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Professor Peter North is a Personal Chair in Geography at Swansea University, affiliated with the School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. His research focuses on satellite remote sensing techniques to address climate change, vegetation health, carbon dynamics, and land-atmosphere interactions. He has developed the FLIGHT radiative transfer model, widely used in LiDAR and solar-induced fluorescence studies. His work includes aerosol optical depth estimation and satellite data analysis for climate monitoring, supported by ESA and NERC grants.
Research Interests:
- Remote sensing of land and atmospheric processes
- Modeling interactions between land surfaces and the atmosphere
- Development and application of radiative transfer models
- Aerosol dynamics and climate impacts
- LiDAR and fluorescence-based vegetation monitoring
Key Contributions: His work on the FLIGHT model and aerosol retrieval algorithms has enabled long-term climate records using ESA instruments like Sentinel-3. Recent studies focus on improving forest signal detection with machine learning and validating aerosol products.
Advising & Grants: Supervises PhD/MSc students in remote sensing applications and environmental modeling. Research funded by ESA Climate Change Initiative and UK NERC Earth Observation Climate Information Service (EOCIS).
Labs/Teams: Leads research teams in satellite data analysis, aerosol modeling, and vegetation health monitoring, collaborating internationally on projects like the FLEX mission and AATSR/Sentinel missions.
