CEGIS Professionals

Mr. Akter has been working in CEGIS since 2015 under the Geographic Information System Division. He has experience in, topographical & hydrographical data collection, data analysis, map preparation, data documentation, and field report writing. He is specialized in operating Total Station, Level Machine DGPS survey, Cross-section survey, velocity & discharge measurement, etc. He has extensive experience in Auto CAD drawing and GIS map preparation.

M. Sc. in GIS for Environment and Development, Jahangirnagar University ; B. Sc. in Civil Engineering, European University of Bangladesh; Diploma in Civil Engineering, Dhaka Polytechnic Institute.

• Field Survey Core Skills

• Total Station operation (instrument setup, leveling, traverse, coordinate collection)
• DGPS / RTK GPS use (high accuracy positioning)
• Auto Level / Dumpy Level (height, RL, leveling work)
• Traverse & Control Survey concept
• Chain surveying & tape measurement basics
• Benchmark (BM), TBM understanding

• GIS & Mapping Skills

• ArcGIS Pro / ArcMap advanced tools
• QGIS (processing, plugins, spatial analysis)
• Georeferencing (old maps, satellite images)
• Digitization standard (accuracy, topology rules)
• Spatial analysis (buffer, overlay, interpolation)
• DEM/contour generation & terrain analysis
• GPS data cleaning & import/export (CSV, shapefile, GeoJSON)

• Survey Data Processing & Engineering Knowledge

• Coordinate systems (UTM, WGS84, local datum)
• Projection transformation
• Error adjustment (least square adjustment basic idea)
• Hydrology survey basics (river, khal, drainage)
• Road & alignment survey basics
• Cross section, longitudinal section drawing
• Earthwork calculation (cut-fill)

• Software Skills

• AutoCAD (must for survey drawings)
• Civil 3D (road, alignment, profiles)
• Global Mapper (terrain + GPS handling)
• Excel advanced (data processing, formulas)
• QGIS + ArcGIS integration workflow

• Remote Sensing

• Satellite image interpretation (Sentinel, Landsat)
• NDVI, land use/land cover mapping
• Change detection analysis
• Google Earth Engine basics 

• Hydrology / River & Land Survey

• Cross section survey (river, canal)
• Discharge measurement concept
• Velocity-area method basic idea
• Flood mapping basics
• Erosion & sediment observation

• Field Work Professional Skills (Real Consultant Level)

• Survey planning (how to design survey route)
• Data accuracy checking
• Report writing (technical report, survey report)
• Team coordination (survey team handling)
• Client communication

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