Jo Wood
Reader in GI Science
Dr Jo Wood Reader in GI Science
Room: A304B
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB
jwo@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 0146
fax: +44 20 7040 8584
Jo is a Reader in Geographic Information Science in the Department of Information Science. He has been involved in teaching and research in GI Science since 1990. His research interests are in terrain modelling, insformation visualisation, 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 has been course director of the MSc in Geographic Information Systems and MSc in Geographic Informatio Managment.
Some Selected Publications
- Wood, J. and Dykes, J. (2008) Spatially ordered treemaps, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6) 1348-1355.
- Wood, J. Dykes, J. and Slingsby, A. (2007) Interactive visual exploration of a large spatio-temporal dataset: Reflections on a geovisualization mashup, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13 (6) pp.1176-1183
- Voudouris, V., Wood, J. and Fisher, P. (2005) Collaborative geoVisualization: Object-Field Representations with Semantic and Uncertainty Information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3762, pp.1056-1065
- Fisher, P., Wood, J. and Cheng, T. (2004) Where is Helvellyn? Fuzziness of Multiscale Landscape Morphometry, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(1), pp.106-128.
- Wood, J. (2002) Java Programming for Spatial Sciences 320pp. London: Taylor and Francis
Some Useful links
- LandSerf - Free GIS for the visualisation and analysis of terrain
- Where am I? - Online diary
- The giCentre at City
- GISc Group pages (restricted access)
- How to get to my office at City University
Recent News
I have recently been involved in contributing to an EU Coordinated Action Project entitled VisMaster: Mastering the Information Age. Part of this work involves providing a programming infrastructure to allow information visualization packages to interoperate.
There have now been over 40,000 downloads of LandSerf, since its release in 1998.