Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
The British Antarctic Survey has developed a compact ground-penetrating radar for measuring melt rates at the base of ice sheets. In principle, the same device can locate groundwater in arid regions, for borehole drilling and groundwater management. Your task is to create a phone app able to take data from the radar equipment and estimate groundwater depth. You will have access to the (Matlab) research algorithms that process the radar data at present, and
your code may adapt or refine these. You should provide visualisations to help non-technical users control the system and interpret its output, and also use of the phone storage for
“sneakernet” transfer of data to servers for more intensive cloud-based analysis by technical specialists.
The British Antarctic Survey has developed a compact ground-penetrating radar for measuring melt rates at the base of ice sheets. In principle, the same device can locate groundwater in arid regions, for borehole drilling and groundwater management. Your task is to create a phone app able to take data from the radar equipment and estimate groundwater depth. You will have access to the (Matlab) research algorithms that process the radar data at present, and
your code may adapt or refine these. You should provide visualisations to help non-technical users control the system and interpret its output, and also use of the phone storage for
“sneakernet” transfer of data to servers for more intensive cloud-based analysis by technical specialists.
