Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. They are currently seeking a Senior Geospatial Analyst - Calibration Specialist to work on GIS/IT and Remote Sensing related projects for state and federal clients across the US. The role involves quality assurance, data processing, and creating digital mapping products using various software platforms.
Responsibilities
- Quality checks on data post acquisition
- Airborne and/or mobile trajectory processing
- Processing and extraction of Lidar data from raw formats
- Performing relative and absolute adjustments to Lidar data (calibration/alignment/registration)
- Perform QA/QC on processed data to ensure it meets rigorous accuracy requirements
- Review and validate post-processed LiDAR data sets for completeness and accuracy
- Verify that data meets point density, spatial distribution, and classification requirements
- Perform quality checks against project specifications, industry standards, and client guidelines
- Assess point cloud characteristics including noise, gaps, overlap, and vertical/horizontal accuracy
- Document QA/QC findings and communicate results to project managers and technical staff
- Create a variety of digital mapping/remotely sensed products using various software platforms
- Create and manipulate databases
- Elevation data processing and manipulation
- Lidar macro creation
- Problem solving
- Report writing
- Creating Scripts/Models/Macros in multiple GIS/Lidar platforms
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in the GIS/Remote Sensing Field
- Experience in either Lidar data extraction and/or swath alignment
- Required experience in Lidar processing and elevation model creation/manipulation
- In-depth knowledge of ESRI's software
- Proficiency in basic computer applications, especially MS Office (Word, Excel, and Access)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience using mainstream commercial software suites (Bayesmap StripAlign, TerraSolid Products)
- Adjustments done in sensor vendor specific suites (Optech LMS, Riegl RiProcess)
- Experience in alignment of terrestrial, mobile, UAV lidar datasets
- Experience in academic environments
- Airborne lidar trajectory processing (Applanix PosPac MMS, Novatel Inertial Explorer)
- Extracting lidar using sensor vendor specific processing suites (Riegl RiProcess, Optech LMS, Teledyne CARIS, GeoCue True View EVO)
- Strong understanding of aerial acquisition, GPS ground survey, and bathymetric calibration
- Terrascan
- PLTS tool kit experience
Benefits
- Remote positions will be considered dependent on experience.
- Relocation Assistance: No
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