Job Description: Atmospheric Correction of Airborne/Spaceborne Imagery
The German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich is offering the above position. Tasks are the enhancement and
further development of models for the atmospheric correction of Earth observing optical
sensors.
The list of sensors comprises multispectral instruments (e.g., Landsat, SPOT, ALOS,
Sentinel-2) and hyperspectral spaceborne instruments (Hyperion, CHRIS, EnMAP), but
additionally airborne instruments (CASI, Daedalus, HyMap, APEX, ARES). Output products
of the atmospheric correction are maps of aerosol optical thickness, water vapour column, and
the surface reflectance cube. In the thermal spectral region the surface temperature and
emissivity are derived.
The proposed research addresses one or more of the following topics: coupling of radiative
transfer models with vegetation canopies, derivation of value added products (albedo, heat
fluxes, net radiation), improvement of cloud de-shadowing techniques, atmospheric correction
of airborne imagery acquired under cloud cover, and the consideration of digital elevation
models during atmospheric correction. The final objective is the integration of each module
into existing software packages that run in an operational fully automatic environment.
The work requires:
 A degree (Diploma, Master, or PhD) in physics, meteorology, mathematics or
equivalent, a knowledge of radiative transfer models, and model inversion techniques.
 Knowledge in remote sensing of the earth, image processing.
 Very good programming skills in one of the languages: FORTRAN, C, IDL, Matlab.
Start
Duration
Payment
June 2008
3 years
depends on job experience (public service salary , Germany)
Please send your email application with CV to:
Address
Dr. Rudolf Richter
DLR – German Aerospace Center
DFD – Remote Sensing Data Center
Muenchener Str. 20
D – 82234 Wessling , Germany
Tel: (+49)-(0)8153-28-1160
Email: Rudolf.Richter@dlr.de