| 1 | What is GIS? Coordinate systems and datums | Ground Station Operator |
| 2 | Vector vs raster, and map projections | Ground Station Operator |
| 3 | QGIS hands-on: load, style, export | Ground Station Operator |
| 4 | Plotting global launch sites (Capstone 1 week) · Capstone 1 | Ground Station Operator |
| 5 | Spatial operations: joins, buffers, intersects, dissolve | Orbital Analyst |
| 6 | PostGIS: spatial SQL fundamentals | Orbital Analyst |
| 7 | Orbital mechanics primer: TLEs and Keplerian elements | Orbital Analyst |
| 8 | SGP4 propagation in Python with skyfield | Orbital Analyst |
| 9 | Ground-to-satellite line-of-sight and coverage | Orbital Analyst |
| 10 | Spaceports and orbits (Capstone 2 week) · Capstone 2 | Orbital Analyst |
| 11 | EM spectrum, sensor types, and radiometry | Remote Sensing Specialist |
| 12 | Landsat / Sentinel-2: bands, NDVI, false color | Remote Sensing Specialist |
| 13 | GOES-R ABI: full-disk, CONUS, mesoscale | Remote Sensing Specialist |
| 14 | Thermal IR Band 7: brightness temperature and hotspots | Remote Sensing Specialist |
| 15 | Georeferencing GOES and parallax (Capstone 3 week) · Capstone 3 | Remote Sensing Specialist |
| 16 | Web mapping: Leaflet vs MapLibre vs OpenLayers | Mission GIS Engineer |
| 17 | Vector tiles with tippecanoe and MBTiles | Mission GIS Engineer |
| 18 | 3D globes: CesiumJS and orbital visualization | Mission GIS Engineer |
| 19 | Real-time GIS: WebSockets and streaming TLEs | Mission GIS Engineer |
| 20 | Spatiotemporal change detection (Capstone 4 week) · Capstone 4 | Mission GIS Engineer |
| 21 | Multi-sensor fusion: GOES-East, GOES-West, Himawari-9 | Space GIS Architect |
| 22 | ML for satellite imagery: CNNs and U-Net segmentation | Space GIS Architect |
| 23 | SAR: Sentinel-1, polarimetry, InSAR | Space GIS Architect |
| 24 | Geodesy: ellipsoid vs geoid, EGM2008 | Space GIS Architect |
| 25 | AR for satellites: sky-direction overlays and az-el math | Space GIS Architect |
| 26 | Cloud-native: COG, Zarr, STAC catalogs | Space GIS Architect |
| 27 | Production pipelines: S3 → Lambda → EventBridge → DDB | Space GIS Architect |
| 28 | Privacy + ethics: MGRS, sub-meter, ITAR | Space GIS Architect |
| 29 | Geospatial APIs: PostGIS + FastAPI + spatial REST | Space GIS Architect |
| 30 | Capstone defense and synthesis (Capstone 5 week) · Capstone 5 | Space GIS Architect |