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Dr Gareth Roberts BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Remote Sensing

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Dr Gareth Roberts is Lecturer in Remote Sensing within Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton.

Qualifications
Ph.D : Monitoring land cover dynamics using linear BRDF model parameter temporal trajectories (University College London)
M.Sc : Remote Sensing (University College London)
B.Sc : Geographical Information Systems (Kingston University)

Employment
2011 – present : Lecturer in Remote Sensing
2002 – 2011 : Research Associate at Kings College London

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

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Research Interests
My research interests focus on monitoring land surface dynamics using optical and thermal remote sensing. One aspect of this concerns linking Earth Observation (EO) data with models for quantifying land surface dynamics and vegetation change using biophysical parameters such as leaf area index and vegetation cover. More recently my research has focused on improving the understanding of fire in the natural environment and on the utilisation of satellite data to address questions regarding fire impacts and effects. This involves the development of thermal EO methods and their use in quantifying the amount of terrestrially-stored carbon released through biomass burning. In conjunction with colleagues at Kings College London and EUMETSAT this research led to the production of an operational fire detection and characterisation algorithm which is available from the Land Satellite Applications Facility.

Research group(s)

Global Environmental Change and Earth Observation

Programme Leader for the MSc in Applied GIS and Remote Sensing.

Article(s)

