Apply by: Open until Filled
Location: Toronto, ON - This is a fully remote position
Job Type: Full-time

To support our mission will produce and deliver forestry information for our industry and government clients. You will apply our advanced SkyForestTM technology to process remotely sensed data. You will assist with our on-going improvement and R&D efforts and will apply your programming knowledge and technical expertise to improve and maintain our technology. You will apply your skills in remote sensing, GIS and geo-analytics to provide spatial solutions to our clients. You are a good team worker and can present your ideas to clients.
 
Responsibilities and Duties:

• Support our SkyForest team with client services.
• Produce on-time, accurate and high-quality geographical solutions for customers.
• Process GIS data and imagery into derivative products.
• Follow steps to solve GIS tasks and problems related to client needs.
• Assist with R&D projects
• Download, analyze and process remotely sensed data to produce usable products for clients.
• Create maps with a consistent visual identity as well as presentations, technical papers, or reports.
• Write scripts (e.g., Python, R, SQL) as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate, M.Sc. or equivalent work experience in GIS, Remote Sensing or Geomatics with a solid programming component.
• Experience with forestry and/or wildfire an asset
• Strong analytical capacity and ability to produce quality assessments of our products against reference data to drive product improvement.
• Ability to work with remotely sensed optical data from a variety of satellites such as Landsat, Sentinel 2, PlanetScope, SkySat, Pleaides etc.
• SAR and lidar skills an asset.
• Ability to solve problems and innovate
• Statistical and analytical skills
• AI/ML an asset
  

For more information please click here or go to:

https://skyforest-io.breezy.hr/p/a8bc00c98b7e-gis-remote-sensing-application-specialist