• Led a team of 6 engineers in designing a national topographic database and automating the migration of data from older versions to newer versions; Created specifications for database, symbols, and map layout.
• Improved the speed of analysis by conversion of tabular data and shapefiles into PostGIS database tables.
• Automated data preprocessing, analysis, and visualization workflow to reduce 7 weeks of manual work for 48 people each year, Reconciled schema and domain conflict between past national land use databases.
• Enabled rapid updating of large and small-scale 3D topographic information through the construction of 3D scenes from LiDAR data and optical stereo pairs.
• Provided monthly training on GIS, cartography, and data analysis as well as on custom tools to teams of up to 56 GIS professionals to help them adapt to the updated workflow.
• Led a team of national topographic database update program from planning to final database production with agile project management practice, performed quality control, and maintained meta-data for the produced data.
• Created deep learning models for land cover and land use segmentation from satellite images and parcel boundary detection in aerial photographs.
• Facilitated collaboration among representatives of several ministries of the Government of Nepal in the national topographic database update program.