Urban growth dynamics in Perth, Western Australia: using applied remote sensing for sustainable future planning - MacLachlan, Andrew, Biggs, Ellie, Roberts, Gareth and Boruff, Bryan
Published:
2017
Publication:
Land
Volume:
6, (1)
Page Range:
1-14
doi:
10.3390/land6010009
Meteosat SEVIRI Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products from the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility (LSA SAF): Part 1 - algorithms, product contents & analysis - Wooster, M.J., Roberts, G, Freeborn, P.H., Govaerts, Y., Beeby, R., He, J., Lattanzia, A. and Mullen, R.
Published:
2015
Publication:
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Volume:
15, (22)
Page Range:
13217-13239
doi:
10.5194/acp-15-13217-2015
LSA SAF Meteosat FRP Products: part 2 – evaluation and demonstration of use in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring - Roberts, G., Wooster, M. J., Xu, W, Freeborn, P. H, Morcrette, J-J, Jones, L., Benedetti, A. and Kaiser, J.
Published:
2015
Publication:
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Volume:
15, (22)
Page Range:
13241-13267
doi:
10.5194/acp-15-13241-2015
Development of a multi-temporal Kalman filter approach to geostationary active fire detection & fire radiative power (FRP) estimation - Roberts, G.
Published:
2014
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
152
Page Range:
392-412
doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.020
Evaluating the SEVIRI fire thermal anomaly detection algorithm across the Central African Republic using the MODIS active fire product - Freeborn, Patrick H,., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth J. and Xu, Weidong
Published:
2014
Publication:
Remote Sensing
Volume:
6, (3)
Page Range:
1890-1917
doi:
10.3390/rs6031890
Use of handheld thermal imager data for airborne mapping of Fire Radiative Power and energy and flame front rate of spread - Paugam, R., Wooster, M. J. and Roberts, G.
Published:
2012
Publication:
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume:
99
Page Range:
1-15
doi:
10.1109/TGRS.2012.2220368
Integration of geostationary FRP and polar-orbiter burned area datasets for an enhanced biomass burning inventory - Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J., Freeborn, P.H. and Xu, W.
Published:
2011
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
115, (8)
Page Range:
2047-2061
doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.006
Addressing the spatiotemporal sampling design of MODIS to provide estimates of the fire radiative energy emitted from Africa - Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J. and Roberts, Gareth
Published:
2011
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
115, (2)
Page Range:
475-489
doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.017
Southern African fire regimes as revealed by remote sensing - Archibald, S., Scholes, R.J., Roy, D.P., Roberts, G. and Boschetti, L.
Published:
2010
Publication:
International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume:
19, (7)
Page Range:
861
Development of a virtual active fire product for Africa through a synthesis of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data - Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth, Malamud, Bruce D. and Xu, Weidong
Published:
2009
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
113, (8)
Page Range:
1700-1711
doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2009.03.013
Development of a virtual active fire product for Africa through a synthesis of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data - Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth, Malamud, Bruce D. and Xu, Weidong
Published:
2009
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
113, (8)
Page Range:
1700-1711
doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2009.03.013
Estimating biomass consumed from fire using MODIS FRE - Ellicott, Evan, Vermote, Eric, Giglio, Louis and Roberts, Gareth
Published:
2009
Publication:
Geophysical Research Letters
Volume:
36, (13)
Page Range:
L13401-[5pp]
doi:
10.1029/2009GL038581
Annual and diurnal african biomass burning temporal dynamics - Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J. and Lagoudakis, E.
Published:
2009
Publication:
Biogeosciences
Volume:
6, (5)
Page Range:
849-866
doi:
10.5194/bg-6-849-2009
An approach to estimate global biomass burning emissions of organic and black carbon from MODIS fire radiative power - Vermote, Eric, Ellicott, Evan, Dubovik, Oleg, Lapyonok, Tatyana, Chin, Mian, Giglio, Louis and Roberts, Gareth J.
Published:
2009
Publication:
Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume:
114, (D18)
Page Range:
205-227
doi:
10.1029/2008JD011188
Fire detection and fire characterization over Africa using Meteosat SEVIRI - Roberts, G.J. and Wooster, M.J.
Published:
2008
Publication:
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume:
46, (4)
Page Range:
1200-1218
doi:
10.1109/TGRS.2008.915751
Spaceborne detection and characterization of fires during the bi-spectral infrared detection (BIRD) experimental small satellite mission (2001–2004) - Zhukov, B., Lorenz, E., Oertel, D., Wooster, M. and Roberts, G.
Published:
2006
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
100, (1)
Page Range:
29-51
doi:
10.1016/j.rse.2005.09.019
Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: FRP derivation and calibration relationships between biomass consumption and fire radiative energy release - Wooster, M.J., Roberts, G., Perry, G.L.W. and Kaufman, Y.J.
Published:
2005
Publication:
Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume:
110, (D24)
Page Range:
311
doi:
10.1029/2005JD006318
Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: Application to southern Africa using geostationary SEVIRI imagery - Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J., Perry, G.L.W., Drake, N., Rebelo, L.-M. and Dipotso, F.
Published:
2005
Publication:
Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume:
110
Page Range:
D2111
doi:
10.1029/2005JD006018
Vegetation structure characteristics and relationships of Kalahari woodlands and savannas - Privette, J.L., Tian, Y., Roberts, G., Scholes, R.J., Wang, Y., Caylor, K.K., Frost, P. and Mukelabai, M.
Published:
2004
Publication:
Global Change Biology
Volume:
10, (3)
Page Range:
281-291
doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00740.x
First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS - Schaaf, Crystal B., Gao, Feng, Strahler, Alan H., Lucht, Wolfgang, Li, Xiaowen, Tsang, Trevor, Strugnell, Nicholas C., Zhang, Xiaoyang, Jin, Yufang, Muller, Jan-Peter, Lewis, Philip, Barnsley, Michael, Hobson, Paul, Disney, Mathias, Roberts, Gareth, Dunderdale, Michael, Doll, Christopher, d'Entremont, Robert P., Hu, Baoxin, Liang, Shunlin, Privette, Jeffrey L. and Roy, David
Published:
2002
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
83, (1-2)
Page Range:
135-148
doi:
10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00091-3
Early spatial and temporal validation of MODIS LAI product in the Southern Africa Kalahari - Privette, J.L., Myneni, R.B., Knyazikhin, Y., Mukelabai, M., Roberts, G., Tian, Y., Wang, Y. and Leblanc, S.G.
Published:
2002
Publication:
Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume:
83, (1-2)
Page Range:
232-243
doi:
10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00075-5
A review of the application of BRDF models to infer land cover parameters at regional and global scales - Roberts, Gareth
Published:
2001
Publication:
Progress in Physical Geography
Volume:
25, (4)
Page Range:
483-511
doi:
10.1177/030913330102500402

Book Section(s)

Thermal infrared remote sensing: sensors, methods, applications - Wooster, Martin, Roberts, Gareth, Smith, Alistair, Johnston, Joshua, Freeborn, Patrick, Amici, Stefania and Hudak, Andrew. In Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing - Kuenzer, Claudia and Dech, Stefan (eds.)
Published:
2013
Series:
Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, 17
Using satellite observations in regional scale calculations of carbon exchange - Quegan, Shaun, Lewis, Phillip, Quaife, Tristan, Roberts, Gareth, Wooster, Martin and Disney, Matthias. In The Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balance of Europe - Dolman, Han, Valentini, Riccardo and Freibauer, A. (eds.)
Published:
2008
Published by:
New York, US
Series:
Ecological Studies
Volume:
203
Page Range:
309-340

Dr Gareth Roberts
Building 44 University of Southampton University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number:44/2079

Telephone:(023) 8059 9224
Email:G.J.Roberts@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Gareth Roberts BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Remote Sensing

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Contact

Research group(s)

Article(s)

Urban growth dynamics in Perth, Western Australia: using applied remote sensing for sustainable future planning - MacLachlan, Andrew, Biggs, Ellie, Roberts, Gareth and Boruff, Bryan

Meteosat SEVIRI Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products from the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility (LSA SAF): Part 1 - algorithms, product contents &amp; analysis - Wooster, M.J., Roberts, G, Freeborn, P.H., Govaerts, Y., Beeby, R., He, J., Lattanzia, A. and Mullen, R.

