Blog
2026
We welcome Ongkar Dasgupta to the RIVER Lab! Ongkar is pursuing a BTech in CSE at NIT Agartala and a BS in Electrical Systems at IIT Madras. He joins us as a summer intern and will be working on estimating reservoir dynamics of dams in South America using the SWOT satellite’s observations.
Mr. Maitra Tiwari, a student of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, NIT Raipur, joins the RIVER Lab. His work will focus on evaluating the performance of LSTMs for predicting streamflow.
2025
We welcome Shanta Panja to the RIVER Lab! Shanta joins us as a PhD student and will be investigating the estimation of groundwater seepage from reservoirs using satellite observables.
We are officially launching RIVER Lab at the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), IIT Bombay. The lab will focus on satellite remote sensing of water bodies, regulated river hydrology, and open-source hydrological software. Positions for PhD students and research associates are open – see the Join page for details.
Our paper on multi-satellite tracking of surface water storage in the SWOT era is now published in Earth and Space Science. We show that SWOT achieves near-order-of-magnitude improvement in elevation RMSE over pre-SWOT approaches for reservoir storage estimation.
Our paper exploring forecast-informed dam operations in ungauged mountainous basins using GEFS and the RAT satellite framework is now published in Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (ASCE). We apply the framework to the 2018 Kerala floods as a globally representative test case.
The Reservoir Assessment Tool (RAT) is now available as a conda-installable Python package with a command-line interface, CI/CD pipeline, and full documentation at ratdocs.io. The paper describing the package is published in Digital Water.