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Management, at Leeds Metropolitan University in 1997, graduating in 2001. After 18 months acting as a Technical Advisor, he returned to academia and completed an MSc in GIS for Business and Service Planning at the University of Leeds in August 2005.

(Box 5.9: Ordnance Survey (OS) data collection – from Plan to MasterMap, p. 162.)

Ankur Das is a Geography graduate with a strong interest in environmen-tal issues confirmed by the choice of a postgraduate degree in Geographical Information Systems at the University of Leeds in the UK. He is presently working professionally in India. His research interests include: enhanced visualization and spatial algo-rithms, image processing of satellite remote sensing data, change detection from satellite imagery, retail decision support mechanism from the perspectives of a GIS, sustainable development and economic growth, historical GIS. (See Box 5.2: Business process outsourc-ing and the Indian GIS Industry, p. 140.)

Andrew Evans is a lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, where he teaches Masters courses in GIS, AI and com-puter programming. His interests include building systems to enable online democracy and modelling social interactions, though he has sidelines in glaciology and Dark Age mythopoetic landscapes. (See Box 7.8: Fuzzy GIS and the fear of crime, p. 243.)

Steffen Fritz studied Physics and Geography at the University of Tübingen and got his Master of Science from the University of Durham in 1996. He undertook his PhD in the field of wild land research at Leeds University. Since 2001 he has worked at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in the field of global land cover mapping, monitor-ing agriculture and food security. In the summer of 2004 he worked on the production of a global bio-mass map at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna. (See Box 6.3: Modelling remoteness in mountain areas, p. 180.)

Since joining Laser-Scan in 1989 Martin Gregory has worked in a wide variety of roles. Initially developing a solid understanding of digital carto-graphy and capture systems he progressed into technical support, and then post sales support and consultancy roles. More recently he spent 2 years based at the Mexican National Mapping Agency as a project manager, responsible for the maintenance of multi-vendor soft-ware and hardsoft-ware used in the geospatial data production flowlines. Upon returning to the UK, Martin got involved with Laser-Scan’s Oracle based Radius Topology product and is now a Technical Sales Consultant, working primarily in the Intergraph partner channel to develop and support sales of Radius Topology worldwide. (See Box 5.8: Going Dutch with small scale topography. p. 153.)

Felix Hebeler studied Geography and Biology (at the University of Giessen, Germany and Rhodes University, RSA) with an emphasis on environmental and ecological issues and a focus on modeling using Geographical Information Systems. He is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Zurich with his research interests including environmental and ice sheet modeling as well as analysis and generalisa-tion of digital elevageneralisa-tion models. His ongoing PhD project is investigating the influence of topographic representation on uncertainties in large scale envi-ronmental model results. (See Box 10.7: Uncertainty and terrain data in ice-sheet modelling, p. 321.)

Dr Tony Hernandez is the Director of the Centre for Study of Commercial Activity and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Ryerson University, Toronto. Tony teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in the area of business geomatics, with focus on the retail and service economy. His research interests include geographic information system, spatial analysis, geovisualization and deci-sion support. (See Box 7.5: GIS-enabled retail sales forecasting, p. 236 and Box 8.2: Retail Geovisualization:

3D and animation for retail decision support, p. 262.)

Jim Hogg graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1968 with a BSc Honours degree in Geography.

He became a demonstrator and studied for an MSc degree in Aerial Photo-Interpretation in Geomorphology at ITC Delft, Holland for a year before accepting an appointment as research assistant in Remote Sensing in the School of Forestry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia where he completed a PhD on multispectral remote sensing in forestry. He went on to become a lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds in 1972 where he lectures in remote sensing, digital image processing, geographi-cal information system and their potential for research in physical geography and environmental research. He has recently completed work on the EU FIREGUARD project, which involved the use of QuickBird and Ikonos stereo very high resolution images for measuring and assessing forest fuel loads in Mediterranean countries of Europe. (See Box 5.4:

Fireguard using GIS and remote sensing for fire management, p. 146.)

