Dr Blake Allan
Research Fellow
Education
PhD, Environmental Science
Research Interests
Blake is the Principal Scientist establishing the National Coastal Drone Program (NCDP), which is an NCRIS funded project as part of the new Coastal Research Infrastructure Initiative (CoastRI). Blake specialises in the analysis and curation of remote sensing data, and has over 10 years experience in the capture and processing of UAV imagery. He is heavily involved in photogrammetry, spatial statistics, geographic information systems (GIS), and coastal change analysis.
Blake completed his PhD at Deakin University in 2017. His thesis explored refining technology to examine animal movement in modified landscapes. While technically based on terrestrial mammals (possums), we try not to hold that against him, and Blake is being slowly converted into a marine ecologist. Blake describes himself as a technoecologist, focusing his research on emerging technologies, and how they can be integrated into the collection and analysis of environment variables.