This week saw the annual \u2018Final Year Conference\u2019, the showcase for the Stage 3 Geomatics students to present their dissertation research in a formal venue to their fellow students and to the staff and postgraduates in the School.\u00a0 A total of 31 Newcastle Geomatics students delivered talks in two parallel tracks with themed session titles including \u2018Built Environment\u2019, Spatial Analysis\u2019 and \u2018Geovisualisation\u2019. \u00a0The 12 final-year Geographic Information Science students\u2019 topics were as follows:<\/p>\n
Nada Alabdulwahed<\/strong> used an impressive range of satellite remote sensing imagery from the past 20 years to track the urban development of the city of Al Khobar in eastern Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 Standard image analysis and classification techniques along with ground truthing and integration with other data on population and land reclamation allowed for accurate quantification of urban growth.<\/p>\n Ed Drummond-Hay<\/strong> researched house price changes across England and Wales, using millions of records from Land Registry, ONS and commercial sources.\u00a0 His hypothesis was that house price increases in London \u2018rippled\u2019 out from the capital to affect the rest of the country after a time lag.\u00a0 The dynamic and animated representation of such patterns was an important part of the output from Ed\u2019s research.<\/p>\n Emmanuel Egunyu<\/strong> aimed to create an online website resource to promote tourism in his native Uganda.\u00a0 Using OpenStreetMap data and open source technologies with PostGIS and Geoserver, he reported on the creation of a map-based information portal for those planning to visit national parks and view wildlife in this country.<\/p>\n Alexia Fenn<\/strong>\u2019s study concentrated on the validity and reliability of observations from GPS receivers worn by athletes.\u00a0 A variation of sport\/athletics course shapes, course distances, and exercise\/movement intensities were examined.\u00a0 Walking, jogging, and sprinting over various distances and in a variety of course configurations were examined, with GPS accuracies determined for each exercise regime.<\/p>\n Will Franklin<\/strong> developed a system to estimate the safety of junctions on the road network in Newcastle.\u00a0 By calculating a Junction Risk Factor, based on a number of parameters related to road conditions and traffic volumes, he was able to develop a predictive model to determine the optimum location for investment in road network improvements.<\/p>\n Jo Gallagher<\/strong>\u2019s interest in spatially-enabled Twitter data led to a study of the geolocation of football clubs\u2019 fan base.\u00a0 He found that the \u2018bigger\u2019 the club, the more dispersed the distribution of fans \u2013 backing up the popular theory that the mean location of a Manchester United fan is some distance from Old Trafford.<\/p>\n Patryck Janicki<\/strong>\u2019s research aimed to develop a geodatabase schema able to hold both CityGML data at Level of Detail 1 and main Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) classes.\u00a0 The ability of the schema to abide by standards, allow for SQL queries, hold geometry effectively, was to be supplemented by an effective visualisation flowline through export to QGIS.\u00a0 The outcomes of this project have impact on the integration of BIM with GIS.<\/p>\n This was also the focus of the research of Anthony Morley<\/strong>, who examined current technologies for importing a BIM model into a geospatial environment and assessing interoperability.\u00a0 This involved using a range of software and data formats, including ArcMap, ArcScene, ESRI City Engine, REVIT, AutoCAD and FME.\u00a0 The geometric and semantic integrity of the model, and the needs of users were considered.<\/p>\n Amber Kaye-Kenyon<\/strong> chose the analytical capabilities of ArcMap, ArcScene and City Engine (including Buffer, Viewshed and Line of Sight (LOS)) to look at the modelling of an urban sensor network.\u00a0 In the context of the instrumented city concepts being developed in Newcastle upon Tyne, particularly around the university\u2019s new Science Central campus, ease of use, visualisation and effective monitoring of the sensor network were derived.<\/p>\n Ben Nicholls<\/strong> undertook a very detailed study of some of the rich cartographic generalisation tools in ArcGIS.\u00a0 Applying these to different types of feature (railways, contours, buildings etc. as represented on large scale Ordnance Survey data), and in different locations (e.g. central urban zones, rural regions), Ben presented an impressive assessment of the data pre-processing, algorithm effectiveness and presentation quality of such procedures.<\/p>\n Josh Watson<\/strong>\u2019s theme was a big data set dealing with cardiac arrests outside hospital.\u00a0 The spatial and temporal distribution of these events was determined, as a precursor to understanding the nature of the phenomenon and to try to raise low survival rates in the North East.\u00a0 Clusters of cases were apparent and these were linked to population distribution, to ambulance stations and response times, and to times of day, season and year.<\/p>\n Imogen Weight<\/strong> made a comparative study of several web mapping APIs, assessing data needs, scope of functionality, usability, and final appearance of maps created in Leaflet, Mapbox, and the dedicated Javascript APIs for Google Maps and for ArcGIS.<\/p>\n The remaining students (Surveying and Mapping Science students) pursued research topics in a wide range of other spatial themes, many of which have a GIS \u2018flavour\u2019.\u00a0 Environmental monitoring of coasts, glaciers, urban heat, and floods used GIS tools, as did further investigations of BIM, and further social investigations of education from a GI perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week saw the annual \u2018Final Year Conference\u2019, the showcase for the Stage 3 Geomatics students to present their dissertation research in a formal venue to their fellow students and to the staff and postgraduates in the School.\u00a0 A total of 31 Newcastle Geomatics students delivered talks in two parallel tracks with themed session titles … Continue reading “GIS students present research projects Friday 13 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