Research Interests

• My prime research focuses on the subsurface study of Mars. It helps us to understand the different geological activities which happened during the evaluation period of Mars. I use different mission data and modeling to evaluate the morphological and geophysical evidences.

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Geoinformatics from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
• Master of Science, Computer Science, Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, Haryana
• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science and Application, Patna University, Patna, Bihar
• Bachlor of Science, Physics Hons., Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, Bihar

Research Experience

• 11 years reserach experience in Planetary Remote Sensing

Publications

1. P.B. Hiral, S. Anbazhagan, S. Rahul, Shania James,T. Sadeeda Marjan, Devika Padmakumar, J. Aswathi, K.S. Sharini, Alka Rani, K.S. Sajinkumar, Rajiv R. Bharti, V.J. Rajesh j, R.B. Binoj Kumar , 2025, Reconstructing the geological and geomorphological history of Morella crater, Mars, Geomorphology, Date of Publication: 01/04/2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109740
2. Rajiv R. Bharti, Isaac B. Smith, Shital H. Shukla , 2023, Subsurface study of the Tharsis graben system using SHARAD data, Icarus, Date of Publication: 15/06/2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115681
3. Rajiv R. Bharti, Isaac B. Smith, S.K. Mishra, N. Srivastava, Shital H. Shukla, 2021, SHARAD detection of sedimentary infilling within an unnamed crater near Mangala Fossa region, Mars, Icarus, Date of Publication: 21/09/2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114713
4. S. K. Mishra and R. R. Bharti, Subsurface detections by SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) on MARS, Physics News 50, 29 (2020), https://www.tifr.res.in/~ipa1970/news/2020/A6_PN_SKMishra_fn.pdf
5. Sinha, Rishitosh K., Vijayan S., and Rajiv R. Bharti, Study of ice-related flow features around Tanaica Montes, Mars: Implications for Late Amazonian debris-covered glaciation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.07.002
6. Sinha, Rishitosh K., Vijayan, S., and Bharti, R.R., Terrestrial rock glaciers: a potential analog for Martian lobate flow features (LFF), SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing (pp. 98770K-98770K), International Society for Optics and Photonics (2016), https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223675

Conferences

1. Rajiv R. Bharti , Isaac B. Smith, Shital H Shukla, study of the Tharsis graben system using SHARAD data, IPSC 2023
2. Rajiv R. Bharti , Isaac B. Smith, Shital H Shukla, SHARAD Study of the Martian Graben System, IPSC 2022
3. Rajiv R. Bharti , Isaac B. Smith , S. K. Mishra , N. Srivastava , Shital H Shukla , SHARAD detection of sedimentary infilling within an unnamed crater near Mangala Fossa region, Mars, NSSS 2022
4. Rajiv R Bharti , Isaac Smith, Sanjay Mishra, SHARAD detection of subsurface reflection near Mangala Fossa, Mars, IPSC, 2021
5. Rajiv R Bharti , Isaac Smith, Study of Subsurface of Lava Province on Mars using SHAllow RADar (SHARAD), IPSC, 2020
6. Rajiv R Bharti , Sanjay Mishra, Characterizing the Martian subsurface using Shallow Radar, URSI, AP-RASC, New Delhi, 2019
7. Rajiv R Bharti, Isaac Smith, Investigating Multiple Lava Flows near Mangala Fossa with SHARAD, MSSTM, Grenoble, France, 2018
8. Rajiv R Bharti, Isaac Smith, Investigating Multiple Lava Flows near Mangala Fossa with SHARAD, LPSC, 2018
9. Sinha, Rishitosh K., Vijayan S., and Rajiv R. Bharti, Lobate debris apron and lineated valley fill around Tanaica Montes, Mars: Implications for late Amazonian glacial activity in the region, In 48th LPSC, 2017.
10. Sinha, Rishitosh K., Vijayan S., and Rajiv R. Bharti, Terrestrial rock glaciers: A potential analog for Martian Lobate flow features (LFF), In SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, April 4-7, 2016, New Delhi, India.
11. Rajiv R. Bharti, Investigation of the subsurface of Mars, In ISRS-ISG National Symposium, December 7-9, 2016, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
12. Rajiv R Bharti, Multilayer analysis tool for SHARAD radargram using MOLA DEM and subsurface scattering model” - NSSS2016