Prof. Justus Notholt from the University of Bremen is currently visiting Swinburne Sarawak for an expedition to the rivers in Maludam, Sebuyau and Simunjan. He will be giving a public talk on how remote sensing works and what can we learn from it about the climate. 

The expedition is part of a longstanding collaboration with the group of Assoc. Prof. Moritz Müller and focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from peat-draining rivers in Borneo. He explains, “In my presentation I will explain the basics of remote sensing, making demonstrations with some basic tools (i.e. a torch light and a balloon), and show examples of where remote sensing is used. For example: how do we measure the global temperature from satellites? how do we know the extent of the polar stratospheric ozone hole? and how do we know the ice coverage in the Arctic and Antarctic.”

The talk is free and is open to the public.