Department of Applied Mathematics

Research

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Research Interests

Shaun Quegan has worked on the application of remote sensing to land applications since 1982. He is expert in the physics, systems and data analysis aspects of radar remote sensing, particularly as regards the radar response of vegetation canopies, and he retains a research activity in this area. However, his main current interests lie in the exploitation of the full range of remote sensing technologies, allied to ground measurements, biospheric modelling and environmental statistics, to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle. He also has a general interest in the use of remote sensing for environmental science and land applications. As part of this research effort, Shaun has been the Director of the Sheffield Centre for Earth Observation Science since 1993, and , since 2001, has been the Director of the NERC Centre of Excellence in Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics, whose purpose is to use remote sensing to give better understanding and greater quantitative estimation of the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the Earth's carbon cycle.