The people who live with a place know it differently. GeoSutra brings maps, fieldwork, drones, satellites and environmental data alongside that knowledge, so we can understand change and act on it together.
Local knowledge. New ways of seeing.
Seasons, forests, wildlife, water, soil, grazing, fire, regeneration. Local knowledge is the foundation. It becomes even more valuable connected with new evidence about a changing landscape.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, land-use change, disasters, water stress, shifting species, fire, development pressure. What took generations to learn can now change in a season.
Remote sensing and spatial technology have served extraction and land acquisition. We believe they can serve the people who live with a landscape: to understand it, document it, protect it and decide.
The GeoSutra model
None of these layers tells the whole story alone.
We start by understanding the place, the people and the question.
The smallest useful combination of fieldwork, GIS, drones, satellites and analysis.
The result goes back to the people and institutions who need it.
Forests grow and disappear. Rivers move. Wildlife shifts. Cities expand. Climate changes the conditions people have planned around for generations.
Local knowledge remains essential. But it needs new evidence beside it. The old information systems, one-off surveys, scattered reports, maps that age, do not capture that change well.
That is where we work. Today: environmental measurement and intelligence. What we are building: a shared environmental information layer for Nepal, data, tools, maps, monitoring, research, learning and professional services in one place.
What we help people understand
ForestsHealth, inventory, regeneration, management, change
Disaster & resilienceRapid mapping, damage, hazard, recovery
BiodiversitySpecies, habitat, connectivity
Climate & environmental performance →
Water & landscapesWatersheds, land-use change, water systems
Training & learningMap your school. Map your forest.
A forest is biodiversity, livelihood, water, soil, wildlife, climate resilience, culture, food, shade, memory. We count trees because trees matter. But we also sit on porches, walk transects, paddle rivers and ask people what they have seen change.
The user group knew the forest. What was missing was a repeatable spatial picture. UAV + field plots + GIS + crown detection came back as information for the people managing it.
When it does, environmental information has to move just as quickly. See the Nuwakot response →
Every number traces to a plot, a flight or a cited dataset. How we know →
The ecosystem
Every stakeholder sees a different part of the environmental picture. We contribute the expertise, data and tools that help connect those perspectives.
Organisations pay us for professional services, environmental intelligence and technical systems. That lets us keep selected tools, datasets, learning resources and environmental information accessible to communities, students, researchers and the public.
Every tool shows what it does, who it is for, its formula, sources, assumptions, limits and when not to use it.
The people
How do we understand a changing environment without losing sight of the people who already know it?
Hemanshu KafleGIS, drones & strategy
Abhishu NeupaneWildlife ecology & field research
Kirtan PanditBiodiversity & species modelling
Samikshya BasnetField operations & community forestry
Shejal PradhanResearch, policy & communicationsHave a place, a question, a dataset or a problem you are trying to understand? Bring it to GeoSutra.