Objective
Interested in land as well as marine survey
Experience
Technical Experience
Around 6 years of experience as Asst. Hydrographer (Grade III) and Watch keeping In Indian Navy.
Duties involved:
• Ship handling, Boat handling, Planning
• Coordination and Execution of the tasks as allotted or ordered by the Command pertaining to the directives issued by the National Hydrographic Office (NHO)
• Taken care of all administrative activities
• Correspondence with the civil authorities which concerns survey operations and ship related activities
• Training of personnel in Survey and other aspects of ship's commitments
Education
B.Sc (Mathematics, Physics and Statistics) from Nagarjuna University
Certification
Basic Hydrography from National Hydrographic School (NHS), Goa
Life member of Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA)
Completed successfully an introductory course and hands on session on Arc GIS 9.1
(Arc Info) at NRSA (National Remote sensing agency) for Geographical information
System Arc GIS 9.1
Skils
Survey Back Ground:
Worked on following survey equipment, extensively on the following
Positioning systems
a) Trimble (b) Del Norte (c) Lieca GPS 200/300
Sonar systems like
a) Edgeteck current meter (b) EG&G side scan sonar’s (c) Deso 20/25 Echo Sounders.
Digital Distance measuring equipments such as
a) DI 3000 digitomat
Software packages worked on such as
a) Caris (b) SKI (c) Hypack (d) Tide cal
MS Office
Comfortable working on windows xp and office 2000
Survey Operation’s:
• Starting with recce of the place/location of the survey area
• Recovery of established survey control points (GTS) of Survey of India
• Establishing ground control and transferring the same to the survey area
• Setting up DGPS Station (Coordinating in erecting lambda mast for the same using trimble)
• Coastline survey
• Task of Carrying out Bathymetric surveys on planned survey lines Off Gujarat, Mangalore, Goa, Bombay, Bombay high, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala coasts
• Collection of digital Bathymetric data
• Investigation of wrecks
• Harbour surveys
• Pre and post surveys of dredging
• Beach Gradient surveys
• Survey assistance to Army for gun areas traversing from Bikanier to Rann of Kuttch along the border
• Monitoring body onboard foreign vessels (M/v Geoprospector, M/v Teknik perdana)
• Coordinated survey operations off phompoohar, Tamilnadu involving diving operations, bathymetric Scanning and bathymetric operations for investigating ruins of temple and ship
• Assigning objects for acronyms and collecting data for ECDIS (Normally used for
• navigation)
• Coastal Zone management being part of the survey operations, has given good exposure on the different places inhibited by different people with diversified cultures