Science Group
Earth Observation Science & Applications
Improving the understanding and management of the ocean through the development and application of cutting-edge Earth Observation (EO) techniques and the pioneering of digital innovations in areas such as artifical intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
Building on PML's world-class expertise in satellite-based ocean colour remote-sensing and in-situ marine monitoring, this includes:
- driving innovations in marine science, exploiting past, existing and new generation Earth Observation (EO) data.
- exploiting the opportunities afforded by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to address key environmental and societal questions
- improving the synergy between in-situ, airborne and satellite observations to provide cost-effective monitoring of a variety of parameters (e.g. water quality, harmful algal blooms and eutrophication)
- harnessing the capabilities of the latest Sentinel mission products, open-source tools and novel autonomous in-situ technologies.
The group also leads research into, and the production of, climate data records in ocean colour, sea-surface height, sea state, and lake-water colour, with a view to assessing the status of our oceans for policy-making.
PML Project pages
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AMT4SentinelFRM
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Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
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Atlantic Meridional Transect Ocean Flux from Satellite Campaign (AMT4OceanSatFlux)
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Biodiversity in the Open Ocean: Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling (BOOMS)
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Biodiversity of the Coastal Ocean: Monitoring with Earth Observation (BiCOME)
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Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes (BICEP)
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Copernicus Evolution: Research for harmonised and Transitional water Observation (CERTO)
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Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS)
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Earth and Sea Observation System (EASOS): Marine pollution
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EarthServer
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FRM4SOC: Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour
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FRONTAL: Satellite FRONTs for detection of Anthropogenic plastic Litter
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GCRF Blue Communities
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Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)
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Integrated Service for Surveillance of illegal Unlicensed & Unreported fishing (InSUre)
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Multiscale Observation Networks for Optical monitoring of Coastal waters, Lakes and Estuaries (MONOCLE)
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NERC Airborne Research Facility (NERC-ARF)
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NERC Earth Observation and Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS)
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Ocean color and biogeochemistry (CBIOMES)
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Optical Methods for Marine Litter detection (OPTIMAL)
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Pathways Of Dispersal for Cholera And Solution Tools (PODCAST)
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Portugal Twinning for Innovation and Excellence in Marine Science and Earth Observation (PORTWIMS)
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PRIMROSE: Predicting Risk and Impact of Harmful Events on the Aquaculture Sector
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Rehabilitation of Vibrio-infested waters of Lake Vembanad, funded under the India-UK Water Quality programme (REVIVAL)
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REmineralisation, OPTIcs and Marine partIcle siZE (REOPTIMIZE)
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S-3 EUROHAB - Sentinel products for detecting EUtROphication and Harmful Algal Bloom events
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Sea level Climate Change Initiative (CCI)
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Sea State CCI
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Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC)
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ShellEye
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Tools for Assessment and Planning of Aquaculture Sustainability (TAPAS)
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Water-ForCE: Water scenarios For Copernicus Exploitation
Latest publications
- Simis, SGH; Hunter, PD; Matthews, MW; Spyrakos, E; Tyler, A; Vaiciute, D; 2022. Improved hyperspectral inversion of aquatic reflectance under non-uniform vertical mixing . Optics Express.
- Clark, DR; Rees, AP; Ferrera, CM; Al-Moosawi, L; Somerfield, PJ; Harris, C; Quartly, GD; Goult, S; Tarran, GA; Lessin, G; 2022. Nitrite regeneration in the oligotrophic Atlantic Ocean . Biogeosciences.
- Pahlevan, N; Smith, B; Alikas, K; Anstee, J; Barbosa, CCF; Binding, CE; Bresciani, M; Cremella, B; Giardino, C; Gurlin, D; Fernandez, V; Jamet, C; Kangro, K; Lehmann, MK; Loisel, H; Matsushita, B; Hà, N; Olmanson, L; Potvin, G; Simis, SGH; VanderWoude, A; Vantrepotte, V; Ruiz-Verdu, A; 2022. Simultaneous retrieval of selected optical water quality indicators from Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 . Remote Sensing of Environment.
