Centre for Catchment and Coastal Research (UWA/IGES)

After graduating I've taken up an 18 month contract with the university working for the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences on their new CCCR contract.

The things I'll be doing between 2007-2009:

• Automated laser scanning with an all terrain robot.
• Setting up a home website for the Centre for Catchment and Coastal Research.
• Creating a full GIS for CCCR data that will interoperate with Google Earth and ArcView(possibly).
• Learning C#.net and ASP.

Remote Sensing Group (PML)

I worked for one year as part of my degree at the Plymouth Marine Labs. for the Remote Sensing Group.

Some blurb about the kinds of things I've done this year:

• At present I'm working on a website for browsing Antarctic data from the Rothera receiving station, you can take a look at the demo page here, login as "guest". You will need a full RSDAS user account to download anything interesting though :)
• The Rothera project also required me to design and implement a distributed data order processing system, using the Sun Grid Engine. When I get it finished that is ;)
• Dealt with several data processing requests. Of note was the request made for Antarctic Peninsula data covering the austral summer period from December 2000 - April 2004. This required me to learn a fair bit about map projections (Stereographic) and add this in to the automated processing systems.
• Working with the other industrial year student, we came up with a couple of data conversion tools. Mostly to increase RSDAS user support; many data users complained about the lack of data format «X». Such as GeoTIFF, which allows for geo-referencing meta data to be embedded with the datasets, saving users having to setup map projections for the data in their GIS software.
• Written an archiving tool to work with the new 3rd generation LTO tape jukebox RSG purchased. This is intended for both batch and one off use, mostly in archiving Level 2 geo-located satellite pass data. Each tape can store up to 400GB of data and the jukebox carousel can hold eight tapes at a time.
• Maintained, updated and improved the various websites RSG operate. Unfortunately most of my PHP and web dev knowledge was learnt on the job, so I cant claim I did the greatest job in the world!
• Improved my knowledge of shell scripting, PHP and Perl specific to batch processing jobs and database interfaces.

Websites I Have Designed And/Or Built

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Although by no means do I consider myself to be an expert web developer, over the years I have been asked to produce quite a few so thought I might as well showcase them here. I'm sure they will eventually be changed or replaced, as is the nature of the web :D