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Aerosol Product Development Consultancy Support
2015-10-26 18:04:45| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
ACS is looking for a person to provide Aerosol Product Development Consultancy Support. ACS has more than 30 years experience in delivering solutions for Earth Observation satellites Ground Segments. Based in Rome, Italy and in Darmstadt, Germany, we delivered systems currently in operation in 20 countries worldwide and have a long record of successful projects carried out for ESA, EUMETSAT, EMSA and many other Space Agencies and Research Centres. ACS recently established German subsidiary ACSD aims at better serving our customers based in Darmstadt area. ACS offers pleasant, international working environment at customer site very competitive salary attractive benefit package tailored on specific exigencies training and personal growth within ACS group, full support from a high technology company for relocation to Darmstadt. This consultancy is primarily to support the development of aerosol optical and microphysical products from instruments on the EUMETSAT Polar System series of satellites, with a particular focus on multisensor products. However evaluation and refinement of aerosol algorithms for the current Meteosat Second Generation MSG Spinning Enhanced Visible InfraRed Imager SEVIRI instrument is also in scope and further development and extension of algorithms for application to future satellite missions will be considered. The tasks of the Key person will include Development of algorithms for aerosol products from instruments on the Metop series of satellites with a particular focus on multiinstrument aerosol products, drawing on the science of current established products from hyperspectral infrared and UVVisible sounders and multichannel imagers PMAp Evaluation and refinement of aerosol algorithms for the current MSG SEVIRI instrument Taking into account the constraints imposed by the final goal of implementation of the products within an operational processing system Development of prototype software code for the purposes of testing and validating the algorithms developed Generation of test data required for the verification of the algorithm and products Validation of the products produced by the prototype software code using independent data Generation of associated documentation including test data descriptions, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents ATBD, Product User Guides, Calibration and Validation Plan, Validation reports etc Provision of support for implementation and validation of the products within the operational processing environment Interfacing with experts across EUMETSAT as needed Collaboration with expert groups and the wider scientific community outside EUMETSAT as appropriate Provision of support for algorithm development and potentially prototype software development for future polar orbiting missions including next generation hyperspectral infrared and UVVisible sounders and multichannel imaging instruments with improved potential for deriving aerosol products. Mandatory skills Experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks with a minimum of supervision and good interpersonal skills Be familiar with satellite instrument characteristics for Earth observation, in particular for atmospheric composition, meteorology and climate monitoring Able to work effectively in English and have knowledge of French Ability and experience in writing concise and comprehensive scientific and technical reports in English University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline A minimum of 5 year experience in the field of remote sensing product development including at least 2 years of aerosol product development Experience in aerosol optical and microphysical properties retrieval from satellite data inverse modelling of atmospheric composition using infrared and UVVIS vector radiative transfer models calibration and validation of satellite data products the EPS missions and instruments demonstrated skills in a higher programming language, preferably in C specification, design and coding of complex product processors testing and verification of complex data processing systems EU national or valid work permit for Germany CV in Europass editable format The following be an advantage Familiarity with the retrieval of aerosol optical and microphysical properties from hyperspectral infrared satellite data Familiarity with aerosol retrieval algorithm from geostationary satellites e.g. from SEVIRI Quality control of satellite data and products Operational product processing environments Software build environments and tools e.g. make, imake, eclipse, insure Source code control system, e.g. Subversion or CVS
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