Ratul Debnath
Geospatial Analysis & Urban Planning
Professional profile
My work sits at the intersection of geospatial analysis, infrastructure, and urban planning. From field observations to spatial models and interactive maps, I care about making information reliable, understandable, and useful to the people making decisions.
Experience
GIS Pipeline Integrity Analyst
Centric Infrastructure Group
Aug 25, 2025 - Present | The Woodlands, Texas | Promoted from GIS Intern.
- Maintain and validate pipeline and service-line datasets, reconciling geometry, attributes, inspection records, and environmental information.
- Prepare Class Location, High Consequence Area, and Moderate Consequence Area analyses and maintain segment-level integrity-risk inputs.
- Build Survey123 Connect forms and Experience Builder applications for field data collection, review, and communication with operational teams.
Previous role: GIS Intern | Jun 2, 2025 - Aug 23, 2025
Graduate Assistant · GIS, Cartography & Remote Sensing
Part-time university appointment
- Supported faculty and more than 100 students using ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and ERDAS IMAGINE.
- Reviewed maps and analytical work, explained spatial methods, and provided practical troubleshooting guidance.
Research Assistant
Part-time research appointment
- Coordinated multi-island observational field-data collection for disaster preparedness, mobility, and transportation-safety research.
- Performed geocoding, spatial visualization, and completeness review for technical reports and research presentations.
Graduate Assistant · GIS & Transportation Planning Research
Part-time research appointment
- Developed a walkable-service-area equity model using ArcGIS Network Analyst to identify uneven access.
- Created calibrated trip-generation models for Madison County and contributed to planning studies and conference presentations.
Survey Supervisor
Project appointment
- Supervised road-safety surveys covering speed, seat-belt and helmet use, and pedestrian behavior.
GIS & Planning Coordinator
Business Development and Planning Department
- Conducted GPS surveys, rectified imagery, and prepared land-use, road-alignment, and environmental maps.
- Supported multidisciplinary infrastructure studies, including a proposed 935-km ring-road study and an urban corridor plan.
Research & selected work
Published research across remote sensing, infrastructure integrity, flood resilience, and applied analysis.
- Flood exposure in three dimensions
Combining LiDAR-derived buildings and mapped flood zones to make structural exposure visible.
- Better access to sheltered transit
Using network analysis to evaluate sheltered bus-stop locations and population coverage.
- Reading vegetation through multispectral imagery
Connecting UAV imagery, field observations, and a convolutional neural network to estimate switchgrass nitrogen content.