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ANKIT SINGH

ANKIT SINGH

Dehradun,Uttarakhand

Summary

  • Motivated with solid experience managing all levels of large-scale as well as small projects, including budgeting and administration.
  • More than 100 (9 years) months experience in the processing of satellite data acquired by optical,thermal, and hyper-spectral sensors; image interpretation, classification, and composition of maps for customized output generation.
  • Operational knowledge in working with Esri Products and ERDAS imaging image processing software.
  • Working knowledge in processing of hyper-spectral data,atmospheric correction,signature generation, and classification.
  • Working knowledge in ARC-GIS, GIS towards spatial database generation,integration, and query generation.
  • Day to day working with MS office, etc.
  • Also, have Teaching Experience for“ M.Tech. In Remote Sensing& GIS” at theSchool of Geo-informatics Remote Sensing Application.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Associate

Wildlife Institute of India
Dehradun, India
10.2021 - 10.2024
  • Identifying the Indian Himalayan region's High Conservation Areas.
  • Species Distributuion Animals in models.
  • Identification of habitats that are suitable for predators.
  • illustrating the impact of climate change on wildlife.
  • Analysis of camera traps.
  • Mammal ecology and behaviour.
  • Wildlife Conservation plan.
  • Human-wildlife conflict
  • Leading projects under the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE Phase II), focusing on assessment, monitoring, and conservation strategies against climate change impacts on terrestrial mammals in the Indian Himalayan Region. Managed a multidisciplinary team, developing web-based decision support systems, and contributing to policy-making through extensive research and data analysis.

GIS Consultant

Freelancer
Dehradun, Uttarakhand
06.2020 - 01.2021
  • Successfully handled two individual projects i.e.

i. Building Print and Landuse/Landcover (spatial Database creation) for Kota District, Rajasthan on High-resolution Drone Imagery.

ii. Forest cover and habitation mapping for 35 VFDS boundary for Himachal Forest department.

  • Consultation provided as per objective basis on different projects of different agencies.
  • Methodology preparation for river rejuvenation of Rispana River Project.

Manager Technical

IGIS Pvt. Ltd. And Science Society
Dehradun, INDIA
08.2018 - 05.2020
  • Successfully submitted three major projects, i.e.

i. Finalizing of Shortest road alignment via Jim Corbett Park from Kotdwar to Ramnagar (KandiRoad).

ii. Project dealing with model city planning in Almora, along with six other districts of Uttarakhand with emphasis on 3D building and DSM.

iii. Biodiversity characterization at landscape-level using Remote Sensing and GIS in Uttarakhand.

  • Worked directly with departments, clients, and management to achieve results.
  • Supported Chief Operating Officer with daily operational functions.
  • Obtained documents, clearances, certificates, and approvals from local, state and federal agencies.
  • Assisted various business groups with document organization and dissemination during acquisitions.
  • Performed initial client assessment and analysis to begin the research process.
  • Researched and updated all required materials needed for the firm and partners.
  • Responded to calls in both routine and emergency situations.
  • Delivered accurate verbal and written reports to company personnel.
  • Researched and updated all required materials needed for thefirm and partners.
  • Developed a new process for employee evaluation which resulted in marked performance improvements.
  • Analyzed departmental documents for appropriate distribution and filing.
  • Supported CEO in personal document management, calendar organisation and collateral preparation for meetings.
  • Planned and executed all aspects of office move.
  • Taught weekly internal software classes to more than 5 new users.

PROJECT SCIENTIST

RSAC-UP
LUCKNOW, INDIA
09.2016 - 07.2018
  • Used role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos and lectures to instruct participants in a variety of ways.
  • Administered performance reviews to evaluate each participant's progress.
  • Organised training for new employees per week.
  • Extensively trained new and existing employees.
  • Conducted one-on-one tutoring sessions for new employees.
  • I was handling there, all the training programme related to REMOTE SENSING AND GIS in state remote sensing agency lucknow for the government of UP . I am helping the GIS Department for the analysis of the data, processing of the data, delivery of data, consulting the Ministry of Water Resource Rajasthan for the capacity building. I am involved in the various process of map generation enabling the installation water reservoirs etc. for the upliftement of the rural areas. I handling a large group of officials as of now which involves Engineers, IAS officers, Ministers etc. who are involved in the IWMP project on water monitoring, mapping in watershed division.

