Professor Martin Wooster is an expert on satellite Earth observation and the quantification of landscape fire. He was appointed Professor of Earth Observation Science at King's in 2005.
He joined the Department of Geography in 1998 on a lectureship funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Earth Observation Science Initiative (one of four such lectureships awarded nationally in the UK).
He is currently working on the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, in partnership with Imperial College London, Royal Holloway and the University of Reading.
Previously, he was the Principle Investigator in the NERC National Centre for Earth Observation. His research was instrumental in developing the operational Fire Radiative Power (FRP) product from the Meteosat Second Generation satellites, available free in real-time from the EUMETSAT Land Satellite Applications Facility (Land SAF).
Martin chaired the Steering Committee of the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility and was previously a member of the Steering Committee of the NERC Airborne Remote Sensing Facility. He holds investigatorships on a number of remote sensing missions.
