The GIScRG is a group of academics and practitioners interested in promoting GIScience and GITechnology in geographical research, teaching and the workplace.
We also support and promote e-science and the application of novel computing and spatial analysis paradigms to geographical systems, for example, agent-based modelling.
Activities include:
- Running sessions at the RGS-IBG annual conference
- Active participation in GISRUK, the leading academic GIS conference in the UK
- Developing and maintaining international links, e.g. participation and sponsorship of sessions at the American Association of Geographers annual conference
- Working with companies such as ESRI to promote the use of GIS
Working with the Association of Geographic Information (AGI) to promote links with GIS practitioners and Chartered Geographers (GIS)
- Promoting and supporting the use of GIS within schools
- Production of journal special issues on exciting new research (e.g. the 2009 annual conference will produce a special issue of the Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy journal).
- Working closely with other GIScience forums such as AGILE
Committee
Chair: Dr Alison Heppenstall / Dr Linda See
Secretary: Dr Katherine Arrell
Treasurer: Dr Muki-Haklay
For further information please visit the GIScRG website.
News
GIScRG Dissertation Prize winner
Amy Woodget from the University of Durham has won the inaugural GIScRG dissertation prize.
Her dissertation - An Assessment of the Use of Airborne LIDAR for Estimating Growth of Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) Plantation Forestry at Kielder Forest, UK - was deemed to be the best postgraduate dissertation or industry research paper on an issue relating to GIS, spatial analysis, spatial modelling or geocomputation.
The dissertation supervisors were Professor Danny Donoghue and Dr Patrice Carbonneau.