Senior Geospatial Analyst - Calibration Analyst

Responsibilities

• Work on GIS/IT and Remote Sensing related projects for state and federal clients across the US.
• Perform sensor or swath calibration and alignment adjustment.
• Use mainstream commercial software suites (Bayesmap StripAlign, TerraSolid Products) or adjustments done in sensor vendor specific suites (Optech LMS, Riegl RiProcess).
• Have a strong conceptual understanding of sources of error in airborne lidar datasets and visualize translation and orientation errors.
• Align terrestrial, mobile, UAV lidar datasets, or have experience in academic environments.
• Experience in airborne lidar trajectory processing (Applanix PosPac MMS, Novatel Inertial Explorer).
• Extract 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.
• 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 QAQC 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, 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• In-depth knowledge of ESRI's software Terrascan PLTS tool kit experience a plus.
• Proficiency in basic computer applications, especially MS Office (Word, Excel, and Access).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications

• Required experience in Lidar processing and elevation model creation/manipulation.