Research Group: GeoData

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GeoData is a University-based research and consultancy group, which specialises in environmental research, data management, analysis and processing.

Group Overview

GeoData's mission is to provide integrated applied research and consultancy services for a sustainable environment and society.

GeoData’s approach is founded on a commitment to integrated, multi-disciplinary projects that emphasise the application of science and evidence-based approaches to support environmental decision-making and policy development. With a strong focus on database, web and geospatial data handling and spatial data infrastructures GeoData promotes the data sharing and collaboration. Drawing upon the academic expertise and its linkages with other leading organisaitons GeoData aims to promote the application of science to management and policy, within the environmental and social sectors.

GeoData works in close cooperation with international orgainsations, Government, agencies and commercial sectors both in the UK and overseas.

Through its in-house specialists, associated academics and a range of consultant specialists, backed by leading technologies and resources, GeoData offers wide-ranging, flexible, solutions-based services. A commitment to participation, consultation and negotiation underpin these approaches.

Associated research themes

Ecosystem Services

Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)

Capacity building and CPD

CONTACT US:

GeoData

University of Southampton

SO17 1BJ

Tel 023 80592719

email: geodata@soton.ac.uk

Publications

Key Publications

Neal, J. C., Atkinson, P. M., & Hutton, C. W. (2009). Evaluating the utility of the ensemble transform Kalman filter for adaptive sampling when updating a hydrodynamic model. Journal of Hydrology, 375(3-4), 589-600. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.07.008
Neal, J., Atkinson, P. M., & Hutton, C. W. (2007). Flood inundation model updating using an ensemble Kalman filter and spatially distributed measurements. Journal of Hydrology, 336(3-4), 401-415. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.01.012
Sear, D., Newson, M., Hill, C., Old, J., & Branson, J. (2009). A method for applying fluvial geomorphology in support of catchment-scale river restoration planning. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 19(5), 506-519. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1022
Priest, S. J., Clark, M. J., & Treby, E. J. (2005). UK flood insurance: the challenge of the uninsured. Area, 37(3), 295-302. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00633.x
Milton, E. J., Baret, F., Rossello, P., Anderson, E., & Rockall, E. (2011). A multi-stage database of field measurements and synoptic remotely sensed data to support model validation and testing in Earth observation. Computers & Geosciences, 37(9), 1511-1514. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.02.007
Cockings, S., Harfoot, A., & Hornby, D. (2009). Towards 2011 output geographies: exploring the need for, and challenges involved in, maintenance of the 2001 output geographies. Population Trends, 138(Winter), 38-49.

Articles

Sear, D., Newson, M., Hill, C., Old, J., & Branson, J. (2009). A method for applying fluvial geomorphology in support of catchment-scale river restoration planning. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 19(5), 506-519. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1022
Wrigley, N., Branson, J., Murdock, A., & Clarke, G. (2009). Extending the Competition Commission's findings on entry and exit of small stores in British high streets: implications for competition and planning policy. Environment and Planning A, 41(9), 2063-2085. DOI: 10.1068/a41326

Research Staff

Staff Member	Primary Position
Jeremy Austin	Senior Research Fellow
Tristan Berchoux	Postgraduate research student
Julia Branson	Principal Enterprise Fellow, GeoData
Tony Brown	Professor of Physical Geography
Gemma Gubbins	GIS trainer and analyst
Andrew Harfoot	Senior Research Fellow
Chris Hill	Director of GeoData
Duncan D Hornby	Senior Research Fellow
Craig Hutton	Principal Research Fellow
Oleksandr Kit	Senior Research Fellow
Christopher T Lloyd	Research Fellow
Jason Sadler	Principal Research Fellow
Natalia Tejedor Garavito	Research Fellow
Ian Waldock	Senior Research Fellow
Dorothea Woods	GIS trainer and analyst
Homme Zwaagstra	Senior Research Fellow

Related Projects

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ESPA Deltas	Active
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Dunwich: the search for Britain's Atlantis	Active
Employer engagement for education and workforce development	Active
GeoData Institute	Active
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the marine and coastal zone	Active
The Intelligent Pebble: A new technology for tracking particle movements in fluvial and littoral environments	Active
Marine Environmental Data Management	Active

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