
Nitika Bhakuni
Acting Center Head and Principal Researcher
The Center for Applied Geomatics (CAG) has been established with a vision to leverage geospatial technologies combined with big data analytics to address challenges facing our cities and built environments.
The recent emergence of advanced geospatial technology has transformed the way we plan and manage our natural and built environments. It is now possible to collect, analyse and visualize large quantities of spatial data, giving decision-makers valuable insights into current needs and helping planners, engineers and public officials make informed decisions. World over, technologies like remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have found use in city governments, planning agencies and development practitioners to address a wide array of problems such as land suitability analysis and feasibility studies, spatial planning, environmental conservation, public health mapping.
Cities in India are also increasingly employing geospatial analytics to map and maintain data on land covers, land use and urban expansion, as well as to coordinate and monitor city functions like waste management, public transport services, complaint redressal, tax collection in real-time. As India continues to urbanize and cities grow in size and population, the adoption of advanced technologies at scale to rapidly plan for serviced land and public infrastructure and efficiently manage municipal services, while safeguarding natural resources and environments will be imperative.
We aim to become a resource and knowledge hub for urban data and promote, facilitate and support the application of geospatial technologies in interdisciplinary research, education, community and government services. Our focus areas include the application of geospatial technology in urban planning, urban infrastructure and natural resource management, geo-spatially enabled governance, Enterprise GIS, application in Smart Cities, and advanced applications of GIS and remote sensing in industry and research.
Acting Center Head and Principal Researcher
Deputy Center Head
Shaily is a GIS expert with more than 10 years of experience. She is a Ph.D. from CEPT University in Geospatial Technology, and expertise in bridging the gap between GIS & governance.
Shaily has been recently appointed as the Program Chair for the M.Tech program in Geomatics (MGeo), at the Faculty of Technology. We are sure that her involvement at CRDF & CEPT University will continue to strengthen the relationship between academics and practice.
Shaily is an executive committee member for the Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC) and Joint Secretary of ISRS, Ahmedabad Chapter. She is an active member of IEEE, ISG, and ISRS societies. She contributes in important research projects as Data scientist and GIS expert with different centers at CRDF. She works closely on projects with GIDB, ISRO, GIZ, CODATA, DST Nagoya.
Shaily is a Doctorate from CEPT University Ahmedabad, she holds a Masters degree in Geoinformatics from Symbiosis, Pune and is a BCA from SLICA, Ahmedabad. Shaily is keen on exploring the implementation of GIS and data science in the domain of Urban Analytics. Her core interest lies in exploring spatial technology for better decision making along with defining spatial data standards for data interoperability for building future cities. As Deputy Center Head, CAG, CRDF, Shaily brings extensive experience to bear on GIS and data science.
NRDMS and NSDI Division
2019 - Ongoing |
Research
Space Applications Centre, ISRO
2010 - 2011 |
Research
National Remote Sensing Centre
2009 - 2010 |
Research
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