Emily Birch

Emily Birch is a geospatial analyst with a background in physical geography, geospatial analysis, GIS and machine learning, with a particular focus on environmental processes and change. Her dissertation research trained a deep learning model using 3-band composites of satellite imagery to better detect snow in forested alpine regions, in comparison with traditional spectral indices.

Prior to BeZero, she was involved in a terrestrial carbon modelling and monitoring module during her master's, learning about the carbon cycle, remote sensing of vegetation and carbon sequestration. Later, she volunteered for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, gaining experience digitising boundaries.