Groundwater App
Client: Mark Muller <mmuller.earthsci@gmail.com>
British Antarctic Survey have developed a compact ground-penetrating radar for measuring melting sea ice. In principle, the same device can be used to locate groundwater in arid regions, guiding bore-hole drilling. Your task is to create an app that runs on a smartphone, able to take data from the radar equipment and estimate groundwater depth. You will have access to a variety of signal processing research algorithms (in Matlab) that process the radar data at present, and your code may involve translations, adaptations or refinements of these. Your software should provide simple visualisations to help nontechnical users control the system and interpret its output, and also make use of the phone storage for “sneakernet” transfer of data to servers for more intensive cloud-based analysis by technical specialists.
