Dr. Md Shahedur Rashid is a GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and Remote Sensing specialist, having extensive teaching and field experience; and advanced computing and research skills. He is highly conversant in the use of most of the GIS and IAS (Image Analysis System) software and literature. In recognition of his bright career, he was awarded highly competitive ODA (now DfID) Award (1995-96) and Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship (1999-2003) for accomplishing his master degree in GIS for Development and doctoral program on GIS-RS at the University of Durham in the UK respectively. He completed his Ph.D. on detecting land transformation at local and regional levels for the environment, population census, planning and development of Bangladesh using GIS and Digital Image Processing approach. Since 1993, Dr. Rashid has been engaged in teaching in the Department of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University and currently serving as a Professor. Besides his teaching involvement, he was engaged with a wide range of research and training programmes over a decade initiated by JU, BBS, SPARRSO, Oxfam, DfID, GREEN Foundation, BANBEIS, ODA, NIRAPAD, Durham and Newcastle Universities, Disaster Forum, the British Council, InfoConsult, CARE-Bangladesh, BETS, BPATC, BARC (AEZ), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and so on. He has already published dozens of international and more than 100 national research/GIS works in his field of expertise. In his academic career, he secured all through first divisions (SSC and HSC levels) and first classes in the BSc (honors) and MSc (thesis) examinations with outstanding performance and first places. Currently, he is appointed as a specialist to supervising the 3rd Master Plan of Jahangirnagar University and also conducted a Baseline GIS and GPS survey for the Biggest Tea Estate of Bangladesh at Khagrachhari.