Prashant Kumar SrivastavaDr. Prashant Kumar Srivastava Prashant is working at IESD, Banaras Hindu University as a faculty and affiliated with Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as visiting scientist on SMAP satellite soil moisture retrieval algorithm devlopment, instrumentation and simulation for various applications. He received his PhD degree from Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Prashant was the recipient of several awards such as NASA Fellowship; USA; University of Maryland Fellowship, USA; Commonwealth Fellowship, U.K.; Early Career Research Award (ECRA, DST, India), CSIR as well as UGC– JRF-NET (2005, 2006). He is leading number of projects funded from reputed agencies in India as well as world. He is also a collaborator with NASA JPL on SMAP soil moisture calibration and validation as well as Scatsat-1, NISAR, AVIRIS-NG missions of India. Prashant made 180+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and published 9 books with reputed publishing house such as Springer, Taylor and Francis, AGU-Wiley and Elsevier Read More Read Less