Contact:
Tel: 0161
295 5646
Email: r.p.armitage@salford.ac.uk |
Dr Richard
Armitage is a lecturer in Geographic Information Systems and
Environmental Modelling in the School of Environment and Life
Sciences, University of Salford.
He is the Salford Programme Leader for the UNIGIS Distance Learning GIS Network.
He is also a member of the Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment (BuHu), and Research Seminar series co-ordinator for BuHu’s Centre for Environmental Systems Research (CESR).
Richard’s research interests include:
- Linking environmental information from remotely sensed data with demographic information to produce neighbourhood characterisations
- Application of GIS and Remote Sensing to the mapping of landscape, particularly the characterisation of landscape boundaries
- Measurement of landscape change using landscape metrics
- Application of ground-based remote sensing techniques
He is a:
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
- Member of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
- Registered Practioner of The Higher Education Academy
Selected Publications:
Boyd, D.S., Entwistle, J.A., Flowers, A.G., Armitage, R.P. and Goldsmith, P.C., 2006. Remote sensing the radionuclide contaminated Belarusian landscape: a potential for imaging spectroscopy? International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27, 1865 - 1874.
Binney, H.A., Waller, M.P., Binney, H.A., Bunting, M.J. and Armitage, R. 2005. The interpretation of fen carr pollen diagrams: the representation of dry land vegetation. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 134, 197-218.
Bunting, M.J., Armitage, R., Binney, H.A. and Waller, M.P., 2005. Estimates of relevant source area of pollen assemblages from moss polsters in two Norfolk (UK) wet woodlands. The Holocene, Vol. 15, 459 - 465.
Waller, M.P., Binney, H.A., Bunting, M.J. and Armitage, R. 2005. The interpretation of fen carr pollen diagrams: pollen-vegetation relationships within the fen carr. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 133, 179-202.
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