Projects Undertaken ( Tech Lead) :

  • Land Degradation Mapping for 42 District mapping of UttarPradesh.
  • Making a Public health Information System for JE In GorakhpurMandal.
  • Slum Pockets Mapping for Lucknow district.
  • Flood Inundation Mapping for Revenue Department.
  • Creating water distribution network information system for part ofLucknow District.

Senior Programmer GIS

WATERSHED DEPARTMENT , RAJASTHAN (VELOCIS)
CHITTAURGARH, INDIA
11.2015 - 09.2016
  • I handle all the administrative level information and decision making as an gis expert .
  • I do all the trainning and analysis and defining of the raw data into an information package.
  • I also have responsibility for the development of the data its quality check, data delivery, and from top to bottom i handle all kinds of responsibility related to the gis process.
  • I in the councelling and decision making gis bench of chittorgarh watershed department.
  • I was also handling the khasra map generation for the government of Rajasthan . I am handling the whole water shed and GIS Department for the analysis of the data , processing of the data, delivery of data, consulting the Ministry of Water Resource Rajasthan for the capacity building. I am involved in the various process of map generation enabling the installation water reservoirs etc. for the upliftement of the rural areas. I handling a large group of officials as of now which involves Engineers, IAS officers , Ministers etc. who are involved in the IWMP project on water monitoring, mapping in watershed division.

PROJECT TECHNICIAN & PROJECT SCIENTIST

RSAC-UP
LUCKNOW, INDIA
07.2014 - 10.2015

AS PROJECT TECHNICIAN:

I had the responsibility of the sericulture and agriculture department of the center for its basic analysis and study of all the maps and its referencing also its image processing and final rectification.

Undertaken Projects:

  • Identification of Suitable Sites for Sericulture Development atPlot Level.

Nature of Work;-

  • DigitizingCadastralMapwith thehelpofAuto Cad.
  • Georefrencing of Cadastral Map with help of ArcGIS.
  • Digitizingof Waste Landfor selected Criteria.
  • Monitoring of Canal Command Area for Accessing Crop Acreage,Cropping Intensity, Crop Calendar and Wet Land Mapping Using Remote Sensing & GIS Techniques.

Nature of Work;-

  • Downloading MODIS Data and determining Crop Phenology.
  • Calculating Crop Acreage by Hierarchical Classification from

Awifs Data.

  • Wetland Mapping By Using LISS III Data.

AS PROJECT SCIENTIST:

My previous work was in the Training division of STATE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATION CENTRE of Uttar Pradesh, where I had to provide lectures to various IAS/IFS and similar cadre officer not only this I had to take classes for M.Tech in Remote Sensing , M.Tech in Geo Informatics and similar earth science specializations. I had to take lectures on watershed management, data acquisition, image classification, satellite data analysis, environment analysis, and various widespread subjects as well.

I have knowledge of various software's like ARC GIS, AUTO CAD, ERDAS IMAGINE , GLOBAL MAPPER, QUANTUM GIS etc. which made me help my students to learn more and I also helped my students with the labs in which they had exposure to various types of modules in syllabus. I was a Project Scientist so I had to work with the various departments as well such as Agriculture resource division, soil division, etc.

Undertaken Projects:

Change Detection of Urban Sprawl Of Bahraich District.

Morphometric Analysis of Or Nadi Bundelkhand Region.

Change Detection In Sodic land for various Districts.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - Environmental Science

Doon University
Dehradun, Uttarakhand

M.Sc. - Geoinformatics

Uttarakhand University
Dehradun
2016

M.Sc. - Environment Science

Swami Vivekanand University
Sagar, M.P.
2014

Post Graduate Diploma - Remote Sensing And GIS

Allahabad University
Allahabad
2012

Bachelor of Science - Physics, Mathematics

C.S.J.M.University
Kanpur
2011

Skills

  • GIS data management
  • Knowledge of Hindi & English Typing
  • Proficiency in MS Office and Internet
  • Data analysis
  • Satellite imagery processing
  • Thematic mapping
  • Ground survey understanding
  • Spatial layer planning
  • Map production
  • Photographic mosaic production
  • Drone Data Processing
  • QGIS
  • ArcInfo
  • Python
  • ArcGIS
  • Site Surveillance
  • Good knowledge of Hardware and Assembling of Computers
  • Statistical analysis
  • PiX4D
  • Technical analysis
  • Project documentation
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Drone Flying
  • R
  • Complete familiarity with the Windows Operating Systems

