Imaging technologies and analysis techniques provide powerful tools for understanding fundamental environmental processes. Within the Lancaster Environment Centre and across Lancaster University, the Environmental Imaging Network facilitates the exchange of expertise in imaging systems and image data analysis. The network links those who develop image understanding and processing techniques with those who use such methods across the diverse disciplines of the environmental sciences.
Aims of the Environmental Imaging Network
- to promote and facilitate the use of imaging sensors for understanding the environment and its processes
- to use and deploy the newest instruments and to work with engineers on the development of next-generation sensors
- to advance image analysis and processing techniques and to produce new numerical models, optimised for use with image data
- to develop effective image-based environmental management tools for the mitigation of environmental hazards
Edward Wild & John Dent
Involvement through the network promotes
- the exchange of expertise between researchers in different disciplines who use image analysis techniques
- enhanced communication between those who develop techniques, those who apply techniques and those who implement solutions to environmental problems
- dissemination of knowledge and techniques to end users within the public and private sectors