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Assessing Mountain Soil Water Storage and Release in a Colombian Páramo With APSIS‐InSAR Data (2025)
Journal Article
Bradley, A. V., Large, D. J., Prieto Naranjo, J. M., Buytaert, W., Mitchell, E., Sowter, A., Diazgranados, M., Ochoa‐Tocachi, B., George, C., & Gerard, F. F. (2025). Assessing Mountain Soil Water Storage and Release in a Colombian Páramo With APSIS‐InSAR Data. Hydrological Processes, 39(7), Article e70214. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70214

Direct observation of montane and upland water resources provides valuable data in support of national scale water management and policy, but direct observation is challenging on large spatial scales. To address the need for large spatial scale hydro... Read More about Assessing Mountain Soil Water Storage and Release in a Colombian Páramo With APSIS‐InSAR Data.

Application of surface motion remote sensing to quantify the condition and trajectory of change of c.680,000 ha of peatland (2025)
Report
Large, D. J., Bradley, A. V., Mitchell, E., Fallaize, C., Dryden, I., Andersen, R., & Marshall, C. (2025). Application of surface motion remote sensing to quantify the condition and trajectory of change of c.680,000 ha of peatland. NatureScot

The purpose of this report is to demonstrate and evaluate the use of peatland surface motion, as measured by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) over eight consecutive years, and to quantify and report peatland condition and trajectory o... Read More about Application of surface motion remote sensing to quantify the condition and trajectory of change of c.680,000 ha of peatland.

Analysis of an InSAR “bog breathing” based classification of peatland condition relative to field observations in Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve (2025)
Report
Bradley, A. V., Mitchell, E., Dryden, I., Fallaize, C., Tariqul Islam, M., Large, D. J., Andersen, R., & Marshall, C. (2025). Analysis of an InSAR “bog breathing” based classification of peatland condition relative to field observations in Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve. NatureScot

The purpose of this research is to:

1. Develop a field survey method that can be used to test the validity of maps of peatland condition that were created using satellite radar measures of peatland surface motion.

2. Test and refine a pre-exist... Read More about Analysis of an InSAR “bog breathing” based classification of peatland condition relative to field observations in Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve.

A summary of surface motion remote sensing methods for the monitoring of peatland (2025)
Report
Mitchell, E., Fallaize, C., Dryden, I., Bradley, A. V., Large, D. J., Andersen, . R., & Marshall, C. (2025). A summary of surface motion remote sensing methods for the monitoring of peatland. NatureScot

The purpose of this report is to present a suite of methods and products for landscape scale assessment of peatland condition that can contribute to the sustainable management and restoration of peatland habitats. The outputs will also allow for the... Read More about A summary of surface motion remote sensing methods for the monitoring of peatland.

Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes (2024)
Journal Article
Mitchell, E. G., Dryden, I. L., Fallaize, C. J., Andersen, R., Bradley, A. V., Large, D. J., & Sowter, A. (2025). Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 74(2), 406-428. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlae060

Peatlands account for 10% of UK land area, 80% of which are degraded to some degree, emitting carbon at a similar magnitude to oil refineries or landfill sites. A lack of tools for rapid and reliable assessment of peatland condition has limited monit... Read More about Object oriented data analysis of surface motion time series in peatland landscapes.

State of Knowledge on UK Agricultural Peatlands for Food Production and the Net Zero Transition (2023)
Journal Article
Lloyd, I., Thomas, V., Ofoegbu, C., Bradley, A. V., Bullard, P., D’Acunha, B., Delaney, B., Driver, H., Evans, C. D., Faulkner, K., Fonvielle, J. A., Francksen, R. M., Friday, L. E., Hose, G., Kaduk, J., Manning, F. R., Morrison, R., Novo, P., Page, S. E., Rhymes, J., …Balzter, H. (2023). State of Knowledge on UK Agricultural Peatlands for Food Production and the Net Zero Transition. Sustainability, 15(23), Article 16347. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152316347

Agricultural peatlands are the most productive soils in the UK for the cultivation of many food crops. Historical drainage of peat for agriculture (i.e., cropland and managed grassland), without consideration of other associated environmental and cli... Read More about State of Knowledge on UK Agricultural Peatlands for Food Production and the Net Zero Transition.

Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions (2023)
Journal Article
Cole, B., Bradley, A. V., Willcock, S., Gardner, E., Allinson, E., Hagen-Zanker, A., Calo, A. J., Touza, J., Petrovskii, S., Yu, J., & Whelan, M. (2023). Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions. People and Nature, 5(4), 1050-1071. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10474

Landscape decisions are multi-faceted. Framing landscape decision-making as a governance process that requires a collective approach can encourage key stakeholders to come together to co-inform a discussion about their priorities and what constitutes... Read More about Using a multi‐lens framework for landscape decisions.

Potential use of APSIS-InSAR measures of the range of vertical surface motion to improve hazard assessment of peat landslides (2022)
Journal Article
Islam, M. T., Bradley, A. V., Sowter, A., Andersen, R., Marshall, C., Long, M., Bourke, M. C., Connolly, J., & Large, D. J. (2022). Potential use of APSIS-InSAR measures of the range of vertical surface motion to improve hazard assessment of peat landslides. Mires and Peat, 28, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2021.OMB.StA.2356

Peat landslides represent a notable natural hazard that is difficult to assess across complex blanket bog terrain. To aid the assessment of peat landslide susceptibility, we propose a new metric, the range of vertical surface motion (RVSM), quantifie... Read More about Potential use of APSIS-InSAR measures of the range of vertical surface motion to improve hazard assessment of peat landslides.

Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bradley, A. V., Andersen, R., Marshall, C., Sowter, A., & Large, D. J. Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition

Better tools for rapid and reliable assessment of global peatland extent and condition are urgently needed to support action to prevent further decline of peatlands. Peatland surface motion is a response to changes in the water and gas content of a p... Read More about Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition.

Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition (2022)
Journal Article
Bradley, A. V., Andersen, R., Marshall, C., Sowter, A., & Large, D. J. (2022). Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition. Earth Surface Dynamics, 10(2), 261-277. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-261-2022

Better tools for rapid and reliable assessment of global peatland extent and condition are urgently needed to support action to prevent further decline of peatlands. Peatland surface motion is a response to changes in the water and gas content of a p... Read More about Identification of typical ecohydrological behaviours using InSAR allows landscape-scale mapping of peatland condition.