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University of Nottingham
The Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) is a major cross-disciplinary research centre, established in April 2005 under the directorship of Prof. Mike Jackson.
We are a key part of the University of Nottingham's strategic investment in innovative research, pioneering research in geospatial techniques and investigating how these advances can augment other fields.
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the centre Learn a bit about the history of the centre for geospatial science, how to contact us and where we are >> |
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the research CGS is involved with a whole range of cutting edge research. Learn about the different projects and areas of work here >> |
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the people CGS consists of research associates, affiliated academics and postgraduate students >> |
About the Centre
Geospatial science develops and uses information science infrastructure to address the problems of geosciences and related branches of the humanities and engineering.
Geoinformatics combines geospatial analysis and modeling, development of geospatial databases, information systems design, human-computer interaction and both wired and wireless networking technologies.
The centre undertakes research in the following areas:
• Geoinformatics
• Geospatial Intelligence
• Interoperability
• Location Based Services
• Semantics & Reasoning
Latest News at the Centre:
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• JISC has awarded Professor Jackson and Dr G Hobona funding for Student Positioning and Access to Collections for E-learning and Research (SPACER). (5-June-09)
• UoN's Bridging the Gaps programme has awarded Dr James Goulding funding for 'Context, location and language: A thrilling feasibility study'. (1-June-09)
• UoN's New Researchers' programme has awarded Dr Hobona funding to study Geospatial Processing of Earth Observation Data in Computational Clouds. (27-May-09)
• Call for abstracts for the public workshop organized by GIS4EU http://www.gis4eu.eu/ is now open... (19-Feb-09)
• We are pleased to welcome OGC as co-sponsor for the First Open Source GIS UK Conference at CGS on 22 June 2009. (16-Feb-09)
• Nottingham University win £5m Doctoral Training Centre award for PhD studentships in Location-Aware Ubiquitous Computing. (13-Jan-09)