“From geospatial data to actionable information for societal impact”
Wednesday 16th November 2022
9am – 5pm
Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI), Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
The SENSE Centre for Doctoral Training and would like to invite you to a special event involving students, staff and partners of the centre. During the day we will showcase some of the work that the SENSE students and partners have been doing and hear from organisations about how they are turning EO data into actionable information. In the afternoon we will focus on the future directions that EO will take and consider how industry, the third sector and Universities can collaborate to overcome challenges.
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Lunch & refreshments will be provided
Please note there is no charge to attend this event
Spaces are limited so we kindly request companies limit their attendance to two individuals.
Event Agenda
| 8-9 | Registration |
| 9-9:10 | Welcome from Dr. Gary Watmough (SENSE Deputy Director) |
| 9:10 – 9:30 | Keynote current state of the art for satellite data in environmental science from Katherine Elsom, Airbus UK |
| 9:30- 10:30 | Session 1: Satellite data in environmental science SENSE student & partner talks Calum Hoad Learnings from high spatiotemporal resolution drone surveys over sub-Arctic alpine tundra Samuel Bancroft Assessing regenerative agricultural practises with remote sensing Solomon White Generalisation of models and adaptability to accurately predict extreme events and challenges therein. Penny Clarke Whale, whale whale, what do we have here? Cetacean Strandings from Space Samuel Fielding The Alan Turing Institute Internship: Automatic litter detection Jamie Izzard Monitoring glacier flow with High resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar Max Lowe Constraining geothermal heat flow beneath the Antarctic ice sheet using gravity and magnetic data Eilish O’Grady Deep Learning to better image deformation from space Ashar Aslam Your MCs for tonight: Maritime Continent, Meteorological Confusion and Modelling Convection Philipp Barthelme Conflict & Environment – Long-term impacts of the Vietnam War on the environment Emily Dowd Verifying UK Power Plant Methane Emissions with New GHGSat Measurements |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Session 2: Approaches to turn data into information Companies/Organisation talks on how they are taking EO data and producing actionable scientific outputs. Chaired by Alex Hutchison, Director of Data for Children with UNICEF |
| Alex Hutchison, Director of Data for Children with UNICEF | |
| Dr Charlotte Marcinko Verisk Maplecroft | |
| Dr Tom Ingleby SatSense | |
| Sarah Cheesbrough Satellite Applications Catapult | |
| Dr Sam Lavendar Pixalytics | |
| Dr Clare Rumsey Omanos Analytics | |
| Michal Michalski Scottish Government | |
| Jameel Observatory | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Session 3: What does industry need or will it need from future graduates? |
| Discussion focus on the challenges faced by organisations in terms of skills gaps, technology will need to be overcome (skill gaps, new technology requirements) | |
| 15:00- 15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Session 4: How can academia and industry work together to overcome the challenges |
| Discussion focus on what can be overcome easily? What needs longer strategic thinking? | |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Closing statement from Prof. Kathy Whaler (SENSE Co-Director) |
| 16:45 – 19:00 | Drinks reception, posters. |