Luke Bateson, British Geological Survey. As head of Shallow Geohazards and Earth Observation, Luke overseas four teams within BGS; Geodesy and Remote Sensing, Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Engineering geology and Coasts and Estuaries. This applied research group uses cutting edge technology and geological knowledge to identify, characterise, monitor and respond to natural geological hazards around the world. With a background in Earth Observation Luke has over 23 years’ experience of the application of both optical and radar derived EO data to geological hazards and resources with a focus on the use of InSAR to map, monitor and understand subsidence. He has worked on a led several EU and ESA funded projects to further the use of InSAR. Luke now advises the EEA on the production and validation of the Copernicus ground motion land service, and he is the BGS representative on the COMET (Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tectonics) executive committee – the UKs national capability in the use of Earth Observation to monitor these hazards worldwide. Recent funding has enabled a focus on subsidence in rapidly developing cities to understand rates of subsidence that result from not only groundwater extraction but also the loading of the ground as the city grows. This work has necessitated the development of AI tools to automatically analyse the InSAR time series and highlight important motions.
Bibliography
- Fibbi, G., Novellino, A., Bateson, L., Fanti, R. and Del Soldato, M., 2024. Multidisciplinary assessment of seasonal ground displacements at the Hatfield Moors gas storage site in a peat bog landscape. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.22521.
- Bateson, L., Novellino, A., Hussain, E., Arnhardt, R. and Nguyen, H.K., 2023. Urban development induced subsidence in deltaic environments: A case study in Hanoi, Vietnam. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 125, p.103585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103585
- Festa, D., Novellino, A., Hussain, E., Bateson, L., Casagli, N., Confuorto, P., Del Soldato, M. and Raspini, F., 2023. Unsupervised detection of InSAR time series patterns based on PCA and K-means clustering. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 118, p.103276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103276.
- Hussain, E.; Novellino, A.; Jordan, C.; Bateson, L. Offline-Online Change Detection for Sentinel-1 InSAR Time Series. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 1656. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091656
- M. Crosetto, L. Solari, J. Balasis-Levinsen, L. Bateson, N. Casagli, M. Frei, A. Oyen, D. A. Moldestad, and M. Mróz. 2021. Deformation monitoring at European scale: The Copernicus Ground Motion Service. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing XLIII-B3-2021, 141–146, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2021-141-2021
- Gee, D., Bateson, L., Grebby, S., Novellino, A., Sowter, A., Wyatt, L., Marsh, S., Morgenstern, R., Athab, A. 2020, Modelling groundwater rebound in recently abandoned coalfields using DInSAR. Remote Sensing of Environment, 249.