Shijo Joseph
About
Dr. Shijo Joseph has more than fifteen years experience in remote sensing, GIS, climate change, and tropical land cover dynamics. He worked as a Senior Scientist in Kerala Forest Research Institute before moving to KUFOS. He authored more than 50 research articles in international and national journals, and holds editorial positions in PlosOne, and Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability. He is an Expert Member of the Technical Task Force on National Green House Gas Accounting of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and participated several meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Dr. Joseph was trained in the premier institutes in India and abroad. This includes Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam; Center for Earth Science Studies at Trivandrum; Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun; National Remote Sensing Center, Hyderabad; ATREE, Bangalore; and institutes in Indonesia, UK, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands. He had received prestigious scholarships from European Union as well as from Cambridge University. He had traveled more than 30 countries and conducted carbon monitoring and climate change studies in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Subject
Remote Sensing, GIS, Climate Change, Environmental Modelling and Disaster Management
Books
Papers
- Peter S
- F
- and Joseph S
- (2019) Greenhouse Gas Inventorying-Estimation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Road Transport in a Central District in Kerala India
- Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability 7(1): 52-54
- , Sebastian A
- Joseph S
- Khalam A
- A
- and Reddy C
- S
- (2019)
- Development of High Resolution Wetland Database and Web Interface in the Ernakulam and Thrissur Districts in Kerala India
- Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability 7(1):1-7
- , Slik J
- W
- F
- Franklin J
- [together with 185 authors] (2018) Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 1837-1842
- [IF-9
- 661(SCI)], Astrid B
- B
- Amy E
- D
- Arild A
- Valerio A
- Veronique De S
- Martin H
- Joseph S
- Claudio de Saassi
- Erin O
- Sills
- William D
- S
- & Sven W
- (2017)
- Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives
- Environmental Research Letters 12 074007
- [IF-4
- 404 (SCI)], Athira K
- Reddy C
- S
- Saranya K
- R
- L
- Joseph S
- & Jaishanker R
- (2017)
- Habitat monitoring and conservation prioritisation of protected areas in Western Ghats Kerala India
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- 189: 295
- [IF-1
- 687 (SCI)], DeVries B
- Decuyper M
- Zeileis A
- Herold M
- Joseph S
- (2015)
- Tracking disturbance-regrowth dynamics in tropical forests using structural change detection and Landsat time series
- Remote sensing of Environment 169:320-334
- [IF-6
- 265 (SCI)], Anitha K
- Verchot L
- V
- Joseph S
- Herold M
- Manuri S
- and Avitabile V
- (2015)
- A review of forest and tree plantation biomass equations in Indonesia
- Annals of Forest Science 72 (8): 981-997
- [IF-2
- 101 (SCI)], de Sassi C
- Joseph S
- Bos A
- B
- Duchelle A
- E Ravikumar A
- and Herold M
- (2015)
- Towards integrated monitoring of REDD+
- Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14: 93-100
- [IF-3
- 954 (SCI)], Reimer F
- Asner G
- P
- and Joseph S
- (2015)
- Developing baselines in projects and subnational REDD+ initiatives - A CLASlite approach
- Carbon balance and management 10:5
- (IF-0
- 625 (SJR)], Roy P
- S
- Behera M
- D
- Murthy M
- S
- R
- [together with 95 co-authors] (2015)
- New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remote sensing: Comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 39 142-159
- [IF-3
- 930 (SCI)]
- , Krishnaswamy J
- John R
- Joseph S
- 2014
- Consistent response of vegetation dynamics to recent climate change in tropical mountain regions
- Global Change Biology 20 203-215
- [IF-8
- 502 (SCI)], Joseph S
- Herold M
- Sunderlin W
- D
- Verchot L
- V
- 2013
- REDD+ readiness: early insights on monitoring reporting and verification systems of project developers
- Environmental Research Letters 8 - 034038
- [IF-4
- 404 (SCI)], Joseph S
- van Laake P
- E
- Thomas A
- P
- Eklundh L
- 2012
- Comparison of carbon assimilation estimates over tropical forest types in India based on different satellite and climate data products
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 18 557 - 563
- [IF-3
- 930(SCI)], Joseph S
- M
- S
- R
- Murthy and A
- P
- Thomas
- 2011
- The progress on Remote Sensing technology in identifying tropical forest degradation - A synthesis of the present knowledge and future perspectives
- Environmental Earth Sciences
- 64 731-741
- [IF-1
- 569 (SCI)], Joseph S
- & Ouseph P
- P
- (2010)
- Assessment of nutrients using multivariate statistical techniques in estuarine systems and its management implications: a case study from Cochin Estuary India
- Water and Environment Journal 24 (2): 126-132
- [IF-1
- 063 (SCI)], Joseph S
- Ch
- Sudhakar Reddy V
- K
- Srivastava and A
- P
- Thomas
- 2010
- Spatial interpolation of Carbon stock: A case study from Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot India
- International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
- 17(6): 481 – 486
- [IF-1
- 864 (SCI)], Anitha K Joseph S
- R
- J
- Chandran E
- V
- Ramasamy and S
- N
- Prasad
- 2010
- Tree species diversity and community composition in a human dominated tropical forest of Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot India
- Ecological Complexity 7: 217-224
- [IF-1
- 784 (SCI)], Joseph S
- G
- A
- Blackburn B
- Gharai S
- Sudhakar A
- P
- Thomas and M
- S
- R
- Murthy
- 2009
- Monitoring conservation effectiveness in a global biodiversity hotspot: the contribution of land cover change assessment
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 158: 169-179
- [IF-1
- 687(SCI)], Joseph S
- Anitha K
- and M
- S
- R
- Murthy
- 2009
- Forest fire in India – A review of the knowledge base Journal of Forest Research 14 (3): 127 – 134
- [IF-0
- 667 (SCI)], Anitha K Joseph S
- and S
- N
- Prasad
- 2009
- Changes in structural attributes of plant communities along disturbance gradients in a dry deciduous forest of Western Ghats India Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 155 (1): 393 – 405
- [IF-1
- 687 (SCI)], Joseph S
- C
- Sudhakar Reddy Chiranjibi Pattanaik and S
- Sudhakar
- 2008
- Distribution of plant communities along climatic and topographic gradients in Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary India Biological Letters 45 (1): 29-41
- [IF-0
- 15 (SCI)], Joseph S
- and Anitha K
- 2009
- Disturbance diversity and stability of ecological systems – The need for a uniform hypothesis
- Current Science 97 (2) 142-143
- [IF-0
- 843 (SCI)], Anitha K
- S
- N
- Prasad and Joseph S
- 2007
- Ecological Complexity and sustainability: Challenges and opportunities for 21st century” Current Science 93: 600-601
- [IF-0
- 843 (SCIE)]
Citations
- 642 (Google Scholar)
Projects
Patents
Awards
- Best Environmental Researcher Award of the State by the Government of Kerala (2019), Erasmus Mundus Scholarship from European Union (2009), Cambridge University Bursary for attending Conference on Conservation Science (2008)
- , University Merit Scholarship from Mahatma Gandhi University (2005)