[PROJ] Student contribution

[Elie-Alban Lescout]

>OSGeo is an organization linked with Geomatics so that could probably work somehow.

Very happy to hear that since I've been orbiting around their website for the past few days :-)


>I think you need to come up with a more clear idea of what you want to work on. There’s not much work to do on ITRF transformations - the parameters are already defined and registered with the EPSG and the Helmert transformation code is more or less feature complete. On the projection side of things there are probably more options for you. Try taking a look at the issue tracker to get an idea of some of the currently open tickets: https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue You may find something that sparks your interest.

I've been looking through the issue tracker and the feature request for the Spilhaus projection sounds interesting. I see you've already added the square conformal projections as a first step. I think I could really dig into it!
The deformation model support also caught my attention because it is related to a development project we are currently doing with three other students at ENSG : a load-induced earth deformation online computation service. It automatically fetches the latest version of models from missions such as GRACE and uses them to compute deformations du to oceanic or atmospheric load on a requested positions (through an API or a form). I can provide access to the repository if you want to have a look. For some models we are also confronted to grids (that we have to convert to spherical harmonics for our computation pipeline). They are provided in netCDF or GRIB format.
I understand these deformations are not the sames as the ones mentioned early in the request but the problematic is similar to the one you were facing : managing a succession of grids in time.
How far did you go on this ? Maybe I could give a help somehow.


>We can probably also come up with a few ideas for more extensive work that would be nice to get done but that is difficult without knowing anything about your skillset. If you are a super experienced C/C++ developer I can think of several advanced topics to dig into but if you have barely written code in C or C++ that is not going to work. An option could also be to improve the documentation. There are plenty to do in that regard. However, it is unclear to me if this is a coding assignment or if it can be
 anything related to geomatics.

You'll find my Résumé attached. I gained a lot of Python and Java experience this year and last year but unfortunately I'm not a "super experienced C/C++ developer". I did code a simple game of life in C++ with Qt when I was 18 though (as a personal project) and a matrix computation library (simple operations and more advanced linear algebra ones). Also I'm willing to dive in and learn new programming skills when needed (it is one of the aspects of an internship).
It is not a coding assignment and can be anything related to geomatics. I have nothing against writing some documentation (in the contrary, it is very useful), but I wouldn't want it to be the single task of the internship.


>When is this internship supposed to be carried out?

>From  May, 18th 2020 to August, 28th 2020. The start date is flexible (up to June, 15th) and it has to last a minimum of 12 weeks.


Elie-Alban

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