NERC Embedded Digital Researcher: Highlighting the Potential of Coincident Satellite Data

Embedded NERC Digital Researcher Dr Martin Wearing shares his thoughts on the research he is conducting. In November 2021, I started a six-month placement at the satellite data company EarthWave, as part of NERC’s Embedded Digital Researcher programme. The aims of the placement are to build a digital infrastructure for viewing and accessing coincident satellite data, and to measure […]

CDE Webinar – Malcolm Kitchen: Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting

On Friday 8th April, we were pleased to welcome Malcolm Kitchen, a CDE Expert Network member, to present his webinar entitled ‘Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. The economic benefits of accurately targeting weather warnings is driving the development of higher resolution operational forecasting models. […]

IoT sensors helping to mitigate coastal flood hazards

Blog credit: Louise Darroch The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Thanks to a handy cellular modem, an evolving data broker system and the cloud, our Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies (CreamT) project […]