Studentship Vacancies at CSIR

Studentships (two positions)
Closing date: 4 March 2012
http://www.csir.co.za/vacancies/pdf/2012/Ref_4914_Studentship_EDITED_March%202012x.pdf

The ICT for Earth Observation Research Group (ICT4EO) at the CSIR Meraka Institute conducts research and development in earth observation information and communications technologies that have societal benefit. ICT4EO is currently engaged in the development of Open Standards compliant services and interfaces for earth observation sensory resources in support of the South African Earth Observation Strategy. Advances in sensing technologies and distributed computing, coupled with the development of open standards that facilitate sensor and sensor network interoperability, are contributing to the emergence of a phenomenon known as the Sensor Web. ICT4EO has two MSc studentship opportunities for the research and development of ICTs for Sensor Web Enablement. Incumbents will be members of an experienced inter-institutional team directed to develop technologies for provisioning of earth observation products, services and interfaces. See http://ict4eo.meraka.csir.co.za/ for further details.


Key responsibilities:
· Acquire knowledge about the technologies necessary to contribute to the outputs of the Sensor Web Enablement project.
· Acquire knowledge about open geospatial standards for web enabled sensor services and products
· Develop and implement open standards compliant services and interfaces for earth observation sensory data sets and products
· Develop algorithms for provisioning services using service oriented architecture (SOA) or other protocols.
· Develop a mature understanding of the earth observation domain, including concepts of Sensor Web Enablement, Geomatics and Remote Sensing.
· Participate in team activities and contribute to the generation of technical documents and software outputs as required