Groundwater App

Client: Mark Muller, British Antarctic Survey <mmuller.earthsci@gmail.com>

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 be used to locate groundwater in arid regions, guiding borehole drilling and supporting groundwater management. 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.