James Ball
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
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James Ball is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Qualifications
2017 - MSc in Environmental Technology - Imperial College London, England
2014 - Master of Physics - University of Oxford, England
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Awards & Fellowships
2019 - NERC PhD Studentship
2017 - AECOM Prize for Outstanding Overall Academic Performance - Imperial College London, England
Media
2021 - 'Unpicking the rhythms of the Amazon rainforest - Where I work: James Ball' - Nature
Research
Research Group
Forest Ecology and Conservation
Research Overview
I am working on linking cutting edge AI techniques to remote sensing for tropical forest observation and monitoring.
Publications
Selected publications
Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R-CNN
13 May 2023
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
James G C Ball, Sebastian H M Hickman, Tobias D Jackson, Xian Jing Koay, James Hirst, William Jay, Matthew Archer, Mélaine Aubry-Kientz, Grégoire Vincent & David A Coomes
Multi-sensor airborne lidar requires intercalibration for consistent estimation of light attenuation and plant area density
6 January 2023
Remote Sensing of Environment
Grégoire Vincent, Philippe Verley, Benjamin Brede, Guillaume Delaitre, Eliott Maurent, James Ball, Ilona Clocher & Nicolas Barbier
Using deep convolutional neural networks to forecast spatial patterns of Amazonian deforestation
4 August 2022
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
James G C Ball, Katerina Petrova, David A Coomes & Seth Flaxman
Multisensor Data Fusion for Improved Segmentation of Individual Tree Crowns in Dense Tropical Forests
26 March 2021
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Mélaine Aubry-Kientz, Anthony Laybros, Ben Weinstein, James G C Ball, Toby Jackson & David Coomes
Protecting biodiversity and economic returns in resource-rich tropical forests
10 May 2020
Conservation Biology
James G C Ball, Mark A Burgman, Elizabeth D Goldman & Janeth Lessmann
Teaching and supervision
Supervisor - Undergraduate Natural Science Tripos Part II Responses to Global Change