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Pawan Kumar Joshi is affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Their research is predominantly situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in Joshi's work include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Joshi's publication record shows frequent contributions to several key scientific venues, including:

  • Remote Sensing
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environment Development and Sustainability
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Among recent publications, Joshi has been involved in studies such as:

  • "Responses of ecosystem services to natural and anthropogenic forcings: A spatial regression based assessment in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Examining effects of climate change and land use dynamic on biophysical and economic values of ecosystem services of a natural reserve region" (2020) published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Examining the effects of forest fire on terrestrial carbon emission and ecosystem production in India using remote sensing approaches" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Urbanization and food consumption in India" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "A long-term and comprehensive assessment of urbanization-induced impacts on ecosystem services in the capital city of India" (2020) published in City and Environment Interactions

Frequent collaborators in Joshi's research include:

  • Susanta Mahato
  • P. S. Roy
  • Mangalasseril Mohammad Anees
  • Srikanta Sannigrahi
  • Arti Choudhary

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of vertical accuracy of open source Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

    Sandip Mukherjee;Pawan Kumar Joshi;Samadrita Mukherjee;Aniruddha Ghosh

  • A framework for mapping tree species combining Hyperspectral and LiDAR data: role of selected classifiers and sensor across three spatial scales

    Aniruddha Ghosh;Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Pawan Kumar Joshi;Barbara Koch

  • Development of Decadal (1985–1995–2005) Land Use and Land Cover Database for India

    Parth S. Roy;Arijit Roy;Pawan K. Joshi;Manish P. Kale

  • A comparison of selected classification algorithms for mapping bamboo patches in lower Gangetic plains using very high resolution WorldView 2 imagery

    Aniruddha Ghosh;Pawan Kumar Joshi

  • Monitoring urbanization dynamics in India using DMSP/OLS night time lights and SPOT-VGT data

    Bhartendu Pandey;P.K. Joshi;Karen C. Seto

  • New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remote sensing: Comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities

    P.S. Roy;M.D. Behera;M.S.R. Murthy;Arijit Roy

  • Ecosystem Service Value assessment of a natural reserve region for strengthening protection and conservation.

    Srikanta Sannigrahi;Suman Chakraborti;Pawan Kumar Joshi;Saskia Keesstra;Saskia Keesstra

  • Comparison of Feature Reduction Algorithms for Classifying Tree Species With Hyperspectral Data on Three Central European Test Sites

    Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Carsten Neumann;Michael Förster;Henning Buddenbaum

  • Assessing the potential of hyperspectral imagery to map bark beetle-induced tree mortality

    Fabian Ewald Fassnacht;Hooman Latifi;Aniruddha Ghosh;Pawan Kumar Joshi

  • Responses of ecosystem services to natural and anthropogenic forcings: A spatial regression based assessment in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem.

    Srikanta Sannigrahi;Qi Zhang;Francesco Pilla;Pawan Kumar Joshi

  • Mapping disaster vulnerability in India using analytical hierarchy process

    Anusheema Chakraborty;P.K. Joshi

  • Examining effects of climate change and land use dynamic on biophysical and economic values of ecosystem services of a natural reserve region

    Srikanta Sannigrahi;Srikanta Sannigrahi;Qi Zhang;P.K. Joshi;Paul C. Sutton

  • Analyzing deforestation rates, spatial forest cover changes and identifying critical areas of forest cover changes in North-East India during 1972-1999.

    Nikhil Lele;P. K. Joshi

  • Solar power potential mapping in India using remote sensing inputs and environmental parameters

    Richa Mahtta;P.K. Joshi;Alok Kumar Jindal

  • Random forest classification of urban landscape using Landsat archive and ancillary data: Combining seasonal maps with decision level fusion

    Aniruddha Ghosh;Richa Sharma;P.K. Joshi

  • A landscape approach for quantifying land-use and land-cover change (1976–2006) in middle Himalaya

    Madhushree Munsi;Sumedha Malaviya;Gracy Oinam;P. K. Joshi

  • Examining the effects of forest fire on terrestrial carbon emission and ecosystem production in India using remote sensing approaches.

    Srikanta Sannigrahi;Francesco Pilla;Bidroha Basu;Arunima Sarkar Basu

  • Vegetation cover mapping in India using multi-temporal IRS Wide Field Sensor (WiFS) data

    P.K. Kumar Joshi;P.S. Roy;Sarnam Singh;Shefali Agrawal

  • A land-cover map for south and southeast asia derived from Spot-vegetation data

    H.-J. Stibig;A.S. Belward;P.S. Roy;U. Rosalina-Wasrin

  • SPOT vegetation multi temporal data for classifying vegetation in south central Asia

    Shefali Agrawal;P. K. Joshi;Yogita Shukla;P. S. Roy

  • Farmer typology to understand differentiated climate change adaptation in Himalaya

    Roopam Shukla;Roopam Shukla;Ankit Agarwal;Ankit Agarwal;Christoph Gornott;Kamna Sachdeva

  • Decision tree approach for classification of remotely sensed satellite data using open source support

    Richa Sharma;Aniruddha Ghosh;P K Joshi

Frequent Co-Authors

P. S. Roy
P. S. Roy International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Saskia Keesstra
Saskia Keesstra Wageningen University & Research
Paul C. Sutton
Paul C. Sutton University of Denver
J. S. Singh
J. S. Singh Banaras Hindu University
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mukunda Dev Behera
Mukunda Dev Behera Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Chandrashekhar Biradar International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Egypt
Shakil Ahmad Romshoo
Shakil Ahmad Romshoo Islamic University of Science and Technology
Barbara Koch
Barbara Koch University of Freiburg
Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente

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