EMW is hiring a
Satellite Imagery Basemap Processor

Summary

Join the JISR Centre as Satellite Imagery Basemap Processor for Foundation Imagery Layer and contribute to NATO's situational awareness by processing satellite imagery basemaps to NATO standards. The successful candidate will work on a team under the supervision of the NCIA project manager, using an agile and iterative approach with multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of 4 weeks, and payments are dependent upon the successful acceptance of each sprint.

Requirements

• MSc degree in Geography, Geographic Information Science, Geospatial Sciences or related field
• Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post
• Minimum 5 years experience in advanced satellite imagery processing, including orthorectification, mosaicking, colour balancing, classification, seamline creation and colour blending techniques
• In-depth familiarity with commercial satellite imagery formats and specifications
• Minimum 5 years experience using ArcGIS Desktop Software, including data preparation and advanced functionalities of mosaic datasets
• Minimum 5 years experience using ArcGIS Server/ArcGIS Image Server for data optimisation, publishing and caching of OGC web services such as WMS and WMTS
• Minimum 3 years advanced experience in the usage of an image processing software, preferably ERDAS Imagine
• Minimum 5 years of experience in image classification and feature extraction from imagery and collateral data
• Minimum 3 years experience in advanced imagery processing toolchain programming with usage of relevant libraries, such as GDAL, OpenCv, Intel IPP, Intel TBB, MrSID Decode SDK, kakadu SDK, libjpeg, zlib, proven through the participation of relevant GIS projects
• Proven experience in development of tools using ArcGIS Toolbox and ArcPy
• Proven experience in the software development for the implementation of algorithms for color balancing of aerial / satellite imagery
• Proven experience in producing mapping and satellite basemaps to NATO standards for use in NATO theatres
• Expert level understanding of pixel-exact metadata production per source image of mosaic
• Expert level understanding of assessing accuracy of High-Resolution geospatial products
• Expert level understanding of vector data manipulation
• Expert level understanding of raster data manipulation
• Expert level understanding of common raster formats and their pro’s and con’s
• Minimum 5 years experience in raster data compression technologies, with focus on imagery
• Hands-on experience in producing most common compression formats, MrSID, JPEG2000, ECW and others
• Solid understanding of coordinate systems, projections, datums, etc
• Expert level understanding of raster tile creation based on tiling schemas including the ArcGIS/Google/Bing tiling schema
• 5 years experience in GIS project execution
• Expert level experience in GIS (raster and vector) data handling and versioning
• Expert level experience in GIS database management
• Solid experience in quality assurance and quality control, following relevant standards (e.g. ISO 9001/19157), proven through certification or application in projects
• Proven ability to integrate and work in a multinational team
• General Office software familiarity (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, …)
• Fluent in Business English

Responsibilities

• Perform tasks in the area of imagery processing for basemap production
• Perform color adjustment
• Perform Seamline creation
• Perform metadata creation
• Create mosaics following multi sensor data analysis of commercial satellite imagery
• Perform data handling and versioning
• Develop quality assurance methodology
• Execute quality control
• Report on progress
• Perform ad-hoc geospatial production support tasks