Company Background & Activities
Aruna's senior partners and associates have been active professionals in mapping, engineering, environment and natural resources management in Cambodia since 1993, working in close collaboration with government agencies and local groups.
The company maintains an extensive network of contacts among Cambodian technical personnel capable of delivering services in all aspects of development work, including GIS/RS (Remote Sensing), engineering, natural resources management, surveying, training programs, institutional strengthening, and project management and monitoring.
Aruna Technology Ltd. can field such personnel for short-term and long-term assignments, in the framework of donor-funded and private-sector projects and within our turnkey projects.
Company Mission Statement
Our goal is to support national public and private sector institutions to utilize state-of-the-art technology for sustainable development.
Aruna Technology Ltd. supports the management of natural resource systems in Cambodia and the Greater Mekong Sub-region by providing the tools, expertise, training and experience to partner national agencies and staff.
What We Do
Our focus is on providing integrated solutions to specific problems. Project sectors include agriculture, hydrology, rural development, disaster management, cartography, cadastral, fisheries, the environment and protected areas management.
Aruna is taking advantage of the latest technology developed abroad but our foundation is firmly set within Southeast Asia. We combine our local knowledge with the right tools for the job and work closely with client staff so that their capacity is developed for the future. The main tools used are spatial information technology, especially remote sensing including satellite imagery and aerial photography, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) receivers and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. The main areas where we provide experienced international and local consultants include water resources engineering, environmental assessment, surveying, cartography, GIS and project management.
What We Sell
We are a distributor of ESRI Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Software, PCI Geomatics software, Garmin Global Positioning Systems (GPS) equipment, Fugro OmniSTAR and Navcom StarFire differential GPS equipment, Sensors and Software Ground-Penetrating Radar equipment and software, and SPOT, ASTER, EROS, RADARSAT, India Resource Satellite (IRS), IKONOS, Quickbird and LandSAT satellite data.
The Origin of the Name "Aruna"
The name and logo of Aruna is taken from a scene in the gallery surrounding Angkor Wat, specifically the North Gallery, south wing. The scene is “The Battle between the Devas and the Asuras”. This is another illustration of the great cosmogonic battle between Good, associated with harmony, against Evil, associated with disorder. Twenty great deities, or devas, stand out from the melee owing to their heroic size. They are confronted with as many evil asuras.
The sixteenth deva is Surya, against a background representing the solar disc. Aruna drives his chariot, ‘Aruna’ meaning ‘Dawn’, a figure half-human and half-bird. Aruna represents the dawn of a new era for Cambodia, one where advanced technology enables harmony to be made from disorder.