School of GeoSciencesSchool of GeoSciences

People

Staff Details

Bruce M. Gittings BSc, MSc (Edin), FRSGS, FSA Scot
MSc in GIS External Relations Co-ordinator; Chair of Board of Examiners (GIS)
Room: 1.16
Address: Geography Building, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP
Phone: +44 (0) 131 650 2558
FAX: +44 (0) 131 650 2524
Email: bruce@geo.ed.ac.uk
Web Page: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/bgittings

Research Institute: Geography and the Lived Environment
Research Interests: Database management, performance and parallel computing issues related to GIS; environmental meta-databases; distributed GIS; location-based services; web-enabled databases; web-based surveys. Using the web to portray the people and places of Scotland. Dynamic display of earthquake information using the web. Development of portable parallel software algorithms for the analysis of geographical data (supported by EPSRC). Gazetteer for Scotland (supported by RSGS, the Robertson Trust and SCRAN). Scottish Palaeoenvironmental Archive Database (supported by Historic Scotland). Scottish Wetlands Archaeological Database (with AOC Archaeology and Historic Scotland). Accessible GI metadata (with the Association for Geographic Information).
Further Information: Publications

Return to previous page


Accessibility menu