About the Authors

Neel Chaminda Withanage

Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliations Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Bebei District, Chongqing, P. R. China

Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Prabuddh Kumar Mishra

Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

prabuddh@shivaji.du.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Geography, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Kamal Abdelrahman

Contributed equally to this work with: Neel Chaminda Withanage, Kalpani Lakmali Gunathilaka, Prabuddh Kumar Mishra, Kamal Abdelrahman

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Geology and Geophysics, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dilnu Chanuwan Wijesinghe

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Bebei District, Chongqing, P. R. China

Vishal Mishra

Roles Data curation, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics section, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany

Sumita Tripathi

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Environment Studies, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, New Delhi, India

Mohammed S. Fnais

Roles Funding acquisition, Software

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Geology and Geophysics, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

All authors declared that there is no conflict of interest.