CEDAR email: JOB OPENINGS: Ionosonde/machine vision PostDoc and PhD jobs in Finland

[Thomas Ulich]

Deadline: 11th April 2021, 23:59 Finland time.


Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory in Finland is now looking for

A Postdoctoral Researcher and a Doctoral Student.                         

The project “Ionospheric Situational Awareness” (ISaw) will combine ionospheric physics and machine learning/machine vision techniques to create a catalogue of ionograms, images of the ionospheric structure produced by so-called ionosondes, or vertical ionospheric sounders. The catalogue will facilitate studies of past space-weather events and serve as a basis for rapid analysis of new measurement. The results will be validated against ionospheric measurements of the EISCAT incoherent scatter radars and other ionospheric measurements.

Description of the positions

	• The Postdoctoral Researcher will familiarise themselves with the operations and data analysis of the Sodankylä ionosonde. They will use machine vision / machine learning techniques to characterise and describe ionograms for cataloguing. They will develop algorithms and tools for interpreting ionograms. They will compare the data of the EISCAT radars at Tromsø with those of the EISCAT ionosonde. The postdoctoral researcher will participate in the further development of the instrument. They are expected to participate in the supervision of the PhD researcher. Mobility visits to Norway and Sweden are planned.

	• The Doctoral Student will familiarise themselves with the operations and data analysis of the Sodankylä Ionosonde. They will use ionosonde data to study ionospheric phenomena such as fast ionospheric oscillations, atmospheric gravity waves, geomagnetic pulsations, sporadic E layers, and decay mechanisms of meteor trails. With the establishment of the ionogram catalogue, also statistical and climatological studies of the ionosphere will be carried out. The PhD researcher will also supervise and manage the digitisation of SGO’s archive of ionograms and assist in the processing of the images for cataloguing. Mobility visits to Norway and Sweden are planned.

Deadline: 11th April 2021, 23:59 Finland time.

For more information, please refer to the announcement:

http://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&lang=en&id=000010972&jc=1

Note, the link to the application form is at the bottom of the announcement “Apply for the job”.