Questions answered to kick start your geospatial career.

Introduction to the course

So, do you want to learn what is remote sensing, answer questions about the field, where it is used in the business, what it means to be a remote sensing expert?

If you need to answer at least one of these questions, that's great!

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When starting a new career it can be very hard to follow the correct path or paths to succeed.

I have some very good news, I created this FREE online course to help you with just that.

As a remote sensing expert, I share with you my 10+ years experience in the field to help you start your career in remote sensing and earth observation.

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What is Remote Sensing?

With a very simple answer, Remote Sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact using specifically designed sensors installed on observing platforms (satellites, airplanes, UAVs, etc)
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Where Remote Sensing is used?

Remote Sensing is technical domain used across many business sectors. Just to showcase the major ones: Agriculture, Forestry, Urban Monitoring, Insurance, Ocean Monitoring, Oil and Gas, Renewable energies, Air quality management. In each of these sectors, remote sensing plays and important role and the remote sensing expert needed is responsible for several workflows.
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What skills do I need to start working as a Remote Sensing Expert?

As a multidisciplinary domain, a remote sensing expert needs to have a good knowledge background of both technical and theoretical skills. Just to mention, mathematics and linear algebra are your starting point. Programming languages will serve you as tools to be able to implement advanced remote sensing methods. Specific remote sensing software like, ENVI, ERDAS, ORFEO Toolbox, SNAP, QGIS and GRASS, will standardize your workflows. Last but not least, understanding the domain you are working for, e.g. Agriculture, Oil and Gas, etc, will make the difference in succeeding your career goals.

What kind of jobs can I find as a remote sensing expert?

There are quite a lot of job functionalities a remote sensing expert undertakes. Geospatial Analyst, Project/Technical Manager, Technical Bidder, Geospatial Administrator, Business Market Analyst, Researcher/Scientist. Just to mention a few.
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Course curriculum

  1. 01

    • Greetings from your personal virtual instructor

    • Lesson 1: Introduction to the course
  2. 02

    • Lesson 2: What is Remote Sensing?

    • Lesson 3: Where Remote Sensing is used?
  3. 03

    • Lesson 4: What skills do I need to become a Remote Sensing Expert?

    • Lesson 5: What kind of jobs can I find as a Remote Sensing Expert?

    • Quiz
  4. 04

    • Lesson 6: What are your next steps?

    • Discussion with your personal virtual instructor

About your Instructor

Dimitris Sykas is a Remote Sensing and Surveying Engineer with a Ph.D. in hyperspectral remote sensing from the National Technical University of Athens (2016). He has spent fifteen years turning satellite data into operational products: at the NTUA Remote Sensing Laboratory, at Planetek Hellas as Senior EO Engineer, at Neuropublic building machine-learning models for smart farming and CAP monitoring, as a postdoctoral researcher on deep learning for agricultural Earth observation at the National Observatory of Athens, and as CTO of the cloudeo group. In 2024 he co-founded GOVADI, an Athens-based company building sovereign, on-premises AI systems for the Greek public sector and large enterprises, where he leads the technical direction of its products: Greek speech-to-text, retrieval-augmented generation with local models and embedding stores, document OCR and PII anonymisation. He has taken part in more than 25 funded EU and ESA projects, has authored over 23 peer-reviewed publications in remote sensing, and holds an international patent in hyperspectral data compression. He founded GEO University to bring hands-on GIS and Earth observation training online.

Dimitris Sykas

Remote Sensing Engineer, Ph.D. · Co-founder and Director, GOVADI · Founder, GEO University

Some more information

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