouch, T Lakhankar, AH Matonse, KC McDonald, DC Pierson, E Schneiderman, M Temimi (2012), “Application of land surface hydrology measurements to enhance modeling for decision support in the New York City water supply“, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2012.

• Xiwu Zhan, M. Ek, B. Cosgrove, J. Simko, T. Lakhankar, and J. Pereira (2012) Transitioning Satellite Soil Moisture Remote Sensing Science and Data Products From NASA SMAP and ESA SMOS to NOAA Weather, Climate and Hydrological Forecast Operations, Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges, 92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012).

• Mejia J. Seo D., and T. Lakhankar (2012) Downscaling Of SMOS Data Using NDVI, Elevation, and Sand Fraction, Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology, H21H-1283, American Geophysical Union, December 2012.

• Lakhankar T., J. Muñoz, P. Romanov, and D. R. Khanbilvardi (2012) NOAA-CREST Field Experiment: Remote Sensing of Snow Properties Using Microwave Radiometry, 26th Conference on Hydrology, 92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012).

• Seo D., T. Lakhankar, R. Khanbilvardi, and B. Cosgrove (2012) Assimilation of Satellite Based Soil Moisture Data in the National Weather Service’s Flash Flood Guidance System, 26th Conference on Hydrology, 92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012).

• Seo, D., Lakhankar, T., Khanbilvardi, R., Cosgrove, B., Koren, V., Zhan, X. (2012) “Incorporation of SMOS Soil Moisture Data in the National Weather Service’s Flash Flood Guidance System for Arkansas Red River Basin”, American Geophysical Union, H12E, San Francisco, CA, December 2012.

• Munoz J., Lakhankar T., P. Romanov, A. Powell and R. Khanbilvardi (2012), CREST-Snow Analysis and Field Experiment (CREST-SAFE): Continuous In Situ Observations of Snow Physical Properties and Microwave Emission, presented at Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow II,  American Geophysical Union, C21A-0560, San Francisco, CA, December 2012.

• Munoz J., Lakhankar T., P. Romanov, and R. Khanbilvardi (2012), CREST-Snow Field Experiment: analysis of snowpack properties using multi-frequency microwave remote sensing data, presented at The 69th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Snow Conference Claryville, New York, June 5-7, 2012.

•  Infante J.C., Lakhankar T., Romanov P, Pradhanang S., and R. Khanbilvardi (2012), Toward assimilation of merged satellite and model based snowpack properties for flood forecasting using hydrological models, presented at The 69th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Snow Conference Claryville, New York, June 5-7, 2012.

2011

• Chen C., Lakhankar T., Romanov P., and R. Khanbilvardi (2011), Validation of NOAA Interactive Snow Maps with Ground-based NCDC Data, presented at 68th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Snow Conference, McGill University in Montreal Canada, June 14-16, 2011.

• Munoz J., Lakhankar T., Romanov P., and R. Khanbilvardi (2011) Estimation of surface snowpack properties using multi-frequency microwave remote sensing data, presented at 68th Annual Meeting of Eastern Snow Conference, at Montreal, June 14-16, 2011.

• Lakhankar T., Munoz J., Romanov P., and R. Khanbilvardi (2011) NOAA CREST field experiment: remote sensing of snow properties using Microwave measurements, Oralpresentation at 7th Annual NOAACREST Symposium, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, April 27-28, 2011.

• Pellot D, Lakhankar T., McDonald K. and R Khanbilvardi (2011) Evaluation of QuikScata Data for Regional monitoring of vegetation phenology, NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) 8th Annual Science Symposium, Asheville, North Carolina.

2009

• Lakhankar, T.; Jones, A. S.; Seo, D.; Khanbilvardi, R. (2009) Sensitivity Analysis of Soil Moisture Retrieval Model for Active Microwave Remote Sensing Data, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #H21A-0803.

• Lilybeth Colon, C. Vörösmarty, T. Lakhankar, and B. Fekete (2009) Understanding Extreme Hydrologic Events in the Caribbean, The Fifth Education and Science Forum, Washington, DC November 13 – 15, 2008.

