MSc, PhD, AFHEA
Lecturer
- 51cg
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- Email Address
- lydia.sam@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences




External Memberships
- Editor of
- Editor of , Part of Springer Nature.
- Editor of Frontiers Research Topic
- Editor for the open access journal Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) / Impact Factor (2018): 4.118. Also editor of special Issues:
- Special Issue
- Special Issue
- Special Issue
- Invited guest editor for a special issue ‘’ in open access journal Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338).
- Research
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Research Overview
- Remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) applications
- Landforms and surface processes
- Glaciology; including alpine glacier dynamics, glacial geomorphology, glacial hazards and glaciers-climate interaction
- High-resolution terrain modelling and interpretation
- Use of Unmanned aerial systems (UAS)/drones for environmental monitoring and Mars analogue research
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Geography and Environment, Geology and Geophysics.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Remote Sensing
- Geographical Information Systems
- Glaciology and Cryospheric Systems
- Geography
- Planetary Science
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.
Funding and Grants
- Global Challange Research Internal Fund: Pump Prime grant for the project 'Ice stupa: a solution to improve Himalayan-Karakoram mountain community resilience to water scarcity'. During August 2020 - July 2021. Funding agency: The Aberdeen Grants Academy, 51cg
- 'Geostatistical analysis of spatiotemporal trends of COVID-19 spread in UK'. NERC-Funded QUADRAT Research Experience Placement
- 'Assessing the long-term impact of climatic variables on coastal changes in Scotland using geospatial tools'. NERC-Funded QUADRAT Research Experience Placement
- 'Robust infrastructure – Adapting railway maintenance to climate change(CliMaint)'. Funding Agency: VINNOVA Sweden’s Innovation Agency
- Teaching
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Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
GG5540/GG5563 (CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF GIS): Course Coordinator and Tutor
GG3069 (REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS): Co-course coordinator and Tutor
GG5910 (DISSERTATION PROJECT IN GIS): Supervision
GL5206/5207 (THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DATA): Tutor
GL5546 (APPLIED, INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH GEOPHYSICS): Guest Lecturer
- Publications
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Increasing glacier end-of-summer snowline altitudes in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh
Geografiska Annaler Series A-Physical GeographyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A Nation Shaped by Ice, Shaping Global Cryospheric Research
The Geographer, vol. The Cryosphere: Glaciers, Geohazards and Greenland, pp. 8-9Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles- [ONLINE]
Ice-rock avalanches in a warming Himalaya indicate pathways toward effective preparedness
Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 7, no. 1, 217Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Cellular automata models for simulation and prediction of urban land use change: Development and prospects
Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, vol. 6, no. 2, 100142Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Simulating urban expansion as a nonlinear constrained evolution process: A hybrid logistic–Monte Carlo cellular automata framework
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 199, no. Part 3, 116938Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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SAGRNet: A novel object-based graph convolutional neural network for diverse vegetation cover classification in remotely-sensed imagery
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 227, pp. 99-124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Time to diffuse the “ticking time bombs” of the Himalaya
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, vol. 139, 103908Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Optimizing Object-Based Agricultural and Ecological Land Use Classification via Multi-Band Fusion and Seasonal Spectral Differences
International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 16, pp. 6157-6188Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A Novel Multi-Scale Deep Learning Framework for Adaptive Urban Expansion Simulation
Sustainable Cities and Society, vol. 130, 106594Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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It is time to build GLOF-resilient communities globally before another GLOF disaster strikes
Natural Hazards, vol. 2, 41Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Quantifying pre-collapse dynamics of hanging rock-ice masses using remote sensing datasets
Contributions to Conferences: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] DOI:
Comparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms for urban footprint extraction in diverse urban contexts using high-resolution remote sensing imagery
Journal of Geographical Sciences, vol. 35, pp. 664-696Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A novel automated labelling algorithm for deep learning-based built-up areas extraction using nighttime lighting data
Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 306, 112702Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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From roofs to renewables: Deep learning and geographic information systems insights into a comprehensive urban solar photovoltaic assessment for Stonehaven
Energy 360, vol. 1, 100006Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Revealing the evolution of spatiotemporal patterns of urban expansion using mathematical modelling and emerging hotspot analysis
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 364, 121477Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission
Journal of Maps, vol. 20, no. 1, 2302361Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Segment Anything Model (SAM) for Automatic Crater Detection
EGU General Assembly 2024, pp. 21146Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Methods and insights on enabling geovisualisation for coastal communities of the North Shore of Vancouver
Coastal Studies & Society, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 3-32Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Assessing the Efficacy of Glacier Inventories to Evaluate Climate Change Impacts: Key Takeaways from Baspa River Basin
Risk, Uncertainty and Maladaptation to Climate Change: Policy, Practice and Case Studies. Sarkar, A., Bandyopadhyay, N., Singh, S., Sachan, R. (eds.). 1 edition. Springer, pp. 93-124, 32 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI:
Evaluating the Efficacy of Segment Anything Model for Delineating Agriculture and Urban Green Spaces in Multiresolution Aerial and Spaceborne Remote Sensing Images
Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 2, 414Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A flexible deep learning crater detection scheme using Segment Anything Model (SAM)
Icarus, vol. 408, 115797Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Using Seismic Data from NASA’s InSight Mission to Characterize and Relate Marsquakes with any Identifiable Surface Changes
AGU Fall meetingContributions to Conferences: Posters- [ONLINE]
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Rising winter temperatures might augment increasing wheat yield in Gangetic Plains
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, vol. 150, pp. 1531–1544Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A discussion on the plausible role of ice streams in carving Martian outflow channels: Revisiting the earliest hypothesis by Lucchitta et al. (1981)
Progress in Physical Geography, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 809-818Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Multitemporal glacier inventory revealing four decades of glacier changes in the Ladakh region
Earth System Science Data, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 4171–4185Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?