Born and raised in the north-east of England, Joseph Holden completed an undergraduate degree in Geography at the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in peatland hydrology at the University of Durham. Joseph was recently a NERC Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and is now a lec-turer there where he works primarily in wetland environments but with more general interests in hillslope hydrology, geomorphology and biogeo-chemical cycling. He has over 30 journal publications and another 30 published books, book chapters and reports. He is editor of an important new textbook titled ‘An introduction to physical geography and the environment’ published by Pearson Education in 2005. He sits on a number of international grant and journal review panels, is leader of the River Basin Processes and Management research cluster and is Director of both the MSc in Catchment Dynamics and Management and the MRes in Hydrology at the University of Leeds. (See Box 2.8: High resolution data solutions to complex modelling problems, p. 60.)

Dr Isaac Bonsu Karikari is the Lands Commission’s Team Leader of the World Bank’s supported Land Administration Project in Ghana.

He is also the Head of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Training and Manpower Development Unit of the Commission. He is an Associate Member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors where he is the Chair of the Research and Development (R&D) Sub-Committee and a Member of the Board of Examiners (BOE) of the General Practice Division of the Institution. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, having obtained his MSc from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation – ITC, Netherlands where he studied Geoinformation Systems for Urban Applications. (See Box 4.4: Encroachments on public land in Accra, Ghana, p. 122.)

Richard Kingston is a lecturer in Urban Planning and GIS in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester. He previously worked for Steve Carver as a research associate in the Centre for Computational Geography at the University of Leeds developing innovative PPGIS for local, regional and national decision-making problems. His research focus is on developing, testing and implementing Planning Support Systems for public participation in spatial planning. He has published widely on PPGIS in academics journals and books. (See Box 8.7: Public participation in GIS, p. 274.)

Stuart Lane is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham where he specialises in quantitative approaches to the understanding of hydraulic and hydrological processes. In particular, he specialises in quantification of complex geomorphological sur-faces, notably river systems, using remote sensing methods. He has worked in New Zealand, the Alps and the UK both on research and consultancy contracts. (See Box 2.8: High resolu-tion data soluresolu-tions to complex modelling problems, p. 60.)

Sarah Lindley is Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. She is a multi-discipli-nary researcher with particular interests in Geographical Information Systems and Science; air quality management; and sustainable development. She has over ten years’ experience in the development of spatially resolved emissions inventories and the wider use of Geographical Information Systems and Science for air quality management applications. Sarah has been a member of the UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Air Quality Expert Group since 2002. She also coordinates the data management activities for the EPSRC/UKCIP Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate research programme. (See Box 7.3: Using GIS to help manage air quality through estimating emissions of atmospheric pollutants, p. 227.)

Ross Purves is a lecturer in the GIS Division of the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich. Prior to coming to Zurich, he worked in the Geography Deaprtment of the University of Edinburgh. His research in GIScience covers a range of themes, from Geographic Information Retrieval to the environmental model-ling of processes related to snow and ice and, in particular, issues relating to the uncertainty in mod-elling of such processes. (See Box 10.7: Uncertainty and terrain data in ice-sheet modelling, p. 321.)

Prof. Jonathan Raper is Head of the Department of Information Science and founder of the giCentre at City University, where he leads a group of 19 academics, researchers and postgrads working on, among other things, location-based services, augmented reality, geographic data mining, geovisualisation and terrain and cityscape modelling. Jonathan is a member of the Steering Committee of the Location and Timing Knowledge Transfer Network and Editor in Chief of the Journal of LBS, newly launched by Taylor and Francis. (See Box 3.8: Monitoring coastal change with GIS, p. 102.)

John Stillwell is Professor of Migration and Regional Development in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. Currently he is also Director of the Census Interaction Data Service (CIDS) which is funded under the ESRC Census Programme, and Coordinator of the ESRC initiative on ‘Understanding Population Trends and Processes’.

His research is primarily in the fields of migration stud-ies and applied spatial analysis. (See Box 4.6: Delivering census interaction data: WICID, p. 125.)

Jo Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Geographic Information at the giCentre, City University, London. He has been involved in teach-ing and research in GI Science since 1990. His research interests are in terrain modelling, visualiza-tion of surfaces, object-oriented modelling of GI and collaborative networks in GI. He is author of the widely used GIS LandSerf, the text Java Programming for Spatial Sciences and is course director of the Masters in Geographic Information (MGI). When not analyz-ing terrain with a GIS, he can usually be found walking or cycling across it. (See Box 6.9: Identifying mountains with GIS, p. 207.)

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