Here you can read and download some of our research which is published at conferences or in journals and books.
The publications are set out in the following categories:
- 3D and height
- Automatic change detection
- Cartographic generalisation
- Data acquisition: capturing and processing data
- Enriching the content of place-based information
- The linked data web
- User needs and usability
- Data quality
3D and height
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| Height integration at the coastal zone | |
| Integrated Coastal Zone – Data Research Project (ICZMap®) | |
| Moving Towards 3D: from a National Mapping Agency Perspective | PDF on the CiteSeerX website |
| Quantifying and visualising the uncertainty in 3D building model walls using terrestrial lidar data | |
| Quality Assessment of 3D Building Data by 3D Surface Matching | PDF on the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing website |
| Automatic height attribute assignment for building polygons: City modeling with level of detail zero | |
| Data quality in 3D: Gauging quality measures from users’ requirements | PDF on the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) website |
| The Building Blocks of User-Focused 3D City Models | Download from the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information website |
Automatic change detection
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| Improving the update of geospatial information databases from imagery using semi-automated change-detection and user-guidance techniques | |
| An Automated Change Detection System: Making Change Detection Applicable to a Production Environment |
Cartographic generalisation
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| A Strategy for Collapsing OS Integrated Transport Network™ dual carriageways | |
| Seeing the Wood from the Trees: Generalising OS MasterMap® Tree Coverage Polygons to Woodland at 1:50 000 Scale | |
The role of modern cartography in Ordnance Survey | |
| Spatial structures to support automatic generalisation | |
| Generalising OS Mastermap® Topographic buildings and ITN road centerlines to 1:50 000 scale using a spatial hierachy of agents, triangulation and topography | |
| Towards a Data Model for Update Propagation in multi-resolution digital landscape model | |
| Towards an Interoperable Web Generalisation Services Framework | |
| A study on the state-of-the-art in automated map generalisation implemented in commercial out-of-the-box software | |
| A Review of the Clarity Generalisation Platform and the Customisations Developed at Ordnance Survey Research | |
| Methodologies for the evaluation of generalised data derived with commercial available generalisation systems | |
| Automatic Amalgamation of Buildings for Producing Ordnance Survey 1:50 000 scale maps | |
| Building on Past Achievements: Generalising OS MasterMap® Rural Buildings to 1:50 000 | |
| Conflict Identification and Representation for roads based on a Skeleton | |
| Partition and Conquer: Improving WEA-Based Coastline Generalisation | |
| Towards a Generic Cluster- Based Approach for the Automated Initial Load and Update of Derived Spatial Datasets | |
| Generalisation of Roads | |
| Generalisation Log for Managing and Utilising a Multi-Representation Spatial Database in Map Production |
Data acquisition: capturing and processing data
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| UAV ‘Salience’ for GIS Missions: Augmenting Waypoint Navigation with Neurally Processed, Gabor Filter-Bank Outputs | |
| Extracting Linear Cartographic Features from High Resolution Aerial Images | |
| Quantifying Interpolation Errors in Urban Airborne Laser Scanning Models | |
| Image interpretation through problem segmentation for very high resolution data | |
| The Importance of Understanding Error in Lidar Digital Elevation Models | |
| Updating Maps in a Well-Mapped Country Using High Resolution Satelitte Imagery | |
| Investigating the Spatial Structure of Error in Digital Surface Models Derived from Laser Scanning Data | |
| Geometric validation of imagery and products from a high and products from a high performance airborne digital sensor | |
| Super-resolution mapping of rural land cover objects from fine spatial resolution satellite sensor imagery | |
| Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry at Ordnance Survey in the 21st Century | |
| Urban Remote Sensing – The Use of LiDAR in the Creation of Urban Models | |
| Sub-pixel mapping of rural land cover objects from fine spatial resolution satellite sensor imagery using super-resolution pixel-swapping | |
| Applying a Wavelet Method and LINDA for Extracting Detailed Cartographic Features from High Resolution Images | |
| A 'primitive' view of image interpretation for automated mapping | |
| An optimised semi-automated methodology for populating a national land use dataset | |
| Harnessing visual attention with machine reasoning to improve the efficiency of production procedures: An account of research in progress | |
| Image Primitives: Automating Image Interpretation Procedures in Topographic Map Production | |
| The Challenge of Integrating Automated Data Capture Into a Production Environment | |
| Visual saliency as an aid to updating digital maps | |
| Computer Vision Techniques for Traffic Flow Computation | |
| A semi-automatic method for detecting changes to Ordnance Survey Topographic data in rural environments |
Enriching the content of place-based information
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| From Hide and Seek to ARQuake: Considering the Challenges of Location-Based Gaming | |
| Path Integration: Issues concerning the integration of data suitable for the leisure user | |
| Sharing Feature Based Geographic Information - A Data Model Perspective |
The linked data web
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| RAGLD: The Rapid Assembly of Geospatial Linked Data applications |
User needs and usability
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| “The Invisible GIS” – Technology Convergence to make future GI user friendly | |
| Getting from Cognition to Collection: Data provision for usable models | |
| User-centred GI: hearing the voice of the customer | |
| Contextual geographies and children’s wireless soundscapes | |
| Visual saliency as an aid to updating digital maps | |
| Mobile Bristol 'A New Sense of Place?’ project | |
| The Influence of Scale, Context and Spatial Preposition in Linguistic Topology | |
| Maps Beyond Diagrams: Real-World Spatial Orientation | |
| Harnessing visual attention with machine reasoning to improve the efficiency of production procedures: An account of research in progress | |
| Combining qualitative methods for assessing geographic information usability | |
| Usability of geographic information – factors identified from qualitative analysis of task-focused user interviews | Download from the ScienceDirect website |
| Usability of Geographic Information; Current Challenges and Future Directions | Download from the ScienceDirect website |
| Identifying Built-up Areas for 2011 Census Out-puts | PDF on the International Cartographic Association website |
| Introducing PEGI: a usability process for the practical evaluation of geographic information | Download from the ScienceDirect website |
| Usability of geographic information – factors identified from task-focused user interviews | PDF on the International Cartographic Association website |
| Exploring the Usability of Geographic Information: A Grounded Theory Analysis | Download from the University College London website |
| When Maps Go Bad: Exploring the Interaction between software and data usability | Download from the Academia.edu website |
| Assessing geographic data usability in analytical contexts: Undertaking sensitivity analysis of geospatial processes |
Data quality
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| Data Quality and Spatial Cognition: the perspective of a National Mapping Agency | |
| Vector data quality : a data provider’s perspective | |
| Data quality in the integration and analysis of data from multiple sources: some research challenges |
