Project Leadership

Sustainability

  • Carbon Accounting (2023-)

    Working with Government, academia and standards bodies to develop a robust, comprehensive framework to accurately measure greenhouse gas emissions of manufactured products

    (funder: InnovateUK)

  • Methane monitoring (2023-)

    Increasing UK public, academic and private sector understanding of the benefits of satellite-derived greenhouse gas data through high-resolution data provision

    (funder: UKSA)

  • ESG data (2023-)

    Enabling Earth Observation data to better inform sustainability-based decision making and guiding capital allocation towards more sustainable business endeavours

    (funder: InnovateUK)

  • Asset Level Data (2020-2022)

    Using machine learning to analyse satellite, geo-spatial and web-based datasets to extract asset-level information for the cement and steel industries

    (funder: CIFF)

Energy Transition

  • Satellites for batteries (2020-2021)

    Understanding how machine learning could be utilised to create prospectivity tools for key technology metals, enabling a sustainable approach to exploration

    (funder: UKSA)

  • Lithium Brine Supply (2020-2022)

    Developing a series of tools enshrined in a workflow that enables the identification of how Lithium (Li) brines can be properly exploited for the low-cost battery market

    (funder: InnovateUK)

  • Project Lithium (2017-2018)

    Integrating cutting edge Earth Observation techniques with local surveys to develop the first digital maps that display the probability of occurrence of lithium in Cornwall

    (funder: InnovateUK)

  • Tailings Program (2019-)

    Using Earth observation data to actively monitor dam stability and operations to prevent environmental catastrophes, and integrating results onto monitoring platforms

    (funder: multiple)

Infrastructure Health

  • BRIGITAL (2018-2021)

    Developing a monitoring platform for the visualisation and ranking of anomalous movements of bridges across Canada, derived with EO and validated with structural analysis

    (funder: InnovateUK, Transport Canada)

  • AMSIT (2017-2018)

    Asset Monitoring with Satellites and IoT Technologies; integration of satellite data and ground data for the structural health monitoring of bridges

    (funder: InnovateUK)

Natural Environment

  • Satellites for wildlife (2021-2022)

    Using satellite-enabled technologies and building infrastructure to support collaboration between conservationists to help halt the loss of Kenya’s biodiversity

    (funder: UKSA)

  • Unregulated gold mining (2018-2020)

    Building a platform to detect illegal gold mining in the Amazon region and support governmental organisations to tackle deforestation and environmental degradation

    (funder: UKSA)

  • FUTUREVOLC (2012-2016)

    integrating space and ground based observations for improved monitoring and evaluation of volcanic hazards, with networking and open data policy

    (funder: European Commission)

Urban Environment

  • TOMOPOLIS (2011-2014)

    Developing innovative solutions for the monitoring of the urban environment with high-resolution synthetic aperture radar data

    (funder: DLR)

  • Nuclear Sites Safeguard (2013-2016)

    Understanding the role of Earth observation data in the monitoring of nuclear sites, to aid safety inspections, safeguards, and verification operations

    (funder: UN)

Satellite missions

  • NovaSAR (2018-2022)

    Managing the background mission development and its scientific operations

    (funder: UKSA)

  • TanDEM-X (2008-2017)

    Developing the interferometric processor and researching on innovative applications with bistatic interferometry

    (funder: DLR)

  • Sentinel-1 (2006-2008)

    Leading the development of the instrument simulator to verify performance prior to the mission launch

    (funder: ESA)