M Shahriar Sonet

Research Interests

Earth observation for resilience & sustainability.

• Natural Hazards

  Tropical cyclones, floods, and community vulnerability assessment using change-detection.

• Land Cover Dynamics

  Urban expansion, LULC change, and land surface temperature in rapidly growing cities.

• Hydrology

  Spatiotemporal climate trends, precipitation forecasting, and groundwater quality assessment.

• Remote Sensing

  Sentinel, Landsat, Kompsat imagery; Google Earth Engine workflows at regional scale.

• Wildfire

  Fire behavior, recovery dynamics, and risk modeling in arid and semi-arid landscapes.

• GeoAI

  Machine-learning techniques applied to geospatial problems for prediction and pattern discovery.

Publications

Peer-reviewed scholarship.

1. Sonet, M. S., & Reygadas, Y. (2025). Unveiling four decades of spatiotemporal climate trends in Texas (1981–2023). Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 60, 102539.

   doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102539

2. Sonet, M. S., Hasan, M. Y., Kafy, A. A., & Shobnom, N. (2025). Spatiotemporal analysis of urban expansion, land use dynamics, and thermal characteristics in a rapidly growing megacity using remote sensing and machine learning techniques. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 156(2), 79.

   doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-05264-3

3. Sonet, M. S., Hasan, M. Y., Chakma, S., & Al Kafy, A. (2024). Assessing tropical cyclone impacts in coastal Bangladesh: a change detection analysis on cyclone Bulbul using geospatial analysis and remote sensing techniques. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 112, 104726.

   doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104726

4. Altuwaijri, H. A., …, Sonet, M. S. (2025). Biophysical parameters and land surface temperature dynamics in arid urban environments: A comprehensive machine learning approach. Environmental Earth Sciences, 84, 434.

   doi.org/10.1007/s12665-025-12427-6

5. Hasan, M. Y., …, Sonet, M. S., et al. (2025). Hydrogeochemical characterization and human health risk assessment for heavy-metal contamination in coastal aquifers: a case study in Satkhira District, Bangladesh. Science of the Total Environment.

   doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180640

6. Sonet, M. S., Hasan, M. Y., & Kafy, A. A. (2025). Machine learning-enhanced precipitation forecasting in arid regions: advancing climate-modelling techniques in Lubbock, Texas. Theoretical & Applied Climatology (Under review).

Conference Presentations

1. MS Sonet. Forecasting rainfall anomalies in arid landscapes: a machine-learning approach for enhanced environmental management in Lubbock, Texas. AAG Annual Meeting 2024.

2. MS Sonet, S. Chakma. Impact assessment of community vulnerability in Cyclone Bulbul and analyzing change-detection impacts by geospatial techniques. AAG Annual Meeting 2023.

3. N. Jahan, MS Sonet, A. Nayan. Natural hazards-triggered early marriage: a case study on Kajipur Upazilla, Sirajganj. Chittagong University Research & Higher Study Society, 2022.