GISCorps: Looking for Remote Sensing Specialist

GISCorps is looking for remote sensing specialists for Mega Storm Sandy.  This project is in collaboration with the International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" (http://www.disasterscharter.org/).

The desired candidates must have considerable expertise in working with TerraSAR-X imagery and conduction analysis related to TerraSAR-X.   The analysis includes measuring the extent of the flood (pooling of water), depth of water, and conducting change detection from TerraSAR-X taken at various stages of the storm and producing shape files from areas of change.

Time: can start immediately for 1-2 weeks and 3-5 hours a day.

Please send an email to recruit@giscoprs.org along with your resume by Nov. 7th, 2012.

Internships at NGA: the Summer of 2013

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) now accepts applications for internships and scholarships starting the summer of 2013 during Sept. 4-Oct. 12, 2012 at www.nga.mil
(see "Careers" and "Current Openings" to locate the appropriate student Assignment opportunity NOtices (AON).

Graduates interested in full time positions are also encouraged to visit the website for current openings and applications deadlines.  

GIS Intern with Veterans Affairs

The Dept of Veterans Affairs, the office of Emergency Management is looking for an intern for the fall, 2012 to work for 40 hours a week

Preferred: a graduate GIS student or finished a MA in GIS with demonstrated knowledge and skills in ESRI's ArcInfo using Model Builder, with the ability to write software code and scripts to automate the models and with knowledge of ArcGIS Server to build and publish an interactive web mapping tools and services.  Must also have knowledge of geodatabase design and development, and to include data schema, data modeling, and logical data models.
(competency in ArcGIS Server, ArcInfo, Python, Flash Builder, C++, Java, Java Script, Spatial Analyst, GIS web development, and  Geodata Management of spatial data).

Please send your resume to Sabrina.noel@twc.edu by August 22.

Summer Student Employment @ USGS

Summer Student Employment


The USGS SilvaCarbon project in Reston is interested in applications from graduate or undergraduate students to aid in processing of satellite and geospatial data, conduct statistical analysis and develop cartographic maps this summer.

The following capabilities would be helpful but are not all mandatory:

• Knowledge of GIS, remote sensing, image processing and statistical analysis.
• Familiarity and experience in using ARCGIS, Erdas Imagine, ARCView, SAS and MatLab
• Spanish is an advantage.

If interested, please send a cover note expressing interest and a resume/CV to:

Dr. Douglas Muchoney (dmuchoney@usgs.gov).

National Park Service-GIS intern position

NPS is looking for an intern for the project related to Climate Change GIS/Graphic Design.

Start and End Date: May 1, 2012-August 31, 2012.

Qualification: must be a graduate student with an undergraduate degree in geography or GIS, computer science, hydrology, environmental studies, engineering, and climate change studies, or planning with significant coursework in GIS.

Please contact for details: Walter H. W. Zachritz, Ph.D
NPS Coordinator
Chesapeake Watershed CESU
U< CES Applalachian Laboratory
301 Braddock Road
Frostburg, MD 21532
Voice: 301-689-7108
Fax: 301-689-7200
Cell: 202-437-0297

USGS - Intern position

Student Intern Position at USGS

Terms for all positions: Student will work at the USGS National Center in Reston, VA. Student will be paid by requisition contract at an hourly rate as listed in the OPM pricing table for student services. Full or Part-time during summers and school breaks; part-time during school year as negotiated, up to a maximum of 20 hours per week during the school year; 1 year with possibility of extension to two years beyond graduation. Start Spring 2012. 

Office assistant (GIS)
 
Work Requirements: The student contractor will provide support for the Project’s database development, management, data analysis, and publication activities. The support activities include scanning paper maps, geologic cross-sections, field notes and other data and using spreadsheets to set up inventories of data. The student contractor will use elementary aspects of GIS for geographic registration of map data so that the data can be used by other scientists to develop derivative GIS data layers for digital and more traditional publication formats.
Specific Tasks:

1. Scan maps, field notes, and other data.
2. Learn the use of elementary GIS software as needed for project activities, including the geographic registration of map data.
3. Maintenance of digital data bases, including sorting of records, merging of records, and entering data. Work will involve using spreadsheets and databases to develop inventories.

