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Geospatial data scientist specializing in hyperspectral & SAR analysis, crop-yield machine learning, and production EO pipelines FastAPI · GEE · STAC. M.Tech, IIT Guwahati · presented at EGU 2024.

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Years Exp.
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Prod. Endpoints
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Certifications
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geospatial-data-scientist · M.Tech IIT Guwahati

$ cat focus.txt

hyperspectral (PRISMA) · SAR (Sentinel-1) · crop-yield ML

$ ls pipelines/

spectral-indices time-series lulc flood-sar

sebal-et aef-embeddings landslide-risk

$ ./deploy --stack fastapi,stac,gee

✓ 15+ endpoints live · 7 analysis modules

Spectral physics meets
production engineering.

I am a Geospatial Data Scientist (M.Tech, Earth System Science, IIT Guwahati) with a Civil Engineering foundation. My PRISMA hyperspectral thesis on hydrocarbon microseepage was presented at EGU 2024.

Currently at SwanSAT, I build the analytics backend of a crop-monitoring platform — multi-temporal satellite analysis (SAR, Optical, Thermal) powering yield forecasting, flood detection, and landslide risk assessment.

I also bring expertise in 1D/2D hydraulic modelling, flood risk assessment, and hydrology — combining traditional engineering principles with modern Python-based geospatial tooling.

M.Tech, Earth System Science
IIT Guwahati
Hyperspectral & SAR
PRISMA · Sentinel-1/2 · Landsat 8/9
// Mission profile
Sense

Hyperspectral, multispectral & SAR acquisition across PRISMA, Sentinel and Landsat missions.

Model

Ensemble ML, spectral unmixing, foundation-model embeddings, energy-balance physics.

Ship

Production FastAPI services, STAC pipelines and interactive dashboards used for real decisions.

Products & projects.

From a production crop-intelligence platform to open geospatial tools — everything I've shipped.

PROFESSIONAL · SWANSAT Code

PhytoLens

Crop Intelligence Platform

Production crop-monitoring platform — I built the analytics backend: 15+ FastAPI endpoints across 7 analysis modules on Microsoft Planetary Computer STAC imagery, served to a React + Leaflet dashboard.

FastAPI Rasterio Xarray STAC API React + Vite Leaflet Recharts
Spectral Indices

NDVI, GNDVI, NDWI, NDMI, LST plus custom band math with interactive stretch & statistics.

Time-Series Profiling

Cloud-filtered mean/min/max/std crop-trend curves over any date range.

LULC Mapping

ESA WorldCover 10 m with automatic per-class area breakdowns (km²).

SAR Flood Detection

Sentinel-1 VV/VH, Lee despeckling, dB-drop thresholding, before/after flood masks.

SEBAL Evapotranspiration

Landsat thermal/optical energy balance with automated ERA5-Land anchor-pixel calibration.

AEF Embedding Analytics

K-Means clustering & cosine-similarity search over a 64-band embedding index.

Landslide Susceptibility

All-India district statistics plus corridor exposure for 1,000+ National Highways (250 m–1 km buffers, per-class length shares).

Some demos run on Streamlit Community Cloud and may hibernate. If you see a "Zzzz" screen, click "Yes, get this app back up!" — it wakes within moments.

SpecTralNi30

GIS Analytics Engine

Full-stack geospatial web app on Streamlit + GEE: real-time Vegetation Health Index monitoring, soil-moisture retrieval and flood mapping with ML/DL tooling.

PythonStreamlitGEE

geoFormatX

Vector Interoperability

Serverless geospatial ETL: automated conversion between Shapefile, GeoJSON & KML with CRS reprojection handling for clean interoperability.

StreamlitGeoPandasPython

GeoSarovar

Water Intelligence

Satellite-driven site selection for sustainable water conservation — DEM, SAR & optical fusion to locate optimal rainwater-harvesting structures.

PythonGEESAR/Optical

KaMaL

Interactive Web Module

Lightweight, responsive WebGIS module for visualizing custom datasets and layers with a seamless map-first user experience.

WebGISJavaScriptHTML

Disaster Risk Assessment

InSAR Landslide Analytics

Interactive dashboard for landslide risk assessment along Indian National Highways using InSAR ground-deformation data, district-level susceptibility mapping, and corridor exposure analysis.

React + ViteLeafletInSARPythonFastAPI

Climate Risk Assessment

Climate Anomaly Analytics

District-level climate anomaly analytics dashboard across India — tracking temperature, precipitation, and vegetation anomalies with interactive maps and time-series visualizations.

React + ViteLeafletClimate DataPythonRecharts

Experience & education.

Experience

GIS Analyst

JUN 2024 — PRESENT

SwanSAT · Mumbai, India

  • Built the analytics backend of PhytoLens, SwanSAT's crop-monitoring platform (FastAPI + React/Leaflet): 15+ endpoints across 7 analysis modules on Planetary Computer STAC imagery.
  • Applied machine learning over 64-band AEF foundation-model embeddings — K-Means clustering and cosine-similarity search — for land-cover characterisation and anomaly flagging.
  • Developed Sentinel-1 SAR flood detection and an all-India landslide-susceptibility module covering 1,000+ National Highway corridors.

Education

M.Tech, Earth System Science & Engineering

2022 — 2024

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

B.Tech, Civil Engineering

2018 — 2022

Rajkiya Engineering College, Ambedkar Nagar

Technical expertise.

Geospatial Domain

Crop PhenologyYield Modeling Flood ModellingLand Susceptibility Soil Moisture RetrievalArcGIS Pro QGISENVI SNAP (SAR)GEE

Development & WebGIS

Python (GeoPandas, Rasterio, ArcPy) NumPy & PandasSQL (PostGIS) JavaScript (GEE)FastAPI StreamlitLeaflet Git/GitHubETL Pipelines

AI & Machine Learning

Computer VisionOpenCV TensorFlowPyTorch Time-SeriesRegression Scikit-learnKeras

Research & certifications.