NAU’s Radiant Center for Remote Sensing and the Sanghi College of Engineering are hiring four postdoctoral scholars at once. Different projects, same underlying question: how much can you learn about a place by flying over it?
Robotic Radio Source Localization: Find a radio emitter from the air. Signal-based position estimation paired with path planning that flies the aircraft to the vantage point that resolves the source.
Electrical Engineering for UAV Sensors: Build sensing payloads. Onboard compute, autopilot stacks, and the bench work that comes with integration.
UAV Swarm Simulation: Fly a simulated swarm through forests reconstructed from lidar. Investigate self-healing swarm response to agent loss.
UAV & Lidar Data Collection: Terrestrial scans fused with UAV point clouds into digital twins of five northern Arizona forest sites, understory through canopy.
The field sites are the selling point nobody puts in a job ad. Canyon country to forests to alpine tundra. 8,000 feet of elevation change inside an hour’s drive of campus.
Four postdocs hired together means you’d be building alongside the other three, not off in a corner.
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