GIS Manager. Geospatial Analyst. Author. A working geospatial scientist who runs a small studio out of Nagercoil, delivers coastal and land-use mapping projects for institutions, and trains the next cohort of GIS professionals across South India.
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 how wide the gap had become between knowing what you want to measure and being able to execute it geospatially. Closing that gap, for other people, became the work.
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, Faculty Development Programmes for university departments, and geospatial project work for institutions that need decision-grade coastal, hydrological or LULC outputs. The work is grounded in field experience and the operating hours of a working practitioner, 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.
Coastal geomorphology and shoreline-change analysis. Field-based research across the south-east Indian coast.
Geospatial Campus operates as a registered MSME unit. Proprietor: Dr. Aran Castro A J.
Day-to-day: scoping, data preparation, spatial analysis, cartography, and classroom teaching. Hands-on, in the software.
Reviews from training cohorts, FDP participants, and institutional project clients. Updated continuously.
Curriculum review and scope-setting for the Department of Physics' geospatial pathway.
Department of Civil Engineering · IEEE GRSS & Geospatial Campus joint programme.
Marthandam, Tamil Nadu. Geospatial methods for environmental research.
Department of Applied Geology, Chennai.
Resource person for the Department of Physics National Science Day programme.
Two-day intensive workshop on hands-on GIS and remote sensing.
Geospatial reflections on conflict, recovery and the cartography of post-conflict landscapes.
How great GIS researchers think, a playbook for moving past button-clicking into spatial reasoning.
Processes, landforms, and human interactions. A field-and-lab reference for geomorphology researchers.
Dinakaran: No.1 Tamil daily · Nagercoil edition. Coverage of the Memorandum of Understanding between Geospatial Campus and the Department of Physics & Research Centre, Nesamony Memorial Christian College, Marthandam, a partnership for joint GIS & remote-sensing training, research initiatives, and industry-relevant skills for students across the region. See the event →
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Brand notes: name renders Dr. Aran Castro A J in body copy and Dr Aran on the MSME register. Trading name: Geospatial Campus.
