What would you do as a Geospatial specialist?
Geospatial specialists
- usually work regular business hours
- usually work in offices and may travel locally
- may work outdoors in all weather conditions
- need to be methodical, communicate well and identify and solve problems
Tasks
- use geographic equipment, technology and systems
- give technical support
- create electronic maps
- analyse geographic data
- write reports
- assess data quality
- build scientific and mathematical models
- create graphics, tables and graphs
- maintain electronic databases
- write computer programming code
How can you become a Geospatial specialist?
You usually need a qualification to become a geospatial specialist and experience may be useful.
You may need
- a bachelor's degree in geology, geophysics and geochemistry
- a postgraduate certificate or diploma in earth sciences
- a Master of Geospatial Data Science or similar
- experience in similar work
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.
