Joe Agate

My PhD thesis focusses on how we can use drones to advance our ability to monitor salt marsh restoration sites, using a newly created site on the Adur estuary, UK as a case study. This project will look at the ecological and physical development of the site through field-based investigations. Machine learning algorithms will then be used to train drone imagery of the site, and its predictive ability will be assessed. This project combines my interest in salt marshes as a fascinating ecosystem with my interest in geospatial technology, and how this can be used to advance our understanding of the natural world.