Jo Wood's Research

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Papers and resources

Online Papers and Research Reports

PhD Thesis Online version of my PhD thesis "The Geomorphological Characterisation of Digital Elevation Models".

Where is Helvellyn?, Images and summary of the paper "Where is Helvellyn? Fuzziness of Multiscale Landscape Morphometry", which appeared in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

London Population Surfaces, Images and summary of the paper "The Use of the Landscape Metaphor in Understanding Population Data", which appeared in the Journal Environment and Planning B.

Mortality, Poverty and Voting Visualisations of socio-economic information for Parliamentary Briefing om Health Inequalities, February 1999.

Selected Conference Reports

GeoComputation 2000 Constructing Weighted Surface Networks for the Representation and Analysis of Surface Topology presented at the 5th International Conference on GeoComputation, Chatham, UK, September 23-25th, 2000.

ICA '99 Visualisation of Scale Dependencies in Surface Models, presented at the International Cartographic Associatation Annual Conference, Ottawa 1999.

SDH '98 Modelling the Continuity of Surface Form Using DEMs, presented at the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Vancouver, Canada, July 11-15th, 1998.

Research Projects

lbs4All provides location-based services for people with mobility problems. In particular it aims to provide navigational help for older, for visually impaired and for blind people. It is designed to exploit new mobile computing, positioning and communication technologies in order to aid navigation around urban environments.

Software and Programming

LandSerf Free software for the visualisation and analysis of terrain models. Includes 3d visualisation, DEM format conversion, extensive documentation and tutorial material.

Java Programming for Spatial Sciences Java and object-oriented modelling of spatial data.