Rabi Shrestha

Rabi Shrestha

Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal
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Geomatics Engineer from Nepal who is passionate about geospatial technologies, open data…

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Experience

  • NEA Engineering Company Limited Graphic

    NEA Engineering Company Limited

    Thapathali, Kathmandu

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    Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

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    Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

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    United States

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    Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

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    Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

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    Mid-Baneshwor, Kathmandu

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    Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

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    Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

Education

  • Kathmandu University (KU) Graphic

    Kathmandu University (KU)

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    Graduated with Bachelor's degree in Geomatics Engineering at Kathmandu University. Class of 2017.

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Graphic

    Mapping Volunteer/Validator/Voting member

    Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

    - Present 5 years 1 month

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    A voting member is a part of HOT's core team, who have shown commitment to the HOT mission, upholding the HOT Code of conduct. Voting Members are responsible for voting “on matters affecting the Corporation including, but not limited to, the election of directors and [additional] voting members.” and helping in a variety of tasks like remote mapping initiatives and also things like technical development work and community building in the field.
    As a Volunteer on Humanitarian OpenStreetMap…

    A voting member is a part of HOT's core team, who have shown commitment to the HOT mission, upholding the HOT Code of conduct. Voting Members are responsible for voting “on matters affecting the Corporation including, but not limited to, the election of directors and [additional] voting members.” and helping in a variety of tasks like remote mapping initiatives and also things like technical development work and community building in the field.
    As a Volunteer on Humanitarian OpenStreetMap I've been engaged in several projects since 2019. Team: HOT Global Validator, Validator Trainee, HOT DQI
    Working experience: 850+ hours, Buildings Mapped: 180,000 Road Mapped: 2100 Km Waterways Mapped: 481
    More details: https://tasks.hotosm.org/users/frozenrabi
    https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?frozenrabi

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    Voting Member

    OpenStreetMap Foundation

    - Present 4 years 11 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    I am active contributor of OpenStreetMap and also voting member of OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).

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    Member

    YouthMappers

    - 5 years

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Actively engage and lead with the Youthmappers chapter Geomatics Engineering Society for about 4 years and conduct number of map literacy and OSM trainings producing 100 of new mappers.

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    Remote Mapper & Validator

    UN Mappers

    - 3 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Responsible for mapping and validating tasks of UN for the purpose of disaster and humanitarian relief. UN Mappers validates all the features related to topographic editing (residential areas, hedges, places, highways and waterways).

  • Kathmandu University (KU) Graphic

    FOS4G-ASIA 2021 Technical Volunteer

    Kathmandu University (KU)

    - 1 month

    Education

    Involved and attended in two days conference on FOS4G-Asia 2021 IN THE ERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IOT FOR LAND MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DHULIKHEL, NEPAL OCTOBER 1 & 2, 2021 . As the event was in hybrid mode, I volunteered being a technical team to manage glitchless zoom service and I also captured photographs and videographs of the conference and training.
    https://medium.com/@frozenrabi28/foss4g-asia-2021-a14ada3953e5

  • Kathmandu University (KU) Graphic

    Event Coordinator

    Kathmandu University (KU)

    - 2 months

    Science and Technology

    During the annual event NepGeom organised by Geomatics Engineering Society at Kathmandu University on the occasion of GIS DAY, I had volunteered and worked as Event coordinator to manage and plan for the event titled "NepGeom" where 1000+ guests were present.

  • Axon System, Quest Nepal, NATCM, NBSM, NQPCM, KU, TU Graphic

    Student Volunteer

    Axon System, Quest Nepal, NATCM, NBSM, NQPCM, KU, TU

    - 1 month

    Economic Empowerment

    I was appointed as Coordinator for Province 1,2 and 3 for the Qualithon event. I was personally responsible for contacting and managing all the Ambassadors, Presenters and supervising the program on each of those Provinces. Each province had program for 2 hours.
    Qualithon Relay Race Mechi Mahakali-2020 is an attempt to raise awareness in quality during World Quality Day Celebration along with the rest of the world through series of Online Events across the country.

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    Student Volunteer

    NAXA

    - 2 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    I was personally responsible for hosting the training, managing the participants list, contributing,learning and teaching OSM Mapping & Verification of the remote location of Bajhang and Bajura on OSM on a month-long Mapathon campaign- A part of Trail and community Infrastructure Mapping for Emergency Preparedness and response.

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    Student Volunteer

    Youth Innovation Lab

    - 2 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    I was responsible for Remotely mapping on Rasuwa and Sindupalchowk district on OSM. Youth Innovation Lab(YIL) Coordinated with Geomatics Engineering Society(GES) to map those districts.

  • Editor of GeoICT Magazine "GeoSpace"

    Geomatics Engineering Society

    - 2 months

    Science and Technology

    I was selected as a editor for publishing annual magazing of Geomatics Engineering Society, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Kathmandu University. It was an annual ICT magazine called "Geospace" I got chance to volunteer as a editor for publishing this magazine. Link to magazine is: http://ges.ku.edu.np/geospace.html.

