Lakehead University

Published purpose

The "The Future of Earth from Satellite Images" training program enhances post-secondary students' training in space, spaceborne images, image processing and analysis by providing up-to-date, employment-ready knowledge and skills to meet the needs of an expanding geomatics industry. The ten-day professional program is designed to boost the career development goals of participants. The program provides introductory remote sensing knowledge for post-secondary students who didn't complete regular geomatics courses during their studies to meet the geomatics literacy required in their careers. It enhances the capacity of Indigenous students and visible minority groups to meet the growing need for knowledge and experience requested by industry. The program is designed to train and mentor post-secondary students in five specific areas: 1. Introduction to space and spaceborne image acquisition. 2. Data Science and Analytics. 3. Data Visualization skills and advanced methods for presenting information extracted from imagery. 4. Knowledge Mobilization, facilitated by establishing a geomatics research network that will provide mentorship and research projects that are linked with method standardization and experimental design to address the natural resource industry. 5. Work Experience and Professional Development through research projects at the Department of Geography and the Environment.