Mohammad Sofi Ullah
(Professor)Department of Geography & Environment
Short Biography:
Introduction to Md. Sofi Ullah
Md. Sofi Ullah is a distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the 91精品, with over 25 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy. His academic and professional journey has been deeply rooted in geospatial science, climate change, disaster management, ...
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| Degree Name | Group/Major Subject | Board/Institute | Country | Passing Year |
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| M.Phil. | Geography and Environment | 91精品 | Bangladesh | 2000 |
| Masters | Department of Geography and Environment | 91精品 | Bangladesh | 1988 |
| Bachelor | Department of Geography and Environment | 91精品 | Bangladesh | 1987 |
| Title | Organization | Location | From Date | To Date |
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| Curriculum Expert Resource Person | Bangladesh Technical Education Board | Bangladesh Technical Education Board, Dhaka | 01, Jan 2021 | Currently Working |
| GIS Trainer | Action Against Hunger, Bangladesh | Cox's Bazar | 21, Dec 2020 | 24-12-2020 |
| Professor | 91精品 | Department of Geography and Environment | 29, Oct 2020 | Currently Working |
| GIS Trainer | UNICEF | UNICEF | 13, Oct 2019 | 16-10-2019 |
| Expert Member, Committee to Formulate Rules to Appoint Geospatial Officers and Staffs in a new GIS Division | Land Record and Survey Department (DLRS) | Dhaka | 09, Jul 2019 | |
| GIS Expert as External Member | DESCO | DESCO Electricity Line Automation Process | 01, Aug 2018 | Currently Working |
| Project Lead | Dhaka University | Geospatial Research under an MoU between HKI (Helen Keller International) and GIS Lab, Department of Geography and Environment | 26, Feb 2018 | 30-04-2019 |
| FOCAL point | BGISP | BBS | 01, Jan 2018 | Currently Working |
| Course Coordinator | Dhaka University | Training Courses on GIS and Remote Sensing, Department of Geography and Environment | 01, Jul 2015 | Currently Working |
| GIS and Remote Sensing Lab In-charge | Dhaka University | Department of Geography and Environment | 01, Jan 2011 | Currently Working |
| Student Advisor | Dhaka University | Department of Geography and Environment | 07, Jan 2010 | 07-01-2016 |
| Assistant Professor | Dhaka University | Department of Geography and Environment | 21, May 2003 | 26-12-2009 |
| Assistant Proctor | Dhaka University | Faculty of Science | 20, Jan 2002 | 23-02-2009 |
| Lecturer | Dhaka University | Department of Geography and Environment | 29, Jul 1999 | 20-05-2003 |
Research Interest
| Subject | Description | Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator) |
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| Climate Change and Water Security in Bangladesh | Land degradation and sustainable development modeling |
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| GIS and Remote Sensing | Tools and Techniques for Spatial data capturing, editing, storing, managing, analyzing and modeling. | |
| Disater Management | Flood Hazard and Risk Analysis, Fire Hazard and Risk Analysis, Landslides Susceptibility Analysis, Flash Flood Modeling, etc. | |
| Climate Change and Water Resource Management | World Water Resouce Scenario, Water Scarcity, and Stress, Water Uses, Water Demand, and Supply, Water Politics, Surface Water Change Delineation, and Future Prediction |
Project/Research Supervision
| Level of Study | Title | Supervisor | Co-Supervisor(s) | Name of Student(s) | Area of Research | Current Completion |
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| M.Phil | Environmental Quality of Savar Pourasava | Supervisor | Tahera Sultana | Environment | 2019 |
Project/Research Work
| Subject | Project Name | Source of Fund | From Date | To Date | Collaboration |
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| Water Security | Assessing the impacts of climate change on present status and future scenario of water security in the barind area of Bangladesh | UGC | 25-09-2022 | 26-09-2023 | |
| Land Use Zoning | Landuse Zoning for Caritas, Mamysingh | Caritas | 15-06-2018 | 15-08-2018 | GIS Lab, Department of Geography and Environment, 91精品 |
| Vulnerability | Geospatial Research for Landslides and Flash Flood Modeling in Bandarban District of CHT: Bangladesh Under MoU between GIS lab, Department of Geography and Environment, 91精品 and Helen Keller International | Helen Keller International | 20-02-2018 | 30-04-2019 | GIS Lab, Department of Geography and Environment, 91精品 |
Invited Talk
| SL | Invited Talk |
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| 1 | A three hours talk at CID head office on "Crime Hot Spot Analysis" |
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| Book Section | |
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K .M. Nafee, Mohammad Sofi Ullah, Md. Shakib Al Fahad, Munira Nusrat, Md. Khayrul Islam Tuhin and Sadman Ahmed "Geospatial Techniques for Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling Erosion of Jamuna River in the Shahjadpur Upazila of Sirajganj District, Bangladesh to Support Risk Management."
Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Age of Anthropocene. Subodh Chandra Pal, Uday Chatterjee, Martiwi Diah Setiawati, Dipankar Ruidas Springer Nature, 2025 261-283 .
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Md. Sofi Ullah "Geospatial Modeling of Potential Landslide Hazard Estimation for Better Management in the Bandarban District of Bangladesh."
Landslide: Susceptibility, Risk Assessment and Sustainability Application of Geostatistical and Geospatial Modeling. Springer, Cham, 2024 669鈥693 .
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K. M. Nafee, Md. Shakib Al Fahad, Md. Khayrul Islam Tuhin, Md. Sakhawat Hossen and Md. Sofi Ullah "Mapping of Landslide Susceptibility Using State-of-the-Art Method and Geospatial Techniques in the Rangamati District in the Chattogram Hill Tracts Region of Bangladesh."
Landslide: Susceptibility, Risk Assessment and Sustainability Application of Geostatistical and Geospatial Modeling. Springer, Cham, 2024 103鈥152 .
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Indrajit Pal, Afshana Parven, Mohammad Sofi Ullah and Khan Ferdousour Rahman "An Analysis of Small-Scale Fisheries Management Status by Focusing on Degrading Fisheries Resources in the Sundarbans."
Sundarbans Mangrove Systems A Geo-Informatics Approach. Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Debashis Mitra and Sugata Hazra 2021 .
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Md. Sofi Ullah "Vegetation Change Detection by Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): A Study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts."
Environment and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Geographical Perspectives,. Khatun, H. et al, (edited) Dhaka: 2018 181-196 .
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Md. Sofi Ullah,, Md. Faruk Hossain and Zahidul Islam "Renewable Freshwater Scarcity and Global Sustainable Issues."
Environment and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Geographical Perspectives. Khatun, H. et al, edited Dhaka: 2018 .
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Amanat Ullah Khan, A H M Atiullah Khan and Md. Sofi Ullah "Location Decision-making of Industrial Entrepreneurs in Chittagong City."
Recent Urban Studies, Bangladesh. Nazrul Islam (Edited) Dhaka: Urban Studies Programme, Department of Geography, 91精品, 1998 .
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唳嗋Ξ唳距Θ唳 唳夃Σ唰嵿Σ唳距 唳栢唳 and 唳唳距Ξ唰嵿Ξ唳 唳膏Λ唳 唳夃Σ唰嵿Ο唳距 "唳多唳侧唳唳 唳呧Μ唳膏唳ム唳 唳むΔ唰嵿Δ唰嵿Μ 唳 唳唳傕Σ唳距Ζ唰囙Χ唰 唳夃Ζ唰嵿Ο唰嬥唰嵿Δ唳距Ζ唰囙Π 唳多唳侧唳唳 唳呧Μ唳膏唳ム唳 唳膏唳︵唳о唳ㄠ唳 唳唳班唰嵿Π唳苦唳: 唳忇唳熰 唳膏Ξ唰唳曕唳粪."
唳ㄠ唳班唰熰Γ唰 唳唳傕Σ唳距Ζ唰囙Χ: 唳ㄠ唳班唳唳氞唳 唳唳椸唳侧唳 唳唳班Μ唳ㄠ唳 唳膏唳曕Σ唳. 唳ㄠ唳班唳 唳囙Ω唳侧唳 唳忇Μ唳 唳嗋Μ唳︵唳 唳唳曕 唳膏Ξ唰嵿Κ唳距Ζ唳苦Δ Dhaka: 唳Π唳苦唳距Σ唳, 唳ㄠ唳班唰熰Θ 唳氞Π唰嵿唳 唳曕唳班唳唰嵿Π唳, 唳唳椸唳 唳唳唳, 唳⑧唳曕 唳唳禴唳唳︵唳唳侧, 1996 .
