A Geomatics Engineer and researcher reading landscapes through satellites — mapping land surface temperature, urban growth, and land cover change across Nepal's cities with remote sensing, GIS, and machine learning.
About
Utsav is a Geospatial Engineering professional specializing in remote sensing, GIS, and AI/ML for environmental analysis. He works daily in Google Earth Engine (GEE), processing satellite data for urban heat island studies, and is passionate about integrating geospatial analytics with AI to drive research in environmental and agricultural applications.
He is currently a Postgraduate Researcher at Tribhuvan University, IOE WRC, conducting multi-year temporal and spatial analysis of urban heat islands and developing machine learning models for LST prediction and urban heat hotspot detection. He is seeking a PhD opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge developments in remote sensing.
Experience
Multi-year temporal and spatial analysis of urban heat islands using satellite data; developing ML models for LST prediction and urban heat hotspot detection; processing large-scale remote sensing datasets with GEE and Python.
Conducted topographic and cadastral surveys for infrastructure projects; managed GIS-based spatial planning and data visualization.
Conducted topographic and cadastral surveys for infrastructure projects; managed GIS-based spatial planning and data visualization.
Focus Areas
Google Earth Engine (GEE), ArcGIS, QGIS, and ENVI for processing multi-temporal satellite imagery and spatial analysis.
Quantifying surface urban heat island intensity across cities — comparing urban and suburban temperature patterns to inform climate-aware planning.
Deep learning for image classification and predictive modeling, including LST prediction and urban heat hotspot detection.
Landsat (OLI/TIRS), MODIS, Sentinel-2, and UAV-based imaging, with Python and JavaScript for large-scale geospatial analytics.
NDVI/NDBI correlation, heat mapping, and geospatial modeling for environmental and urban studies.
Topographic and cadastral surveys, GIS-based spatial planning, and data visualization for infrastructure projects.
Research & Publications
Editable note: this is the one publication confirmed on your resume. I removed three earlier entries you flagged as not yours (Urban Growth Prediction with ML, GNSS TEC Computation, and the GESAN leadership chapter) — those belong to a different researcher with the same name. Let me know if you'd like more publications added here.
Full publication list and citation metrics on Google Scholar ↗ — worth double-checking this profile is actually yours given the mix-up above.
Tools & Applications
A GEE app for area-based analysis: pick a date range and which months to include (e.g. monsoon-only), then choose how to define your area of interest — click a point, draw a line, draw a polygon, or load your own shapefile (uploaded as an Earth Engine Asset) — and get a Landsat 8/9 land surface temperature time series for it, with cloud masking, NDVI and NDBI index layers, yearly averages, summary statistics, and interactive charts, all generated on the fly.
Add multiple locations to a comparison set — each defined as a point, drawn line, drawn polygon, or an uploaded shapefile (via EE Asset) — and compare their land surface temperature, NDVI, and NDBI side by side, as bar charts and an overlaid multi-line time series.
Draw a trekking or trail route on the map and get back an animated GIF of it progressively drawing itself in — with a moving position marker, over satellite or terrain-hillshade imagery — plus an elevation profile chart. Built for dropping straight into travel or trekking video content.
Blog
On August 26, 2026, a flash flood swept through Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading districts. Here's what happened, why this keeps happening in this region, and a free tool for mapping flood extent with satellite radar.
Read the full post →Most urban heat island research is built around temperate Western cities. Here's why tropical, monsoon-driven cities like Pokhara need their own approach — and a free tool to explore it yourself.
Read the full post →Static maps and day-by-day itineraries are still how most trekking routes get described. Here's why that's a missed opportunity — and a free tool that turns any GPS track into a video-ready route animation.
Read the full post →Education
Pashchimanchal Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University — Distinction
Thesis: Measuring Urban Heat Islands in Pokhara Metropolitan City Using Remote Sensing.
Pashchimanchal Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University — First Division
Contact
Open to research collaboration, GIS and remote sensing projects, and opportunities in geomatics or civil engineering.