Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from CGI!

GPS trajectory walked by Sila, 13 Dec 2012

Two opportunities for PhD students – more on our vacancies website. Limited to UK/EU students only.

The Centre for GeoInformatics acts as a focus for research into geoinformatics across both the School of Geography and Geosciences and across the university.  Geoinformatics or Geographic Information Science (GIScience) involves the collection, processing, analysis and display of large spatial data sets. This includes any kind of spatial data, i.e. data with specific geographic location, or, if time is considered as well, spatio-temporal data. The area is becoming more and more relevant in today’s world, where large spatial data sets are being collected by individuals in real-time using increasingly available and ubiquitous spatial sensors such as GPS devices on mobile phones, as well as agencies and companies, e.g. census data collected by national statistical agencies or satellite imagery collected by national space agencies or remote sensing companies. Application areas are varied, from health, housing, environment, physical systems and movement ecology to urban analysis and digital humanities.