- Huthnance, JM; Hopkins, J; Berx, B; Dale, A; Holt, J; Hosegood, P; Inall, M; Jones, S; Loveday, BR; Miller, PI; Polton, J; Porter, M; Spingys, C; 2022. Ocean shelf exchange, NW European shelf seas: Measurements, estimates and comparisons . Progress in Oceanography.
- Brotas, V; Tarran, GA; Veloso, V; Brewin, RJW; Woodward, EMS; Airs, RL; Beltran, C; Ferreira, AS; Groom, SB; 2022. Complementary Approaches to Assess Phytoplankton Groups and Size Classes on a Long Transect in the Atlantic Ocean . Frontiers in Marine Science.
- Tilstone, GH; Pardo, S; Simis, SGH; Qin, P; Selmes, N; Dessailly, D; Kwiatkowska, E; 2021. Consistency between Satellite Ocean Colour Products under High Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption in the Baltic Sea . Remote Sensing.
- Clason, CC; Blake, WH; Selmes, N; Taylor, A; Boeckx, P; Kitch, J; Mills, SC; Baccolo, G; Millward, GE; 2021. Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution . The Cryosphere.
- Dall'Olmo, G; Nencioli, F; Jackson, T; Brewin, RJW; Gittings, JA; Raitsos, DE; 2021. Ocean Lagrangian Trajectories (OLTraj): Lagrangian analysis for non-expert users . Open Research Europe.
- Lin, J; Miller, PI; Jonsson, B; Bedington, M; 2021. Early Warning of Harmful Algal Bloom Risk Using Satellite Ocean Color and Lagrangian Particle Trajectories . Frontiers in Marine Science.
- Zolfaghari, K; Pahlevan, N; Binding, CE; Gurlin, D; Simis, SGH; Verdu, AR; Li, L; Crawford, CJ; VanderWoude, A; Errera, R; Zastepa, A; Duguay, CR; 2021. Impact of Spectral Resolution on Quantifying Cyanobacteria in Lakes and Reservoirs: A Machine-Learning Assessment . IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
People who work in this area of research
Dr Elizabeth C. Atwood
Earth Observation Data Analyst
liat
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Lauren Biermann
Earth Observation Scientist
lbi
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Andrei Chuprin
Programmer
ach
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Earth Observation Scientist
gdal
@pml.ac.uk
James Dingle
Earth Observation Data Analyst
jad
@pml.ac.uk
Professor Steve Groom
Head of Science - Earth Observation
sbg
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Jackson
Remote Sensing and Ocean Optics Scientist
thja
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Bror Jonsson
Senior scientist
brj
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Jordan
Earth Observation Scientist
tjor
@pml.ac.uk
Christina Kong
Postgraduate Fellowship
chko
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Gemma Kulk
Phytoplankton physiologist
gku
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Andrey Kurekin
Coastal Ocean Colour scientist
anku
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Peter Land
Remote Sensing Scientist
peland
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Angus Laurenson
Scientific Python Guru
anla
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Junfang Lin
Earth Observation Scientist
junl
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Xiaohan Liu
Earth Observation Scientist
liux
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente
Bio-optical oceanographer
vmv
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Peter Miller
Marine Earth Observation Scientist
pim
@pml.ac.uk
Dr David Moffat
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Scientist
dmof
@pml.ac.uk
Silvia Pardo
Earth Observation Scientist
spa
@pml.ac.uk
Paula Pereira
Research intern
ppe
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Graham Quartly
Physical oceanographer (Remote sensing)
gqu
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
Merit Remote Sensing Scientist
ssat
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Nick Selmes
Earth Observation Scientist
nse
@pml.ac.uk
Professor Stefan Simis
Earth Observation Scientist (inland/coastal waters)
stsi
@pml.ac.uk
Emma Sullivan
Earth Observation Scientist
emsu
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Varunan Theenathayalan
Earth Observation Scientist
vath
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Gavin H. Tilstone
Bio-optical oceanographer
ghti
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Mark Warren
Remote sensing scientist
mark1
@pml.ac.uk