Journals and Science Magazines

Dash, S.K., Sembhi, H. and Sinha, R. (2025). Integrating UAV thermal imagery and in-situ data for high-resolution crop water stress–soil moisture dynamics over India’s agricultural hotspot. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 47(1), pp. 1–26. Link
Dash, S.K., Sembhi, H., Langsdale, M., Wooster, M., Dodd, E., Ghent, D. and Sinha, R. (2025). Assessing the field-scale crop water condition over an intensive agricultural plain using UAV-based thermal and multispectral imagery. Journal of Hydrology, 655, p.132966. Link
van der Vliet, M., Malbeteau, Y., Ghent, D., de Haas, S., Veal, K., van der Zaan, T., Sinha, R., Dash, S.K. & Houborg, R. & de Jeu, R. (2024). Quantifiable impact: monitoring landscape restoration from space. A regreening case study in Tanzania. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, p.1352058. Link
Dash, S.K. & Sinha, R. (2022). Space-time dynamics of soil moisture and groundwater in an agriculture-dominated critical zone observatory (CZO) in the Ganga basin, India. Science of The Total Environment, 851, p.158231. Link
Dash, S.K. & Sinha, R. (2022). A Comprehensive Evaluation of Gridded L-, C-, and X-Band Microwave Soil Moisture Product over the CZO in the Central Ganga Plains, India. Remote Sensing, 14(7), p.1629. Link
Gupta, S., Karumanchi, S.H., Dash, S.K., Adla, S., Tripathi, S., Sinha, R., Paul, D. & Sen, I.S. (2019). Monitoring ecosystem health in India’s food basket, Eos Science News Magazine, 100. Link

Manuscript(s) in Communication

Meena A., Swarnkar S., Dash, S.K., Surjibhai A.S., “Linking Compound Dry-Hot Extremes to Vegetation Decline in Central India” (Under Review in Ecohydrology).
Dash, S.K., et al., “Investigating the performance of operational global soil moisture products over India using multi-climatic in-situ observation network” (In-preparation).
Dash, S.K., et al., “Atmospheric components outweigh soil moisture drives gross primary productivity (GPP) in Mediterranean tree crops” (In-preparation).

Conferences and Workshops

S. Dash, N. E. Bambach, K. Knipper, A. McElrone, W. P. Kustas, A. Gal, M. Levinson, K. Estrada, Spatiotemporal Variability and Impacts of Canopy and Atmospheric Stress in Almond Orchards, 36th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2025
K. S. Sreekutty, S. K. Dash, S. Krishnan, S. G. Thampi, Inferring the spatiotemporal interdependency of soil moisture–rainfall Coincidences over the Indian region, EGU General Assembly, 2025. Link
R. Sinha, S. Behera, S. K. Dash; Field-Scale Soil Moisture Estimation Integrating SENTINEL-1 SAR Data with Uav-Based Thermal and Multispectral Imagery Over AN Agricultural Czo in the Ganga Basin, India, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2023, DOI: 2023AGUFM.H11I1375S
S. K. Dash, S. R. Behera, R. Sinha, D. K. Pandey; Multi-source soil moisture retrieval over the agriculture-dominated Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) in the Ganga basin: a potential cal/val site for the NISAR mission, NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Science Workshop, 2023
S. K. Dash, R. Sinha; Comprehensive evaluation of space-based passive microwave gridded data in the central Ganga plain, India, IEEE GRSS Soil Moisture School, 2023
S. K. Dash, H. Sembhi, R. Sinha, M. Langsdale, M. Wooster; Estimating the Crop Water Stress in the agricultural Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) in Central Ganga Plain, India, using Thermal and Multispectral Aerial Imagery, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2022
S. K. Dash, R. Sinha; Validation of SMAP and AMSR2 satellite soil moisture data over the Critical Zone Observatory in central Ganga plains, North India using ground-based observations, EGU General Assembly, 2021. Link
S. K. Dash, R. Sinha; Understanding spatio-temporal dynamics in soil moisture and groundwater in a Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) in Ganga basin, North India, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2020
R. Sinha, S. K. Dash, H. Sembhi, D. Ghent, M. Wooster, C. Joshi, M. Jain, P. Franses,; Understanding community perspectives for estimation of crop water stress in an agriculture dominated CZO in the Ganga plains, India, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2019
S. K. Dash, S. Gupta, R. Sinha, S. Tripathi; Downscaling of Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Data for the Small Agricultural Critical Zone Observatory of the Ganga Basin, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2018
S. Gupta, S. Tripathi, R. Sinha, S. H. Karumanchi, D. Paul, S. N. Tripathi, I. S. Sen, S. K. Dash; Setting up a new CZO in the Ganga basin: instrumentation, stakeholder engagement and preliminary observations, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2017
D. Paul, S. Tripathi, K. S. Harsha, S. Adla, S. K. Dash, Y. Chander, P. Mahajan, S. N. Tripathi, I. S. Sen, and R. Sinha; Challenges and lessons learned in establishing a critical zone observatory in an intensively managed rural landscape of India, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2016
S. K. Dash, A. K. Rai; Understanding Earthquakes and Tsunami Hazard in Bay of Bengal, National Conference of Ocean Society of India, 2015

Seminars and Workshops