Ordnance Survey – Great Britain's national mapping agency
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TRIPOD TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description
1st January 2007 - 31st December 2009
TRIPOD aims to develop a series of techniques which will significantly and rapidly advance both the quality and breadth of search results returned from a collection of image and multimedia content. The project will use a novel multi-disciplinary approach based on the hypothesis that place plays a key role in image retrieval. Another key aspect is the creation of a large and diverse collection of geo-referenced photographs, which will be used for testing. The technology developed in TRIPOD will be relevant to the image library market, cultural heritage groups and users of geographic information science systems.
NERVE - North East Regional Visualisation Environment
Ist January 2006 – 31st December 2007
Research is a partner in the Nerve project which is a collaborative Research and Development project, part funded by the DTI under its Technology Programme. There is an increasing need for agencies such as fire, ambulance, police, local authorities and utilities to be able to share and visualise Geographic Information in realtime for both planning and operational purposes. This research will attempt to remove the technical barriers that make this difficult to achieve. In light of recent National Legislation, such as the Civil Contingency Bill and Traffic Management Act, the benefits of this software will be substantial.
ORCHESTRA - A European Collaboration for Risk Management
1st September 2004 - 28th February 2008
Ordnance Survey is a partner in the European Union 6th Framework project ORCHESTRA (Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management) The overall goal of ORCHESTRA is to design and implement an open service-oriented software architecture that will improve the interoperability among actors involved in Multi-Risk Management. Our team is leading a workpackage on knowledge modelling - developing methods to systematically construct conceptual and logical ontologies for flood risk management, while considering the requirements for interoperability between geographical and risk analysis information.