UCL Space & Climate Physics
Research Associate in 3D Mars Mapping &
Computer Vision
The appointment will be full time on UCL Grade 7. The salary range will be £33,734-£35,788 per annum, exclusive of London Allowance.
UCL/MSSL has a vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher funded by the European Union Framework 7 Space Science Programme within the PROVISG (Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing) and PRoViScout projects to join Professor Jan-Peter Muller's Imaging Group who are actively engaged in the development of novel 3D mapping techniques and their scientific application for the surfaces of Mars and the Earth. For Mars, data will be taken primarily from the instruments onboard the ESA Mars Express (MeX), NASA Mars Reconnaisance or biter (HiRise and CTX) and from the Mars rovers (MER and MSL).
The successful applicant for PRoViSG will be engaged for the first 4 months in interfacing software developed by the previous post-holder to the PRoVIP system for stereo photogrammetric wide baseline 3D reconstruction for fusion of multi-station ground-level views as well as develop this software further for fusion with orbital images to provide context for the PRoGIS 3D web-GIS being developed jointly with the University of Nottingham. Software development will include collaboration and further development with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory of a generic 3D stereo workstation and 3D visualization environment.
The post is for 7 months if post started on 1.2.12 or shorter if starting later.
Minimum qualification, which must be obtained before taking up the post, is either a Ph.D (final year Ph.D student who will have submitted their thesis by the closing date is welcome to apply - please state the submission date and supervisor contact details) or equivalent experience in a geomatics or machine vision discipline, preferably related to DTM creation from stereo photogrammetric data and/or the development of handling systems for 3D data within a web-GIS. Experience with handling stereo spaceborne or close-range data is desirable.
For further details about the vacancy and how to apply online please go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ and search on Reference Number 1228241.
Further information about MSSL in general can be found at http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk .
Start date 1st February 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. This position will be at Holmbury St Mary, Nr. Dorking, Surrey .
Specific questions about the post should be addressed to Mrs Libby Daghorn (ead@mssl.ucl.ac.uk) in the first instance. Applicants should provide a CV, the names and email addresses of 3 professional referees, an up-to-date publication list, a brief description of their research experience and a summary of their future research aspirations.
Closing Date: 25th January 2012.
Interview Date: Interviews will ONLY take place on Friday 27th January at MSSL in Surrey
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