Dr George Brydon

Collaborative Research Fellow (School of Physics & Astronomy)

Room 155, Physics and Astronomy, Kelvin Building

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025

Biography

Overview

George Brydon is a research fellow at the University of Glasgow with a background in spaceborne imaging and the development of spaceborne cameras. He was previously a Space Situational Awareness Engineer at Astroscale, and prior to that completed his PhD – focussed on the simulation and development of spin-scanning cameras for planetary exploration – at University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. During this time he was a member of the EnVisS hardware team for the Comet Interceptor mission.

Current Research

Spaceborne Imaging

My research focusses on the development of imaging techniques and image payload concepts for conducting scientific imaging of planetary surfaces on future descent/ascent spacecraft. This work is being carried out in collaboration with Dr Divya Persaud in the University of Glasgow’s Geographical and Earth Sciences. This cross-discipline collaboration aims to centre both the consideration of imaging techniques and planetary geology capability in the research, and build new approaches to developing planetary science capabilities.

Small descent craft such as planetary penetrators or balloon probes offer alternatives to the orbiters and landed platforms (such as rovers) traditionally used for planetary exploration. Additionally, drones and helicopters, such as NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, will make up the next generation of planetary science craft, allowing planetary surfaces to be viewed from new perspectives as the craft descends, ascends and traverses over the landscape. Our research focusses on characterising, developing and demonstrating the value of conducting scientific imaging from these spacecraft, and the importance of its inclusion on future planetary missions.

Image Simulation

Image simulation is a valuable tool in the development and validation of new imaging techniques as it enables the fast, low cost and repeatable generation of image data with which to test capabilities. This is particularly beneficial during the early stages of spaceborne camera development, as it is impossible to test these cameras in their true operational environment (space) before launch. Using image simulation to support camera development requires a high level of simulation physical accuracy. Our work not only relies on physically accurate image simulation, but also involves the development of simulation capabilities (e.g. the open-source tool SIMply).

Research interests

Research groups

Imaging Concepts

Publications

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2026

de Almeida, Melonie, Brydon, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025, Persaud, Divya M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0179-7579, Williamson, John H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8085-7853 and Henderson, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5198-7445 (2026) Neural 3D Reconstruction of Planetary Surfaces from Descent-Phase Wide-Angle Imagery. In: AI4Space Workshop at CVPR 26, Denver, CO, USA, 3-7 June 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

2025

Brydon, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025 (2025) Image simulation for camera development—python image simulator for planetary exploration (SIMply). Space: Science and Technology, 5, 0319. (doi: 10.34133/space.0319)

2023

Hobbs, Stephen, Felicetti, Leonard, Leslie, Cameron, Rowling, Samuel, Brydon, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025, Dhesi, Mekhi, Harris, Toby, Chermak, Lounis and Soori, Umair (2023) Towards in-orbit hyperspectral imaging of space debris. In: 2nd NEO and Debris Detection conference, Darmstadt, Germany, 24-26 Jan 2023,

Dignam, Aishling, Harris, Toby, Brydon, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025 and Charls, Kevin (2023) In-Space Situational Awareness: Developing Spaceborne Sensors for Detecting, Tracking and Characterising Space Debris. In: 2nd NEO and Debris Detection Conference, Darmstadt, Germany, 24/01/23,

Felicatti, L. et al. (2023) HySim: a Tool for Space-to-space Hyperspectral Resolved Imagery. In: 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Baku, Azerbaijan, 2-6 Oct 2023,

2021

Brydon, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025, Persaud, D.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0179-7579 and Jones, G.H. (2021) Planetary topography measurement by descent stereophotogrammetry. Planetary and Space Science, 202, 105242. (doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2021.105242)

Pernechele, Claudio, Consolaro, Luca, Jones, Geraint H., Brydon, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025 and Da Deppo, Vania (2021) Telecentric F-theta fisheye lens for space applications. OSA Continuum, 4(3), pp. 783-789. (doi: 10.1364/OSAC.412566)

Pernechele, C, Da Deppo, V, Consolaro, L, Jones, G.H., Brydon, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025, Zuppella, P, Chioetto, P, Nordera, S, Lara, L and Slavinskis, A (2021) The Fisheye of the Comet Interceptor's EnVisS Camera. In: International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2020, 30 Mar - 02 Apr 2021, (doi: 10.1117/12.2599817)

2020

Da Deppo, V. et al. (2020) The Optical Head of the EnVisS Camera for the Comet Interceptor ESA Mission: Phase 0 Study. In: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, 14-18 Dec 2020, ISBN 9781510636736 (doi: 10.1117/12.2562907)

Pernechele, C., Da Deppo, V., Brydon, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-2025, Jones, G.H., Lara, L. and Michaelis, H. (2020) Comet Interceptor's EnVisS Camera Sky Mapping Function. In: Advances in Optical Astronomical Instrumentation, Melbourne, Australia, 08-12 Dec 2019, pp. 115-118. ISBN 9781510631465 (doi: 10.1117/12.2539239)

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