Infrastructure and Geomatics
The Division conducts world-leading research in transportation infrastructure, coastal dynamics, positioning, navigation, mapping and monitoring of the built and natural environments. It enjoys state-of-the-art facilities as well as rewarding relationships with industry partners and other well-regarded research institutions around the world.
The following groups offer a range of research opportunities in the field of Infrastructure and Geomatics:
Occupying the purpose-built and uniquely equipped Nottingham Geospatial Building, the Institute was formed, in 2011, through the synergy of two major allied research groups: the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG) and the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS).
Institute research fields are wide ranging, often interlinked and complementary across technologies, currently including:
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Engineering surveying and remote measurement - these well established areas of research activity are focussed around improving the potential of technology and its application, including: algorithm development; creating novel methodologies; and optimising system performance, particularly with (low and high cost) integrated sensors, to solve scientific, environmental and engineering challenges. interoperability and standards
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Geospatial Science - geospatial data, information systems, infrastructures and semantics, including open or crowd-sourced data and software.
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Positioning and navigation technologies - supporting technologies and advanced algorithms, integration of sensors and multi-GNSS constellations with signals of opportunity, to enable ubiquitous positioning from low-cost to ultra high precision positioning and navigation solutions, and the wider exploration of bioscience, engineering and environmental applications.
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Propagation effects on GNSS - external effects on the propagation of GNSS satellite signals to reach receivers on or near Earth, including station local environment and the atmosphere.
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Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre
The Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) is located in the Pavement Research Building and provides internationally leading research, education and laboratory facilities for transportation infrastructure and related applications including pavement engineering.
The Centre has state-of-the-art research and development laboratories and current research themes include:
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paving materials
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transport and highway asset management
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rail track
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sustainable construction
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material and infrastructure modelling
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physicochemical interactions
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Coastal Dynamics and Engineering
The Coastal Dynamics & Engineering Group (CoDEG) is an internationally focused research centre, led by Nicholas Dodd. The main research emphasis is on fundamental theoretical and numerical studies of processes that are of importance to practising coastal engineers. A further key element is increasing research impact through collaboration with existing centres of excellence in related fields.
The group has particular expertise in:
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morphodynamics
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nearshore wave propagation
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wave-generated currents
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coastal structure design
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shoreface nourishment
Present research includes bore collapse on a beach, accurate prediction of hydraulic performance of structures, sediment sorting, numerical modelling of nearshore wave propagation (nonlinear shallow water and Boussinesq equations), and developing practical numerical models for coastal engineering applications. The group has access to high performance computing facilities and state-of-the-art scientific software.