• Application of GIS and Remote Sensing  in Environmental monitoring for Land use analysis, Wetland assessment, Ground water modeling and  Habitat mapping.
• Remote sensing of Environment  
• Natural Resources Mapping
• Natural Hazards
• Climate Change
• Flood disaster monitoring, assessment and management
• Hydrological modeling and water resource management
• Sustainable urban environment management

                                 Research Publications

1.    Tabassum, A.; Sajjad, A*.; Sajid, G.H.; Ahmad, M.; Iqbal, M.; Khan, A.H.A. Assessing Recharge Zones for Groundwater Potential in Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan): A GIS-Based Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach. Water.2025,17:1586.

2.   Rehman, B.;Khalifa,W.M.A.; Mirza,C.R.; Butt, T.A.; Manan, N.; Sajjad,A.; Toqeer,M.; Siddiqui, G.F.; Yousaf,S.; Iqbal,M. Salt tolerance potential of native plant species and halophilic bacteria from Bahadur Khel and Khewra, Pakistan. Kuwait Journal of Science. 2025, 52(3): 100428.

3.   Sajjad, A*.; Ahmad, M.; Aslam, R.W.; Bibi, M.; Tabassum, A. Remote Sensing-Based Flash Flood Mapping and Damage Assessment in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Environ. Monit. Assess. 2025, 197, 447.

4.   Sajjad, A*.; Ahmad, M.; Tariq, R.; Iqbal, M.; Farooq, R.; Ali, W.; Ali, A. Assessment of Community Perceptions on Drinking Water Quality and Its Implications for Human Health in Islamabad, Pakistan: A Comprehensive Analysis. Desalination Water Treat. 2025, 321, 101055.

5.   Chaoyong, W.; Aslam, R.W.; Quddoos, A.; Naz, I.; Tariq, A.; Ullah, S.; Sajjad, A*.; Soufan, W.; Almutairi, K.F. SAR Image Integration for Multi-Temporal Analysis of Lake Manchar Wetland Dynamics Using Machine Learning. Scientic Reports. 2024, 14, 26669.

6.   Mazhar, N.; Fatima, T.; Nasar-u-Minallah, M.; Sajjad, A*.; Abbas, S. Spatio-Temporal Monitoring and Risk Mapping of Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Hunza Valley, Pakistan. Proc. Pak. Acad. Sci.: A. Phys. Comput. Sci. 2024, 61(3), 283–291.

7.   Lingye, T.; Saleem, N.; Aslam, RW.; Sajjad, A*.;Naz, I.; Tariq, A.; Alzahrani, H. Assessment of Urban Environmental Quality by Socio-Economic and Environmental Variables Using Open Sources Datasets. Transactions in GIS, 2024, 0:1-19. 

8.   Naz, I.; Fan, H.; Aslam, RW.; Tariq, A.; Quddoos, A.; Sajjad, A*.; Soufan, W.; Almutairi, KF.; Ali, F. Integrated geospatial and geostatistical multi-criteria evaluation of urban groundwater quality using water quality indices. Water, 2024, 16, 2549.

9.   Sajjad, A*,; Lu, J.; Chen, X. et al. Flood hazard assessment in Chenab River basin using hydraulic simulation modeling and remote sensing. Nat Hazards 2024 120, 7679–7700.

10.  Aslam, R.W.; Shu, H.; Yaseen, A.; Sajjad, A.; Zain ul Abidin , S.  Identification of time-varying wetlands neglected in Pakistan through remote sensing techniques. Environ Sci Pollut Res  2023, 30, 74031–7 4044. 

11.  Sajjad, A*.; Lu, J.;  Chen, X.; Chisenga, C.; Mazhar, N. Rapid assessment of riverine flood inundation in Chenab floodplain using remote sensing techniques. Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2023,10, 9.

12.   Sajjad, A.; Lu, J.; Aslam, R.W.; Ahmad, M. Flood Disaster Mapping Using Geospatial Techniques: A Case Study of the 2022 Pakistan Floods. Environ. Sci. Proc. 2023, 25, 78.

13.  Sajjad, A.; Lu, J.; Chen, X.; Chisenga, C.; Mazhar, N.; Nadeem, B. Riverine Flood mapping and impact assessment using remote sensing technique: A case study of Chenab flood-2014 in Multan district, Punjab, Pakistan. Nat Hazards, 2022, 110, 2207–2226. 

14. Mahmood, S*.; Sajjad, A*.; Rahman, A. U. Cause and damage analysis of 2010 flood disaster in district Muzaffar Garth, Pakistan. Natural Hazards, 2021, 107, 1681-1692. 

15. Mazhar, N.; Shirazi, S. A.; Javid, K.; Rahman, M. H-U.; Sajjad, A. Application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for precision agriculture, in selected wheat fields of Rajanpur. Pakistan Geographical Review, 2021, 76, 213-223. 

16. Waqas, H.; Lu, L. Tariq, A.; Li, Q.; Xing, J.; Sajjad, A. Flash Flood Susceptibility Assessment and Zonation Using an Integrating Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Model for the Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Water, 2021, 13,1650.

17. Sajjad, A.; Lu, J.; Chen, X.; Chisenga, C.; Saleem, N.; Hassan, H. Operational monitoring and damage assessment of riverine flood-2014 in the lower Chenab plain, Punjab, Pakistan, using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Remote Sensing, 2020, 12, 714.

18. Sajjad, A.; Lu, J.; Chen.; Saleem, N. Rapid riverine flood mapping with different water indexes using flood instances Landsat-8 images. 5th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/ECWS-5-08049

19. Basit, M.; Sajjad, A.; Mahmood, Z.; Sohail, M.; Khurshid, S. K. Spatial assessment of transgender population: The deprived community on Pakistan”. Arts and Social Science, 2020, 1, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.34154/2020-ASSJ-0202-01-12/euraass 

20. Sajjad, A.; Lu, J.; Chen, X.; Chisenga, C.; Mahmood, S. The riverine flood catastrophe in August 2010 in South Punjab, Pakistan: potential causes, extent and damage assessment. Appl. Ecol. Environ. Res., 2019, 17, 14121-14142.

21. Mahmood, S.; Rahman, A. U.; Sajjad, A. Assessment of 2010 flood disaster causes and damages in district Muzaffargarh, Central Indus Basin, Pakistan. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2019. 78, 63.

22. Saleem, N.; Huq, M.; Twumasi, N. Y. D.; Javed, A.; Sajjad, A. Parameters derived from and/or used with digital elevation models (DEMs) for landslide susceptibility mapping and landslide risk assessment: a review. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019, 8, 545.

23. Basit, M.; Sajjad, A. Female Deficit: Trends and Patterns of gender Ratio in Pakistan, Directing Census- 2017. Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2019, 7(1). 

1. Organized and chaired 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Environment, from 11-13 January, 2023 in Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad 

2. Published and presented 2 papers in international conference on Geography and Global sustainability (ICGSS) organized by Department of Geography, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka from December 9-10,2021.

2.  Presented paper in 16^th All Pakistan Geographical Conference-APGC 2021, March, Department of Geography, University of the Punjab.

3. Published paper in 5th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences from Nov 16–30 2020 https://doi.org/10.3390/ECWS-5-08049

4.  Presented paper in second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analysis AIABDA2018 in Macao from April 23-25, 2018

5.  Published abstract and presented in 2^nd LIESMARS International Graduate Workshop on geo-informatics in Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China from July 8-11, 2018

6.  Published abstract and presented in 3^rd LIESMARS International Graduate Workshop on Geo-informatics in Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China from June 25-28, 2019