Matthew Gale
Postdoctoral Fellow at Capital Ecology Pty Ltd
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Gale is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Canberra with 12 years' experience applying spatial analysis and remote sensing to vegetation and wildfire science, combining academic research with Australian government work. He develops methods to upscale field vegetation data using satellite imagery and has created novel workflows to infer wildfire behaviour from remote sensing, publishing in high-impact journals. Proficient in GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS) and fluent in R, Python and MATLAB, he bridges field data collection and advanced computational analysis. His background includes teaching GIS and fire-related courses and collaborating with external agencies like NSW DPE, reflecting a practical focus on translating research into operational tools. An interesting thread through his career is a continuous blend of hands-on fieldwork and algorithm development, enabling robust end-to-end environmental monitoring solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
English
Github Skills (22)
python8
geoscience7
cube6
scientific-computing5
linear-algebra5
numba5
convolution5
numpy5
blas5
interpolation5
mpi5
gradient-descent4
fundamental4
satellite-imagery4
ndarray4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
GeoscienceAustralia/agdc
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:92 commits in 5 months
cubeaustraliandata-cubegeoscience
GeoscienceAustralia/wagl
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
python-librarysatellite-imagerypythonanalysis-ready-datasatellite
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