Saurabh Varma (GIS)
Saurabh Varma is associated with Science and Technology Park, Pune as a Project Associate since 2008. He obtained his M.Tech degree in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun an ISRO Training Institute and from the Geo-engineering Division of Andhra University.
Saurabh shall be introducing Basics concept of Geographical Information System and its Application in different fields in todays world, along with reallife examples drawn from projects.Saurabh provided key GIS inputs for the GIS based CGD Network Design at both Pune- MNGL & Dewas - GAIL GAS Ltd.
Ram Iyer (GIS)
Ram Iyer is associated with Science and Technology Park, University of Pune, as a Project Director since 2007. Ram is an Electronics Engineer with Business Management Specialization. With more than 39 years of experience in Business Development, Project Implementation and Product Management, Ram has implemented several GIS based decision support systems for several Government Undertakings and Urban Local bodies within the various mission mode programs like Jawaharlal Nehru Urban renewal Mission(JnNURM),National Mission Mode Programs (NMMP),etc.
Ram had interacted with the PNGRB for the Service level Bench Marking in the area of Gas Distribution which led to the first pilot of City Wide Gas distribution being developed on GIS platform for MNGL Pune. This project was followed by a full City Wide Gas distribution at Dewas MP for GAIL GAS Ltd
Dr.Himanshu Ranade
Dr. Himanshu Ranade has obtained Ph.D. Degree in Environment Management. He is currently associated with Geo informatics Cell, Science & Technology Park, Govt. of India in the capacity of Project Associate since last 7 years.
At GUIDE, he was involved in biodiversity mapping project for Kachchh region that was funded by Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) for the tenure May 2004-May 2005. He also gained field experience of working in forest ecosystems of Arunachal Pradesh for IIRS under ISRO-GBP project on Carbon Budget assessment of terrestrial ecosystem of Arunachal Pradesh during June 2005- June 2006. Subsequently, He was also engaged for two years (July 2006-May 2008) under National Land Use Land Cover mapping of Bihar State that was sponsored by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad to Geo mastics Solution and Development Group, C-DAC, Pune.