Research Publications

1. Khushi Kaushik, Ankit Singh and Suneet Naithani (2024).Assessing Habitat Suitability of Pangolin Species ( Manis Crassicaudata) in Uttarakhand Region using Maxent Modelling for Effective Conservation Strategies,International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, Open Access,   Peer Reviewed, Refreed Journal, ISSN: 2320-2882,Vol., 12, Issue 4,   pp.c365-376, https://www.ijcrt.org/. April.
2. Ankit Singh, Suneet Naithani and Arun Pratap Mishra (2024).Geospatial Investigation of the Rishiganga Disaster in Uttarakhand, India,Natural Resource Monitoring, Planning and
Management Based on Advanced Programming,   IGU UGI, Springer,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2879-4_2.
3. Richa Joshi, Ankit Singh, Tushar P. Parab, Juan James Mandy, Chaitanya Baliram Pande (2024). Assessing the Impact of Recent Climate Dynamics on Land Since the Last Two Decades (1991–2021) Using LST and NDVI, Pages 269-308, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2879-4_2.
4. Gaurav Dimri, Ankit Singh and Suneet Naithani (2024) Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in the Darma-Byans Valley, Uttarakhand: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach, Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (Under Review).
5. Tushar Parab, Ankit Singh, Jikmat Stanzin and Kalzang Targe (2024). Nest site selection by Güldenstädt's redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus): trade- offs between natural and human-altered landscapes of Ladakh, India:Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
6.Tushar Parab, Amar Paul Singh and Ankit Singh (2024). Notes on vocalizations of Green-crowned warbler (Phylloscopus burkii); calls and songs within its distribution range’.Journal of Ecoacoustics (Under review).
7. Tushar Parab, Ankit Singh, Amar Paul SIngh, Salvador Lyngdoh (2024). What Defines the groupwise compositional turnover of the Eurasion Phylloscopos Warblers? Insights from Zeta diversity and MS-GDM (JBI-24-0221.R1) (Under Review)

Handled Software's

Arc Map, ERDAS Imagine, Global Mapper, Geomedia, Geomatica, Pix4D,AgiSoft Metashape, QGIS, GRASS, Google Earth, R Studio, Arc Scene, ENVI,MATLAB,DGPS, GARMIN, Spectra GPS, AutoCAD Map

Languages

Hindi
Native language
English
Upper intermediate
B2

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING ATTENDED

  • Training programme on ‘Introduction to Digital Image Processing using Leica Geosystems (Erdas Imagine).
  • Training programmed on ‘Introduction to Digital ImageProcessing using ENVI.
  • Hands-on Training Programme on LiDAR Technology.

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP/CONFRENCES/SEMINAR ATTENDED

  • Attended an International training and workshop on “Assessment of Agriculture Productivity in Irrigation Projects Using MODIS Data”.
  • Attended a National Conference on “Use of Space Technology for Large Scale Mapping & its impact on Socio-Economic Development of the Country”.
  • Attended a National Conference on “Geo-spatial Technology and 3D Application for Sustainable Development of Land Resources”. March 2012-13.

Certification

  • Gold Medalist in NCC and have "C‟ certificate in ‘A' (alpha) grade as Senior under Officer.
  • 1 year Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application.
  • ESRI certification of ArcGIS Pro Software.

References

Dr. Suneet Naithani 

Associate Professor 

Doon University

Dr. Rajesh Uppadhyay

Scientist,Director RSAC-UP

Dr. S.P.S. Jadaun

Scientist,RSAC-UP

Timeline

Senior Project Associate

Wildlife Institute of India
10.2021 - 10.2024

GIS Consultant

Freelancer
06.2020 - 01.2021

Manager Technical

IGIS Pvt. Ltd. And Science Society
08.2018 - 05.2020

PROJECT SCIENTIST

RSAC-UP
09.2016 - 07.2018

Senior Programmer GIS

WATERSHED DEPARTMENT , RAJASTHAN (VELOCIS)
11.2015 - 09.2016

PROJECT TECHNICIAN & PROJECT SCIENTIST

RSAC-UP
07.2014 - 10.2015

Post Graduate Diploma - Remote Sensing And GIS

Allahabad University

Bachelor of Science - Physics, Mathematics

C.S.J.M.University

Doctor of Philosophy - Environmental Science

Doon University

M.Sc. - Geoinformatics

Uttarakhand University

M.Sc. - Environment Science

Swami Vivekanand University
ANKIT SINGH