Drone Pilot

Career Overview

If you work as a drone pilot, you can use remote sensing principles and methods to analyze data and find solutions in various fields, including natural resource management, urban planning and homeland security. Your job may involve creating new sensor systems, developing analytical techniques, and finding new applications for existing systems. In the forestry industry, drones are useful for a range of tasks, such as stand delineation and mapping, harvest planning, forest structure estimation and inventory, carbon inventory, damage assessments, forest disease and pest detection, stand mapping, forest fire detection, and post-fire mapping.

Other job titles include: data analytics scientist, geospatial intelligence analyst, remote sensing analyst, remote sensing scientist, research scientist, scientist, sensor specialist.