The Earth’s climate and ecosystems are changing at an unprecedented rate. Never has it been so important to monitor environmental change and understand the consequences of human activities on planetary processes.
The research conducted in Cambridge University and partner organisations encompasses the breadth of remote sensing of environmental change, from ecosystem to human landscape, from cryosphere to coastal zones, from atmosphere to solid earth. Find out more about our researchers, their projects and publications:
Ecosystems are comprised of organisms living as a community within their abiotic environment and interacting as a system. No ecosystem on Earth is unaffected by people.
Rapid global urbanisation has highlighted the importance of understanding changing interactions between humans and the environment.
The chemistry of the gases and particles in the air around is hugely important. Understanding of atmospheric chemistry enables new pathways to reduce air pollution and climate change.
The cryosphere, which encompasses all portions of the Earth’s surface where water is found in solid form, is one of the most dynamic components of the Earth’s climate system.
Coastal ecosystems play important roles in hazard regulation (through wave energy dissipation); climate regulation (through carbon sequestration); and disaster risk reduction.
The solid Earth provides a record of the Earth’s geological past, and also controls the characteristics and behaviour of processes active at the present day.
Recent publications on a range of topics, all using earth observation, remote sensing techniques to interpret the current understanding of the world.
Sarab Sethi was on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Sarab has developed a device that records soundscapes over long time-frames, with minimal human intervention. It’s being deployed in all different natural habitats to monitor the health of ecosystems using…
Read More Monitoring biodiversity by a new, hands-off approach
What: Google Earth Engine Workshops (2 sessions) Where: University of Cambridge When: September 28, 9:30 – 13:30 (Intro) and 14:30 – 17:30 (Advanced) Cost: Free, but space is limited, so there’s a chance we won’t be able to accommodate everyone.…
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join Dr Emily Lines’ UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) project “Next generation forest dynamics modelling using remote sensing data”. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of ecology, remote sensing, and…
Read More Job opportunity: Research Associate in Data Fusion for Forest Monitoring and Modelling
10-11am BST, Tuesday, April 12, Zoom Correct understanding and modeling of terrestrial carbon cycles is an essential first step for accurate prediction of large-scale climate variability and change, which impacts the lives and living quality of all organisms of our…
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Debmita Bandyopadhyay, and David Coomes are part of the INTEGRAL (INdia remoTE imaGeRy AnaLysis) team. The INTEGRAL project is “an innovative collaboration between people collecting remote sensing data – such as satellite images of forests and video from traffic cameras –…
Earth observation satellites provide the most comprehensive real-time check on the health of the planet and are playing a crucial role in the fight against global heating now and even more so in the future, according to climate scientists. Although…
Cambridge Centre for Earth Observation 