Specific Qualifications Required:

1. The student contractor must be enrolled in a degree program at the University, but does not have to be a US citizen. However, the student must be fluent in English.
2. The student contractor must have completed at least 2 years of undergraduate course work by June 2012.
3. The student contractor must have the ability to quickly learn and deal with new software, including scanning software and elementary GIS programs.
4. The student contractor should have a working knowledge of the major spreadsheet and database programs (for example, Excel, Access.)
5. Once guidance has been given on the task at hand, the student contractor will be expected to work independently.

Additional Qualifications Desirable: Background knowledge of geology, mineralogy, and geochemistry is desirable. Introductory knowledge of GIS software is also desirable.

Apply: interested students can send your resumes/CVs to Professor David Wong (dwong2@gmu.edu). For more questions, call Professor Wong at 703-993-9260. Please specify the position(s) applied in all correspondences.

SAIC-Geospatial Analyst

SAIC requires Geospatial Analyst (Job Number:214953)


Description:

The candidate will be responsible for the processing of GPS/IMU, LIDAR and EO sensor data from a raw format to final products and disseminations support to the Army Buckeye program in the Afghanistan theater of operation. This entails the processing GPS trajectories, performing cleanup algorithms, registering data, managing data and conducting QA/QC. Provide support and troubleshooting of potential hardware/software issues that might arise. Candidate will work on small cohesive teams, in these theaters as well as on larger teams in the Springfield Office. Selected candidates will be required to perform rotations to theater of operation at a minimum of 4 months per rotation. Longer rotations can be worked out at the candidate’s request. Candidate will have a working understanding of the collection and processing of tactical imagery and LIDAR data. Candidate should have a background in working with military customers and production of products related to the Military Decision Making Process. Should be a self starter that works well with small teams as well as individually.

Candidate must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and pass a redeployment physical.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED EDUCATION/SKILLS: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (four years). The successful candidate will have a minimum of three to five years relevant skill experience including the following: knowledge and experience with digital cartography, image processing, and computer technology; knowledge of geographical information systems, geospatial production techniques, and NGA digital data formats; knowledge of and experience with GIS commercial-off-the-shelf applications software, particularly ESRI ArcGIS, ArcView, ERDAS Imagine/LPS, SOCET SET, etc.

Job Posting: Jan 22, 2012, 9:28:04 PM
Primary Location: United States-VA-ALEXANDRIA
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Teleworking: No
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Shift: Yes, 10% of the time
Schedule: Full-time

Click here to apply

USGS-Summer Jobs

USGS is offering summer jobs for students.

Technical Requests (not requirements):

• ArcGIS 10 Desktop, Server
• Familiarity with ArcGIS Image Services
• Familiaritywith OGC WMS, CSW, WCS, etc.
• Familiarity Flex API, Model Builder, ArcGIS Add-In Development
• Coding Flex, Python, ActionScript, C#

Project Activities:

All National Geologic Map Database citations for geologic maps and related reports on Alaska will be evaluated for inclusion in this project. There are more than 4,000 such reports in the NGMDB, and each report may have many plates. All previously scanned material will be quality checked, and rescanned as needed. Multiple formats of each scan will be created (e.g., high- and medium-res. PDF, TIFF, JPEG), for users to download. Geologic map sheets will be georeferenced and processed into NGMDB’s map viewing and delivery system that is currently under development. This system uses ESRI’s ImageServer application, to provide both WMS and Web browser access to the maps.

Deliverables:

A seamless statewide coverage of current geologic maps (3,000+) in the NGMDB archive that is accessible to the public via a web-mapping interface. Data will also be made available to client side GIS software users via OGC compliant web services.

