Dr. Ramesh Chandra Taragi
GIS Expert (Retd.)Planning & Statistics Authority, State of Qatar
Ph. D. and Masters in Geography (Regional Planning), Kumaun University, Nainital, India,
P.G. Dip.in GIS & Remote Sensing, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), NRSA, Government of India, Dehra Dun, India,
GIS Official Trainings, ESRI, Red lands, California, USA,
GIS Management and Applications Trainings, Centre for GIS (ESRI authorized learning Centre), State of Qatar
Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) award by World’s topmost GIS vendor ESRI, UC 2010, San Diego, California, USA
Qatar Government Employee Appreciation letters– received eight times.
Affiliations
- Former Member of GIS Coordinators’ Group of Qatar GIS, State of Qatar
- Visiting Faculty at the COE of NRDMS, DST, Govt. of India, Kumaon University Campus, Almora, Uttarakhand, India.
- Life member of ‘PAHAR’, A Himalayan Research Organization, Nainital, India.
- Working Group Member, Uttarakhand Centre on Climate Change (UCCC), Kumaun University, Almora
- Member GIS Engineers’ Society, State of Qatar
- Founder member of ‘PARAS’, a Hill Society for Geographic & Socio-Economic Research
DrTaragi isa Geospatial Information Technology (GIS) professional with more than 36 years of professional experience working with federal Census and Statistical organizations in India and abroad (Qatar); specialized in geographic research and geospatial information integration and applications in Census and Statistical operations. He has extensive knowledge and experience in agency GIS implementation and coordination for National Statistics, in a Nationwide GIS setup, e.g., Qatar Enterprise GIS. He had active participation in establishing National Spatial Database Infrastructure (NSDI) for the State of Qatar in coordination with Qatar Centre for GIS (CGIS). His expertise includes extensive knowledge in the field of geographic research and analysis, census operations, statistical applications, cartography, thematic mapping and Atlas/Map publications.
Hehas more than fifty research papers/articles in various national and international journalsto his credit besides attendingmore than twenty seminars/conferences and workshops.He had an overall supervision in publishing of the first ever published Socio-Economic Atlas of Qatar (2000) in printed and digital format. Thisfollowed by other two important publications of National Atlas of Qatar (2006) and Qatar Atlas (2013) in printed and digital forms. These publications got a high recognition among Statistical and Geospatial data user community and adjudged, in sequence, as the 2nd Best GIS Publication (2007),3rd Best Multimedia GIS Application (2008), 1st Best GIS Publication (2013) and Best Multimedia GIS Application (2013) in the Annual ESRI User Conferences, held at San Diego, California, USA.
He had represented Qatar Statistics, participated in various UN Work Groups on GIS and Statistics integration and SDGs, e.g., UNGGM, UN-IAEG-SDGs, ESRI-UNSD, UNGGIM-Arab States, GCC Stat etc.
Email: rcstaragi@gmail.com
Mob: 91-9971308083
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