Esri Australia has appointed Dr Dipak Paudyal, as part of an expansion into the specialist area of imagery technology.
As principal consultant for remote sensing and imaging at Esri Australia, Dr Paudyal will be spearheading the expansion of the Exelis product suite in the region.
Dr Dipak Paudyal has a career in the geospatial sector that spans more than three continents and 20 years, and is a published academic and lecturer. He holds a PhD in radar remote sensing, a Master of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science, as well as multiple certifications from the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI).
Dr Paudyal has held many industry positions across both the private and public sectors, including at Queensland’s Department of Natural Resources and Mines and Department of Primary Industries.
He comes to Esri Australia from Intergraph, where he headed up the Australasia regional team for ERDAS – a remote sensing technology platform.
In his new role, Dr Paudyal will be championing Exelis’ ENVI and IDL suite of image analysis software, and E3De LiDAR data exploitation platform – both available in Australia exclusively through Esri Australia.
Dr Dipak Paudyal said the expansion of Exelis technology has come at an important time for the Australian GIS industry.
“Imagery is core to GIS technology – whether it’s used as a context-providing basemap, the source for creating new datasets, or to support geospatial analysis,” said Dr Paudyal.
“Traditionally, imagery has been a specialist area – but what we are starting to see is a growing appetite amongst all GIS users for more advanced capabilities to consume imagery and imagery derived products.”
