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Ocean Colour Scientist 1513023
2015-03-23 13:04:28| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Solenix is specialized in the provision of highquality software engineering, technical consulting and operations services in the aerospace domain. This vacancy note concerns an onsite consulting position at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. Ocean Colour Scientist 1513023 Job Description We are looking for an Ocean Colour Scientist to support our client EUMETSAT at their headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Your activities will include scientific and engineering aspects related to the scientific support to both Sentinel3 OLCI Levell TOA Radiance products and Level2 Ocean Colour products. This will include contributions to the scientific development, maintenance, Levell and Level2 processors, instrument calibration, algorithm and product validation, verification, routine monitoring and offline analysis of Levell and Level2 OLCI marine data products in support of the Copernicus Sentinel3 marine mission. You will support the Sentinel3 OLCI Ocean Colour product chains nevertheless, assistance with other marine activities may be required. EUMETSA T disseminates Ocean Colour Third Party Data to Copernicus Marine Services and is in the process of developing OCrelated products from its own mandatory missions. The OLCI CalNal activities will require intercomparisons with Third Party Ocean Colour data sets. Your tasks and responsibilities will include Support to validation and verification of Level2 Ocean Colour algorithms and Level2 and Level3 products Support to OLCI instrument characterization and calibration and to verification of Levell products Support to the scientific and engineering development of calibration and validation methods as well as implementation of new tools and utilisation of existing tools Support to the development of new tools for product processing monitoring and utilisation of existing tools Investigation of anomalies and issues related to Level 1 and Level 2 product quality Support to the setup and operation of product quality monitoring and reporting tools Contribution to the analysis, assessment and maintenance of LlL2 Ocean Colour satellite data processors and algorithms Contribution to scientific development of algorithms to support CaiN al activities Contribution to the execution of scientific support studies. You will work in crossdivisional interactions and interface with experts in various disciplines system engineering, instruments, operations, science, as well as CalNal experts outside of EUMETSAT. Required Skills and Experience University degree in remote sensing, oceanography, physics, or equivalent Good interpersonal skills in support of team work A 5 year or longer experience with satellite Ocean Colour Handson experience with the calibration and the validation of remote sensing products Hands on experience with the development of calibration and product validation methods and tools Familiarity with the precursor to the Sentinel3 Ocean Colour mission Experience with operational satellite data processing Mandatory 5 years of scientific programming skills C, IDLPVWAVE and ENVI or equivalent Skills in writing technical and scientific documents Familiarity with Linux programming environment and Microsoft Office. Fluency in English Desirable Skills and Experience Experience with calibration and characterization of Ocean Colour instruments and with calibration validation Experience in the development and validation of Ocean Colour data processing Experience with the development of product monitoring tools Experience with large data sets. Work Location Darmstadt, Germany Dates Application Deadline 07 April 2015 Start of Work 01.06.2015 Important Notes Before applying to this position, please read the page Notes to Applicants on the Solenix website under Career. Applicants must be EU citizens or have a valid work and residence permit in Germany. Security, identity and reference checks on the candidates are part of the recruitment process. Job Application Please send your applications electronically to careersolenix.ch before the application deadline 07 April 2015 Learn more about us in Facebook
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