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Research project

Exploiting UAVs for validating decametric earth observation data from Sentinel-2 and Gaofen-6 (UAV4VAL)

Research groups:

Environmental Change and Sustainability
Lead researcher:

Professor Jadu Dash
Other researchers:

Dr Booker Ogutu,

Dr Gareth Roberts
Research funder:

European Space Agency
Status:

Active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology

Email: j.dash@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Doctor Booker Ogutu

Dr Booker Ogutu

Lecturer

Research interests

Developing methods of retrieving bio-geophysical variables from Earth Observation data
Understanding the effects of environmental change on terrestrial vegetation
Quantifying terrestrial carbon balance and its dynamics in a changing climate

Email: b.o.ogutu@soton.ac.uk

GR

Dr Gareth Roberts

Lecturer in Remote Sensing

Research interests

Development of methods for monitoring fire activity and estimating emissions using remotely sensed data
Quantifying the environmental and health impacts of landscape fires using remote sensing

Email: g.j.roberts@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Environmental Change and Sustainability

We carry out geospatial analysis and experimentation to understand environmental change and potential solutions.

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