Description
Collect, manage, analyze, and visualize spatial data to support legal, social, environmental, planning, and design decisions. Use GIS, remote sensing, and GPS to produce digital maps, web maps, and spatial datasets. Design and maintain geodatabases, data models, and workflows, and evaluate algorithms and interfaces for GIS and mapping systems.
- • Identify and validate geodetic control, coordinate systems, and elevations; apply standard transformations.
- • Collect spatial data via GPS, aerial and satellite imagery, LiDAR, and other remote sensing methods.
- • Update and revise maps and GIS layers to reflect new sources and corrections.
- • Compile and integrate data from surveys, CAD, sensors, reports, and legacy maps.
- • Perform QA/QC to ensure completeness, accuracy, and topological integrity.
- • Define map content, symbology, scale, projection, and layout; direct production and publishing.
- • Analyze ground surveys, reports, imagery, and raster data to produce topographic and thematic outputs.
- • Select appropriate sensors, imagery, and processing workflows to meet accuracy and resolution requirements.
- • Digitize and extract features such as control points, hydrography, topography, and cultural assets from imagery.
- • Build, maintain, and document geodatabases and spatial data catalogs.
- • Create and edit maps, charts, tables, and 3D scenes; publish web maps and services.
- • Establish data standards and source acceptance guidelines; manage metadata.
- • Research and interpret legal records and parcels to define and validate boundaries.
- • Conduct field verification and ground-truthing to confirm and attribute mapped features.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
