Contemporary Issues in GIS

Guest Lecturers 2010
Date Speaker Organisation Title
10 Feb Terissa Hosein Project Manager, Getmapping Aerial Partnership TBA
17 Feb Zoe Briggs Geographic Information Manager, British Waterways British Waterways and GIS
24 Feb Warren Vick CEO, Europa Technologies The Evolution of Map Data
10 Mar professor Ian Dowman University College London Developments in DEM generation and applications
17 Mar Robert Sharpe ESRI UK Where is GIS
24 Mar Dr Jim Wright Southampton University TBA
21 Apr Ross Small Exprodat TBA
28 Apr Dr Tim Wood Consulus TBA
5 May Dr Alun Jones UK Map TBA
Guest Lecturers 2009
Date Speaker Organisation Title
11th February Steven Feldman Independent Where next for the GeoBusiness
18th February Johannes Kebeck VE Technology Specialist, Microsoft UK A Virtual Earth
25th February Andrew Watson Chief Information Officer, British Transport Police TBC
4th March Dr Mark Mulligan Kings College London GIS for environmental modelling and policy support
11th March Kimberly Kowal (British Library) and David Eagle (Dotted Eyes) British Library and Dotted Eyes Customised map application design for UK geospatial archive
18th March Peter ter Haar Director of Products, Ordnance Survey TBC
22nd April Greig Richardson Benchmarq CAD & GI - Breaking down the Invisible Wall
29th April Aidan Slingsby City University TBC
6th May Damien McCloud ARUP TBC
Guest Lecturers 2008
Date Speaker Organisation Title
6th February Paul Stephens Disaster Management Constellation TBC
13th February Charles Arthur Editor of the Technology Guardian Why Free Our Data? Explaining Guardian Technology's campaign
20th February Ed Parsons Google Geography and Google
27th February Professor Dave Martin University of Southampton GIS and census design
5th March Dr John Hillier Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge Egyptology, Glaciology, and Landscape Analysis
9th April Dr Jeremy Morley Department of Geomatic Engineering If we have Google, do we need the OGC?
16th April David Holloway Safer Kingston Partnership, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
23rd April Dr Mike Smith Kingston University Close-range remote sensing
Guest Lecturers 2007
Date Speaker Organisation Title
5th Feb Professor Keith Clarke University Of California, Santa Barbara GIS and Global Change: Systems and Science Needs
12th Feb Tony Vickers Association for Geographic Information The Re-uses and Ab-uses of publicly funded GI
19th Feb Professor Peter Fisher City University Models of Uncertainty in Geographical Information
26th February Martin Daly cadcorp OGC - The Missing Link
5th March Tim Woolford Trek Wireless The use of geotagged digital images in mapping and navigation applications
12th March Andy Smith Phoenix Systems Synthetic Aperture Radar
19th March Chris Brayne Wessex Archaeology GIS in Contract Archaeology
26th March Professor Richard Webber CASA, University College London Geodemographics and GIS
23rd April Dr Daryl Lloyd Department for Communities and Local Government England's Housing Crisis: government understanding geography(?)
25th April Sally Hermansen University of British Columbia New cartographies and cartographers
30th April Ray Hooper London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority The development and use of GIS at the London Fire Brigade
2nd May Sam Taylor Sainsburys TBA
Guest Lecturers 2006
Date Speaker Organisation Title
6 Feb Graham Fairclough English Heritage Landscape Characterisation Team Historic Landscape Characterisation - Using GIS to map interpretation
13 Feb Debbie Millard CACI Using GIS as a tool for Location Planning, Customer Analysis and Marketing
20 Feb Professor Adam D Read Hyder Consulting Waste management issues and the role of GIS?
27 Feb Giles Lane Proboscis excavating social knowledge in civil society
6 Mar Professor Ifan Shephard Middlesex University Meeting the new data visualisation challenges in GIS
13 Mar Dr Seppe Cassettari Geoinformation Group TBA
20 Mar Major John Tate Royal School of Military Survey, 42 Engineer Regiment The role of GIS within UK Defence
27 Mar Dr Doreen Boyd Research and Innovation, Ordnance Survey Challenges facing a national mapping agency
24 Apr Rebecca Seymour EDINA Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction (GRADE)
Guest Lecturers 2005
Date Speaker Organisation Title
7 Feb Spencer Chainey Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science GIS and Crime Mapping
14 Feb Adrian McKeon Infoshare How far can we trust data?
21 Feb Kate Murray ERM Environmental Planning and Development
28 Feb Jill Boulton Norwich Union Using GIS to assess risk
7 Mar Bob Chell Laserscan Spatial Information Management and Manipulation using Mathematics
14 Mar Dr Chris Stokes University of Reading Monitoring glaciers from space
11 Apr Anne Hockey Colchester Borough Council TBA
Guest Lecturers 2004
Speaker Organisation Title
Ian Greatbatch Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis what goes on at casa
Tony Mathys Go-Geo! UK Data Archive
Duncan Jones CB Richard Ellis GIS and the property Industry
Doug Geden Union Property Applied GIS and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Robin Waters RSW Geomatics Mapping on the Web - from the inside
Ken Lupton University of Middlesex Representing Road Accident Data using a GIS
Dr Muki Haklay University College London Rights and responsibilities in GISci?
Paul Zukowskyjy University of Hertfordshire GIS and epidemiology
Jaynie McDonald and Liam Castagna Groundsure The Groundsure Service