Dr Steven Lloyd

I have a background in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with experience in creating and deploying sensor payloads in marine environments via Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) such as Inertial Measurement Units, hydrophones & imaging systems, along with the processing of their data outputs, specifically digital signal processing. I am the Lead researcher and head of the drone Laboratory at Space Park Leicester.

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher in Earth Observation and have/am conducting research in the following areas:

• Algorithm implementation to Machine learning lead and RPAS pilot on Rapid information extraction for Environmental remote sensing on board spacecraft through Application of Light Machine Learning (ML) models project.
• Drone laboratory lead at Space Park Leicester with GVC & A2 CofC licences.
• Several field trials conducted including drone deployments in Uganda, British Indian Ocean Territory, Maldives & the UK.
• Previous interim project manager on UK Bilateral mission CO2Sat.
• Multi-angle Polarimeter demonstrator software, control and UoL electrical systems integration lead.
• Distributed computing expertise using docker and CWL for applications on-board satellite systems.

Google Scholar

Orcid ID

Physics Research Project Supervision

GY7711 Field Data Capture - Drone Pilot and Data Aquisition

Was a part of, and conducted UAV flights for a BBC East Midlands Today news segment which aired 24th April 2023.

Space Park Leicester celebrates first of its kind drone launch

General VLOS Certificate (GVC)

A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC)