Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Goutam Konapala

(Associate Scientist, Earth Sciences)

Goutam Konapala's Contact Card & Information.
Email: goutam.konapala@nasa.gov
Org Code: 618
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 618
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO

Education


Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 2018, Clemson University

M.Tech., Civil Engineering , 2014, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

B.Tech., Civil Engineering, 2012, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Positions/Employment


Associate Scientist

USRA/NASA-GFSC - Greenbelt

May 2020 - Present


Post doctoral Associate

Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Oak Ridge

October 2017 - May 2020

Current Projects


Flood Inundation through Deep learning approaches

Hydrology / Water Cycle

Rapid and accurate detection of flood inundation from satellite imagery can aid emergency planning and damage assessment. We develop deep learning frameworks to automate flood inundation mapping from remote sensing imagery


Improving streamflow simulations through deep learning approaches

Hydrology / Water Cycle

Incomplete representations of physical processes often lead to structural errors in process-based hydrologic models. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can reduce streamflow modeling errors but do not enforce physical consistency. Therefore, we build hybrid models by integrating process-based hydrologic model outputs with ML algorithm to streamflow simulations across the world

Selected Publications


Refereed

2022. "Quantifying Spatial Drought Propagation Potential in North America Using Complex Network Theory." Water Resources Research 58 (3): [10.1029/2021wr030914] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Exploring Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 diversity for flood inundation mapping using deep learning." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 180 163-173 [10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.08.016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Exploring Hydrologic Model Process Connectivity at the Continental Scale Through an Information Theory Approach." Water Resources Research 56 (10): [10.1029/2020wr027340] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Dynamics of virtual water networks: Role of national socio-economic indicators across the world." Journal of Hydrology 589 125171 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125171] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Machine learning assisted hybrid models can improve streamflow simulation in diverse catchments across the conterminous US." Environmental Research Letters 15 (10): 104022 [10.1088/1748-9326/aba927] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation." Nature Communications 11 (1): 3044 [10.1038/s41467-020-16757-w] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Quantifying Climate and Catchment Control on Hydrological Drought in the Continental United States." Water Resources Research 56 (1): [10.1029/2018wr024620] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Review of complex networks application in hydroclimatic extremes with an implementation to characterize spatio-temporal drought propagation in continental USA." Journal of Hydrology 555 600-620 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.033] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Teleconnection between low flows and large-scale climate indices in Texas River basins." Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 32 (8): 2337-2350 [10.1007/s00477-017-1460-6] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Changes in temporal variability of precipitation over land due to anthropogenic forcings." Environmental Research Letters 12 (2): 024009 [10.1088/1748-9326/aa568a] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Three-parameter-based streamflow elasticity model: application to MOPEXbasins in the USA at annual and seasonal scales." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20 (6): 2545-2556 [10.5194/hess-20-2545-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]