Senior Geospatial Imagery Specialist

Join our team as a Senior Geospatial Imagery Specialist at Case Management Consulting!

** This role requires an active TS/SCI clearance (with the ability to obtain a CI poly) **

 

Your Impactful Duties:

• Provide specialized advice and assistance on complex technical projects.
• Independently performs a variety of system analysis, design and/or engineering tasks that are broad and innovative in nature.
• Participates in national level steering and advisory groups, panels and committees.
• Advises and mentor's technical personnel at all levels and reviews work for technical accuracy. 
• Guides the strategic growth of scientific imagery programs.
• Ensure that current and future GEOINT standards satisfy capability requirements at the program and strategic levels across the NGA, the NSG, and the ASG.
• Develop capability-based standards profiles & reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access, and retrieval; integrated intelligence and advanced analytics are enabled.
• Performs multiple tasks at specialist level
• Leads multiple Junior/Mid-level personnel
• Evaluate and recommend new technology & processes based upon cost, risk, mission
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on development of Still and/or Motion Imagery Standards with the objective of facilitating compliance and interoperability through integration of NSG & ASG requirements while reducing technical and schedule risk in the following functional areas:

o Still Imagery standards including, but not exclusive to:

• NITF
• NITF Extensions (MIE4NITF, SIDD, SICD, etc.)
• NATO Imagery STANAGs (NSIF, for instance)

o Motion Imagery standards & phenomenology's including, but not exclusive to:

• Electro Optical (EO)
• Large Volume Motion Imagery (LVMI)/Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI)
• Infrared Motion Imagery Standards (IR)
• Multispectral Imaging (MSI)
• Hyper spectral imaging (HSI)

 

Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Master's degree with 4 years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree with 6 years of relevant experience
• Associate degree with 8 years of relevant experience or a minimum of 8 years of experience in a relevant field
• Capable of developing and utilizing more complex concepts and processes.

 

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of Imaging Process

- Concepts of sensors & how they work

- Concepts of sensor collection parameters

• Understanding of Imaging Workflow

- Concepts of how imagery data flows from collection platform to exploitation system to archive

- Concepts of what processing or metadata additions can occur at the various steps in workflow

- Understanding of GEOINT Standards core components

• File formats

- NITF is a byte-offset format so what are the pros/cons

- Be aware of other formats ISOBMFF, HDF5, TIFF/GEOTIFF, etc.

• Metadata models vs Metadata encoding

- Understand abstract content models & organization from purpose perspective

- Sensor info, platform info, coordinate reference systems, security info, discovery & retrieval info, etc.

- Understand various metadata encodings (e.g., NITE TRE/SDE, KLV, XML, JSON, binary, etc.) and their pros/cons

• Image formats vs Image compression

- Understand various ways to represent 2-D pixel array data, band/pixel interleaving, etc.

- Understand various image compression techniques, pros/cons of each, typically where each is used & why

• Dissemination Protocols

- Block FTP vs Streaming protocols

- Encapsulation in IP or other server/client protocols

- Clear & concise technical writing to unambiguously convey technical concepts & guidance

• Clearly define scope, define all terms in use, leverage EARS to convey requirements, use active voice, etc.
• Have ability to write technical GEOINT standards with inputs from other SMEs

- Be proactive in finding information or understanding new topics

• Ask questions, develop understanding to level that you can convey concepts to others
• Consistently demonstrate willingness to learn & follow through

- Facilitate technical discussions with community experts

• Scope topic appropriately, keep discussions on track to achieve desired outcome
• Generate & present slide