Martin Jones is a former Royal Navy Captain who is an IHO Cat A Hydrographer, who commanded HMShips GLEANER, QUORN and ECHO and then specialised in Geospatial Intelligence for the UK Ministry of Defence; he is currently in charge of the coastal programme at ARGANS Ltd. He has successfully delivered the ESA funded, multinational Coastal Erosion from Space project, the mapping of the entire GB coast from space funded by OCRE and he has led the ARGANS component of coastal processes under the ESA GDA Disaster Response project. He is currently actively engaged in various UKSA and UKRI funded coastal projects with other UK national scientific institutions.