Publications

19 journal articles, reviews, and data descriptors · 4 book chapters · 1 conference paper · 1 preprint. Publication status is shown for each record.

Featured only25 papers

Data Descriptor2026Featured

A high-resolution global flood susceptibility dataset derived from multi-source earth observation and geospatial data

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi, Meng Gao

Scientific Data

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Global Flood Susceptibility
Earth Observation
Machine Learning

Journal Article2026Featured

A Cloud-Based Geo-AI Framework for Automated High-Resolution Flood Mapping with Explainable Machine Learning

Z. Cong, Mirza Waleed, S. Ullah, F. Tahir, S. G. Al-Ghamdi

Scientific Reports

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Flood Mapping
Cloud Computing
Geo-AI

Journal Article2026Featured

BAM: A Physics-Informed Self-Supervised Framework for Near-Real-Time Wildfire Burned Area Mapping from Multi-Source Earth Observation

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Bilal

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

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Wildfire Mapping
Self-supervised Learning
Earth Observation

Journal Article2025Featured

High-resolution flood susceptibility mapping and exposure assessment in Pakistan: An integrated artificial intelligence, machine learning and geospatial framework

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Google Earth Engine
Disaster Management
Machine Learning

Journal Article2024Featured

Advancing Flood Susceptibility Prediction: A Comparative Assessment and Scalability Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms via Artificial Intelligence in High-Risk Regions of Pakistan

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad

Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley)

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Hot Paper
Google Earth Engine
Disaster Management

Journal Article2023Featured

Urbanization-led land cover change impacts terrestrial carbon storage capacity: A high-resolution remote sensing-based nation-wide assessment in Pakistan (1990–2020)

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad, Muhammad Shareef Shazil

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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Hot Paper
remote sensing
google earth engine

Conference Paper2026

Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using Machine Learning: Spatial Risk Assessment and Implications for the Green Riyadh Project

Z. Cong, Mirza Waleed, F. Tahir, S. G. Al-Ghamdi

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

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Conference Paper
Flood Susceptibility
Machine Learning

Journal Article2026

Increased urban thermal discomfort in major Cities of the Arabian Peninsula

Naushin Yasmin, Mirza Waleed, Safi Ullah, Sami G. Al-Ghamdi

Urban Ecosystems

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Google Earth Engine
Urban Thermal Discomfort
Urban Heat Island

Preprint2026

Prioritizing Agricultural Flood Mitigation: A GeoAI-Driven Assessment of Susceptibility, Crop Exposure, and Socioeconomic Vulnerability

M. M. T. Mukarram, Mirza Waleed, Q. U. Rukiya, M. Linderman, I. Demir

EarthArXiv

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Agricultural Flooding
GeoAI
Crop Exposure

Book Chapter2025

An overview of Google Earth Engine for disaster risk management

Mirza Waleed, Maham Tariq

Elsevier (Data-Driven Earth Observation for Disaster Management)

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Disaster Risk Management
Google Earth Engine
floods

Journal Article2025

Land use dynamics and their impact on hydrology and water quality of a river catchment: a comprehensive analysis and future scenario

Shiferaw Natnael, Habte Lulit, Mirza Waleed

Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer Nature)

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Hydrology
Water
Land use

Review Paper2023

On the emergence of geospatial cloud-based platforms for disaster risk management: A global scientometric review of google earth engine application

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Google Earth Engine
Disaster Management
Review

Book Chapter2023

Warming Cities in Pakistan: Evaluating Spatial–Temporal Dynamics of Urban Thermal Field Variance Index Under Rapid Urbanization

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad

Springer Link (Climate Change and Cooling Cities)

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Remote sensing
cities
urbanization

Journal Article2023

Quantitative Evaluation of Soil Water and Wind Erosion Rates in Pakistan

Xuyan Yang, Qinke Yang, Haonan Zhu, Lei Wang, Chunmei Wang, Guowei Pang, Chaozheng Du, Muhammad Mubeen, Mirza Waleed, Sajjad Hussain

Remote Sensing

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Remote sensing
Soil erosion

Journal Article2023

Machine learning-based spatial-temporal assessment and change transition analysis of wetlands: An application of Google Earth Engine in Sylhet, Bangladesh (1985–2022)

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad, Muhammad Shareef Shazil, Maham Tariq, Md. Tauhidul Alam