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Md. Sofi Ullah, Md. Khayrul Islam Tuhin, Tarulata Shapla and Kazi Farha Farzana Suhi : Geospatial Assessment of Wetland Changes in the Fringe Area of Dhaka City: Past, Present and Future Scenarios,
The Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences (impact factor:0.1) , vol.12 , no.2 Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 91精品, Dhaka, Bangladesh. , pp.97-117 , 2023
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Abdullah Ar Reyad and Mohammad Sofi Ullah : Spatial inequality in Bangladesh: A geospatial analysis,
International Journal of Basic and Applied Science (impact factor:.415) , vol.11 , no.3 Institute of Computer Science (IOCScience) , pp.95-106 , 2022
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Mohammad Sofi Ullah : MAPPING LANDSLIDE AND SIMULATING SPATIAL STATISTICS: A CASE OF BANDARBAN DISTRICT OF THE CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS,
Oriental Geographer , vol.61 , no.1&2 Bangladesh Geographical Society, Department of Geography and Environment, 91精品 , pp.67-88 , 2022
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Mohammad Sofi Ullah : Geospatial Modeling of Landslide Vulnerability and Simulating Spatial Correlation with Associated Factors in Bandarban District,
The Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences , vol.8 , no.2 Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 91精品 , pp.51-66 , 2021
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Md. Sofi Ullah, Tarulata Shapla, Md. Amran Hossain and Md. Hasibul Hasan : Delineating Agricultural Landuse Change using Geospatial Techniques and Markov Model in the Tarakanda Upazila of Mymensingh, Bangladesh and Future Prediction,
The Dhaka University Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences , vol.8 , no.01 The Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 91精品 , pp.19-31 , 2019
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Md. Sofi Ullah and Muhammad Esmat Enan : Landuse and Land Cover Change in Dhaka Metropolitan Area During 1991-2022,
Oriental Geographer , vol.60 , no.1 & 2 , pp.01-18 , 2019
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Md. Sofi Ullah : Water Bodies Delineation and Change Detection Using GIS and Remote Sensing with Multitemporal Landsat Imagery: A Case Study of Tanguar Haor,
Oriental Geographer , vol.59 , no.1 & 2 , pp.69-82 , 2018
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Md. Sofi Ullah, Anamik Ani Khan and Md. Amran Hossain : Spatiotemporal Variability of Rainfall in Bangladesh Using Thiessen Polygon and Spline Interpolation,
Oriental Geographer , vol.58 , no.2 , pp.91-111 , 2017
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Md. Sofi Ullah, Mausumi Ara and Anamik Ani Khan : Change Detection of Vegetation Coverage in Birand Tract, Rajshahi: Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Erdas Imagine鈥檚 DeltaCue,
Bangladesh Journal of Geoinformatics (BJGI) , vol.1 , pp.73-80 , 2014
