GIS, Coastal Engineer

RAJKISHAN RAJAPPAN

Address: **** **** *** **, *** E, Norton, Virginia - 24273

Ph: 352-***-****; Email: ***********@*****.***

Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rajkishan-rajappan/16/576/628

Seeking a full-time position in an esteemed organization.

Objective

Education Master of Science in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering Graduated: Ma y 2014

University of Florida, Gainesville

CGPA : 3.73/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering in Geoinformatics Graduate d: May 2012

College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai

CGPA : 9.19/10

Technical Programming Languages: Matlab, C, C++, Python

Skills Tools: ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, ENVIVIEW, RS3, AutoCAD

Concepts known: Littoral Processes, Open channel hydraulics, Remote Sensing, GIS, Image processing, Surveying

Databases: MS Access, MySQL

Operating Systems: Windows (98/XP/Vista/7/8.1), Linux

Experience Using NASA’s Earth Observation Systems and Statistical Model Analysis to monitor vegetation

and habitat rehabilitation in Southwest Virginia’s reclaimed mine lands

June 2014 – August 2014

Consultant, NASA DEVELOP National Program, Wise, VA

Monitoring land cover rehabilitation on reclaimed mine lands in southwest Virginia’s coalfield counties by fusing

LANDSAT and MODIS images

Forecasting local species habitat in reclaimed mine lands

Validation of directional triad (3-wave interaction) model

January 2014 – May 2014

Student Assistant, under Prof. Alexandru Sheremet, University of Florida

Studied the various components of the directional triad model

Incorporated the effect of breaking of waves

Validated the model by using real-world data

Satellite Altimetry over Inland Waters

Research Intern, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany May 2011 - June 2011

Downloaded the data from an ftp server and studied the resultant Geophysical Data Record (GDR) product

Developed a Matlab code to read all the data into a readable file

Developed a GUI to calculate the surface heights of specific points of Krishna River, and then calculated the corrected

heights for those points by making the various geophysical corrections

Derived time series curves for those points

A Hyperspectral Radiometry Based Rapid Assessment Technique for Water Quality of Cooum

Paper

River, Chennai, India

presentation Awarded the second prize at TECHKRITI, the national level technical symposium at Indian Institute of

December 2009 – March 2010

Technology, Kanpur

Generated the reflectance curves for various water samples from the river using a spectro -radiometer which were read

using RS3

Derived mathematical models to correlate pollutant levels with reflectance curves

Cross-checked the accuracy of the models by collecting ground-truth information

Selected for the final round of presentations in AAKAAR, the national level technical symposium of Civil Department

at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

January 2012 – April 2012

Academic Marine Geoid Determination Using Satellite Altimetry

Collected, read and visualized TOPEX/Poseidon satellite data

Projects

Derived the corrected sea surface height from the raw data and applied all the geophysical corrections

Calculated the marine geoid by removing the effects of dynamic topography

August 2011 – November 2011

A GIS Analysis to Mitigate the Incidence of Fluorosis

Analyzed the spatial distribution of the incidence o f fluorosis in Dharmapuri district, Tamilnadu

Investigated the correlation between incidences of fluorosis and groundwater quality using ArcGIS

Identified the regions prone to fluorosis by generating thematic maps

Recommended solutions for its mitigation

Activities/ Member of Coasts, Oceans, Ports & River Institute (COPRI), the student chapter of American Society of Civil

Engineers (ASCE)

Leadership

Executive member of Society of Geoinformatics Engineers of College of Engineering, Guindy

Expert member of the Syllabus Revision Committee for Regulation 2012 of BE Geoinformatics course

Organizer of CRACK THE TRACK event of GeoHorizon 2011, a national level technical symposium of Society of

Geoinformatics Engineers

Organizer of Open-source GIS workshop of GeoHorizon 2011

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