Name: Anna Zanchetta
- About Me: My background is in Physics of the Atmosphere and Remote sensing, with applications to environmental studies (water management and desertification), spatial inequalities and sustainable transport. I am interested in anything maps and open source. As a Turing Research Fellow, I am currenlty working on ML and Computer vision for buildings footprints detection in collaboration with HOT (Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team, see repo).
Name: Natalia Efremova
- About me Senior Research Fellow for Environment and Sustainability. 50% Alan Turing, 50% Queen Mary University. Background: computer science, computer vision. Interested in: applications of satellite imagery for sustainable agriculture. In ATI, I'm currently working in DeepSensor project and PV forecasting project. Mostly working with Sentinel-2 and Planet imagery. Staring to work on the EUMETSAT imagery. Google Scholar
Name: John Francis
- About Me: I am a Data Scientist in the Public Policy Programme. My background is in political science and geography. The majority of my work is around LLM applications in government, but I have one Turing project ongoing that involves mapping trees from aerial imagery. I primarily work with OS imagery, Sentinel-2 data, and LiDAR point cloud data. Besides trees, i am very interested in the different ways image embeddings can be used to learn things about the built and natural environment.
Name: Thijs van der Plas
- About me: I am a Research Associate in the Environment & Sustainability programme. In my project, we work on integrating remote sensing data with (scarce) field observations of wildlife to map biodiversity at high resolution and precision. Before this, I worked with the Peak District NP to map land cover at very high resolution. I work with optical remote sensing data (multispectral satellite imagery and aerial photography), computer vision methods and self-supervised/unsupervised methods to reduce annotation requirements.
Name: Isabel Fenton
- About me: I am a Research Data Scientist in the Research Engineering Group at the Turing. I am currently the main software developer for the scivision project. I have been working on developing the pixelflow tool (for extracting information about the characteristics of objects in images), with a particular focus on remote sensing data. Prior to joining the Turing, I worked in palaeontology studying the influence of past climate change on species distributions.
Name: Barbara Metzler
- About me: I am a Research Associate with the Science of Cities and Regions group and currently working on the Demoland project. As part of my research, I'm leveraging foundational models and Sentinel-2 images to make predictions on environmental and social inequalities across England. During my PhD, I used unsupervised/self-supervised deep learning methods together with high-resolutions satellite images (0.3m/px) to classify urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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