LSA SAF Meteosat FRP Products: part 2 – evaluation and demonstration of use in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring - Roberts, G., Wooster, M. J., Xu, W, Freeborn, P. H, Morcrette, J-J, Jones, L., Benedetti, A. and Kaiser, J.

Development of a multi-temporal Kalman filter approach to geostationary active fire detection &amp; fire radiative power (FRP) estimation - Roberts, G.

Evaluating the SEVIRI fire thermal anomaly detection algorithm across the Central African Republic using the MODIS active fire product - Freeborn, Patrick H,., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth J. and Xu, Weidong

Use of handheld thermal imager data for airborne mapping of Fire Radiative Power and energy and flame front rate of spread - Paugam, R., Wooster, M. J. and Roberts, G.

Integration of geostationary FRP and polar-orbiter burned area datasets for an enhanced biomass burning inventory - Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J., Freeborn, P.H. and Xu, W.

Addressing the spatiotemporal sampling design of MODIS to provide estimates of the fire radiative energy emitted from Africa - Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J. and Roberts, Gareth

Southern African fire regimes as revealed by remote sensing - Archibald, S., Scholes, R.J., Roy, D.P., Roberts, G. and Boschetti, L.

Development of a virtual active fire product for Africa through a synthesis of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data - Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth, Malamud, Bruce D. and Xu, Weidong

Development of a virtual active fire product for Africa through a synthesis of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data - Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth, Malamud, Bruce D. and Xu, Weidong

Estimating biomass consumed from fire using MODIS FRE - Ellicott, Evan, Vermote, Eric, Giglio, Louis and Roberts, Gareth

Annual and diurnal african biomass burning temporal dynamics - Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J. and Lagoudakis, E.

An approach to estimate global biomass burning emissions of organic and black carbon from MODIS fire radiative power - Vermote, Eric, Ellicott, Evan, Dubovik, Oleg, Lapyonok, Tatyana, Chin, Mian, Giglio, Louis and Roberts, Gareth J.

Fire detection and fire characterization over Africa using Meteosat SEVIRI - Roberts, G.J. and Wooster, M.J.

Spaceborne detection and characterization of fires during the bi-spectral infrared detection (BIRD) experimental small satellite mission (2001–2004) - Zhukov, B., Lorenz, E., Oertel, D., Wooster, M. and Roberts, G.

Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: FRP derivation and calibration relationships between biomass consumption and fire radiative energy release - Wooster, M.J., Roberts, G., Perry, G.L.W. and Kaufman, Y.J.

Retrieval of biomass combustion rates and totals from fire radiative power observations: Application to southern Africa using geostationary SEVIRI imagery - Roberts, G., Wooster, M.J., Perry, G.L.W., Drake, N., Rebelo, L.-M. and Dipotso, F.

Vegetation structure characteristics and relationships of Kalahari woodlands and savannas - Privette, J.L., Tian, Y., Roberts, G., Scholes, R.J., Wang, Y., Caylor, K.K., Frost, P. and Mukelabai, M.

Early spatial and temporal validation of MODIS LAI product in the Southern Africa Kalahari - Privette, J.L., Myneni, R.B., Knyazikhin, Y., Mukelabai, M., Roberts, G., Tian, Y., Wang, Y. and Leblanc, S.G.

A review of the application of BRDF models to infer land cover parameters at regional and global scales - Roberts, Gareth

Book Section(s)

Thermal infrared remote sensing: sensors, methods, applications - Wooster, Martin, Roberts, Gareth, Smith, Alistair, Johnston, Joshua, Freeborn, Patrick, Amici, Stefania and Hudak, Andrew. In Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing - Kuenzer, Claudia and Dech, Stefan (eds.)

Meteosat SEVIRI Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products from the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility (LSA SAF): Part 1 - algorithms, product contents & analysis - Wooster, M.J., Roberts, G, Freeborn, P.H., Govaerts, Y., Beeby, R., He, J., Lattanzia, A. and Mullen, R.

Development of a multi-temporal Kalman filter approach to geostationary active fire detection & fire radiative power (FRP) estimation - Roberts, G.