Remote Sensing Specialist

As a remote sensing specialist, you use data from satellites and aircraft to understand what is happening on Earth. Scientists, cities, and governments send you images from space, and your job is to look at them carefully and work out what they show - whether crops are healthy, where forests are being cut down, or how a river has changed.

You spend your days using computer software to study these images. You look for patterns and changes over time. You might zoom in on a farm to see if the soil is wet or dry, or scan a whole country to find where trees are growing back after a fire. You turn what you see into clear reports and maps so that people who plan cities, manage forests, or deal with disasters know what is actually happening on the ground.