Journal of ethology, vol. 40, pp. 291–296Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Editorial:: Applications of Remote Sensing in Glaciology
Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 17, 4146Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Editorial: Advances in Mars Research and Exploration
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, vol. 9, 971104Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Visualising avalanches in the Himalayas
Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE]
Spatiotemporal quantification of key environmental changes in Stok and Kang Yatze regions of Ladakh Himalaya, India
Geocarto International, vol. 37, no. 26, pp. 11509–11533Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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How satellites are helping us to understand deadly avalanches
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: Articles- [ONLINE]
Reconstruction and Characterisation of Past and the Most Recent Slope Failure Events at the 2021 Rock-Ice Avalanche Site in Chamoli, Indian Himalaya
Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 4, 949Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A Remote Sensing Perspective on Mass Wasting in Contrasting Planetary Environments: Cases of the Moon and Ceres
Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 4, 1049Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Potential of Multi-resolution Satellite Imagery Products for Scale Variant Topographic Mapping
Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, vol. 50, pp. 175-187Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Tackling the global change challenges to water security in Tajikistan, the water tower of Central Asia
EGU General Assembly 2022Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI:
Four decades of understanding Martian geomorphology: Revisiting Baker’s ‘The geomorphology of Mars’
Progress in Physical Geography, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 979-989Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Local- and Regional-Scale Forcing of Glacier Mass Balance Changes in the Swiss Alps
Remote Sensing, vol. 13, no. 10, e1949Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A Comparative View of Glacial and Periglacial Landforms on Earth and Mars
Bulletin of the AAS, vol. 53, no. 4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Mars Astrobiological Cave and Internal habitability Explorer (MACIE): A New Frontiers Mission Concept
Bulletin of the AAS, vol. 53, no. 4, 347Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Solar-System-Wide Significance of Mars Polar Science
Bulletin of the AAS, vol. 53, no. 4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Glacier Ice Thickness Estimation and Future Lake Formation in Swiss Southwestern Alps—The Upper Rhône Catchment: A VOLTA Application
Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 20, 3443Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Small lava caves as possible exploratory targets on Mars: Analogies drawn from UAV imaging of an Icelandic lava field
Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 12, 1970Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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UAV Imaging of Small Caves in Icelandic Lava Field as Possible Mars Analogues
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE]
Martian Caves as Special Region Candidates
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE]
Quantifying the Congruence between Air and Land Surface Temperatures for Various Climatic and Elevation Zones of Western Himalaya
Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 24, 2889Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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UAV Imaging of a Martian Brine Analogue Environment in a Fluvio-Aeolian Setting
Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 18, 2104Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Distribution and Morphologies of Transverse Aeolian Ridges in ExoMars 2020 Rover Landing Site
Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 8, 912Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Are Slope Streaks Indicative of Global-Scale Aqueous Processes on Contemporary Mars?
Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 48-77Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Analysing geospatial techniques for land degradation studies in hindu Kush-Himalaya
Environmental Change in the Himalayan Region: Twelve Case Studies. Saikia, A., Thapa, P. (eds.). 1 edition. Springer International Publishing AG, pp. 117-135, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Discovery of recurring slope lineae candidates in Mawrth Vallis, Mars
Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 2040Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Revisiting Enigmatic Martian Slope Streaks
Earth and Space Science, vol. 100, 100Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Climate and remotely sensed markers of glacier changes in the Himalaya
Environmental Change in the Himalayan Region: Twelve Case Studies. Springer International Publishing AG, pp. 65-88, 24 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Evaluation of optical remote sensing-based shallow water bathymetry for recursive mapping
Geocarto International, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 737-753Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Heterogeneity in topographic control on velocities of Western Himalayan glaciers
Scientific Reports, vol. 8, 12843Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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A review on remotely sensed land surface temperature anomaly as an earthquake precursor
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 63, pp. 158-166Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Martian slope streaks as plausible indicators of transient water activity
Scientific Reports, vol. 7, 7074Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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MODIS-based estimates of strong snow surface temperature anomaly related to high altitude earthquakes of 2015
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 188, pp. 1-8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Development of a Glacio-hydrological Model for Discharge and Mass Balance Reconstruction
Water Resources Management, vol. 30, pp. 3475-3492Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Use of Geospatial Tools to Prioritize Zones of Hydro-Energy Potential in Glaciated Himalayan Terrain
Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 409-420Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Changing climate and glacio-hydrology in Indian Himalayan Region: A review
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 393-410Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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LiDAR remote sensing of the cryosphere: Present applications and future prospects
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 177, pp. 125-143Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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UAVs as remote sensing platform in glaciology: Present applications and future prospects
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 175, pp. 196-204Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Automated detection and temporal monitoring of crevasses using remote sensing and their implications for glacier dynamics
Annals of Glaciology, vol. 57, no. 71, pp. 81-91Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Remote sensing of alpine glaciers in visible and infrared wavelengths: a survey of advances and prospects
Geocarto International, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 557-574Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Remote sensing flow velocity of debris-covered glaciers using Landsat 8 data
Progress in Physical Geography, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 305-321Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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A lake detection algorithm (LDA) using Landsat 8 data: A comparative approach in glacial environment
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 38, pp. 150-163Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Applicability of Landsat 8 data for characterizing glacier facies and supraglacial debris
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 38, pp. 51-64Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Estimation of dune celerity and sand flux in part of West Rajasthan, Gadra area of the Thar Desert using temporal remote sensing data
Arabian Journal of Geosciences, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 295-306Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Mapping debris-covered glaciers and identifying factors affecting the accuracy
Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 106-107, pp. 161-174Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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