David White wins high citation award for paper on image analysis software
Professor David White, along with his co-authors, has won the Fredlund Award given by the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS). The CGS grants this award annually to the most highly-cited paper in their journal from the past 5 years.
The paper, titled ‘Improved image-based deformation measurement for geotechnical applications’ was co-authored in 2016 with Dr Sam Stanier (Cambridge University), Professor Andy Take (Queens’ University, Canada) and Dr Justin Blaber (Vanderbilt University, USA). It describes a new implementation of particle image velocimetry (PIV), with improved accuracy and computational speed, tailored to geotechnical applications. The work led to freeware – GeoPIV-RG – that has been shared at www.geopivrg.com[DW4] since 2015, receiving >30,000 hits and >4,500 downloads from >300 institutions worldwide over the past 5 years. The paper has been cited 215 times, according to google scholar, and the citing papers show researchers from >100 organisations have published research utilising the software.
The original version of GeoPIV was developed in 2000, resulting from Dave White and Andy Take’s PhD studies in Cambridge. Sam Stanier now maintains GeoPIV-RG, and is currently trialling a new Python-based version, which will be released next year.
You can access the paper on the journal website here , or on e-prints here .