Edinburgh: Space Data Capital

Marine from Space

April 20, 2020 Kim McAllister Season 1 Episode 4
Edinburgh: Space Data Capital
Marine from Space
Show Notes

Measuring coastal erosion from space and trying out space data analysis at home...

We're thrilled to have Encarni Medina Lopez join us to explain how space data can help us monitor our marine environments. 

Professor Iain Woodhouse - who literally wrote the book on remote sensing - explains how easy it is to download satellite images and start analysing them.

Dr Murray Collins challenges co-presenter Kim McAllister (a journalist with no science background) to try some space data analysis at home.

Try it yourself: apps.sentinel-hub.com ( if you've been listening to the podcast you'll know which satellites to select!)

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www.ed.ac.uk/bayes

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