Research Assistant

This post is full time, and has funding for up to 30 months

The School of Computing Science is looking for a Research Assistant to develop, test, validate and deploy automated remote sensing methods for monitoring coastal change. These activities will contribute to the project EU Horizon TERRA (An Intelligent platform for integrating climate services) working with Drs Christos Anagnostopoulos, Zhiwei Gao and Martin Hurst.

The TERRA project envisions the creation of services and product chains that fuse Copernicus services with Digital Twins and AI technologies to provide solutions for coastline detection, coastline erosion prediction, flood risk assessment and mitigation, water pollution assessment and coastline modelling. TERRA provides the framework to promote its outcomes through the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

The team at University of Glasgow have been developing novel approaches to remote sensing coastal monitoring through automated extraction and analyses of water and vegetation edge indicators using Machine Learning and AI-driven methods. These methods have been demonstrated to be accurate at sub-pixel scale resolution in small test cases. The team will develop a Digital Twin (DT) for monitoring coastal change from satellite remote sensing. The DT will leverage satellite imagery with ongoing real-time updates as new satellite images are acquired for monitoring coastal change. The main aim of the demonstrator in TERRA is to upscale the deployment of such AI/ML algorithms with a view to creating an automated coastal monitoring platform capable of ingesting new satellite images as and when they become available and updating coastal change assessments automatically.

The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the research activities, experimental demonstrations of the TERRA platform, submission of research publications and help manage and direct this complex and challenging project as opportunities allow.

For informal discussions about the role, please contact Dr Christos Anagnostopoulos (Christos.Anagnostopoulos@glasgow.ac.uk)

For more information on the University of Glasgow’s, School of Computing Science, please visit www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing

For more information and to apply online: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-assistant-14?source=gla.ac.uk

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