Ujaval Gandhi
Ujaval is the founder of Spatial Thoughts - a learning platform for modern geospatial technologies. Ujaval got his Masters in Geospatial Information Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Google Inc. in California, he moved to India in 2006. He was one of the early employees at Google India and part of the team that launched Google Maps for India. He worked on multiple Geo teams at Google and led the GIS team in India.
After 15 years of corporate experience, he left Google in 2020 to work on his startup - Spatial Thoughts - to create a learning platform to bridge the skill gap in the geospatial industry. His online academy has trained participants from over 100 countries. His learning materials on QGIS, Python, Earth Engine, and GDAL are cited as the top learning resources globally and are used by more than 1 million people every year.
Ujaval is a world-renowned training facilitator and is passionate about advancing the use of open-source technologies in teaching and research. He is an active QGIS community contributor and a QGIS.org certified training provider.
Sessions
XArray is a powerful Python package for working with climate and earth observation datasets. This workshop will be a structured introduction to XArray, STAC and Dask with use-cases focused on cloud-based remote sensing applications.
This workshop will give you hands-on experience using new Google Earth Engine Plugin for QGIS to combine their deskto-based geospatial workflows with cloud-based datasets.
This talk will do a deep-dive into QGIS Model Designer for building fast, automated and reproducible workflows. We will cover real-world use cases and share tips to help you leverage the no-code framework provided by QGIS.
This talk will take you through my journey of building Spatial Thoughts and share insights into what it takes to build a education business powered by open content and open-source ethos.
This talk will take you on a whirlwind tour of hidden and advanced features of the world's most popular open-source desktop GIS.