GISRUK 2008 Proceedings

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2A - VISUALISATION	2B – LAND AND ENERGY
From Slice and Dice to Hierarchical Cartograms: Spatial Referencing of Treemaps Jo Wood and Jason Dykes	Analysing the relationship between landscape composition and preference – the combination of GIS and visualisations Åsa Ode, David R. Miller
Mediating geovisualization to potential users and prototyping a geovisualization application David Lloyd, Jason Dykes, Robert Radburn	Return of the Stanford Bunny - Definition, Calculation and Application of Visual Topology Neil Sang
The Effectiveness of Artificial Landmarks for Orientation Tasks Within a Large-Scale Virtual Environment Adam Rousel , Claire Jarvis, Jing Li	Assessing bioenergy crop potential in Yorkshire and the Humber using land suitability and multi-objective land allocation models Patrizia Tenerelli, Steve Carver
The Visual Exploration of Insurance Data in Google Earth Aidan Slingsby, Jo Wood, Jason Dykes, Matthew Foote, Mike Blom	Investigating the Spatial Variation of Natural Energy Potential in the UK Michael Blom
Using and Evaluating HCI Techniques in Geovisualization: Applying Standard and Adapted Methods in Research and Education Stephanie Larissa Marsh and Jason Dykes

3A – SPATIAL ANALYSIS/METHODS	3B – SPATIAL LITERACY
Discovering Spatially Multiway Collocations Didier Leibovici, Lucy Bastin and Mike Jackson	In Search of Spatial Literacy: the Nottingham Sputnik Model Jim Nixon, Robert J. Abrahart, Claire Chambers
Mind the Gap: Reuniting the Tube network with underlying spatial themes Craig Foot, Pragya Agarwal	Developing spatial literacy in secondary education: GIS practicals for key stage 3 Lex Comber, Matt Buxton, Claire Jarvis, Jane Wellens, Phil Wood
Automated schematization using memetic algorithms Jerry Swan, Suchith Anand, Mark Ware, Mike Jackson	Noisy School Kids: Using GPS in an Urban Environment Duncan Whyatt, Gemma Davies, Marion Walker, Colin Pooley, Paul Coulton and Will Bamford
Space-time trajectories in a planar and torus-based self-organising map: the importance of eliminating boundary effects Nick Mount and Dan Weaver	Learning to read the landscape: Interactive Visual Tools for exploring spatial thinking Gary Priestnall, Jack March
Mapping uncertainty in perceptions of landscape ‘wildness’ Lex Comber, Steve Carver, Steffen Fritz, Robert McMorran, Justin Washtell
4A – URBAN GIS	4B - DEMs/DTMs/MORPHOLOGY
The Fine Scale Spatial Dynamics of the Greater London Housing Market Andrew T. Crooks, Duncan A. Smith, Margarethe Theseira	The Accuracy of Gridded Digital Elevation Models Interpolated to Higher Resolution Stephen Wise, Ed Hanna, Tristram Irvine-Fynn
Visualising London’s Suburbs Catherine Emma Jones, Muki Haklay, Sam Griffiths and Laura Vaughan	Assessment of DTM quality: a case study using fine spatial resolution data from alternative sources Michal Gallay
Modelling residential living space for individual properties using digital infrastructure and remote sensing data: a Cardiff case study Scott Orford, Jonathan Radcliffe	Developing an automatic process for hydrology generalization: combining a vector GIS topography model with DTM-derived flow direction data Marshall J. Heap
Spatio-temporal interaction modelling and simulation for transport system based on a geosensor network Seong K. Choi, Pragya Agarwal	Using GIS to Reproduce Landscape Evolution in Active Volcanic Environments Amii Darnell, Andrew Lovett and Jennifer Barclay
Local models for analysing commuting flows in Northern Ireland : scale effects and other problems C. D. Lloyd, I. G. Shuttleworth, G. Catney	A Statistical and GIS-Based Approach for Morphodynamic Characterisation and Modelling A. M. Bakare, J. G. Morley, R. R. Simons
5A – SPATIAL ANALYSIS/METHODS	5B – ORDNANCE SURVEY SESSION
Surveying by motion tracking: the application of GIS, camera tracking and animation software to model 3D subterraneanlandscape from video imagery Anna E Mason, David M Mountain , Jonathan Raper	Overview of Research at Ordnance Survey Glen Hart, Head of Research and Prinipal Research Specialist
A 3D Scrapbook Approach to Geospatial Analysis S. Wang and S. Brooks	Data Modelling Tony Joyce, Research Scientist
PDEAR Model Prediction of Rare Protea Species under Climate Change Effects Danni Guo, Renkuan Guo, Guy F. Midgley, and A.G. Rebelo	Generalisation Nico Regnauld, Senior Research Scientist
Testing co-evolutionary hypotheses over geological timescales using GIS Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett, Paul Kenrick, Malcolm G. Penn	Vernacular Geography and GeoSemantics Jenny Groom, Research Scientist
Methods for Predicting Human Behaviour in Emergencies: An Analysis of Scientific Literature Věra Karasová and Glyn Lawson	External Research and University Liaison Nick Groome, External Research Manager
6A – URBAN GIS	6B –CONTRIBUTED GEODATA AND MODELLING
Using Urban Viewsheds for Embedding Geographical Context in Photograph Databases of Urban Areas Thierry Joliveau and Sanjay Rana	OpenRouteService.org is three times “Open”: Combining OpenSource, OpenLS and OpenStreetMaps Pascal Neis and Alexander Zipf
Visualising Neighbourhood Well Being: GIS in an urban environment Mike Franks	Exploiting Volunteered Geographic Information to describe Place Ross S. Purves and Alistair J. Edwardes
Modelling street safety in an urban environment Claire Ellul and Ben Calnan	Exploring Volunteered Geographic Information to Describe Place: Visualization of the ‘Geograph British Isles’ Collection Jason Dykes, Ross Purves, Alistair Edwardes & Jo Wood
Measuring 'alcohol-related' crime and disorder: Examining the impact of extended licencing hours in England Andrew Newton and Alex Hirschfield	A Methodology for Inferring Higher Level Semantic Information from Spatial Databases Marie-Kristina Thomson and Roderic Béra
The importance of Workplace Quality of Life in Determining Office Location Alice Dalton	UncertML: an XML schema for exchanging uncertainty Matthew Williams, Dan Cornford, Lucy Bastin, Ben Ingram
	An Agent-based Approach to Simulating Spatial Patterns of Shifting Cultivation in Vietnam An The Ngo, Linda See, Frances Drake

