I came to GIS the long way around. My doctorate is in Applied Geology, completed over years of field-based coastal research where the maps lived on paper and the analysis lived in spreadsheets. The first time I traced a shoreline through DSAS instead of by hand, I understood that the bottleneck for most Indian PhD scholars was not intellect or effort — it was the gap between knowing a research question and being able to execute it geospatially.
Geospatial Campus grew out of that realisation. The studio runs three things in parallel: hands-on training in GIS and remote sensing for students and faculty, end-to-end research support for PhD scholars publishing in Scopus and SCI journals, and consulting engagements for institutions that need decision-grade coastal, hydrological or LULC outputs. The work is grounded in academic rigour and the operating hours of a working researcher — not the production calendar of a content factory.
Beyond the practice I sit on academic Boards of Studies, deliver Faculty Development Programmes at nationally recognised institutions, and write — three books so far, and a fourth in slow motion. Everything I publish is anchored in primary research or hands-on practice. If a workflow appears in our training, it is because we used it on a real project the week before.