Jadu Dash is a Professor in Remote sensing at University of Southampton. He specialises in pure and applied remote sensing, particularly using innovative algorithms to derive information about the state and condition of the ecosystem from Earth observation (satellite) data and study the impact of climate and anthropogenic changes on the ecosystem. He works closely with the European Space Agency and in particular, has a strong contribution to its flagship Sentinel programme. His recent work focusses on utilisation of satellite remote sensing data to answer some of the global developmental changes which ranges from predicting crop in in small holder farms in Africa to mapping the distribution of Sargassum Seaweed in across the Atlantic. Prof Dash has received research funding of over £12 million as PI/Co-I, published more than 120 papers and supervised 24 PhD student. He is the founding director of Southampton Geospatial an interdisciplinary centre for Geospatial excellence at the University of Southampton.
