Remote sensing professionals map, measure, and monitor our Earth using a range of sensors and cutting-edge technology. Using camera systems, laser scanners (lidar) and microwave sensors (radar), they collect, analyze, and report on spatial data. This provides organizations with insights to help solve problems and support decision making in the environmental and natural resources sectors and beyond.
In this graduate certificate program, you develop a foundation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) skills that are enhanced by specialized training. Using industry standard software, you manipulate, analyze, and present data from spaceborne, airborne, and terrestrial systems.
Through practical hands-on projects that build on your foundational skills you learn how to:
Pilot Remotely Piloted Airborne Systems (RPAS) drones and utilize land-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) survey equipment to collect data.
Source available Earth observation (EO) data from government, industry, and research organizations.
Interpret and analyze lidar, radar, multispectral, hyperspectral and thermal imagery.
Present 2D and 3D geospatial information in reports, plans, and digital or hard-copy maps
Apply geodesy, programming, and database fundamentals.
Integrate, manipulate and manage remotely sensed datasets in a GIS to uncover insights.
This program is offered at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS), Canada's largest geomatics-focused learning environment, and prepares you for a career in the global geomatics sector.
Career options
The field of remote sensing has multiple applications in forestry, geology, defence/intelligence, disaster management, conservation, oceanography, meteorology, urban analysis and agriculture.
Working in both public and private sectors in North America and beyond, graduates are: Operating airborne and terrestrial cameras and LiDAR systems, Piloting drones and processing imagery, Using imagery to monitor heath of agricultural crops, monitor environmental change, Developing tools for use in GIS, Tracking environmental changes for use in weather prediction
Helping natural resource companies find new sources of opportunities
