Contact Dr John Beale
- Email: John.E.Beale@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Monitoring and Environmental Informatics
- Sensor Technologies
- Soil
Background
Dr John Beale is a remote sensing and GIS specialist with a background in physics. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1989, John's first career was in defence research, joining what was then the Admiralty Research Establishment, and later moving to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (currently now QinetiQ) at Malvern, Worcestershire, remaining their for twenty years. During this period he worked on the design and application of electro-optics including infrared signature control, the design of infrared, hyperspectral, ultraviolet and passive millimetre wave sensors and sensor systems and spent the last few years as a seior project manager on international collaborative projects.
In 2010 John decided to change his career path and took Geographical Information Management MSc at 星空体育官网, where he developed an interest in GIS and satellite remote sensing for agricultural and natural resources applicatio