Internship - Satellite Image Performance (m/f)

Description de l'offre

Internship - Satellite Image Performance (m/f)

Airbus Defence & Space Toulouse (ex Astrium SL)

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europe's number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately €14 billion per year.

Airbus Group is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, the Group - comprising Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus Helicopters - generated revenues of € 64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Description of the job

An Internship for Satellite Image Performance (m/f) has arisen within the Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse.

Image performance is the key components of the acquisition chain for observation missions and planetary exploration missions. Needs in processing are of various types: restoration, registration, image fusion, tracking, navigation, image simulation, etc.

The Internship will consist in developing and testing new algorithms in one of the above-cited domain within the Space System business line of Airbus Defence & Space. The subject will be more precisely defined during the interview, depending first, on the different studies of the image department and second, on the aspirations of the candidate.

The Image Processing and Image Simulation team, through a group of about 50 engineers in 2015 constitutes the Image Chain department. The Image team carries out activities in fundamental image domains such as Image simulation, Ground processing, Image quality, In-orbit testing, Embedded processing, Vision based navigation and Dedicated R&D activities.

Internship length: 5 to 6 months between January and September 2017.

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Profil recherché

Tasks & accountabilities

The subjects already identified this year are in the following themes:

·  Colour fusion (demosaïking and Pan Sharpening to compute high resolution colour image from low res colour and high res B&W images)
·  Very precise imaging geometry for high resolution satellite

Depending on the planning of the internship, the contents may be adapted to be as interesting as possible.

Required skills

We are looking for candidates with the following profile:

·  Enrolled in your final Master degree in an Engineering School or equivalent,
·  Ideally specialised in Signal and Image processing or applied mathematics, and in computer programming,
·  Generic knowledge in image processing as well as numerical analysis,
·  Knowledge of Matlab or C/C++, Python programming and of Windows & Linux OS
·  Advanced level in English required. Notions of French could be a plus