Professor Bradley Evans

Biography

Bradley is an Earth observation and remote sensing specialist who is passionate about Environmental Science, Biodiversity and research applying hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy to solve real world problems. Bradley has worked on projects associated with NASA’s OCO2 mission, working towards new ways of modelling plant growth using plant fluorescence.

Currently, Bradley is a community contributor to NASA JPL’s Surface Biology and Geology Study. Bradley is currently working on mapping (and modelling) Koala Habiat in NSW using Hyperspectral Imaging, with HyVista Corporation and researchers from The University of Sydney.

Bradley has served as Director of Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure, at Macquarie University and The University of Sydney.  He has worked at the Australian Government Department of Defence, where he served on the AquaWatch and other committees related to Earth Observation. He has served as Director of Sydney Informatics Hub during his time at The University of Sydney.

As a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Training Centre on CubeSats, UAV’s and Their Applications, Bradley has led the development of an OpenSource Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer, OpenHSI (https://openhsi.github.io/), together with his students and CUAVA postdocs, in collaboration with PI Bachmann from Rochester Institute of Technology.

At The University of New England since 2023, Bradley has established the Earth Observation Laboratory with a special focus on water and wildlife habitat (koalas), and riverine water quality.