Monitoring environmental impacts through remote sensing

The past 5 years have seen a revolution in both the availability and processing of remote sensing data to inform on environmental impacts. These advances are due to innovations in remote sensing platforms and technology such as drones and LIDAR, as well as processing advances such as digital photogrammetry. In this talk, Nicholas Coops and PhD candidate Rik Nuijten will discuss the background to these advances, and some examples of how they can be used to monitor forest regeneration, restoration, biodiversity assessment and trends and changes in environmental conditions.

By attending this webinar, you will learn about:

• How imagery acquired from drones can be processed to provide analysis-ready data
• Recent advancements in camera and processing techniques enabling (near) plant-level monitoring
• The availability of new satellite-based remote sensing datasets, like Cubesat
• The power of data fusion to exploit key benefits of different datasets and sensors.

A panel discussion with other remote sensing experts/professionals will follow.