Centre for

Geospatial Science

Mike.Jackson@Nottingham.ac.ukwww.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs

The Centre for Geospatial Science

CGS was established in November 2005 as a cross-faculty post-graduate research centre.

The research focus of CGS is spatial data infrastructures (SDI), geospatial intelligence, geospatial interoperability and location-based services.

New Nottingham Geospatial Building

Relevant Research Contracts

• Geospatial data management futures (OS)• GIGAS – interop. and harmonisation for Inspire, GMES and GEOSS (OGC/EU)• EuroGEOSS – semantic interoperability and data fusion (EU). BRGM lead.• SWIMA – sensor-web enablement (TSB) QinetiQ lead.• SPACER - In-field real-time selection of data-sets using location and context.

(JISC)• GIS4EU – INSPIRE focussed interoperability research (EU) Corilla, Italy lead.• DSCENT – geospatial intelligence for serious crime/ terrorism (RCUK) Lancaster

lead.• Mood-Twitter – Use of LBS for bi-polar disorders (EPSRC) • Global Earthquake model – Image Cat lead / BGS

Some Relevant Papers

• Stock, K., Atkinson, R., Higgins, C., Small, M., Woolf, A., Millard, K. and Arctur, D. (2010).  A semantic registry using a Feature Type Catalogue instead of ontologies to support spatial data infrastructures.  International Journal of Geographical Information Science 24(2) 231-252.

• Stock, K., Butchart, B., Higgins, C. and Chen, Y. (2010).  From Here to Eternity: An Experiment Applying the e-Framework Infrastructure for Education and Research and the SUMO Ontology to Standards-based Geospatial Web Services. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research, 5, 1-57

• Stock, Kristin (2009).  OWL Application Profile for CSW 2.0.  Open Geospatial Consortium Application Profile 09-010.

• Stock, K., Robertson, A., and Small, M.  (forthcoming).  Representing OGC Geospatial Web Services in OWL-S Web Service Ontologies.  Submitted to International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research.

• Stock, K., Reitsma, F., Ou, Y., Bishr, M., Ortmann, J., Stojanovic, T. and Robertson, A. (forthcoming).  To Ontologise or Not to Ontologise: Foundations for an Ontology-Registry for a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure.  Submitted to Computers and Geosciences.

• Stock, K., Small, M., Robertson, A., Reitsma, F. and Ou, Y. (forthcoming).  The Machinery of Knowledge: An Ontology-Registry for a Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure. Submitted to Geoinformatica.

Some Relevant Papers

• Hobona, G Jackson, M Anand, S de Zorzi, S and Leibovici, D (2010) Web-based Harmonization of Intergovernmental Geospatial Data using Ontologies. IEEE Intelligent Systems (reviewed corrections in progress

• Jackson, M. J., Schell, D., Taylor, D.R.F., (2009b). ‘National spatial data infrastructures: coordinating framework or battleground for the management of geospatial data’. GIS Professional, Issue 28, pp20-22, June 2009.

• Leibovici, D Hobona, G Stock, K and Jackson, M (2009) Qualifying geospatial workflow models for adaptive controlled validity and accuracy. GeoInformatics August 2009, USA, In: IEEE proceedings GeoInformatics

• Hobona, G Jackson, M Anand, S de Zorzi, S and Leibovici, D.G (2009) Modeling Rules for Integrating Heterogeneous Geographic Datasets. GISRUK April 2009, Durham UK

• Jackson M J & Woodsford P A (2008); ‘ Spatial database challenges for framework data and location-based services’, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Vol. XXXVII, Part B4 pp1431-36, Beijing 2008. ISSN 1682-1750

• Hobona, G Jackson, M Anand, S de Zorzi, S and Leibovici, D (2010) Web-based Harmonization of Intergovernmental Geospatial Data using Ontologies. IEEE Intelligent Systems (reviewed corrections in progress)

Some relevant Centre Activity:

• Oracle Spatial World Centre of Excellence.

• OGC Board + Executive Committee + Technical Committee.• An AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC Persistent Interoperability Test-bed lead• Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) GI Board

• UK Location Council Interoperability Board• UK Location Council User Committee

• GEOSS Science and Technology Committee (STC).

• GEOSS Common Infrastructure Co-ordinating Team (GCI-CT)

Areas of research interest for collaboration

• Tracking using combination of GNSS, signals of convenience, IMU’s, geospatial prior knowledge – the sausages of uncertainty and predicting future location.

• How to utilise both authenticated and crowd sourced data together with best effect. [related aspects – trust in mash-ups, visualisation techniques,

• Development of interoperability test-beds – opensource data and software lab.

Augmented Campus andBiological Walks:

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