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/C, vol. 141, 104178Contributions 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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Understanding the point mass balance and surface ice velocity for the debris-covered glacier, Panchi II, western Himalaya (India)
Results in Earth Sciences, vol. 3, 100058Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA novel automated labelling algorithm for deep learning-based built-up areas extraction using nighttime lighting data
Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 306, 112702Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFrom roofs to renewables: Deep learning and geographic information systems insights into a comprehensive urban solar photovoltaic assessment for Stonehaven
Energy 360, vol. 1, 100006Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRevealing the evolution of spatiotemporal patterns of urban expansion using mathematical modelling and emerging hotspot analysis
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 364, 121477Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479724014634
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121477
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Glacier area change (1993–2019) and its relationship to debris cover, proglacial lakes, and morphological parameters in the Chandra-Bhaga Basin, Western Himalaya, India
Journal of Mountain Science, vol. 21, pp. 1287-1306Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-023-8277-1
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The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission
Journal of Maps, vol. 20, no. 1, 2302361Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSegment Anything Model (SAM) for Automatic Crater Detection
EGU General Assembly 2024, pp. 21146Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsMethods and insights on enabling geovisualisation for coastal communities of the North Shore of Vancouver
Coastal Studies & Society, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 3-32Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluating the Efficacy of Segment Anything Model for Delineating Agriculture and Urban Green Spaces in Multiresolution Aerial and Spaceborne Remote Sensing Images
Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 2, 414Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16020414
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A flexible deep learning crater detection scheme using Segment Anything Model (SAM)
Icarus, vol. 408, 115797Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRising winter temperatures might augment increasing wheat yield in Gangetic Plains
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, vol. 150, pp. 1531–1544Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA discussion on the plausible role of ice streams in carving Martian outflow channels: Revisiting the earliest hypothesis by Lucchitta et al. (1981)
Progress in Physical Geography, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 809-818Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA comprehensive multidecadal glacier inventory dataset for the Chandra-Bhaga Basin, Western Himalaya, India
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-311
- [ONLINE] http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-311
Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region
Earth System Science Data, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 4171–4185Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDoes a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?
Journal of ethology, vol. 40, pp. 291–296Contributions to Journals: Articles