Dr Hamish Biggs

Biography

Hamish is an Ecohydraulics Scientist at NIWA. His research focuses on the development of novel remote sensing techniques and measurement systems. His areas of expertise include: aerial surveying with drones, sediment transport, remote sensing of vegetation, turbulence and flow vegetation interactions, programming and data analysis. His current projects are: (1) The ‘drone flow project’ which is developing new systems for remote sensing of flow in rivers and assessment of physical habitat; (2) The ‘rolling stones project’ which is investigating the transport of sediment in rivers during floods using in-situ ‘smart-stone’ sensors; (3) The ‘cyanobacteria aerial monitoring project’ which is investigating remote sensing of toxic cyanobacteria with multispectral and hyperspectral camera systems.