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Mike Jackson

Director, Centre for Geospatial Science, Faculty of Engineering

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Expertise Summary

Professor of Geospatial Science and Director of the Centre for Geospatial Science www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs . 30 Years commercial, government and academic experience in spatial data infrastructures (SDI), location-based services (LBS), geospatial intelligence, geographic information systems (GIS), computer-based mapping, and remote sensing. Appointed to Chair of Geospatial Science in 2005. Previously Director of the Space Division at QinetiQ. Head of Location Platform at Hutchison 3G ("3") between 2000 and 2002 with design responsibility for the 3-G location-based services for Hutchison Wampoa's global telecommunications companies. Earlier he was CEO of geospatial software developer Laser-Scan Holdings plc. and he held research/management posts at the Natural Environment Research Council (during which time he was a Principal Investigator for NASA) , the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell and the Department of Environment. Mike has a 1st in Geography, a PhD (Civil Engineering) from Manchester University and an honorary doctorate of Technology from Kingston University. He is a non-executive director of the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc (OGC). mailto:mike.jackson@nottingham.ac.uk>

Research Summary

Spatial data Infrastructures, LBS, Gespatial Intelligence and geospatial interoperability.

Current and recent research contracts (:

DSCENT (EPSRC) 2007 -2010

GIS4EU (Eu - eContentPlus) 2007 -2010

EuroGEOSS (EU FP7) 2009 - 2012

SWIMA (TSB) 2008 - 2010

Ordnance Survey Data Management Futures 2008 - 2011

Digital Economy Hub <HORIZON> (EPSRC) 2009 - 2014

Towards Pervasive Media (EPSRC) 2009 - 2011

eSoter (EU FP7) 2008 - 2012

SPACER (JISC) 2009 - 2010

ELOgEO 2010-2011

THE ISSUE 2011 - 2014

Selected Publications

Faculty of Engineering

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