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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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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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
- Jiang, D; Scholze, J; Liu, X; Simis, SGH; Stelzer, K; Müller, D; Hunter, P; Tyler, A; Spyrakos, E; 2023. A data-driven approach to flag land-affected signals in satellite derived water quality from small lakes . International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
- Carrea, L; Cretaux, J-F; Liu, X; Wu, Y; Calmettes, B; Duguay, CR; Merchant, CJ; Selmes, N; Simis, SGH; Warren, M; Yesou, H; Müller, D; Jiang, D; Embury, O; Bergé-Nguyen, M; Albergel, C; 2023. Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies . Scientific Data.
- Courtecuisse, E; Marchetti, E; Oxborough, K; Hunter, PD; Spyrakos, E; Tilstone, GH; Simis, SGH; 2023. Optimising Multispectral Active Fluorescence to Distinguish the Photosynthetic Variability of Cyanobacteria and Algae . Sensors.
- Zolfaghari, K; Pahlevan, N; Simis, SGH; O'Shea, RE; Duguay, CR; 2022. Sensitivity of remotely sensed pigment concentration via Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) to uncertainties from atmospheric correction . Journal of Great Lakes Research.
- Sun, X; Brewin, RJW; Sathyendranath, S; Dall’Olmo, G; Airs, RL; Barlow, RG; Bracher, A; Brotas, V; Kheireddine, M; Lamont, T; Maranon, E; Moran, XAG; Raitsos, DE; Shen, F; Tilstone, GH; 2022. Coupling ecological concepts with an ocean-colour model: Phytoplankton size structure . Remote Sensing of Environment.
- Findlay, HS; Kurekin, A; Selmes, N; 2022. Assessment of the environmental, ecosystem, and human activities in coastal Vietnam and Cambodia gathered from satelitte remote sensing . PML Publishing.
- Barlow, R; Lamont, T; Viljoen, J; Airs, RL; Brewin, RJW; Tilstone, GH; Aiken, J; Woodward, EMS; Harris, C; 2022. Latitudinal variability and adaptation of phytoplankton in the Atlantic Ocean . Journal of Marine Systems.
- Lin, J; Dall’Olmo, G; Tilstone, GH; Brewin, RJW; Vabson, V; Ansko, I; Evers-King, H; Casal, T; Donlon, C; 2022. Derivation of uncertainty budgets for continuous above-water radiometric measurements along an Atlantic Meridional Transect . Optics Express.
- Werther, M; Odermatt, D; Simis, SGH; Gurlin, D; Lehmann, MK; Kutser, T; Gupana, R; Varley, A; Hunter, PD; Tyler, AN; Spyrakos, E; 2022. A Bayesian approach for remote sensing of chlorophyll-a and associated retrieval uncertainty in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes . Remote Sensing of Environment.
- Owers, CJ; Lucas, RM; Clewley, D; Tissott, B; Chua, SMT; Hunt, G; Mueller, N; Planque, C; Punalekar, SM; Bunting, P; Tans, P; Metternicht, G; 2022. Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube . International Journal of Digital Earth.
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
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
Dr Gemma Kulk
Phytoplankton physiologist
gku
@pml.ac.uk
Dr Andrey Kurekin
Marine Earth Observation 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