Cameron Windham

Remotely Tracking Growth of the Sugarcane Industry in São Paulo, Brazil
The use of remote sensing technologies to track the development of the sugarcane industry is a topic of much attention

ASTER and the Spectral Recipe for Finding Gold
In the last section of this series, we took a look at both the ASTER sensor and the vast library of ...

The ASTER Spectral Library – a True Monument of Remote Sensing Data
In the first part of this series, Cameron Windham from Apollo Mapping takes a look at the nuts and bolts of the widely-used ASTER Spectral Library.

The Rainforest Magician – Optical Illusions and the Spectra of the Canopy
The findings of a recent paper published in Nature found a sun-sensor geometry arrangement was the cause for historically high readings of green-ness in the rainforest canopy.

Shadows and Angles: Measuring Object Heights from Satellite Imagery
Because of the wonderful metadata that comes with satellite images, shadows can be employed to estimate the height of the objects which cast them.