Dr. Simon Trigg

 
Education

Ph.D.  Remote Sensing, University of Greenwich, UK, 2002.
M.S.  Applied Remote Sensing, Cranfield University, UK, 1990.
B.S.   Geology, University of Nottingham, UK, 1987.

Research Interests

• Interdisciplinary research into Land Cover / Land Use Change in tropical ecosystems
• Remote sensing of burned vegetation
• In situ characterization of spectral signals
• Local application of remote sensing techniques
• Qualitative and quantitative research into factors that affect the use of remote sensing products

• Effects of Land Use Change, Biomass Burning and Regrowth on Carbon Dynamics in Indonesian Borneo; Investigator, NASA.
• Implications for Global Carbon Cycle: Indonesia; PI, UMCP sub-contract.
• Reducing Uncertainties of Carbon Emissions from Land Use related fores with MODIS data: From Local to Global Scale: Indonesia; Investigator, NASA.

Representative Papers

Trigg, S., Curran, L. and McDonald, A. (In Review)

Testing the utility of Landsat satellite data for continued monitoring of forest cover in protected areas of Southeast Asia.
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, special issue.

Trigg, S., Roy, D. and Flasse, S. (2005)

An in situ study of the effects of surface anisotropy on the remote sensing of burned savannah.
International Journal of Remote Sensing (pending).

Curran, L., Trigg, S., McDonald, A., Astiani, D., Hardiono, M., Siregar, P., Caniago, I. and Kasischke, E. (2004)

Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo.
Science, 303, 1000-1003.

Flasse, S., Trigg, S., Ceccato, P., Perryman, A., Hudak, A., Thomson, M., Brockett, B., Dramé, M., Ntabeni, T., Frost, P., and Landmann, T. (2004)

Remote sensing of vegetation fires and its contribution to a fire management information system.

In J. Goldammer and C. de Ronde C. (Eds)
Fire management handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa, Global Fire Monitoring Center, Frieburg, Germany, 158-211.

Trigg, S. and Flasse, S. (2001)

An evaluation of different bi-spectral spaces for discriminating burned shrub-savannah.
International Journal of Remote Sensing , vol. 22, 2641-2647.

Trigg, S. and Flasse, S. (2000)

Characterising the spectral-temporal response of burned savannah using in situ spectroradiometry and infrared thermometry.
International Journal of Remote Sensing , vol. 21, 3161-3168.

Sear, C., Griggs, D., Wooster, M., Williams, J., Budgen, P. and Trigg, S. (1994)

Enhancing African meteorological services with MDD
Meteorological Applications, vol. 1, 99-101.