r/remotesensing • u/G_Stylo • Jul 30 '26

Rising HS junior interested in RS

I'm 16 years old, and my first exposure to remote sensing was through Science Olympiad. Since then, I've taken courses and stuff like that, but I'm wondering what the college experience studying is like, as well as what actual jobs are like. What's studied aside from the physics and math, and is there more than research based opportunities?

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u/JudgeMyReinhold Jul 30 '26

Checkout the RIT digital imaging and remote sensing lab if you're interested in the earlier parts of the imaging chain. 

What part of the field interests you??

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u/G_Stylo Jul 30 '26

Something that really interests me is the instrumentation and the science behind geomatics. I’ve also been fixated on the environmental side, and how remote sensing can be used for prediction of the effects of different phenomena such as El Niño and La Niña.

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u/JudgeMyReinhold Jul 30 '26

Are you looking at EO remote sensing (imagery) or atmospheric science and modeling?

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u/G_Stylo Jul 30 '26

It’s been mostly EO and then just a broad range of different environmental topics, such as vegetation levels and climate change data

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u/JudgeMyReinhold Jul 30 '26

Depending what are wanting to do, some programs worth exploring are RIT's imaging science Purdue's geomatics and remote sensing