Contact Chris Garrity at the USGS for more details. Chris can be reached by email :- cgarrity@usgs.gov or phone :- 703-648-6426

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Engineer/Scientist & Internships @ MTEQ, VA

MTEQ’s Technical Services Division is seeking self motivated engineers or scientists who are interested in hands on work to support laboratory and field testing of spectral sensor systems. Individuals with backgrounds in reflective VNIR/SWIR and/or emissive LWIR hyperspectral remote sensing technology are highly desired.

Ideal candidates will have experience in a combination of one or more of the following technical areas:

Data Collection and Planning:

• experiment planning and set up
• sensor operation
• data quality assessment
• target/background characterization and ground-truthing

Sensors/Sensor-Systems:

• design
• integration
• test
• characterization
• lab and/or field environment

Hyperspectral/Multivariate Data Processing, Analysis and Exploitation

• science/phenomenology
• atmospherics
• relevant mathematical methods/algorithms used in the processing and exploitation of HSI data
• working knowledge of image/data processing software and languages, such as ENVI/IDL, Matlab, C/C++

Other Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Engineering, Imaging Science, Physics or related field
• Ability for critical thinking and problem solving 
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US DoD clearance

Job Location:
Openings will be located either on our customer site in Ft. Belvoir, VA or in our Stafford, VA office.

INTERNSHIPS:
MTEQ offers several internship opportunities for college students. These opportunities may be available in our Ft. Belvoir or Stafford, VA locations. Our internships are technical in nature and are best suited to students in their junior or senior years, or in graduate-level or doctorate programs.

How to Apply:
Visit our Careers page on the Web at http://www.mteq.com/ or email Resume to careers@mteq.com.

USGS -Summer Internship position

USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center in Reston has a summer internship position available. To apply, send an e-mail expression of interest with an attached resume/CV to Dr. Diana Hogan (dhogan@usgs.gov).


Proposed intern duties:
This student will join an ongoing project investigating the environmental effects of traditional versus novel suburban stormwater management strategies and will initiate work on extending the scope of the project by beginning an economic analysis of the novel stormwater management. The student will be mentored by cooperation of two USGS science centers Eastern Geographic Science Center to provide project and environmental analysis mentoring, and Western Geographic Science Center to provide the mentoring for the economic analyses. The student will work with established partners at Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection and the Montgomery County Planning Department to obtain and organize data and begin a cost benefit analysis of the implementation of the novel stormwater management being used in the county (and being monitored by Eastern Geographic Science Center). The student may also have the opportunity to assist with field and lab analyses to experience both the environmental monitoring aspect as well as the economic aspects of the project.

Work will take place at the USGS National Center in Reston, VA and pay will be based on educational level and experience. The start date is expected to be in mid May 2012 and last through the summer (exact dates are flexible based on the student's academic obligations).

USGS -Intership position

Internship position at USGS - Reston

Responsibility:

The programmer-intern will assist the team with developing new functionalities in applications designed for flood hazard mitigation, land conservation prioritization in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and water resource management in South Florida.

Work Experience or Specific Qualifications Required

• Experience with a Java script user interface library is required (e.g, YUI, ExtJS, jQuery).
• Familiarity with server-side processing would be helpful (Python is preferred)
• Familiarity with a Java script mapping library (e.g. OpenLayers, Google Maps).

Terms

Student will work at the USGS National Center in Reston, VA. Student will be paid by requisition contract at an hourly rate as listed in the OPM pricing table for student services. Full or Part-time during summers and school breaks; part-time during school year as negotiated. Start: preferably January/February 2012 or as negotiated.

Apply
Applicants should contact Dr. Paul Hearn by e-mail and include a resume and a brief summary of relevant experience.

Paul P. Hearn, Jr. Ph.D.
Chief, Research Section
Eastern Geographic Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Region
MS 521 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
phearn@usgs.gov

Satellite Programmers - Astrium GEO NA

Astrium GEO NA is currently recruiting two Satellite Programmers.  These positions report to the Vice President of Operations.  Please email resume to jobs@astrium-geo.com.

