📕 About Thryve.Earth
We develop high-integrity, nature-based solutions (NbS) carbon projects in South and Southeast Asia that restore ecosystems. Our approach combines deep on-ground presence with purpose-built tools, robust governance, and infrastructure-grade execution - ensuring resilient returns for capital partners, landowners, and local communities.
🚁 Position Overview
Are you passionate about using drones, satellites and AI to measure nature more accurately? Thryve.Earth is seeking a GIS & Remote Sensing Specialist in Bangalore to drive GIS and remote-sensing R&D for digital MRV across our NbS projects.
In this role you will combine drone and satellite data with computer vision to measure trees, canopy and carbon more accurately and cost-effectively, validate outputs with field data, and turn research into repeatable production workflows.
📝 Responsibilities
- dMRV & GIS R&D: Drive GIS and remote-sensing R&D for digital MRV across NbS projects. Develop approaches for measuring trees, canopy and carbon using geospatial data, and combine drone and satellite datasets for project monitoring.
- Computer Vision & Remote Sensing: Develop and apply computer-vision methods for tree/crown detection, counting and segmentation. Generate canopy and related spatial metrics, and calibrate remote-sensing outputs against field data.
- Drone & Field Data: Conduct/support drone surveys, flight planning and photogrammetry. Work with field plots, project boundaries and ground-truth data, and validate and improve remote-sensing methods using field observations.
- Workflow Development: Build repeatable geospatial workflows using Python, automate analysis and maintain version-controlled workflows. Work with QGIS, Google Earth Engine and SQL/Postgres/PostGIS, and translate research questions into documented, reproducible methods.
🎓 Qualifications and Skills
- Genuine passion for nature and for applying technology to nature-based solutions.
- 3+ years of GIS/remote sensing experience.
- Degree in GIS, Remote Sensing or a related field.
- Experience with carbon markets, NbS, ARR, agroforestry, REDD+ or MRV.
- Experience in GIS/remote-sensing R&D for dMRV.
- Experience with drone surveys, flight planning and photogrammetry, and with combining drone and satellite data.