About the Reviewers
Chad Cooper has worked in the geographic information systems realm for 13 years in technician, analyst, and developer roles. He is currently a solutions engineer with Geographic Information Services, Inc. (http://www.gisinc.com/), where he works on a variety of projects for the state and local government teams. Chad has been published in Esri's ArcUser magazine and the Python magazine. He lives in northwest Arkansas with his beautiful wife and three children.
Eleza Boban Kollannur is an architect and environmental planner working as a GIS analyst in the water and waste water sector for more than 6 years. She is passionate about the development of automation and programming solutions through model building and Python scripting. She has been involved in master planning and coastal and marine projects for the preparation of a water balance model, watershed analysis, network model builds, and spatial analysis. She has worked with MWH Global and DHI India for various projects in the Middle East, India, and UK. Eleza is interested in building custom user interface (UI) geoprocessing tools for ArcGIS desktop and server with Python.
Prasad Lingam has been passionately exploring geoinformation technologies for almost 10 years. He has gained knowledge in the application of geoinformatics to areas such as urban planning, transportation, utilities, environment, and construction management, thus leveraging his civil engineering background. He is currently working at MWH (for more information, visit http://www.mwhglobal.com/) in the water and waste water domain, implementing geospatial analysis in Desktop GIS and promoting web- and mobile-based GIS Applications to solve operational and planning issues. His work experience spans project locations such as Perth, Middle East, New Zealand, Fiji, and India. He is keen about studying the confluence of geospatial technologies with technologies such as big data, BIM, geovisualization, and so on.
Shaik Shavali is a senior GIS developer at Dar Al-Riyadh. He has 7 years of experience in the field of geospatial technologies and projects. His areas of expertises are developing custom GIS web and mobile applications using the latest ESRI technologies. He was one of the lead developers for Emergency Response Management Systems for the largest Islamic pilgrimage (Hajj), gathering nearly 2 million people. Currently, he is actively taking part in designing and developing GIS projects for the government sector in Saudi Arabia.
He has received his bachelor's in engineering degree, and presently, he is pursuing his master's in GIS through UNIGIS.
Firstly, I would like to thank Allah for his countless blessings. I would also like to thank my parents (Akbar Saheb and Fathima), in-laws (Ehasanulla and Shahnaz), and family for their emotional support, guidance, and prayers. Finally, I would like to thank my better-half, Farheen Ehasanulla, for her love and support, which always pushed me to do better. She is my backbone, best critic, and most importantly, my best friend.