Job description

Provide complete Programming Services to SICORP’s clients and to internal clients. Provide backup to other Client Solutions reps and Satellite Programmers.


Qualifications

Employee must be proficient in the entire Microsoft Office Suite. After a complete training program given by Astrium GEO, employee must be proficient in the entire SAS suite, Multi-satellite tool and Access Unit. Knowledge in climatology is desired.

Must be extremely organized and excellent at time management. Candidate must have excellent communications and contact relation skills.

Special Position Requirements

This position does require some domestic and international travel to France. This position also requires employee to be part of Astrium GEO’s 7-day service which requires availability on rotating weekends and some overtime. Other overtime may be requested on a case by case basis.

Responsibilities

Provide Complete Programming Support

1. Be familiar with and adhere to all programming procedures.
2. Act as the programming software expert within Astrium GEO NA. Be prepared to train new employees on programming software.
3. Coordinate with IT dept. and other GEO entities on programming software functionality. 
4. Maintain tracking mechanisms to keep everyone informed on status of all programming requests.
5. Receive and program all programming requests for designated territories. Use multi-satellite capacity if it is relevant. Receive and coordinate international requests which need to go to Astrium GEO in Toulouse. Track all PARs to make sure they are receiving attempts. Validate images, provide shape files, etc.
6. Coordinate programming and PALT slots for designated ground stations.
7. Manage relationship with Astrium GEO Toulouse as concerns international programming and overall programming capabilities and limitations. Make sure to include supervisor in overall strategy and major decisions. Actively solicit information from relevant sources on new functionalities and knowledge.
8. Travel to Toulouse once a year to receive yearly programming training.
9. Promote a positive relationship with clients and with SISA.

Provide Backup

1. Coordinate vacation schedules with other CS reps and Programmers.
2. Receive requests from other customers and AMs when CS reps and Programmers are out.
3. Communicate workload level with other Programmers & CS reps. Offer and ask for help when needed.

Student positions at USGS

USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center has immediate student internships available. There are two different needs as follows.

1. Some knowledge of land use/cover mapping and ERDAS IMAGINE.
2. A programmer to assist with developing new functionalities in applications designed for flood hazard mitigation, land conservation prioritization in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and water resource management in South Florida.

Experience with a Javascript user interface library is required (e.g, YUI, ExtJS, jQuery). Familiarity with server-side processing would be helpful (Python is preferred), as well as familiarity with a Javascript mapping library (e.g. OpenLayers, Google Maps).

These positions do require student status and very likely US citizenship. If interested, please send an e-mail expression of interest and a resume/CV to Greg Desmond, Associate Chief, EGSC.

GIS Assistant - Temporary Hire @ Prince William County Service Authority

Applicants without GIS experience will not be considered for hire.

Accountabilities

• Perform data research, discovery, and collection from historical engineering plans and documents
• Prepare data catalogues of necessary documents and data, document information sources, and prepare metadata documentation
• Use GIS software to query utility assets and perform attribute population, add new utility assets and document metadata
• Work independently to verify accuracy of conflicting information by reviewing historical engineering plans and documents
• Locate water and sewer assets in the field using GPS technology to verify asset information

 Knowledge/Skills

• Must have experience using ESRI products, specifically ArcGIS Desktop and ArcCatalog version 8.0 or higher
• Experience interpreting and analyzing water and/or sanitary sewer utility information
• Basic knowledge of water and sewer system operations
• Must be detailed oriented and capable of reading and understanding complex engineering plans, maps and records
• Strong analytical skills and ability to systematically mine data from hard copy engineering plans and documents
• Experience using GPS technology
• Experience producing high quality digital and hardcopy maps and project graphics
• Willingness to assist with multiple projects
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing
• Field work may be required

 *This is a temporary position eligible to work up to 37.5 hours per week for up to 12 months*

 

For complete job description and application instructions, please visit Prince William County Service Authority and click on the Service Authority Career Opportunities link.