Gouri Sankar Bhunia Author & Editor

Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia has been working in the Randstad India Private Limited, New Delhi, India. He received a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, India, in 2015. He also worked as a visiting Faculty at Private University, West Bengal, India. His Ph.D. dissertation work focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease using Geospatial technology. Currently, he is involved in smart city and urban planning projects. His research interests include environmental modelling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modelling, data mining and information retrieval using geospatial technology. Dr. Bhunia is an associate editor and on the editorial boards of three international journals in Health GIS and Geosciences. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 80 articles in various Scopus indexed journals. He has published four books with International publishers. 

Dr Pravat Kumar Shit is an Assistant Professor at the PG Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. He received his M.Sc & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Vidyasagar University and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University. His research interests include applied geomorphology, soil erosion, groundwater, forest resources, wetland ecosystem, environmental contaminants & pollution, and natural resources mapping & modeling. He has published eight books (five books with Springer) and more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals.  He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature.