Harley Dixey

Funding

The project is funded by One Planet Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC).

Project description

The occurrence of flooding in western Europe is predicted to increase throughout the first half of the 21st Century. These events pose severe risks to society, transform communities, and under extreme conditions can permanently alter the state of the river system.

Measurement and monitoring of these events are hindered by practical difficulties, making observations of peak flood discharge in many environments a significant technological and logistical challenge.

Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and satellite platforms have the potential to capture information about the earth’s surface in dangerous and previously inaccessible locations.

Through image and video acquisition of flood events and subsequent image-based analysis, highly dynamic and oft-immeasurable hydraulic phenomena may be quantified at previously unattainable spatial and temporal resolutions.

This project seeks to push the current state-of-the-art in remote sensing of rivers through the utilisation of planned deployments using UAS, and opportunistic/tasked sensing of river flows using image sequences acquired by high-resolution satellite platforms.

Personal interests

Fly Fishing, Running, Reading

Teaching

• GEO2229 River Catchment Dynamics
• GEO2137 Key Methods for Physical Geographers
• GEO2043 Key Methods for Human Geographers
• GEO1025 Mapping a changing world: GIS for Geographers
• GEO1023 Environment and Society
• GEO1020 Introduction to Physical Geography
• GEO1018 Geographical Analysis
• GEO1005 Environmental Issues

Academic qualifications, memberships and achievements

Memberships 

• British Hydrological Society
• British Society for Geomorphology

Contact and further information

E-mail: h.dixey@newcastle.ac.uk