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Asif Ishtiaque and Md. Sofi Ullah : The Influence of Factors of Migration on the Migration Status of Rural-Urban Migrants in Dhaka, Bangladesh,
Human Geographies- Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography , vol.7 , no.2 , pp.45-52 , 2013
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Md. Sofi Ullah and Gopal Chandra Ghosh : Water Quality Aspects of Dhaka City鈥檚 Peripherial Rivers: A Case Study on Tongi Canal and Balu River,
Society and Change , vol.V , no.01 , 2011
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Md. Sofi Ullah : 唳班唳曕Χ唳 唳唳班唳Δ唳曕唳班唳︵唳 唳班唳溹Θ唰堗Δ唳苦 唳呧Π唰嵿Ε唳ㄠ唳む 唳忇Μ唳 唳膏唳唳溹唳 唳Π唳苦Μ唰囙Χ: 唳⑧唳曕 唳唳距Θ唳椸Π唰唳 唳呧Κ唰嵿Π唳距Δ唳苦Ψ唰嵿唳距Θ唳苦 唳栢唳む唳 唳氞唳む唳 (Rickshaw Repairer's Political Economy and Social Environment: Image of Dhaka City's Informal Sector),
唳唳椸唳 唳 唳Π唳苦Μ唰囙Χ 唳班唳溹唳ㄠ唳 (Journal of Geography and Environment) , vol.7 , 2011
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Rejuan Hossain Bhuiyan, Md. Sofi Ullah and Md. Kamal Hossain : Quality of Surface Water at the Savar and its Adjacent Areas,
Society & Change , vol.II , no.2 , 2008
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Md. Sofi Ullah : Economic Characteristics of Hawkers in the Urban Economy: Some Evidence from Dhaka City,
Society & Change , vol.1 , no.2 , 2007
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Kazi Md. Fazlul Haq, Md. Sofi Ullah and Abdullah Al Masud : Super-Centers as a Retail Market in Dhaka City: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis,
Society & Change , vol.1 , no.4 , pp.37-51 , 2007
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唳曕唳溹 唳唳 唳唳侧唳 唳灌, 唳唳灌唳唳Ζ 唳膏Λ唳 唳夃Σ唰嵿Ο唳距 and 唳唳 唳曕唳唳 唳灌唳膏唳 : 唳唰佮唳距唳距Σ唰唳 唳唳班唳溹唳椸唰嵿唰囙Π 唳樴唳班唳｀唳澿 唳膏唳樴唳 唳 唳樴唳班唳｀唳澿 唳膏唳∴Π-唳忇Π 唳曕唳粪唳曕唳粪Δ唳-唳唳侧唳唰熰Θ (Cyclone Formation in Mirzaganj, Patuakhali and damage assessment of Cyclone Sidr),
唳⑧唳曕 唳唳多唳Μ唳苦Ζ唰嵿Ο唳距Σ唰 唳Δ唰嵿Π唳苦唳 (Dhaka University Journal) , vol.88 , pp.65-78 , 2007
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唳唳灌唳唳Ζ 唳膏Λ唳 唳夃Σ唰嵿Ο唳距 : 唳⑧唳曕 唳呧Κ唰嵿Π唳距Δ唳苦Ψ唰嵿唳距Θ唳苦 唳曕Π唰嵿Ξ唳曕唳｀唳: 唳唳班Ω唳權唳 唳灌唳距Π 唳 唳む唳︵唳 唳呧Π唰嵿Ε唳ㄠ唳む唳 唳唳多唳粪唳熰唳 (Dhaka Informal Activities: Hawkers and Their Economic Characteristics),
唳⑧唳曕 唳唳多唳Μ唳苦Ζ唰嵿Ο唳距Σ唰 唳Δ唰嵿Π唳苦唳 (Dhaka University Journal) , vol.65 , 1999
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Md. Sofi Ullah : Socio-Economic Aspects of Hawkers and Their Activities in Dhaka City,
Oriental Geographer , vol.40 , no.1&2 , 1996
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唳嗋Ξ唳距Θ唳 唳夃Σ唰嵿Σ唳距 唳栢唳 and 唳唳距Ξ唰嵿Ξ唳 唳膏Λ唳 唳夃Σ唰嵿Ο唳距 : 唳多唳侧唳唳 唳呧Μ唳膏唳ム唳 唳むΔ唰嵿Δ唰嵿Μ 唳 唳唳傕Σ唳距Ζ唰囙Χ唰 唳夃Ζ唰嵿Ο唰嬥唰嵿Δ唳距Ζ唰囙Π 唳多唳侧唳Π 唳呧Μ唳膏唳ム唳 唳膏唳︵唳о唳膏唳 唳唳班唰嵿Π唳苦唳: 唳忇唳熰 唳膏Ξ唰唳曕唳粪 (Industrial Location Theory and the Industrial Location Decision Process of Bangladeshi Entrepreneurs: An Analysis),
唳⑧唳曕 唳唳多唳Μ唳苦Ζ唰嵿Ο唳距Σ唰 唳Δ唰嵿Π唳苦唳 (Dhaka University Journal) , vol.46 , pp.155-168 , 1993
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Mohammad Sofi Ullah
Professor
Department of Geography & Environment
Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: sofiullah.geoenv@du.ac.bd
Mobile (Dept): 01552-424523
Mobile (Personal): 01552424523