Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)
Remote Sensing
Low cost remote sensing for disaster risk reduction
Remote sensing and GIS are now routine tools for the assessment of geological hazards, risks and vulnerable communities...more
Remote sensing and spatial modelling of landslides and landslide dams in Kyrgyzstan
We are using high resolution remote sensing to identify and characterize contemporary and ancient landslides and landslide dams in Kyrgyzstan...more
Climate Change in Southern England
The Solent Region, including areas of West Sussex, Hampshire and Dorset, including the coastal cities of Portsmouth and Southampton could be particularly susceptible to climate change...more
GIS for monitoring, modelling and managing Coastal Change
Our important, but sensitive habitats and coastal areas in Southern England are very sensitive to environmental change...more
Mapping Vulnerability
Natural hazards affect different communities in very different ways. Our research seeks to integrate measures of social and economic vulnerability with factors that indicate biophysical and geophysical vulnerability...more
Understanding climate change through rock-weathering
The weathering of rocks used in buildings and gravestones provides a wealth of information about environmental change over the past few centuries. We are examining how different types of rock decay can be linked to factors such as industrial pollution, weather patterns and climate change...more
Metals in the environment
Working with DustScan Ltd and Leeds University, we are examining several aspects of contamination...more
Quantitative assessment of dust propagation from hazardous waste landfill
Working with DustScan Ltd and Grundon Waste Management Ltd, this partnership received financial support from the Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme (KTP)...more
Spectral analysis for landslide characterization
A huge amount of information about landslide age, origin and stability might be available if we better understand the information held in their infra-red and visible light signatures’...more
Computational modelling of physical systems
As our understanding of physical earth systems continues to develop we need to use ever more sophisticated mathematical and physical modelling protocols...more
High Resolution Remote sensing for landslide characterization
Commissioned research for BP to assess the use of new, high-resolution optical remote sensing techniques for the identification, monitoring, and risk assessment of landslides...more
Elevation models for geomorphological analyses
Recent improvements in GIS and remote sensing technologies mean we can extract ever more information about landscape geomorphology from aerial photographs and remote sensing images...more
Land utilisation mapping
With support from the Soddy Trust we are extracting data from historical land use maps to examine how land has been utilised at different periods of time in Great Britain...more
Selected Recent Outputs
View our publications from 2007 onwards...more