This innovative, interdisciplinary programme combines the areas of remote sensing and spatial analysis to provide a broad overview of the subject, with scope for specialisation. It is growing by leaps and bounds, and careers in the field are available in all states and throughout the private, public, government, and academic sectors. Remote sensing specialists may be hired as geographers, cartographers, physical scientists, computer scientists, GIS analysts, remote sensing scientists, surveyors, image analysts, or other professionals.
Recently, the scope of Remote sensing has increased as it is now widely used by private companies that sell imagery and data to Google, Bing, the federal government, scientists, academic and research libraries, and others. Specialists may also find employment at consulting firms, software development firms, and scientific laboratories, where they are expected to improve technologies, software, or data analysis techniques.
