Inaugural Lecture for Professor Karen Anderson

Much of what is known about Earth system change has come from remote sensing measurements captured from instruments on board satellites. Remote sensing science is fundamentally based on the precise measurement of the properties of light. Starting with fundamental measurements captured close to the ground by spectroradiometers, and scaling up through drone-captured to satellite-acquired data, this lecture will explore the different ways that measurements of light can be used to understand ecosystem processes.

Karen is an environmental scientist whose work began with the study of a concrete calibration surface, measured using a trolley-mounted spectroradiometer. Since then she’s expanded her toolkit to include drones, flux towers, gas analysers and multispectral instruments. She has led various projects leveraging information from satellite Earth observation data. Collaborating with a wide range of other researchers including human geographers, hydrologists, biogeochemists, ecologists and soil scientists, this lecture will explain what can be learned about ecosystems from this ‘remote sensing’ vantage point. The lecture will also consider some of the overlooked aspects of the remote sensing discipline, touching on areas such as volumetric geography and the environmental impacts of this scientific area itself.

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