Geospatial Data Engineer

Updated: May 15, 2024 11:50 AM GMT

Forest Research

Roslin

A Geospatial Data Engineer role at Forest Research (FR), to cover a wide range of geospatial, analytical and information technology projects and allowing many opportunities for skills development. The National Forest Inventory (NFI) programme monitors the location, extent and condition of woodlands throughout Great Britain. It does this by means of construction, regular maintenance and updating of a digital spatial map of Britain’s woodlands using information from aerial photography, remote sensing and administrative sources. This is augmented with a large field survey operation with many thousands of individual survey sites covering a representative sample of woodlands across Great Britain. The NFI field survey is designed as a continuous survey of woodland on a 5-year cycle, with repeat surveying of most sites in each cycle. The operation is at the mid-point of the third cycle of assessments 2020-2025. Outputs from the NFI provide evidence to decision makers across GB supporting the... More Detail

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