Welcome to the Earth Observation Technology Cluster

The Earth Observation Technology Cluster is a two year knowledge exchange project, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), under its Technology Clusters Programme.

The Earth Observation Technology Cluster's objectives

The Earth Observation Technology Cluster's main objective is to facilitate understanding, development and uptake of state-of-the-art technology used in Earth Observation of the land surface.

The additional aims of the Technology Cluster are:

• facilitating the growth of the NERC technology community. Indeed, any such interested parties are warmly invited to engage with the Earth Observation Technology Cluster;
• developing a supportive and vibrant environment for technologies research; and
• providing a forum for technology dissemination, showcasing and sharing best practice across NERC science disciplines. 

 

 

About the Earth Observation Technology Cluster

The Technology Cluster is focusing on technology that can be used for a range of scientific applications such as measuring gas emissions from volcanoes, to 3-D mapping of natural and urban environments, and monitoring the effect of climate change on plant life, Polar sea ice and ice-sheets. Activities of the Technology Cluster include consideration of the full range of Earth Observation operations, from platform and sensor development, to image retrieval and analysis, environmental modelling and application. Activities designed to facilitate knowledge exchange include workshops, demonstrations and seminars. Six distinguished scientists are focusing on the following five key Earth Observation themes:

• Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Observation led by Prof. Daniel Donoghue, University of Durham.
• LiDAR:net (Light Detection and Ranging knowledge exchange network) led by Dr. Nicholas Tate, University of Leicester.
• Field-Based Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Spectroscopy led by Dr. Graham Ferrier, University of Hull.
• Hyper-Temporal Observation led by Dr. Doreen Boyd, University of Nottingham, and Prof. Mark Danson, University of Salford.
• Circumpolar and Cryospheric Earth Observation led by Allen Pope, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

 

 

Forthcoming events and latest Earth Observation news

You can find out more about the Technology Cluster's upcoming earth observation events and the latest news from the Earth Observation community below.