Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory : People & Places

Rajat Bindlish, Ph.D
Visiting Scientist
USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
104 Bldg. 007, BARC-West
Beltsville, MD 20705 USA
Voice: (301) 504-5363
Fax: (301) 504-8931
Rajat.Bindlish@ars.usda.gov

Research Interests:

Microwave remote sensing of soil moisture

Calibration/validation of soil moisture

Application of remotely sensed soil moisture in hydrology

Education:

2000: Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

1996: M.S., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

1993: Bachelor of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Professional Experience:

2000 - Present: Scientist (SSAI) working at U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD.

1994 - 2000: Graduate Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, College Station, PA.

05/98 - 09/98: Visiting Research Scientist at USDA, ARS, HRSL, Beltsville, MD.

05/96 - 09/96: Visiting Research Scientist at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

07/93 - 05/94: Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

05/92 - 08/92: Internship, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

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Selected Publications: (please contact the author to determine reprint availability)

(view author's publications/interpretive summaries/technical abstracts since 1999)

Bindlish, Rajat and A.P. Barros, 2000. Multi-frequency soil moisture inversion from SAR measurements using IEM. Remote Sensing of Environment, 71 (1), pp. 67-88.
Bindlish, Rajat, and A.P. Barros, 2001. Parameterization of vegetation backscatter in radar-based soil moisture estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 76, 130-137.
Bindlish, Rajat, W.P. Kustas, A.N. French, G.R. Diak, and J.R. Mecikalski, 2001. Influence of near-surface soil moisture on regional scale heat fluxes: Model results using microwave remote sensing data from SGP97. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., Vol. 39, No. 8, 1719-1728.
Bindlish, Rajat, and A.P. Barros, 2002. Sub-pixel variability of remotely sensed soil moisture: An intercomparison study of SAR and ESTAR. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., Vol. 40, No. 2, 326-337.
Bindlish, Rajat, T.J. Jackson, E.F. Wood, H. Gao, P. Starks, D. Bosch, and V. Lakshmi, 2003. Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 85, 507-515.
Kustas, W.P., R. Bindlish, A.N. French, and T.J. Schmugge, 2003. Comparison of energy balance modeling schemes using microwave derived soil moisture and radiometric surface temperature. Water Resour. Res., Vol. 39 No. 2, 10.1029/2002WR001361.
Crow, W.T., Rajat Bindlish and T.J. Jackson, 2005. The added value of spaceborne passive microwave soil moisture retrievals for forecasting rainfall-runoff partitioning. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 32, L18401, doi:10.1029/2005GL023543.
Cosh, M.H., T.J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, J.S. Famiglietti and D. Ryu, 2005. Calibration of an impedence probe for estimation of surface soil water content over large regions. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 311, pp. 49-58.
Jun Wen, Thomas J. Jackson, Rajat Bindlish, Ann Y. Hsu and Z. Bob Su, 2005. Retrieval of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Water Content Using SSM/I Data Over a Corn and Soybean Region. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 6 (6), pp. 854-863.
Jackson, T. J., R. Bindlish, A. J. Gasiewski, B. Stankov, M. Klein, E. G. Njoku, D. Bosch, T. Coleman, C. Laymon, and P. Starks, 2005. Polarimetric Scanning Radiometer C and X Band Microwave Observations during SMEX03. IEEE Transactions in Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 43 (11), pp. 2418-2429.
Bindlish, Rajat, Thomas J. Jackson, Albin J. Gasiewski, Marian Klein and Eni G. Njoku, 2006. Soil Moisture Mapping and AMSR-E Validation using the PSR in SMEX02. Remote Sensing of Environment, 103 (2), pp. 127-139.
Ryu, D., Jackson, T.J., Bindlish, R., Le Vine, D.M., 2007. L-band microwave observations over land surface using a two-dimensional synthetic aperture radiometer. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (14), L14401.
Narvekar, P.S., Jackson, T.J., Bindlish, R., Li, L., Heygster, G., Gaiser, P., 2007. Observations of land surface passive polarimetry with the WindSat instrument. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45 (7), pp. 2019-2028.
Bindlish, R., T.J. Jackson, A. Gasiewski, B. Stankov, M. Klein, M.H. Cosh, I. Mladenova, C. Watts, E. Vivoni, V. Lakshmi, J. Bolten, T. Keefer, 2008. Aircraft based soil moisture retrievals under mixed vegetation and topographic conditions. Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 112 (2), pp. 375-390.
Crow, W.T., G. Huffman, R. Bindlish, T.J. Jackson, 2009. Improving satellite-based rainfall accumulation estimates using spaceborne surface soil moisture retrievals. Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol 10 (1), pp. 199-212.
Bindlish, R., Crow, W.T., Jackson, T.J., 2009. Potential role of passive microwave remote sensing in improving flood forecasts. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol 6, 112-116.
Bindlish, R., Jackson, T.J., Sun, R., Cosh, M.H., Yueh, S., Dinardo, S., 2009. Combined Passive Active Microwave observations of Soil Moisture during CLASIC. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Volume 6, Issue 4, Page(s): 644 ? 648.
Narvekar, P.S., Heygster, G., Jackson, T.J., Bindlish, R., Macelloni, G., Notholt, J., 2010. Passive Polarimetric Microwave Signatures Observed Over Antarctica. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48 (3), pp. 1059-1075.
Jackson, T.J., M.H. Cosh, R. Bindlish, P.J. Starks, D.D. Bosch, M.S. Seyfried, D.C. Goodrich, and M.S. Moran, 2010, "Validation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer soil moisture products", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in press.