Remote Sensing Technicians

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Participate in the planning or development of mapping projects.
• Verify integrity and accuracy of data contained in remote sensing image analysis systems.
• Prepare documentation or presentations, including charts, photos, or graphs.
• Merge scanned images or build photo mosaics of large areas, using image processing software.
• Integrate remotely sensed data with other geospatial data.
• Consult with remote sensing scientists, surveyors, cartographers, or engineers to determine project needs.
• Adjust remotely sensed images for optimum presentation by using software to select image displays, define image set categories, or choose processing routines.
• Manipulate raw data to enhance interpretation, either on the ground or during remote sensing flights.
• Collect geospatial data, using technologies such as aerial photography, light and radio wave detection systems, digital satellites, or thermal energy systems.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Maintain records of survey data.
• Document methods used and write technical reports containing information collected.
• Develop specialized computer software routines to customize and integrate image analysis.
• Collect verification data on the ground, using equipment such as global positioning receivers, digital cameras, or notebook computers.
• Operate airborne remote sensing equipment, such as survey cameras, sensors, or scanners.
• Monitor raw data quality during collection, and make equipment corrections as necessary.
• Evaluate remote sensing project requirements to determine the types of equipment or computer software necessary to meet project requirements, such as specific image types or output resolutions.
• Develop or maintain geospatial information databases.
• Correct raw data for errors due to factors such as skew or atmospheric variation.
• Calibrate data collection equipment.

Tasks Include:

• Collaborate with agricultural workers to apply remote sensing information to efforts to reduce negative environmental impacts of farming practices.
• Collect remote sensing data for forest or carbon tracking activities involved in assessing the impact of environmental change.
• Provide remote sensing data for use in addressing environmental issues, such as surface water modeling or dust cloud detection.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)