My research primarily focused on detecting irrigation signals in the satellite soil moisture data and assimilation of satellite soil moisture data with land surface models to quantify the Irrigation Water Use. I am currently Research Scientist at NASA Goddard space flight center, Hydrological sciences lab. My researches are focused on land surface modeling, enhancing the NASA Land Information System (LIS), and utilizing satellite data and large-scale models to investigate the water cycle and the impact of human activities on it. 

Before NASA I was a post-doctoral research associate at the Biosystem and Agricultural Engineering Faculty, Michigan State University, where I was working with the NASA Terrestrial hydrology program (THP) to develop a high-resolution SMAP soil moisture product for the northern latitudes. I was also involved in the upcoming NASA-ISRO NISAR mission (2023) to work on monitoring changes in permafrost landscapes and using high-resolution NISAR soil moisture data for agricultural water management at the field scale.

My research interests:

There will be a global food crisis in less than 30 years!

Cultivated crops are constantly changing (crop rotation)

Dancing crop circles, seen by #Sentinel2

Positive changes in the soil moisture over cropland areas detected by satellite can be used to estimate irrigation water use (see more)

A higher variation in SMAP-Sentinel 1 satellite soil moisture data was detected over cropland areas (see more)

Making GIF in Google Earth Engine

         Median daily NDVI (2000-2022)

              Median daily LST (2000-2022)

              Median Daily ET (2000-2022)

4th Agricultural revolution

Rice planting date Viz inspired by a french dress design in 1937

Evening Dress, 1937, House of Paquin by Ana de Pombo, French House, Spanish Designer, Link

https://github.com/BlakeRMills/MetBrewer/tree/main

In our last study led by Mahya we estimate the rice planting date in Combodia using sentinel-1 Satellite images and showed that there can be as much as  +/-75 days difference compared to the fixed crop calendar planting date. For visualizing the difference we used a MetBrewer color palette that is inspired by a french dress design in 1937.