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Athithiyan
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Geospatial Data Scientist · Remote Sensing · Climate Analytics

Turning satellite imagery into climate-action decisions. 3.5+ years building end-to-end spatial AI pipelines for Tamil Nadu's most ambitious land-use and sustainability initiatives.

SENTINEL-2 10m RESOLUTION TAMIL NADU, INDIA
3.5+ Years of Experience
15K+ Sentinel-2 Scenes Processed
40+ Geospatial Layers Integrated
18 Ecosystem Service Criteria
About Me
Where satellite data
meets climate action

I'm a Geospatial Data Scientist based in India, specialising in turning raw earth observation data into tools that governments and planners actually use. My work sits at the intersection of remote sensing, machine learning, and climate policy.

With a background in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining, I bring a systems-thinking mindset to every spatial problem — from modelling watershed hydrology to classifying land cover at regional scale using Sentinel-2 imagery.

Over 3.5 years at Auroville Consulting, I've delivered end-to-end geospatial workflows for Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission, building frameworks that directly inform land-use policy and climate adaptation strategy.

M.E. Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals

Anna University · 2019–2021

B.E. Chemical Engineering

Arunai Engineering College · 2015–2019

Specialisation in Geospatial AI

LULC classification · Watershed modelling · Supervised & unsupervised ML · CNN-based raster segmentation

Client: Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission

Policy-ready maps and reports embedded into Tamil Nadu's spatial planning framework

Featured Work
Projects that shaped
Tamil Nadu's landscape
2024 – ongoing

Tamil Nadu Blue-Green Infrastructure Framework

Auroville Consulting × TN State Planning Commission

Regional-scale geospatial framework mapping Blue-Green Networks across Tamil Nadu — forests, wetlands, rivers — for flood regulation, carbon storage, and biodiversity.

Sentinel-2 LULC Multi-criteria analysis Ecosystem services Policy mapping
2022–2023

Sustainable Energy Transformation Tamil Nadu (SET-TN)

Auroville Consulting

Land suitability assessment for distributed solar energy across Villupuram district. Policy advisory analytics supporting Tamil Nadu's transition to a net-zero energy future.

Solar suitability Land-use modelling Time-of-use tariff Policy advisory
2023

Land Suitability Assessment — Kallakurichi District

TN State Planning Commission

Multi-use suitability mapping of unused lands for forestation, agriculture, water harvesting, housing, industry, and ground-mounted solar across Kallakurichi district.

LULC change detection Ground truthing Interactive maps Multi-use planning
2025–2026

Lila CRS Converter

Personal · Open Source

Production-ready geospatial web platform for CRS detection and reprojection of raster and vector datasets. Built with FastAPI + Streamlit, containerised with Docker, deployed with HTTPS.

FastAPI Streamlit Docker GitHub Actions VPS deployment
2025

Sentinel-2 Built-Up Detection Pipeline

Personal · Open Source

Automated ML pipeline for mapping built-up areas from Sentinel-2 imagery using spectral indices, Random Forest classification, and Microsoft Planetary Computer STAC API.

Random Forest NDBI · BSI Planetary Computer Jupyter
2025

Chennai Urban Climate — UNet Segmentation

Personal · Open Source

Deep learning pipeline for built-up area extraction using UNet semantic segmentation on multi-spectral Sentinel-2 imagery. Applied to Chennai for urban heat island analysis.

UNet Deep Learning Semantic segmentation IoU ~0.60+
Technical Stack
Tools of the trade
GIS & Remote Sensing
QGIS ArcGIS Google Earth Engine Sentinel-2 Landsat DEM Analysis Watershed delineation NDVI · NDBI · NDWI · BSI
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Random Forest SVM K-Means UNet / CNN Scikit-Learn TensorFlow Patch generation Accuracy assessment
Data & Geospatial Libraries
Python GeoPandas Rasterio GDAL Pandas NumPy PostgreSQL PostGIS Jupyter
Backend, DevOps & Deployment
FastAPI Streamlit REST APIs Docker docker-compose GitHub Actions Linux / Bash Self-hosted VPS HTTPS / Nginx
Get in Touch
Open to collaboration
and new opportunities

Available for geospatial AI projects, climate analytics research, and sustainability-focused data science work. Based in India, open to remote collaboration worldwide.