• Marouane Temimi, H. Ghedira, T. Lakhankar, and R. Khanbilvardi, (2009) Flood monitoring over the Mississippi River watersheds using AMSR-E 37 GHz brightness temperature, 23rd Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 11-15 January 2009.

2008

• Lakhankar, T., A.S. Jones, C.L Combs, M. Sengupta, T.H. Vonder Haar, 2008: Analysis of large scale spatial variability of soil moisture data using a geostatistical method, in Joint Season of 22nd Conference on Hydrology and 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, American Meteorological Society Conference, January 20-24, New Orleans USA.

• Andrew Jones, T. Lakhankar, C. L. Combs, S. Longmore, G. Mason, G. McWilliams, M. Mungiole, M. Sengupta, and T. H. Vonder Haar (2008) An NPOESS Feasibility Study to Retrieve Deep Soil Moisture Using WindSat Data and a Temporal Variational Data Assimilation Method, Fourth Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellites, American Meteorological Society Conference, January 20-24, New Orleans USA.

• Lakhankar, T., Jones, A. S., and T. H. Vonder Haar (2008) Soil Moisture Data Assimilation for High Resolution SAR Data, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #H51A-04

• Fekete, B. M., Wollheim, W. M., Lakhankar, T., and C. J. Vorosmarty (2008) Next Generation Framework for Aquatic Modeling of the Earth System (NextFrAMES), American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #H41G-0967.

• Lakhankar, T., Fekete, B. M., C. J. Vörösmarty (2008) Semantic Web Infrastructure Supporting NextFrAMES Modeling Platform, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #IN11B-1035

2007

• Combs, C.L., T. Lakhankar, D. Rapp, A.S. Jones, G. Mason, M. Mungiole, G. McWilliams, 2007: Comparison of AGRMET model results with in situ soil moisture data, CG/AR Tech. Report, September 2007, 44 pp.

• Jones, A.S., T. Lakhankar, C. Combs, S. Longmore, G. Mason, G. McWilliams, M. Mungiole, M. Sengupta, and T.H. Vonder Haar, 2008: An NPOESS feasibility study to retrieve deep soil moisture using WindSat data and a temporal variational data assimilationmethod, Fourth Annual Symposium: Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems – Research to Operations, January 22, New Orleans, USA.

• Jones A.S., T. Lakhankar, C.L. Combs, S. Longmore, G. Mason, G. McWilliams, M. Mungiole, M. Sengupta, and T. H. Vonder Haar, (2007), “NPOESS Soil Moisture Satellite Data Assimilation using WindSat Data and the 4DVAR Method”, The Battlespace Atmospheric and Cloud Impacts on Military Operations (BACIMO) Conference, November 6-8, Chestnut Hill, MA.

• McWilliams, G., A.S. Jones, C.L. Combs, T. Lakhankar, S. Longmore, G. Mason, M. Mungiole, D. Rapp, and T.H. Vonder Haar, 2007: NPOESS soil moisture satellite data assimilation: Progress using WindSat data, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2007. IEEE International, July 23 – 27, Barcelona, Spain.

• Azar E., T. Lakhankar, H. Ghedira, P. Romanov, N. Shahroudi, and R. Khanbilvardi, 2007: Using land cover data to improve estimated snow pack properties by microwave data, 21th Conference on Hydrology, 87th AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 14 – 19, 2007

• Jones, A. S., C. L. Combs, S. Longmore, T. Lakhankar, G. Mason, G. McWilliams, M. Mungiole, D. Rapp, T. H. Vonder Haar, and T. Vukicevic, (2007), “NPOESS soil moisture satellite data assimilation research using WindSat data”, Third Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems—Strengthening Our Understanding of Weather and Climate, January 16-17, San Antonio, TX, P2.17.

2006

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Soil Moisture Retrieval from Radarsat Data: A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach”. In proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2006, Denver, USA, July 31-August 4, 2006.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H., Azar A. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006), “Effect of Sub-pixel Variability of NDVI and Land-cover on Soil Moisture Retrieval from RADARSAT-1 Data”, IEEE Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb- 03 March 2006. Page(s):187 – 192.

