Research Associate

Contact Details

• Tel: 0116 252 3825
• Email: avb4@le.ac.uk
• Fax: 0116 252 3854

Research Interests

My research is orientated around land cover and land cover change; interpreting how the environment responds to changes in human and physical drivers. To do this I have an interest in examining satellite images and data analysis with GIS tools.

I completed my PhD in this department (2005) researching the impacts of coca and anti coca policies on deforestation patterns, land use and land cover change in Bolivia and  I also completed an MSc in Earth Observation Science (1997) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

I am currently involved in three research projects at the University of Leicester:

• ESA-CCI Fire Disturbance, the development of a burned area product sourced from several different satellite sensors.
• Geoland2, the production and development of a satellite derived burned area product that includes information on seasonality, and;
• The HALOGEN project, a pilot study to demonstrate how GIS can be used to visualise and interrogate a range of different data sources from the humanities and sciences.

Previously I was employed at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) as a remote sensing scientist investigating phenology patterns for the NERC QUEST QUERCC project and part of the production team for the UK land cover map 2007. I also spent time as a GIS analyst at the University of Reading investigating settlement patterns and water sources in the Dead Sea region for The Water Life and Civilisation project.

Selected publications and conference proceedings

Bradley, A. V., Gerard, F. F., Barbier, N., Weedon, G. P., Anderson, L. O., Huntingford, C., Aragão, L. E. O. C., Zelazowski, P. and Arai, E. (2011), Relationships between phenology, radiation and precipitation in the Amazon region. Global Change Biology, 17: 2245–2260. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02405.x

Bradley, A.V., Millington AC, (2008). ‘Coca and Colonists: Quantifying and Explaining Forest Clearance under Coca and Anti-Narcotics Policy Regimes.’ Ecology and Society 13 (1): 31

Bradley A.V., Millington AC, (2006) ‘Spatial and temporal scale issues in determining biomass burning regimes in Bolivia and Peru’,International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol 27 (11), p 2221-2254

Lovell J, Bradley A.V., ‘Spatial patterns and altitude of settlement in the Southern Levant during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age transition’ In press (Chapter 12) Water Life and Civilisation Monograph, CBRL, London.

Lacaze R, Balsamo G, Baret F, Bradley A., Calvet J-C, Camacho F, D’Andrimont R, Freitas S, Makhmara H, Naeimi V,  Pacholczyk P, Poilvé H, Smets B, Tansey K, Trigo I, Wagner W, Weiss M, (2010) ‘Geoland2 – Towards an operational GMES land monitoring core service; First results of the Bio geophysical parameter Core Mapping Service’ International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Symposium 2010, 5th to 7th July, Vienna.

Bradley A.V., Tansey KJ, Leigh RJ (2009) ‘ATSR and the L3JRC algorithm for global burned area estimates’.  Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society 2009 annual conference: New Dimensions in Earth Observation, September 7th to 10th, Leicester, UK.

Bradley AV, Gerard F, Weedon G (2009) ‘Thresholds for gappy time series’ Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society 2009 annual conference: New Dimensions in Earth Observation,  September 7th to 10th, Leicester, UK.