Sailesh Samanta, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer and Section Head of GIS Section under the Department of Surveying and Land Studies at Papua New Guinea University of Technology, where he teaches courses in Remote Sensing and GIS. His research has been reported in numerous publications and supported by varied government and private organizations. Within the university, he has been active in support of related fields, including agriculture, climatology, forestry, hydrology, geomorphology and spatial modelling.