Nitish Panesar
Honours Geomatics @ UWaterloo | Geospatial & Software Engineer
Python & RArcGIS · QGIS · GDALPostGIS · GeoPandasDocker · Git · CI/CD
Featured Projects
🔥 Wildfire Risk Mapping Dashboard for Western Canada (British Columbia + Alberta)
Built an interactive wildfire risk dashboard using MODIS fire data, vegetation indices, and burn perimeters to map high-risk zones in BC and Alberta. Automated geospatial workflows in Python (GeoPandas, Rasterio) to process satellite imagery and classify hazards, cutting manual GIS work and enabling scalable updates.
Python + GeoPandasFoliumQGISNrCan & NASA FIRMS
🏙️ Census-Based Socioeconomic Mapping Tool
Built a spatial equity analysis tool using 2021 Census data to map population density, income, and transit accessibility in Ottawa. Developed a reproducible R workflow (sf, dplyr, tmap) to support policy decisions, identify underserved areas, and run scenario-based assessments.
R (language)tmapStatsCan Census DataQGIS
Technical Skills
Python (Data Structures, NumPy, Pandas)95%
Geospatial Computing (GeoPandas, Shapely)90%
Raster & Remote Sensing (GDAL, Rasterio)85%
GIS Software (ArcGIS, QGIS, ModelBuilder)95%
Databases & Querying (SQL, PostGIS, Spatial Joins)90%
Software Engineering Tools (Git, Docker, CI/CD)95%
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Waterloo, Ontario