•  Azar, A.E., Ghedira , Lakhankar T. and R. Khanbilvardi (2006) “Improvement in Estimating Snowpack Properties with SSM/I Data and Landcover Using an Artificial Neural Network”, IEEE Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb-03 March 2006.

• Ghedira, H., Arevalo J.C. , Lakhankar T., and R. Khanbilvardi (2006) “The Effect of Vegetation Cover on Snow Cover Mapping from Passive Microwave Data”, IEEE Microrad 06 (9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 Feb-03 March 2006.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Spatial Mapping of Soil Moisture using RADARSAT-1 Data”. Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration, ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, USA, May 1-5, 2006.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Combine Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic for an Improved Soil Moisture Estimation”. Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration, ASPRS Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, USA, May 1-5, 2006.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Non-Parametric Tools for Soil Moisture Mapping Using Active Microwave Data”, American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meetings, Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 29 January- 2 February, 2006.

• Lakhankar H., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2006) “Improving the Efficiency of Neural Network Retrieval of Soil Moisture from Active Microwave Data”, American Meteorological Society Annual Meetings, Georgia, Atlanta, USA, 29 January- 2 February, 2006.

2005

•  Ghedira H., Arevalo J.C., Lakhankar T., and R. Khanbilvardi, (2005), “An Adaptive Neural Network System for Improving the Filtration of Non-Snow Pixels from SSM/I Images”, In proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2005, vol. 8, No 167, pp. 5459-5463, Seoul, South Korea, 25–29 July, 2005.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2005), “Vegetation Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active Microwave Data”, In proc. The 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signature in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS) Beijing. China, October 17-19, 2005.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2005), “Effect of Sub-Pixel Variability of Land-Cover Data on Soil Moisture Retrieval using SAR data”, AGU Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #H41D-0424.

•  Ghedira H., Arevalo J.C., Lakhankar T., and R. Khanbilvardi, (2005), “Capabilities and Limitations of Neural Networks in Snow Cover Mapping from SSM/I Images”, In proc. The 9th International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signature in Remote Sensing (ISPMSRS) Beijing. China, October 17-19, 2005.

• Ghedira H. and T. Lakhankar (2005) “Capabilities and Limitation of Satellite Microwave Data in Soil Moisture Retrieval in Semi-Arid Regions” In. proc. Kuwait First International Remote Sensing Conference, 26-28, September 2005.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2005), “Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic system for Soil Moisture Estimation using Remote Sensing Data”, Einstein’s in the City, 2005, New York, USA, April 11-12, 2005.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2005), “Vegetation Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active Microwave Data”, 2nd NOAA-NESDIS Cooperative Research Program (CoRP) Annual Symposium July 13-14, 2005.J.C

2004

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2004), “Comparison between Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic system for Soil Moisture Estimation using Microwave Remote Sensing Data”, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(46),  Fall Meet. Suppl., H13C-0438.

• Ghedira H., Lakhankar T. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2004), “Integration of Multi-Source and Multi-Resolution Data for Soil Moisture Estimates”, Eos. Trans. AGU, 85(17), H23A-07, American Geophysical Proceedings, Montreal, Canada May 17-21, 2004.

• Jahan N., Lakhankar T., and H. Ghedira, (2004), “The Effect of Vegetation Optical Depth on Temporal Variation of Soil Moisture”, Eos Trans. AGU, 85 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., H13D-0463.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H. and R. Khanbilvardi, (2004), “Neural Network application using Passive and Active Microwave Data for Soil Moisture Estimation” In proc. of NOAA Educational Partnership Program, Education & Science Forum 2004, City College of New York, October 21-23, 2004, pp. 254-259.

• Lakhankar T., Ghedira H., and R. Khanbilvardi, (2004), “Application of Textural Analysis for Soil Moisture Estimation using RADARSAT Data”, In proc. Annual NOAA-CREST Research Symposium, Hampton University, April 20-22, 2004.

• Ghedira H., Lakhankar T., Jahan N., and R. Khanbilvardi, (2004) “Combination of Passive and Active Microwave Data for Soil Moisture Estimates”, In proc. IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS’2004, vol. 4, pp. 2783 – 2786, Anchorage, Alaska USA, 20-24 September, 2004.