COMPENSATION: $65,000 TO $90,000 ANNUALLY

Come Grow with Us! FORSITE is actively looking for a Remote Sensing Analyst to join our Inventory Team. This is a fully remote position, giving you the flexibility to work from home or any one of our 10 offices across Canada. At Forsite, we don’t just work together – we support, challenge, and grow together. We believe in flexibility, collaboration, and fostering an environment where everyone can thrive.

WHO WE ARE

Forsite Consultants Ltd. is a leading provider of integrated forest land development and management services. Our staff are industry leaders in forestry, technology, analytics, strategic planning, resource and land management/stewardship and professional forestry. We are a company that is committed to innovation and is constantly growing with clients across North America and abroad in multiple sectors.
We take pride in our team culture, where supporting one another is second nature. We are a dynamic, people-focused business that thrives by delivering value to our customers, creating opportunities for our employees, and drawing on our expertise for sustainable solutions that balance economic, environmental and social goals. We will apply our skills, knowledge and technologies to be the best forest management company.
We foster and sustain a safe and respectful environment of diversity and inclusion where everyone can reach their full potential. If you’re looking for a workplace that values collaboration, innovation and having fun while making a meaningful impact, you’ll fit right in.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Forsite welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and is looking for the right fit to join our team. If you don’t meet every requirement but bring relevant skills, experience and a great attitude, we encourage you to apply!

Must have:

• Post-secondary education in a relevant discipline and 2 to 3 years relevant forest industry experience (or equivalent)
• 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 working with a range of remotely sensed data (imagery, radar, LiDAR) and photogrammetry
• Proficient in automation with Python
• Proficient in ESRI ArcGIS / ArcPro, QGIS, GlobalMapper, GDAL

Strong preference:

• Experience with using remote sensing for forestry or natural resource analysis / Management
• Experience working with the AWS platform and geospatial databases (SDE)
• Experience with statistics, machine learning algorithms, classification and regression

Operating within Forsite’s Inventory business unit, you will work closely with clients, government, and technical staff to design and deliver innovative digital inventory solutions that can be used at both operational and strategic planning scales. Your projects may include any number of:

• LiDAR assessment/analysis activities, such as feature extraction
• Machine learning training sample creation and review
• Machine learning descriptor creation
• General GIS tasks to support forest inventory attribute predictions