Enter the fascinating world of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; DLR) and help shape the future through research and innovation! We offer an exciting and inspiring working environment driven by the expertise and curiosity of our 11,000 employees from 100 nations and our unique infrastructure. Together, we develop sustainable technologies and thus contribute to finding solutions to global challenges. Would you like to join us in addressing this major future challenge? Then this is your place!
Req ID: 3362
Place of work: Oberpfaffenhofen
Starting date: nach Absprache
Career level: Internship
Type of employment: Full-time
Duration of contract: nach Absprache
Remuneration: Remuneration is in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Sector – Federal Government (TVöD-Bund)
Das Deutsche Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum ist vertreten an den Standorten in Oberpfaffenhofen bei München und Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Zusammen mit dem Institut für Methodik der Fernerkundung bildet es das Earth Observation Center EOC, das Kompetenzzentrum für Erdbeobachtung in Deutschland.
The German Remote Sensing Data Center is located in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Together with the Institute for Remote Sensing Methodology, it forms the Earth Observation Center EOC, the competence centre for Earth Observation in Germany.
What awaits you:
The Department Land Surface Dynamics, located in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, is the research department of the German Remote Sensing Data Center, which investigates and quantifies the global change of the Earth’s land surface and addresses socially relevant issues in the following six subject areas: settlement areas, forest ecosystems, agroecosystems, coastal and river catchment areas, polar and mountain regions, as well as the analyses of terrain models.
Are you studying for a Master’s degree, have no other Master’s degree yet, and have to complete a compulsory internship as part of your Master’s programme?
Have you taken a detailed look at the department’s website with its six teams / thematic focus areas (see above) and are you interested in one or at most two of the thematic areas mentioned?
Are you aware that an internship also requires you to spend one day a week (or 4-5 days/month) at our campus in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich?
Then we offer you the opportunity to complete your compulsory internship as part of your Master’s degree programme.
Your tasks
- Analysing remote sensing data and geodata with ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth Engine, the terrabyte processing platform and creating maps, graphics and illustrations
- Analysing remote sensing data and geodata as well as light programming tasks with Python, R or Matlab, as well as Tensorflow, Pytorch or similar if knowledge is available
- Web research, literature research and the creation of appealing PowerPoint presentations
- Contribution to national field campaigns and validation tasks
- Contribution to project presentations, project reports and the development of new topics
Your profile
- Ongoing Master’s studies in geosciences (geography, geoecology, geomatics, geoinformatics) with a focus on remote sensing
- Knowledge of ArcGIS, QGIS or other GIS applications
- Initial experience in analysing remote sensing data with ENVI, Erdas Imagine, ArcGIS, QGIS, Python or the Google Earth Engine
- A focus interest in 1-2 of the above 6 research topics
- Motivation and own initiative
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Good written and spoken English skills and solid (first) written and spoken German skills (at least A2)
What we offer you
DLR stands for diversity, appreciation and equality for all people. We promote independent work and the individual development of our employees in their personal and professional environment. Our numerous training and development opportunities are available to you for this purpose. Equal opportunities are particularly important to us, which is why we want to increase the proportion of women in science and management in particular. We give preference to applications from people with severe disabilities if they are professionally qualified.
Please write your application clearly labelling in the first sentence which 1-2 working groups / main topics you are interested in and send it via the application portal. We will then contact you by telephone if you are a good fit.
Please understand that with more than 100 internship applications per year, we cannot consult every applicant on the phone in advance. Please send us your documents first.
We offer
DLR stands for diversity, appreciation and equality for all people. We promote independent work and the individual development of our employees both personally and professionally. To this end, we offer numerous training and development opportunities. Equal opportunities are of particular importance to us, which is why we want to increase the proportion of women in science and management in particular. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference if they are qualified.
Bitte verfasse deine Bewerbung mit klarer Kennzeichnung im ersten Satz, welche 1-2 Arbeitsgruppen / Themenschwerpunkte dich interessieren und übermittle sie bitte über das Bewerberprotal. Wir werden dann bei Passung telefonisch mit dir in Kontakt treten.
Bitte habe Verständnis, dass wir bei > 100 Praktikabewerbungen pro Jahr nicht mit jedem Bewerber und jeder Bewerberin vorab telefonieren können. Bitte übermittle zuerst deine Unterlagen.
Wir freuen uns darauf, dich kennenzulernen!
Administrative Fragen, zu dieser Position (Kennziffer 3362), die nicht durch obiges bereits geklärt sind, beantwortet Dir gerne unser Abteilungssekretariat:
Monica Varga
Tel.: +49 8153 28 3286
