[Cs-club-l] Another NASA Position on Campus - CS students needed to help program a geospatial web-based tool for NASA-funded research

Hi fellow CS Students,

Dr. Clark sent me this email today. This is a different position than the one sent out from Dr. Cominsky last week. This is a great opportunity, and would look great on a resume. 

Good Luck!

Matt

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The Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis (CIGA) in the Geography Dept. has a new NASA research grant to update the functionality of its "geoweb" tool used for collecting land-cover reference data from Google Earth.  The tool is called the Virtual Interpretation of Earth Web-Interface Tool (VIEW-IT), described in this publication, http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/3/601

Some parts of VIEW-IT were developed by past SSU CS undergraduates David Turover and Joseph Muller a couple of years ago.  

We are in need of one to two motivated and talented CS students that want paid work experience ($12/hr) to continue development of VIEW-IT.  A main goal is to make the system more robust and accessible for global crowd-sourcing of reference data needed in mapping land-cover from satellite and other remotely-sensed imagery.   Fig 1 in the publication explains the full suite of skills that are needed (JavaScript, PhP, SQL, CGI, maybe some python scripting).   Funding starts on October 1 and work could continue into next semester and the summer of 2013.

More background on the scope of the NASA grant funding this research can be found here:

http://www.sonoma.edu/socsci/stars/ 

Please contact Dr. Matthew Clark (aka "Mateo") by email if interested (matthew.clark@sonoma.edu).

Matthew L. Clark, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis (CIGA)
Department of Geography and Global Studies
Sonoma State University, California USA
Ph: 707-664-2558; Fax: 707-664-3332