Cartographic Analyst Apprentice
International Underwater Explorations
- Springfield, VA
- $60,000-65,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supporting Standard Nautical Chart production by performing cartographic analyst functions supporting the Enterprise Product on Demand (ePODs)production process
- Notice to Mariners production in order to enhance the timeliness of updated nautical information reaching customers.
- Recompilation or updating maritime features and attributes in ESRI based FG MOD production environment.
- Extracting features from a variety of sources including but not necessarily limited to rasterized nautical charts, digital hydrographic survey data and ortho-rectified imagery; writing Python Scripts in ARCGIS to improve efficiency of the production process; Data Conversion/migration.
- HS+ 0-3 years relevant experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance required, with willingness to obtain a polygraph upon request.
- Experience in geography, cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) which includes skill in ArcGIS applications.
- Experience in creating shapefiles, geo-databases, and features.
- Knowledge of digital cartography, image processing, geographical information systems (GIS), geospatial production techniques and NGA digital data formats
- Ability to utilize geographic names information from the GNDB.
- Ability to analyze imagery and non-imagery source information for application to NGA hydrographic products and databases.
- Generate corrections for electronic and paper nautical charts and publications.