The Geographical Information Science Research Group exists:
...to encourage collaborative, cross-disciplinary discussion between the researchers, users and providers of digital geographical information. Our objective is to promote the development and application of theory and knowledge in GI Science to the collection, processing, analysis and modelling of geographical information within digital environments.

Research interests include:

• Data dissemination & exchange standards in digital media, including the Internet;
• Integrating geographical & temporal data;
• Measuring uncertainty in geoinformation;
• Methods & applications of geocomputation;
• Modelling geographical processes;
• Multidimensional representation & analysis;
• The digital visualization of geographical information, spatial patterns & processes;
• The geographical applications of E-Science & Grid Computing.

News:

See bursary section of this site to find out how to apply for awards and prizes

RGS-IBG Annual Meeting: Prize for Best Postgraduate GIS Paper
2008:
2007: Nicolas Malleson (University of Leeds) Agent-Based Modelling and Crime in Leeds
2006: Omair Chaudhry (University of Edinburgh) Modelling Geographic Phenomena at Varying Levels of Detail: Generalisation in Spatial Databases
2005: David Ashby (University College London) Mapping Geodemographics for Crime and Policing

RGS-IBG Annual Meeting: Postgraduate GIS Conference Support
2008:
2007: James Nixon (University of Nottingham), Vera Karasova (University of Nottingham), Nicolas Malleson (University of Leeds)
2006: Mairead de Roiste (University of Dublin)
2005: Mairead de Roiste (University of Dublin)

GISRUK: Travel Award for 2nd Best Student Conference Paper
2008: Craig Foot for "Mind the Gap: Reuniting the Tube network with underlying spatial themes" by Craig Foot and Pragya Agarwal
2007: James Nixon (University of Nottingham) Ask the expert: The potential for location-based support in the fire service
2006: Jenna Panter (University of East Anglia) Using GIS to model population physical activity levels and the quality of urban green space
2005: Britta Hummel (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany) Robust, GPS-only Map Matching: Exploiting Vehicle Position History, Driving Restriction Information and Road Network Topology in a Statistical Framework

GISRUK: Travel Award for 3rd Best Student Conference Paper
2008: Sarah Goodwin for "Do local information systems hide the bigger picture?
An analytical approach to measuring the strength of local boundaries" by Sarah Goodwin and Jason Dykes
2007: Vera Karasova (University of Nottingham) A First Step Towards the Automated Production of Incident Demarcation Zones: The Need for An Intelligent Hybrid Modelling Approach
2006: Sandrine Balley (Institut Geographique National, France) A web interface to explore and restructure geographical datasets
2005: Femke Reitsma (University of Edinburgh) A New Process Data Model and its Application

Events:

RGS-IBG meeting (27-29 August 2008)

Geospatial Web Services Workshop (16th-17th June)

Proposed Sessions

Spatial Literacy
Geographies of social enterprise (sponsored by SCRG and GIScRG)
Uncertainty and Inference in Historical GIS

Want to propose a session?

Link to RGS

GISRUK 2008 Manchester Metropolitan University, Wednesday 2nd April 2008 until Friday 4th April 2008.