Dr. Richard Teeuw

Dr Richard Teeuw runs the Crisis and Disaster Management MSc course at the University of Portsmouth. His research focuses on low-cost uses of remote sensing for assessing hazards, vulnerability and risk, as well as geoinformatic capacity building in low-income countries and risk perception studies. Recent research includes industry-funded projects, from mapping of urban flood vulnerability, to satellite remote sensing of oil pollution in the Niger Delta and illegal gold mining in the rainforests of Colombia. He led a NERC-funded team surveying impacts of Hurricane Maria in Dominica, using satellite data, drone photography and GIS for a forensic geomorphological analysis of fatality locations. He leads the Risk Science activities of the UK Space Agency-funded CommonSensing project, using satellite imagery for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction applications.