Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- anshuman.bhardwaj@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
- Research
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Research Overview
- Remote sensing and GIS (applications in land dynamics, glacio-hydrology and cryosphere, coastal processes, fluvial processes, vegetation mapping, urban studies, and health geographics)
- Landforms and surface processes on Mars
- Glacial and periglacial geomorphology
- Glacial hazards
- Glacier-climate interactions
- Mars analogue research
- High-resolution terrain modelling and interpretation
- Drones for environmental remote sensing
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Geography and Environment, Geology and Geophysics.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.


Research Specialisms
- Remote Sensing
- Geomorphology
- Planetary Science
- Glaciology and Cryospheric Systems
- Geographical Information Systems
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Teaching
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Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
GG5067/5068 (ORIGINS, EVOLUTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GIS): Course Coordinator and Tutor
GG2510 (MAPPING AND MONITORING THE ENVIRONMENT): Course Coordinator and Tutor
GG3069 (REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS): Tutor
GL5206/5207 (THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DATA): Tutor
GL5546 (APPLIED, INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH GEOPHYSICS): Guest Lecturer
GG5910 (DISSERTATION PROJECT IN GIS): Supervision
GL5910 (Dissertation Project in Geophysics): Supervision
- Publications
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Monitoring Glacial Lake Formation and GLOF Hazard in Kanchenjunga Conservation Area of Nepal (2010–2023)
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/CContributions to Journals: ArticlesQuantifying Ice Thickness and Volume of Glaciers in the Chandra-Bhaga Basin, Western Himalaya: Insights from GlabTop2 Model and GPR Dataset
Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3353–3367Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-025-02244-6
Simulating urban expansion as a nonlinear constrained evolution process: A hybrid logistic–Monte Carlo cellular automata framework
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 199, no. Part 3, 116938Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSAGRNet: A novel object-based graph convolutional neural network for diverse vegetation cover classification in remotely-sensed imagery
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 227, pp. 99-124Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOptimizing Object-Based Agricultural and Ecological Land Use Classification via Multi-Band Fusion and Seasonal Spectral Differences
International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 16, pp. 6157-6188Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Novel Multi-Scale Deep Learning Framework for Adaptive Urban Expansion Simulation
Sustainable Cities and Society, vol. 130, 106594Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106594
Cellular automata models for simulation and prediction of urban land use change: Development and prospects
Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, vol. 6, no. 2, 100142Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiig.2025.100142
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It is time to build GLOF-resilient communities globally before another GLOF disaster strikes
Natural Hazards, vol. 2, 41Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTime to diffuse the “ticking time bombs” of the Himalaya
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, vol. 139, 103908Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms for urban footprint extraction in diverse urban contexts using high-resolution remote sensing imagery
Journal of Geographical Sciences, vol. 35, pp. 664-696Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-025-2339-y
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