Md Omar SARIF

Last Updated :2025/06/04

Affiliations, Positions
The IDEC Institute, Assistant Professor (Special Appointment)
E-mail
sarifhiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
I am an Assistant Professor in Center for Peaceful and Sustainable Futures (CEPEAS) at International Development and Cooperation (IDEC) in Hiroshima University, Japan. I have been doing research on GIS and Remote Sensing Engineering domain. My area of research is City Climate Modelling, Land Use Planning, Urban Trajectories Modelling, Urban Morphological Dynamics, Surface Urban Heat Island phenomena, Carbon Sequestration, Environmental Vulnerability, Glaciers Melting, Machine Learning Application, Time Series Dynamic and Climate Change.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2023/08/24, 2024/12/28, Lovely Professional University, India, Department of Research Impact and Outcome, Research and Development Cell, Assistant Professor
  • 2022/07/20, 2024/12/28, Lovely Professional University, India, Department of Geography, Assistant Professor

Educational Backgrounds

  • Aligarh Muslim University, Department of Geography, B.A. (Hons.) in Geography, India, 2009/08, 2012/06
  • Jamia Millia Islamia, Department of Geography, M.A. in Geography, India, 2012/07, 2014/06
  • Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Department of Remote Sensing, M.Tech. in Remote Sensing, India, 2014/07, 2016/05
  • Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Geographic Information System (GIS) Cell, Ph.D. in Engineering (GIS and Remote Sensing), India, 2016/07, 2022/06

Research Fields

  • Engineering;Civil engineering;Civil and environmental engineering
  • Engineering;Architecture and building engineering;Town planning / Architectural planning
  • Environmental science;Environmental analyses and evaluation;Environmental dynamic analysis
  • Environmental science;Environmental analyses and evaluation;Environmental impact assessment

Research Keywords

  • City Climate Modelling, Land Use Planning, Urban Trajectories Modelling, Urban Morphological Dynamics, Surface Urban Heat Island phenomena, Carbon Sequestration, Environmental Vulnerability, Glaciers Melting, Machine Learning Application, Climate Change

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. ★, Analysis of Landslide Susceptibility of the Darjeeling District Using a Frequency Ratio Model and Geographical Weighted Regression, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 91, 1-14, 2025
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  2. ★, Land Surface Temperature Profiling and Its Relationships with Land Indices: A case study on Lucknow City, ISPRS Annals, IV-5/W2, 89-96, 2019
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  3. ★, Modelling of snow cover area in relation with climatic variabilities of over Sind catchment of Kashmir Himalayas (2002-2022), Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 138, 1-26, 2025
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  4. ★, Predicting Prayagraj's Urbanization Trajectory using CA-ANN Modelling: Population Pressures and Land Use Dynamics, Journal of Environmental Management, 370, 1-21, 2024
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  5. ★, Status on snow cover area, mass balance, glacial area loss, surface velocities and applications of snowmelt runoff model over Kashmir Himalaya and Upper Indus Valley: A review, Polar Science, 42, 1-10, 2024
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  6. ★, Assessing Local Climate Change by Spatiotemporal Seasonal LST and Six Land Indices, and Their Interrelationships with SUHI and Hot–Spot Dynamics: A Case Study of Prayagraj City, India (1987–2018), Remote Sensing, 2023(15), 1-42, 2023
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  7. ★, Evaluation of Seasonal Ecological Vulnerability using LULC and Thermal State Dynamics using Landsat and MODIS Data: A Case Study of Prayagraj City, India (1987-2018), Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, 77502-77535, 2022
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  8. ★, The Effects of Land Indices on Thermal State in Surface Urban Heat Island Formation: A Case Study on Agra City in India Using Remote Sensing Data (1992–2019), Earth Systems and Environment, 5(1), 135-154, 2021
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  9. ★, Monitoring Urbanization Induced Surface Urban Cool Island Formation in a South Asian Mega-City: A Case Study of Bengaluru, India (1989–2019), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1-17, 2022
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  10. ★, Spatiotemporal mapping of Land Use/Land Cover dynamics using Remote Sensing and GIS approach: a case study of Prayagraj City, India (1988–2018), Environment, Development and Sustainability, 24, 888-920, 2022
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  11. ★, Modelling of Trajectories in Urban Sprawl types and its Dynamics (1988-2018): A case study on Prayagraj City (India), Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14(1347), 1-21, 2021
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  12. ★, Comparative evaluation between Shannon's entropy and spatial metrics in exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban morphology: A case study of Prayagraj City, India (1988–2018), Spatial Information Research, 29, 961-979, 2021
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  13. ★, Exploring correlation between OCO-2 XCO2 and DMSP/OLS nightlight imagery signature in four selected locations in India, Spatial Information Research, 29(1), 123-135, 2021
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  14. ★, Evaluating the inter-relationship between OCO-2 XCO2 and MODIS-LST in an Identified Industrial Belt: A Case Study on Western Part of Bengaluru City of India, Spatial Information Research, 29(3), 257-265, 2021
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  15. ★, Assessment of spatial and temporal dynamics of Land Use/Land Cover and its influence on land surface temperatures in Surface Urban Heat Island: A case study of the Kathmandu Valley, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(12), 1-29, 2020
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  16. Harmonic Analysis of Spatial Pattern of Iran's Thunderstorms, during the years of 1961-2010, Advances in Meteorology, 34(Article ID 1612503), 1-15, 2019
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  17. On the relationship between 500 hPa height fluctuations and Atmosphere Thickness over Iran and the Middle East, Tethys, 16, 3-14, 2019
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  18. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover and Its Effects on Surface Urban Heat Island Using Landsat Data: A Case Study of Metropolitan City Tehran (1988–2018), Sustainability, 10(12), 1-26, 2018
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  19. ★, MODIS-VCF based forest change analysis in the state of Jharkhand, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, India Section A – Physical Sciences, 87(4), 751-767, 2017
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