FP7 ITARS ITN: Early Stage Researcher (ESR2): Signal processing and data fusion between multi-spectral lidar and radiometer sensors: Algorithms and error estimation
Applications are invited for a PhD position to work in the ITARS project, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) within the FP7 programme. ITARS (Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing) focuses on the synergistic application of high-end ground-based remote-sensing instrumentation that has the potential to substantially contribute to an improved understanding of aerosols, clouds, and aerosol-cloud interaction processes and their role for both climate and weather. ITARS Science objectives are
- to bring together experts from the aerosol and cloud community to efficiently tackle the problems of aerosol-cloud interaction as well as their relevance for climate and weather,
- to build close ties between industry and research to optimize instrumentation for future networks, and
- to assess the potential of advanced remote-sensing instrumentation and capabilities as an ingredient in a future observation system based on both ground-based networks and space-borne observations.
The candidate will develop software to retrieve the atmotheric boundary layer height from synergetic observations by lidar and microwave radiometer. The work will include an end-to-end simulation from measured signals to atmospheric quantities and their uncertainties. The applicant will be supervised by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, (UPC, Remote Sensing Lab., Dep. of Signal Theory and Communications) and the University of Cologne (UCOL, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology), UCOL providing a more physical/radiometer orientation and UPC the signal processing/lidar one.
The post is available for 3 years at UPC, Barcelona, Spain, and the salary will be commensurate with a Marie-Curie Early-Stage Researcher (ESR) position.
Nr. Job Positions: 1
Research Fields
Applied Physics (Environmental), Signal processing (signals, systems, and noise), Statistics (errors and estimation)
Career Stage
Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate)
Research Profile
First Stage Researcher (R1)
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For more information on ITARS and on the applications process see www.itars.net; see http://www.tsc.upc.edu/ors for the activities of the Optical Remote Sensing group at the Remote Sensing Lab (RSLAB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona, Spain).
Requirements
| Required Education Level | |
|---|---|
| Degree | Master Degree or equivalent |
| Degree Field | Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Environmental science |
| Required Languages | |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Language Level | Good |
Additional Requirements
Very good computer programming skills, specifically, Matlab.
Very good command of written English. Valid Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE Cambridge or equivalent).
Applicants must be researchers who have not yet been awarded the doctorate degree and are in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers. This includes the period of research training, starting at the date of obtaining the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate either in the country in which the degree was obtained, irrespective whether or not a doctorate is envisaged.
Applicants may not have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. Short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.