Ecological Informatics

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Google Earth Engine
Machine Learning
Wetlands

Journal Article2023

Has Pakistan learned from disasters over the decades? Dynamic resilience insights based on catastrophe progression and geo-information models

Muhammad Sajjad, Zulfiqar Ali, Mirza Waleed

Natural Hazards

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Disaster
GIS
Resilience

Journal Article2023

Leveraging machine learning and remote sensing to monitor long-term spatial-temporal wetland changes: Towards a national RAMSAR inventory in Pakistan

Ansa Shafi, Shengbo Chen, Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad

Applied Geography

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Remote sensing
Google earth engine
Wetlands

Journal Article2023

Towards Sustainable and Livable Cities: Leveraging Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Geo-Information Modelling to Explore and Predict Thermal Field Variance in Response to Urban Growth

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad, Anthony Owusu Acheampong, Md Tauhidul Alam

Sustainability

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Google Earth Engine
lulc
remote sensing

Journal Article2022

Evaluating the efficiency of coarser to finer resolution multispectral satellites in mapping paddy rice fields using GEE implementation

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Mubeen, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman, Asad Amin, Hafiz Umar Farid, Sajjad Hussain, Mazhar Ali, Saeed Ahmad Qaisrani, Wajid Nasim, Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Nasir Masood, Tariq Aziz, Fatma Mansour, Ayman EL Sabagh

Scientific Reports

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remote sensing
google earth engine
crops

Journal Article2022

Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Gully Erosion Mapping Susceptibility at a Watershed Scale

Sliman Hitouri, Antonietta Varasano, Meriame Mohajane, Safae Ijlil, Narjisse Essahlaoui, Sk Ajim Ali, Ali Essahlaoui, Quoc Bao Pham, Mirza Waleed, Sasi Kiran Palateerdham, Ana Cláudia Teodoro

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

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hazard
gully erosion
machine learning

Review Paper2022

Phytohormones as Growth Regulators During Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

Ayman EL Sabagh, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Akbar Hossain, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Muhammad Mubeen, Mirza Waleed, Mariana Reginato, Martin Battaglia, Sharif Ahmed, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Arif, Habib-Ur-Rehman Athar, Disna Ratnasekera, Subhan Danish, Muhammad Ali Raza, Karthika Rajendran, Muntazir Mushtaq, Milan Skalicky, Marian Brestic, Walid Soufan, Shah Fahad, Saurabh Pandey, Muhammad Kamran, Rahul Datta, Magdi T. Abdelhamid

Frontiers in Agronomy

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crops

Journal Article2022

Leveraging cloud-based computing and spatial modeling approaches for land surface temperature disparities in response to land cover change: Evidence from Pakistan

Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad

Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

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Remote sensing
Google earth engine
LST

Book Chapter2021

Morphological, Physiological, and Biochemical Modulations in Crops under Salt Stress

Rashad Mukhtar Balal, Muhammad Adnan Shahid, Naeem Khan, Ali Sarkhosh, Muhammad Zubair, Atta Rasool, Neil Mattson, Celina Gomez, Muhammad Adnan Bukhari, Mirza Waleed, Wajid Nasim

Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture

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crops

Journal Article2021

Satellite-based evaluation of temporal change in cultivated land in Southern Punjab (Multan region) through dynamics of vegetation and land surface temperature

Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Mubeen, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nasir Masood, Hafiz Mohkum Hammad, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Usman, Hafiz Umar Farid, Shah Fahad, Wajid Nasim, Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Mazhar Ali, Saeed Ahmad Qaisrani, Amjad Farooq, Muhammad Shafique Khalid, Mirza Waleed

Open Geosciences

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remote sensing
crops
geographic information system

Book Chapter2021

Salinity Stress in Cotton: Adverse Effects, Survival Mechanisms and Management Strategies

Ayman EL Sabagh, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Akbar Hossain, Muhammad Mubeen, Tasmiya Jabeen, Mirza Waleed, Allah Wasaya, Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman, Disna Ratnasekera, Muhammad Arif, Ali Raza, Subhan Danish, Arpna Kumari, Murat Erman, Cetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Hüseyin Arslan, Muhammad Ali Raza, Shah Fahad

Engineering Tolerance in Crop Plants Against Abiotic Stress

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crops
cotton
salinity stress