Satellite Image Navigation, Registration and Calibration Engineer [25156]

As part of the Satellite Image Navigation Registration and Calibration team you will have the following responsibilities:

• Monitor the medium-term to long-term performance of Level 1 products;
• Improvement of Level 1 algorithms and the development of new ones;
• Support the procurement of space segment simulators and processors;
• Contribute to INRC developments in particular the preparation of the PIQMICS/MICMICS Monitoring Systems MTG INR Reference Processor and Commissioning support;
• Contribute to the CO2M mission development;
• Product Quality monitoring of the operational Level 1 products (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5 Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B and EPS AVHRR L1B products);
• Algorithm maintenance of the operational Level 1 Processors (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Processing Facility Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility and EPS AVHRR L1B Product Processing Facility)
• Contribute to the procurement of the Data Processing packages for MTG-S mission (PDG-S IQT-S SCCDB-S) and to the processes and operational documentation for usage of these tools.

Qualifications :

You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:

• University degree in remote sensing or a related subject
• Understanding of optical remote sensing techniques from space
• A thorough understanding of the interaction between instrument/platform characteristics and processing impact including product quality
• Remote sensing methodologies and techniques including calibration and Level 1 processing
• Development of Level 1 data processing systems for large (multi-instrument) operational space programmes
• Validation of Level 1 data processing systems
• Standards for data formats in particular NetCDF-4 or HDF-5
• Software engineering requirements specification design testing and integration ideally to ECSS/ISO standards
• Software development in C/C Python under UNIX/Linux build environments e.g. make automake autoconf RPM
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

Additional Information :

This job is located in Darmstadt Germany

If you think you have what it takes for this job please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) to Andrés Izquierdo by clicking on the button Apply for this job quoting job NL-HP- 25156

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time