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Venkat Lakshmi is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant publication counts in these main fields. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas related to hydrology and climate, specifically:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Climate variability and models

Venkat Lakshmi has authored or co-authored several recent papers, including:

  • Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century, 2022, published in Nature Sustainability
  • Adequacy of Satellite-derived Precipitation Estimate for Hydrological Modeling in Vietnam Basins, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated/dryland agriculture regions, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Enhancing human resilience against climate change: Assessment of hydroclimatic extremes and sea level rise impacts on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Drought monitoring using high spatial resolution soil moisture data over Australia in 2015-2019, 2021, Journal of Hydrology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Vadose Zone Journal

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors:

  • Bin Fang
  • Hyunglok Kim
  • Manh-Hung Le
  • Thanh-Nhan-Duc Tran
  • John Bolten

Venkat Lakshmi has contributed to several book publications. Two volumes of Current Trends in Home Science (Volume 2 and Volume 3) were published in 2024 by Bright Sky Publications eBooks. Another book, Current Strategies in Economics and Management Vol. 6, was published in 2020 by Book Publisher International, part of SCIENCEDOMAIN International.

Best Publications

  • Soil moisture retrieval from AMSR-E

    E.G. Njoku;T.J. Jackson;V. Lakshmi;T.K. Chan

  • IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences

    M. Sivapalan;K. Takeuchi;S. W. Franks;V. K. Gupta

  • Advancing process‐based watershed hydrological research using near‐surface geophysics: A vision for, and review of, electrical and magnetic geophysical methods

    D. A. Robinson;A. Binley;N. Crook;F. D. Day-Lewis

  • Soil Moisture Remote Sensing: State-of-the-Science

    Binayak P. Mohanty;Michael H. Cosh;Venkat Lakshmi;Carsten Montzka

  • Observations of soil moisture using a passive and active low-frequency microwave airborne sensor during SGP99

    E.G. Njoku;W.J. Wilson;S.H. Yueh;S.J. Dinardo

  • A Monte Carlo Study of rainfall sampling effect on a distributed catchment model

    Witold F. Krajewski;Venkataraman Lakshmi;Konstantine P. Georgakakos;Subhash C. Jain

  • Use of Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CyGNSS) Observations for Estimation of Soil Moisture

    Hyunglok Kim;Venkat Lakshmi

  • Global-scale assessment and combination of SMAP with ASCAT (active) and AMSR2 (passive) soil moisture products

    Hyunglok Kim;Robert Parinussa;Alexandra G. Konings;Wolfgang Wagner

  • High-resolution change estimation of soil moisture using L-band radiometer and Radar observations made during the SMEX02 experiments

    U. Narayan;V. Lakshmi;T.J. Jackson

  • Soil moisture at watershed scale: Remote sensing techniques

    Bin Fang;Venkat Lakshmi

  • Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States

    Rajat Bindlish;Thomas J. Jackson;Eric F. Wood;Huilin Gao

  • Soil moisture–temperature relationships: results from two field experiments

    Venkat Lakshmi;Thomas J. Jackson;Diane Zehrfuhs

  • Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

    Venkat Lakshmi

  • Large scale measurements of soil moisture for validation of remotely sensed data: Georgia soil moisture experiment of 2003☆

    David D. Bosch;V. Lakshmi;T. J. Jackson;Minha Choi

  • Retrieval of soil moisture from passive and active L/S band sensor (PALS) observations during the Soil Moisture Experiment in 2002 (SMEX02)

    Ujjwal Narayan;Venkat Lakshmi;Eni G. Njoku

  • Adequacy of Satellite-derived Precipitation Estimate for Hydrological Modeling in Vietnam Basins

    Manh-Hung Le;Venkataraman Lakshmi;John Bolten;Duong Du Bui

  • Effects of vegetation and soil moisture on the simulated land surface processes from the coupled WRF/Noah model

    Seungbum Hong;Venkat Lakshmi;Eric E. Small;Fei Chen

  • GCIP water and energy budget synthesis (WEBS)

    J. Roads;R. Lawford;E. Bainto;E. Berbery

  • Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated/dryland agriculture regions

    Hyunglok Kim;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Sujay Kumar;Jianzhi Dong

  • Microwave remote sensing of soil moisture: evaluation of the TRMM microwave imager (TMI) satellite for the Little River Watershed Tifton, Georgia

    James Cashion;Venkataraman Lakshmi;David Bosch;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Downscaling Using Vegetation Index and Skin Surface Temperature

    Bin Fang;Venkat Lakshmi;Rajat Bindlish;Thomas J. Jackson

  • Observation of the Earth and Its Environment—Survey of Missions and Sensors

    Venkat Lakshmi

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Raghavan Srinivasan
Raghavan Srinivasan Texas A&M University
Eric E. Small
Eric E. Small University of Colorado Boulder
Eni G. Njoku
Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales

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