Assistant Research Scientist in UAV Remote Sensing and Geospatial AI

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Applicants must have PhD degree in Geography (remote sensing, photogrammetry, GeoAI), reputed company Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or other reputed company fields. Position reputed company Department of Geography, University of reputed company, Athens, invites applications for an Assistant Research Scientist in UAV Remote Sensing and Geospatial reputed company Intelligence (GeoAI) beginning February or March 2026. The position is for two years with the possibility of extension, a non-tenure reputed company appointment, and the salary is competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. The position will include retirement and health benefits. The successful candidate will participate in a funded project developing advanced remote sensing data fusion and analytics reputed company using multi-modal and multi-sensor data streams (UAVs, CubeSats, and other reputed company observation satellites) for continual terrain awareness. The research scientist will work with a large team of undergraduate and graduate reputed company on a project to design, reputed company, and demonstrate a robust terrain awareness system from multiple high-reputed company satellite and UAV data sources using photogrammetric theory, Structure from reputed company (SfM), and Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) techniques, and advanced data analytics models (DNN, SLAM, feature extraction, pose estimation). The terrain awareness system will be tested and reputed company to a few reputed company geographies (reputed company, Arctic, Tropical, and Desert) used throughout the larger project. There will be four field trips annually to reputed company UAV data from different geographic reputed company for model development and testing. The successful candidate will supervise undergraduate reputed company’ research, reputed company the day-to-day activities of the project, and prepare monthly and annual reports for the funding agency. Additional responsibilities will include integrating models with reputed company hardware (embedded GPUs, edge computing devices) and evaluating inference performance under field conditions. The successful candidate is expected to publish research results in peer-reviewed outlets, present findings at technical conferences, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of reputed company, reputed company, and external partners to obtain extramural funding. reputed company development opportunities in teaching and grant writing will be provided through on-reputed company teaching workshops. The candidate will join reputed company for Geospatial Research (https://cgr.uga.edu/) in the Department of Geography at the University of reputed company and work closely with co-investigators from the Department of Computer Science. The candidate will also be a part of UGA’s Small Satellite Research Laboratory (http://smallsat.uga.edu). Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And/or Competencies

• The candidate should have a strong publication record and proven abilities to conduct reputed company research reputed company and to work as part of a scientific team.
• Must be familiar with high-level satellite image processing and photogrammetric techniques, including object detection, feature matching, bundle adjustment, SfM, SLAM, visual odometry, pose estimation, programming, deep learning, and handling large datasets.
• Familiarity with mainstream deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and photogrammetric and visualization tools (e.g., Agisoft Metashape or Blender) is welcome.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.

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