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Optical Earth Observation Engineer
A great opportunity for a remote sensing or earth observation professional or researcher, with knowledge of satellite Earth observation (EO) data systems and processing, to join our UK team.
The Optical Earth Observation Engineer will contribute to operational and science-based services and system developments for national, and international, based EO programmes.
Responsibilities/ Duties
The successful candidate will be expected to;
* Support services to ESA included within the Third Party and Heritage Mission element of the Instrument Data quality Evaluation and Analysis service (IDEAS-QA4EO) and Earthnet Data Assessment Project (EDAP+)
* Interact with expert customers on mission data issues
* Identify and investigate quality issues and anomalies
* Research and respond to technical user queries
* Maintain quality control tools and scripts used locally
* Prepare posters, publications and presentations at meetings/ conferences
* Carry out occasional travel to customer sites
* Contribute to technical proposal authoring, to win new work
Qualifications/Experience
* University degree/MSc (or equivalent) in Geography, Physics, Remote Sensing or a related discipline.
* Experience/Understanding, in either an industrial or academic setting;
* Supporting operational processing systems for EO data (e.g. level ‘1’ to level ‘2’ and ‘level 3’ processing)
* Working with Optical earth observation data specifically Landsat, Proba-1, JERS-1 and New Space missions (e.g. Planet)
* Using and adapting tools for remote sensing data manipulation
Essential Skills
* Understanding of EO data processing levels
* Understanding of instrument calibration principles (e.g. geometric, radiometric, spectral, etc)
* Data handling and manipulation
* Technical document authoring
Qualities
* Comfortable in a (scientific) customer facing role
* Self-motivated and creative individual, actively seeking opportunities for the business
* Positive, “can-do” approach
* Willingness to adapt role to meet current needs
* Encouraging and supportive of team co-workers
Benefits
* Competitive Package, including private healthcare, excellent pension, generous holiday allowance, and open hybrid working environment.
Competitive Package covering salary, generous holiday allowance, training plan and more