Geospatial research is the study of geographic information, how we collect, store, manage, analyse, and visualise it. This is in isolation from the specifics of the driving geographic questions, that is, that we study the representations of the real world rather than the real world itself.
Within the School of Earth & Environment at Canterbury University, we tackle a range of geospatial research questions. These research topics include advances in spatial analysis methods, such as new methods for simulating real world populations through spatial microsimulation modelling, new data models or representations of geographic phenomena such as process based data models, representing the semantics of geographic information, and creating methods for determining whether we can trust crowd sourced data.
