Dr Toby Waine
Research Fellow in Land Resources Monitoring
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: t.w.waine@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2770
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Toby Waine is currently working on a UK Government funded project involving crop monitoring and area estimation using satellite and airborne remote sensing and geographic information technologies.
Clients
- UK Government
- Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA)
- Meat and Livestock Commission
- RDS Technology Ltd.
Background
With an agricultural engineering and farming background, Toby completed his EngD in Non-invasive soil property measurement for precision farming at Cranfield University in 1999. After, he helped to commercialise an electromagnetic induction (EMI) based soil property sensor investigated during his doctorate project while working as the Technical Manager for an IT-agronomy company.
For the next three years Toby gained commercial IT experience, firstly working as a Software Engineer, then European Technical Sales Engineer for a leading mobile phone software company.
From 2004 to present, he returned to Cranfield University as a Research Officer and has continued to work on projects involving crop monitoring and area estimation using satellite and aerial digital photography based remote sensing. This includes the design and implementation of country-wide crop area estimations, photo interpretation of high resolution imagery and field trial experiments to measure crop biophysical parameters using remote sensing techniques. Particular areas of interest are the integration of multi-spectral satellite imagery of different spatial resolutions within the context of crop survey design.