7A – GIS AND EDUCATION	7B – SOCIOSPATIAL
“I’d rather be watching the telly…”: Do rich media approaches offer real teaching and learning benefits for GIS software tuition of digital natives? Nick Mount and Claire Chambers	Social and environmental inequalities in rural England : spatial distributions and the effects of scale Steve Cinderby, Annemarieke de Bruin, Meg Huby, Piran White
GIS Education by another name? Geographical referencing for social scientists David Martin, Samantha Cockings, Samuel Leung	Socio-economic vulnerability units – modelling meaningful spatial units Stefan Kienberger, Stefan Lang, Dirk Tiede
e-Learning in GI Sciences – Approaches towards Sustainable Content Susanne Bleisch, Stephan Nebiker, Joël Fisler	A method for quantifying equity of access to local services for different demographic groups: combining network analysis with logistic regression using the example of greenspace Alexis Comber and Chris Brunsdon
Geo-contextualised visualisation for teaching and learning in the field Claire Jarvis, Gary Priestnall, Gemma Polmaer, Jing Li
Real-Time Landscape Visualisation: Experiences in a Teaching and Learning Context Andy Burton, Gary Priestnall, Gemma Polmear, Nick Mount
8A - GEODEMOGRAPHICS	8B – PARTICIPATORY GIS
Despatialising geodemographic propensities Martin Callingham	How to reach the ‘hard-to-reach’: the development of Participatory GIS for inclusive urban design in UK cities Steve Cinderby
Inclusion and exclusion problems in geodemographic targeting Jakob Petersen, Pablo Mateos, Paul Longley, Phil Atkinson	User-centered approach for developing PPGIS Khitam Shraim
Do Local Information Systems Hide the Bigger Picture?An analytical approach to measuring the strength of local boundaries Sarah Goodwin & Jason Dykes	Participatory Strategic Planning Using a Virtual Reality Environment David Miller, Paula Horne, Jane Morrice, Jonathon Ball and Pernette Messager
Scenario-based Small Area Population Modelling for Social Infrastructure Planning Yang Li, and Allan J. Brimicombe	Supporting interactive land use planning of fen meadows in the Netherlands< : the Gouwe Wiericke case Gustavo Arciniegas, Ron Janssen, Nancy Omtzigt, and Corinne Cornelisse




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