Professor Martin Wooster Academics Supervisors Professor of Earth Observation Science Research subject areas Environment Contact details +44 (0)20 7848 2577 martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk
Gaseous, particulate matter, carbonaceous compound, water-soluble ion, and trace metal emissions measured from 2019 peatland fires in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan Can remote sensing combustion phase improve estimates of landscape fire smoke emission rate and composition? Remote Sensing and Satellite Earth Observation Sentinel-3 SLSTR Active Fire (AF) Detection and FRP Daytime Product - Algorithm Description and Global Intercomparison to MODIS, VIIRS and Landsat AF Data Systematic Mapping and Review of Landscape Fire Smoke (LFS) Exposure Impacts on Insects A quadcopter unmanned aerial system (UAS)-based methodology for measuring biomass burning emission factors A Machine Learning Approach to Waterbody Segmentation in Thermal Infrared Imagery in Support of Tactical Wildfire Mapping A new East African satellite data validation station: Performance of the LSA-SAF all-weather land surface temperature product over a savannah biome Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia Orthorectification of helicopter-borne high resolution experimental burn observation from infra red handheld imagers Associations between exposure to landscape fire smoke and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a matched case-control study An improved cloud gap-filling method for longwave infrared land surface temperatures through introducing passive microwave techniques Sensors for fire and smoke monitoring Sentinel-3 Active Fire Detection and FRP Product Performance - Impact of Scan Angle and SLSTR Middle Infrared Channel Selection Global impact of landscape fire emissions on surface level PM2.5 concentrations, air quality exposure and population mortality Improvements in High-Temporal Resolution Active Fire Detection and FRP Retrieval over the Americas using GOES-16 ABI with the Geostationary Fire Thermal Anomaly (FTA) Algorithm Spectral emissivity (SE) measurement uncertainties across 2.5 – 14 μm derived from a round-robin study made across international laboratories Inter-comparison of field- and laboratory-derived surface emissivities of natural and manmade materials in support of land surface temperature (LST) remote sensing Top-down estimation of particulate matter emissions from extreme tropical peatland fires using geostationary satellite fire radiative power observations Flame-front rate of spread estimates for moderate scale experimental fires are strongly influenced by measurement approach Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: Assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt Trends in eastern China agricultural fire emissions derived from a combination of geostationary (Himawari) and polar (VIIRS) orbiter fire radiative power products Strong impacts of smoke polluted air demonstrated on the flight behaviour of the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui L.) Development of the user requirements for the Canadian wildfiresat satellite mission Satellite detection limitations of sub-canopy smouldering wildfires in the north american boreal forest Influence of Satellite Sensor Pixel Size and Overpass Time on Undercounting of Cerrado/Savannah Landscape-Scale Fire Radiative Power (FRP): An Assessment Using the MODIS Airborne Simulator Advances in the Estimation of High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Pan-African Top-Down Biomass Burning Emissions made using Geostationary Fire Radiative Power (FRP) and MAIAC Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Data New eastern China agricultural burning fire emission inventory and trends analysis from combined geostationary (Himawari-8) and polar-orbiting (VIIRS-IM) fire radiative power products First Study of Sentinel-3 SLSTR Active Fire Detection and FRP Retrieval: Night-time Algorithm Enhancements and Global Intercomparison to MODIS and VIIRS AF Products Living on a flammable planet: Interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges Fire detection from leo: Trade-offs for selection of spectral bands and a wide-swath optical design using mwir and visible bands How Well Does the ‘Small Fire Boost’Methodology Used within the GFED4. 1s Fire Emissions Database Represent the Timing, Location and Magnitude of Agricultural Burning? Multi-decade global gas flaring change inventoried using the ATSR-1, ATSR-2, AATSR and SLSTR data records Radiometric Calibration of ‘Commercial off the Shelf’ Cameras for UAV-Based High-Resolution Temporal Crop Phenotyping of Reflectance and NDVI A mathematical approach to merging data from different trace gas/particulate sensors having dissimilar (T90) response times: Application to fire emission factor determination Fire activity and fuel consumption dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa Investigating the impact of overlying vegetation canopy structures on fire radiative power (FRP) retrieval through simulation and measurement Assessment of fire emissions inventories during the South American Biomass Burning Analysis (SAMBBA) experiment Himawari-8 infrared observations of the June–August 2015 Mt Raung eruption, Indonesia How well does the ‘small fire boost’ methodology used within the GFED4.1s fire emissions database allow it to represent the timing, location and magnitude of agricultural burning? New Tropical Peatland Gas and Particulate Emissions Factors Indicate 2015 Indonesian Fires Released Far More Particulate Matter (but Less Methane) than Current Inventories Imply Shortwave IR Adaption of the Mid-Infrared Radiance Method of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) Retrieval for Assessing Industrial Gas Flaring Output A New Top-Down Approach for Directly Estimating Biomass Burning Emissions and Fuel Consumption Rates and Totals from Geostationary Satellite Fire Radiative Power (FRP) Assessment of Errors Caused by Forest Vegetation Structure in Airborne LiDAR-Derived DTMs Isotopic Ratios of Tropical Methane Emissions by Atmospheric Measurement Fire activity in Borneo driven by industrial land conversion and drought during El Niño periods, 1982–2010 Direct estimation of Byram's fire intensity from infrared remote sensing imagery Approaches for synergistically exploiting VIIRS I- and M-Band data in regional active fire detection and FRP assessment: A demonstration with respect to agricultural residue burning in Eastern China Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data Major advances in geostationary fire radiative power (FRP) retrieval over Asia and Australia stemming from use of Himarawi-8 AHI View all publications
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