Hosts of Tartu Geo Podcast
Hosts
Sonia Das
Sonia Das is a masters student at the Geoinformatics for Urbanised society programme at University of Tartu. She uses geospatial technology to study cultural heritage and has worked on World Heritage sites in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India.
Sonia has published work in reputed peer- reviewed journals and presented on National and International conferences. Apart from geospatial analysis, she is trained in 14C radiocarbon dating using AMS. Sonia also makes videos related to GIS and write blogs about use of GIS in archaeology.
Alex Kmoch
Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of international experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, and water quality. His interests include OGC standards and web-services for location-based data sharing, modelling workflows, machine learning, and interactive geo-visualisation. Alex has been involved with SDIs and the OGC for a long time and was recently elected board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society (EstGIS) and European Co-Chair for the OGC University Domain Working Group. He is based at the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Department of Geography of the University of Tartu.
Tahmin Sitab
Tahmin Sitab is a masters student at the Geoinformatics for Urbanised society programme at University of Tartu. He did his bachelors in anthropology from Bangladesh. He is interested in the intersection of sociology and geography and almost every other topic. He firmly believes that you can love both a cat and a dog.