Professor Martin Wooster
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Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
Email: martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7848 2577
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
Email: martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7848 2577
Biography
Martin Wooster joined the Department of Geography in 1998 on a lectureship funded by the NERC Earth Observation Science Initiative (one of four such lectureships awarded nationally in the UK). In 2005 he was appointed Professor of Earth Observation Science at KCL, where he currently heads the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group, consisting of twelve full time academic staff and associated researchers. Martin holds a BSc in Physics (Bristol) and an MSc in Remote Sensing (University of London), with a PhD in Earth Sciences (Open University) that focused on exploiting the ATSR instrument for the remote sensing of active volcanoes. Recently his group at KCL have been instrumental in developing the operational Fire Radiative Power (FRP) product from the Meteosat Second Generation satellites, available free in real-time from the EUMETSAT Land Satellite Applications Facility (Land SAF). Professor Wooster is a PI in the NERC National Center for Earth Observation.
Click here for real-time Metoesat-derived Active Fire Data in Google Earth
Martin Wooster has published in excess of 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals (for publciation list and downloads click here) and sits on steering committees of the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility and the NERC Airborne Remote Sensing Facility . He holds investigatorships on a number of remote sensing missions (including Meteosat Second Generation and the BIRD experimental satellite ), and was the recipient of the Daiwa-Adrian Award for Excellence in UK-Japan Collaborative Science. In 2007 Martin was the first recipient of the "Young Academic Researcher of the Year" award at the now annual KCL Awards , and more recently he and his research team and collaborators were recipients of the London Development Agency Knowledge Transfer Award for Environmental Science
Prior to joining KCL Martin worked at the Natural Resources Institute, at that time part of the UK Department for International Development (DfID), where his work focused on the development of Earth Observation as part of a suite of methods being applied for the purpose of extending environmental monitoring in developing countries. Areas of work included included vegetation, rainfall and lake/ocean monitoring, for such diverse applications as famine early warning, forest fire detection and limnological/fisheries investigations. An example of one of these projects can be found here related to study of large lake biodiversity.
The above areas of work remain a particular interest to this day, as does the use of infrared and thermal remote sensing approaches and their application to a wide variety of environmental investigations. A key current interest is in the quantifying the role of vegetation fires (biomass burning) plays in exchanges of material between the land surface and the atmosphere, and the development of remote sensing approaches to help address this question. The link at left provides further details of this and other research topics. Those interested in possible postgraduate study or research fellowships are welcome to email.
Should you be interested in working with the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group as a Research Fellow or PhD student, please see the link at left.
Click here for real-time Metoesat-derived Active Fire Data in Google Earth
Martin Wooster has published in excess of 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals (for publciation list and downloads click here) and sits on steering committees of the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility and the NERC Airborne Remote Sensing Facility . He holds investigatorships on a number of remote sensing missions (including Meteosat Second Generation and the BIRD experimental satellite ), and was the recipient of the Daiwa-Adrian Award for Excellence in UK-Japan Collaborative Science. In 2007 Martin was the first recipient of the "Young Academic Researcher of the Year" award at the now annual KCL Awards , and more recently he and his research team and collaborators were recipients of the London Development Agency Knowledge Transfer Award for Environmental Science
Prior to joining KCL Martin worked at the Natural Resources Institute, at that time part of the UK Department for International Development (DfID), where his work focused on the development of Earth Observation as part of a suite of methods being applied for the purpose of extending environmental monitoring in developing countries. Areas of work included included vegetation, rainfall and lake/ocean monitoring, for such diverse applications as famine early warning, forest fire detection and limnological/fisheries investigations. An example of one of these projects can be found here related to study of large lake biodiversity.
The above areas of work remain a particular interest to this day, as does the use of infrared and thermal remote sensing approaches and their application to a wide variety of environmental investigations. A key current interest is in the quantifying the role of vegetation fires (biomass burning) plays in exchanges of material between the land surface and the atmosphere, and the development of remote sensing approaches to help address this question. The link at left provides further details of this and other research topics. Those interested in possible postgraduate study or research fellowships are welcome to email.
Should you be interested in working with the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group as a Research Fellow or PhD student, please see the link at left.