  • Student Volunteer

    Urban Health digiSpace

    - 2 months

    Health

    The Urban Health digiSpace is a digital platform for advanced education in the discipline
    of Urban Health with the theme "Exploring Physical Activity in Open Space with Photovoice". The contents of the offer were:
     Physical activity in open urban space as determinant of health
     photovoice as a particaptory method
     applying Kobo Toolbox as a digital participatory tool

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    Mentor

    NAXA

    - 1 month

    Science and Technology

    For Field Mapping Task Splitting Hackathon - peer mentoring for algorithm development.

Courses

  • Exploring OpenStreetMap Data using QGIS

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  • Spatial Data Science

    By Esri

Projects

  • Hiti Mapping and Street Naming in OSM: Lalitpur Metropolitan City

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    Under this project, we explored about purpose, necessity , importance, and methodology of mapping hiti(water spouts) on OpenStreetMap. Besides, mapping traditional waterspouts, we also added street names on OSM with the help of street names provided by Lalitpur Metropolitan City and local people.

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  • MAPPING COMMUNITIES POI USING OSM AND MAPILLARY

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    Mapillary is the platform that makes street-level images and map data available to scale and automate mapping. Using this technique, we obtained street images and uploaded it on Mapillary. With those imageries we were able to map Point of Interest(POI) data on OSM.

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  • Mapping Chepang Communities-Facebook Community Microgrant

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    Chepangs are one of the highly marginalized Indigenous communities, residing in the remote hills of central Nepal. Chepangs are traditionally nomadic people who relied upon hunting, fishing and the products of the forest.
    Video link about our field work: https://youtu.be/Rjox8TBSutE
    Link to our final output:Mapbook- http://ges.ku.edu.np/ChapangMapbook.html
    The project is initiated by GES. Furthermore, the data generated is going to be used for projects which are selected for HOT…

    Chepangs are one of the highly marginalized Indigenous communities, residing in the remote hills of central Nepal. Chepangs are traditionally nomadic people who relied upon hunting, fishing and the products of the forest.
    Video link about our field work: https://youtu.be/Rjox8TBSutE
    Link to our final output:Mapbook- http://ges.ku.edu.np/ChapangMapbook.html
    The project is initiated by GES. Furthermore, the data generated is going to be used for projects which are selected for HOT microgrant 2021. The main objective of GES is to introducing Geospatial technology and mapping activities in order to uplift the Chepang Community of Nepal.

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  • Accuracy Assessment Of Land Cover Of Local Data In Comparison With Global Dataset

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    Land cover data is a valuable and often necessary product when performing studies and analysis in a number of fields. In this project, we have compared the accuracy of two datasets (Global and local) with the help of confusion matrix involving the calculation of user’s accuracy, producer’s accuracy, kappa coefficient and the overall accuracy in general.

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  • INTERACTIVE TOURISM MAPPING AND POTENTIAL STUDY OF TOURISM USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

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    This paper aims to produce a tool for use in decision support tourism, based on GIS applications, so that it explains the sites and tourist services, tourism statistics, and other factors that could affect the development of tourism, with the integration of applications that retrieve all the tourist data, prepare geographic database, tourist sites of Central development region of Nepal.

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  • Land Use Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR): A case study of suitability analysis for urban growth in Melamchi Area

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    This study intends to analyze the suitability for settlement in Melamchi Municipality (Ward 6-12) for Disaster Risk Reduction using GIS techniques. The methodology of this study, based on the risk evaluation and prioritization conducted, can be applied to future decision making in effective land use planning and the development of risk management strategies.

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Honors & Awards

  • Geoinformatics Summer School 2024

    Wuhan University

  • Community Champion of the Year 2023

    State of the Map Asia, Thailand

    This award is given as a recognized for his undying passion and effort for advocating and contributing on Open data as part of diverse and ever-growing community.

  • Kathmandu University Need Basis Scholarship

    Kathmandu University

    Kathmandu University has a provision of granting Scholarships to needy students every year. And on the year 2017, I got the chance to get this valuable scholarship of 25% tuition fee waiver being poor, needy and deserving student to receive this grant.

  • Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship

    Indian Embassy

    Mahatma Gandhi scholarship is the first scholarship that Nepalese students get from Indian Government. The Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship is awarded to 2000 Nepalese students on the basis of there SEE result and their family income. Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship is awarded to students which helps them financially and i was one among the 2000 to receive this Scholarship.

  • Nepal Topper in English and Opt. Mathematics- S.L.C 2015

    Panauti English Secondary School

    Honored with great recognition and token of love.

Languages

  • Nepali

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Nepal Bhasa

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Elementary proficiency

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

Organizations

  • Geomatics Engineering Society

    General Member

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  • Geomatics Engineering Society

    Secretary

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