BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD
Remote Sensing & GIS for vegetation sciences
Remote Sensing & GIS/Ecology/Natural Resource Management
LULC/Landscape characterization & climate change studies
1. Professor School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, new Delhi (2015– till date)
2. Professor & Head Department of Natural Resources, TERI University, New Delhi (2011–2015)
3. Associate Professor & Head Department of Natural Resources, TERI University, New Delhi (2007–2011)
4. Scientist, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS/ISRO), Dehradun (2000–2007)
5. Adjunct faculty, Center for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the UN) (2000–2007)
6. Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS/ISRO), Dehradun (1998–2000)
1. P. R. Pisharoty Memorial Award (Indian National Remote Sensing Award) (2014), Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS/ISRO) for contribution in RS & GIS for forest and environment.
2. Member Global Young Academy (GYA) (2012– till date)
3. Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2009), National Academy of Sciences India (NASI) for contribution in RS & GIS for vegetation sciences.
4. Young Scientist Medal (2006), Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for contribution in RS & GIS for vegetation sciences.
5. Academy Gold Medal (2006), Indian Academy of Environmental Science for contribution in RS & GIS for environmental sciences.
6. Fellow - Indian Academy of Environmental Sciences (FIAES) (2004).
1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded project on “Multi-Scale and Multi-Sensor Analysis of Urban Cluster Development and Agricultural Land Loss in China and India”. The consortium comprises of researcher from Yale University, Arizona State University, University of Wisconsin, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science and self (2011-2014).
2. Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) program framework on “Just ecosystem management: Linking ecosystem services with poverty alleviation” being supported by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC). The consortium comprised of researchers from University of East Anglia, Chinese Academy of Science, University British Columbia, University of California Berkeley, Markerere University and self (2011-13).
1. *P.K Joshi, P.S. Roy, S. Singh, S. Agrawal and D. Yadav (2006). Vegetation cover mapping in India using multi-temporal IRS Wide Field Sensor (WiFS) data. Remote Sensing of Environment 103(2): 190-202.
2. P.S. Roy, *P.K. Joshi, D. Yadav, S. Agrawal, S. Singh, and C. Jegannathan (2006). Biome mapping in India using multi-temporal satellite data and other inputs. Ecological Modeling 197(1-2): 148-158.
3. *P.K. Joshi, G.S. Rawat, H. Padilya and P.S. Roy (2006). Biodiversity characterization in Nubra Valley, Ladakh with special reference to plant resource conservation and bioprospecting. Biodiversity and Conservation 15(13): 4253-4270.
4. A. Chakraborty, A. Ghosh, *P.K. Joshi, and G. Areendran (2013). Assessing biome boundary shifts under climate change in India. Ecological Indicators 34: 536–547.
5. A. Ghosh and *P.K. Joshi (2014). A comparison of selected classification algorithms for mapping bamboo patches in lower Gangetic plains using very high resolution WorldView 2 imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 26: 298–311.
1. P.S. Roy, A. Roy, P.K. Joshi (+ 45 authors) (2015). India’s decadal (1985-1995-2005) land use and land cover spatial database: a new resource for studying land dynamics. Remote Sensing 7: 2401-2430.
2. S. Mukherjee, *P.K. Joshi and R D Garg. (2015). Regression-Kriging technique to downscale satellite-derived land surface temperature in heterogeneous agricultural landscape. IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing 8(3): 1245-1250.
3. A. Bhardwaj, *P.K. Joshi, Snehmani, L. Sam, M. K. Singh, S. Singh and R. Kumar (2015). Applicability of Landsat 8 data for characterizing glacier facies and supraglacial debris. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 38: 51-61.
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