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Microwave submiilmtre Science Consultant

2013-04-11 20:35:38| 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 adding a Microwave and submillimetre science 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 Consultant will work within Remote Sensing and Products RSP Division of the Technical and Scientific Support TSS Department and will provide support as a member of the Image Navigation, Registration and Calibration Team, interfacing with inhouse experts of various disciplines system, instruments, operations, science, and in particular members of the EPSSG Science Team as well as industrial partners. Hisher responsibilities will primarily cover the development of calibration algorithms for the MWI and ICI mission. The tasks of the Consultant will include Development of algorithms for calibration and navigation of MWI and ICI level 0 data to generate level 1a and 1b datasets Development of prototype software code for the purposes of testing and verification of the algorithms developed Development of a performance model based on specifications to be provided by industry Generation of test data required for the verification of the algorithm and products Contributing to documentation including Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents, test data descriptions, Product Generation and Product Content Specifications, technical reports, etc Interfacing with experts across the Client domain and with expert groups and the wider scientific community outside the Client as needed Providing support to the development of CalibrationValidation activities. In addition the consultant will provide support to Assessment of results from scientific studies as needed, Participation in reviews. The tasks will evolve as the EPSSG specifications mature in the coming years. Your Profile The consultant shall have the experience and capability to fulfil the assigned tasks with a minimum of supervision. The consultant shall have a university degree in meteorology, atmospheric physics, remote sensing, instrument engineering or equivalent. Heshe shall have a minimum of three years experience in the field of remote sensing. Specifically the consultant shall have Experience in atmospheric remote sensing in the microwave spectrum, Experience in radiative transfer, Indepth understanding of instrument calibration and characterisation, Familiarity with Earth observation systems remote sensing and in situ systems, Handling and processing of remote sensing data, Good writing skills in preparing scientifictechnical documents, Very good skills in a higher programming language e.g. Fortran, C. The following areas of expertise would be an advantage Experience with submillimetre wave radiometry Quality control of satellite data and products Operational product processing environments Familiarity with ground processing activities Experience in visualisation tools, such as IDL or MATLAB Software build environments and version control tools. The consultant shall possess good interpersonal skills. Heshe shall have the ability to write concise and comprehensive documents. The working language for the consultant is English the consultant must be able to work effectively in this language. For more detailed information about MOLTEK go to httpwww.moltek.com

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Thickness-Compensated Objectives serve life science applications.

2013-04-11 14:29:52| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Available in 20X and 50X magnifications, Mitutoyo Glass Thickness-Compensated Infinity Corrected Objectives are suited for imaging objects through glass up to 3.5 mm thick in brightfield inspection microscopy and life sciences applications. These G Plan Apochromatic (Apo) objectives also suit such applications as imaging through coverslip or mediums such as agar, water, or nutrients. Products feature flat image surface over entire field of view. This story is related to the following:Microscope Objectives

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Freshmen show projects at second Science Fair

2013-04-10 22:39:05| Beverages - Topix.net

Trevor Brammer shows his project to judge Jason Jungwirth at the Science Fair, held April 3 at Mobridge-Pollock High School.

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System and Software Engineering for Science Operations

2013-04-10 20:37:05| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities Duties Tasks To fulfil the service activity specific knowledge is required in the following areas ESA Ground Segment and Scientific Archives Software engineering Experience in designing multitier architecture application in the context of Scientific Archives and Virtual Observatory Extensive experience in JAVA programming language Experience in Web technologies http, JSP, web services, Experience in SQL and XML Experience in Graphical User Interfaces application Experience in Data Distribution applications through web services Experience in the Virtual Observatory standards and protocols, working groups, working processes and environment would be an asset UNIX SUN Solaris or Linux, and PCWindows environment Experience on ESA software engineering processes and software configuration control tools and some scientific background would be an asset. Qualifications University degree in computer science, or software engineering, or scientific discipline, or equivalent, About the role The service to be provided means that a demonstrated experience in interacting with the science community would be an advantage. The selected service personnel must be willing operate in a team environment and to travel. Display good interpersonal and communication skills. The service personnel should be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English, one of the official languages of ESA WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com

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Science Operations Software Development Engineer

2013-04-10 20:37:05| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities Duties Tasks The service to be provided by the candidate chosen for this position will encompass contributing to the system requirements definition, design, implementation and testing of the survey planning and instrument command generation systems to be used within the Euclid Science Ground Segment. The candidate will develop prototype code for the survey planning and instrument commanding tools. The development will be in done in Java to enable reuse of existing code from other missions located at ESAC. The candidate will work in the Engineering team of the Euclid SOC under the System Engineer. They will interface with the major stakeholders of these systems the Sky Survey Working Group, SOC Calibration and Operations Team, Instrument Operations Teams and Euclid Mission Operations Centre. Qualifications University degree or equivalent in computer science or related fields Basic educational or workacquired knowledge of astronomyphysics and standard numerical methods and techniques would be a strong asset A working understanding of space operations would be highly desirable Required knowledge Software engineering in Java Science mission planning and instrument commanding Spacecraft attitude and orbit and the corresponding standard Flight Dynamics interfaces ECSS standards for software development Desirable Knowledge ECSS Packet Utilisation Standard PUS services SCOS2000 Mission Information Base MIB structure Scripting in a Unix environment e.g. Python WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com

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