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Reordering sections in phpWebSite

Last updated by matt on 10/01/2008 10:26 AM (Read: 167 times)

Reordering sections in pages in phpWebSite is a little fiddly, but can be done quickly with a careful edit of the database.

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Non-convex hull software sources

Last updated by matt on 07/03/2008 08:34 PM (Read: 257 times)

Source code for my non-convex hull software can now be downloaded from this site.

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Welcome to duckham.org

Matt Duckham: I am a senior lecturer in Geographic Information Science at the Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne. My group's research centers on distributed and robust computation with uncertain spatial and spatiotemporal information, especially within the domain of mobile, location-aware, and sensor-enabled systems. I am a founder member of the Spatial Information Science Research Group at the University of Melbourne. At the Department of Geomatics I teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses in spatial databases, location-based services, geosensor networks, and programming with GIS and databases.

News: The news page contains regularly updated news about papers, grants, and other current information on what I am doing. The recent postings include:

I also have an occasional blog that focuses on technology issues and solutions that may be helpful for some people.

Books: I am coauthor with Mike Worboys of the GIS textbook GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, published by CRC press. The book is available from Amazon. The web site to accompany the book can be found at worboys.duckham.org.

I am an editor of COSIT 2007 Proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS vol 4736, contents).

I am also an editor of the book Foundations of Geographic Information Science, published by Taylor and Francis. The book includes contributions from David Mark, Mike Goodchild, Mike Worboys, Andrew Frank, Christopher Habel, John Stell, Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith, Antony Galton, Dan Montello, Stephen Hirtle, Chris Jones, Ray Larson and Sabine Timpf. The book is available and searchable on Amazon.

Software: I've written a simple Oracle spatial data viewer in Java, primarily for teaching purposes. You can download the viewer from the Software page. The page also contains links to software for generating non-convex hulls that characterize the set of points in the plane, using a new "characteristic shapes" algorithm presented in a forthcoming Pattern Recognition paper.

Previously: I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the NCGIA University of Maine from 2002-2004. From 2000-2002 I worked on the EPSRC funded project, "Vagueness, uncertainty, and granularity in spatial information" (VUG) at Keele University Computer Science Department in collaboration with the School of Computer Studies, Leeds University. I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow on spatial data quality in 2000.

Created on 01/25/2005 05:46 AM by matt
Updated on 11/17/2008 08:32 PM by matt

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* Worboys and Duckham (2004) GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL.

* Distributed spatial computing (DSC) research group

* ITN+T research project

* COSIT: Conference on Spatial Information Theory

* DG/SUM'07: Workshop on distributed mobile and spatial computing

* PALMS'07: Workshop on Privacy Aware Location-based Mobile Services