Remote Sensing Analyst

**WHO WE ARE**:
With 10 locations throughout Canada, Forsite Consultants Ltd. is a leading provider of integrated forest land development and management services. Our staff are industry leaders in forestry technology, strategic planning, resource and land management and professional forestry. Forsite is committed to growth, innovation and maintaining a safe and respectful working environment.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**:
Operating within Forsite’s Resource Management and Technology business area, you will work closely with clients, government, and technical staff to design and deliver innovative inventory solutions that can be used at both operational and strategic planning scales. Projects this role will be involved in may include any number of LiDAR assessment/analysis activities, such as feature extraction, machine learning training sample creation and review, machine learning descriptor creation, and general GIS tasks to support forest inventory attribute predictions.

**WHAT YOU’LL NEED**
- Post-secondary education in a relevant discipline;
- Proficient in ESRI ArcGIS / ArcPro, QGIS, GlobalMapper, FME, GDAL and automation with Python;
- Experience working with a range of remotely sensed data (imagery, radar, lidar), photogrammetry;
- Experience with Remote Sensing Software or Web based analytics platforms would be considered an asset (ENVI, ERDAS,PCI Geomatics, ESA SNAP, Google Earth Engine, Descartes Lab, Sentinel Hub);
- Experience with statistics / machine learning algorithms / Classification/Regression would be considered an asset; and
- Experience with using Remote Sensing for Forestry or Natural Resource Analysis / Management would be considered an asset.

**WHO YOU ARE**:

- Professional with a friendly and courteous manner, being service and team oriented;
- A strong communicator with technical writing skills;
- A problem solver with decision making skills; and
- An independent person able to work under limited direct supervision as well as in a dynamic team environment.

**WHAT WE PROVIDE**:
In addition to a challenging and rewarding work environment, Forsite provides work/life flexibility, competitive wages, a solid benefits package, supported professional development and a company matched pension program.