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Main | All Jobs | Post Job | All Resumes | Post ResumeChintamani Kandel
- Experience Level: 7 Years
- Location: USA
- Last Updated: January 13, 2013
Experience
CHINTAMANI KANDEL
5 Brainerd Road, Branford CT 06405
kandelcpd@gmail.com, (203) 815-0392
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
An experienced GIS professional with a skill sets in a spatial data analysis and development. Intensive
knowledge of GIS design concepts and database structure. Proficient in land use and land cover change
modelling. Experienced with Cartography and photogrammetry.
CORE COMPETENCIES
* Proficient with Arc Map,Google Earth,and MS Office
* Sound knowledge of CAD-to-GIS conversion
* Experienced in writing SQL statements
* Familiar with programming language: SQL, Python
* Experienced with ERDAS IMAGINE, ENVI, IDRISI and
eCognition
* Trained with statistical and data analysis
software programs such as R and FRAGSTATS
* Experienced in manipulating, integrating, and
processing spatial data
EXPERIENCE
Remote Sensing Officer , 2005-2011
MINISTRY OF FORESTS AND SOIL CONSERVATION, NEPAL
* Prepared land use and forest cover maps at local,
regional, and national level
* Maintained forestry sector information system
* Analyzed and modeled spatial pattern of forest
* Maintained spatial and tabular databases
* Monitored forests cover dynamics using
geospatial technologies
* Prepared volume and biomass tables for major
timber species
Instructor, 2003 – 2004
EASTERN REGIONAL FORESTRY TRAINING CENTER, BIRATNAGAR, NEPAL
* Designed curriculum for field level technical
forestry staff
* Trained field level technical forestry staff
* Monitored Community Forestry activities
EDUCATION
Consortium of 3 European Universities (coordinated by UNIVERSITY OF MUENSTER, GERMANY)
Degree: MS in Geospatial Technologies, 2009
GPA: 3.24/4.00
Related Courses
GI Science GIS Applications
Remote Sensing Geostatistics
Geospatial Data Mining Digital Cartography
Spatial Cognition Advanced Research Methods
Project Management Reference System for GI
INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY, TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY, NEPAL
Degree: BS in Forestry, 2002
GPA: 3.74/4.00
Related Courses
Surveying and Engineering Remote Sensing
Statistics Research Methods
Mathematics Experimental Design
AWARDS & HONORS
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship: selected (global competition) to receive Erasmus Mundus scholarship administered
by the European Commission for pursuing MS in Geospatial Technologies.
Nepal-UK Community Forestry Scholarship: Awarded for BS study for the outstanding contribution in the field
implementation of Community Forestry Program in Nepal.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
* Life and founding member, Green Governance – Nepal
* Member, Nepal Foresters’ Association
* Member, Nepal Rangers’ Association
* Member, Self - Help Environment Awareness Camp,
Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, Nepal
INTERESTS
GI science, remote sensing, land use and land cover change, landscape ecology, and environmental modeling
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Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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