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GOME Level 1 Calibration Validation Engineer
2014-04-09 00:35:11| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies. We are looking to further enhance our team by GOME2 Level 1 Calibration Validation Consultancy Support You will be based initially for 2 years at our clients headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 2 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities. Your Tasks Include The key person will be fully integrated in the Atmospheric Composition Team within the Remote Sensing and Products Division but will also be expected to interface with experts within the Client as required. The tasks of the key person will include Analysis of inflight calibration performance of the GOME2 instruments on MetopA and MetopB Evaluation of the applicability of the onground characterisation key data to the inorbit situation of GOME2 including radiometric and polarisation sensitivity key data including angular dependencies Analysis of the longterm degradation signatures on GOME2, including from all inflight calibration sources, sun and earthshine data Evaluation of methods for generation of degradation factors Crosscalibration and validation of level 1 radiance and polarisation data both with instruments of a similar class and GOME2 instruments on MetopA and MetopB Development of software for the purposes of analysing the inflight calibration performance and longterm degradation performance of the GOME2 instrument Investigation of problems indicated by feedback from level 1 users Development of software for crosscalibration and validation activities Testing and validation the algorithms and analysis procedures developed Provision of support for longterm instrument monitoring and implementation and validation of the any proposed inorbit corrections within the operational processing environment Interfacing with experts within the Client as needed Collaboration with expert groups and the wider scientific community outside Client as appropriate The tasks of the key person will be carried out mainly at the Client facilities in Darmstadt, but travel within Europe may be required for certain activities. Your Profile The GOME2 level 1 CalVal key person shall have the experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks with a minimum of supervision and have good interpersonal skills. Heshe shall be familiar with satellite instrument characteristics for Earth observation, in particular calibration and validation of moderate spectral resolution data in the UVVisible part of the spectrum. Heshe shall have the ability to write concise and comprehensive scientific and technical reports. In addition to having a University degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline, the key person shall have a minimum of 5 years experience in the field of remote sensing product data analysis including at least 2 years of experience of UVVisible calibration and validation. Specifically the key person shall have experience in remote sensing data analysis using UVVisible satellite data calibration of level 0 and validation of level 1 satellite data products use of vector radiative transfer models the GOME2 mission and instrument writing concise and comprehensive scientific and technical reports demonstrated skills in a higher programming language working with UNIX andor Linux operating systems specification, design and coding of complex product processors testing and verification of complex data processing systems The following areas of expertise would be an advantage the remaining EPS missions and instruments quality control of satellite data and products operational product processing environments knowledge of scripting languages e.g. python, Matlab, IDL, bash knowledge of SQLsoftware build environments and tools e.g. make, imake, eclipse, insure source code control system, e.g. Subversion or CVS.
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