2019 Roger Tomlinson Prize Lecture

24 July 2019

2019鈥檚 Roger Tomlinson Prize Lecture was held in June, and saw Maynooth University鈥檚 Prof Chris Brunsdon give a talk on identifying local effects in global indicators. The prize itself recognised CEGE graduate Dr Huanfa Chen鈥檚 thesis as the best 香港六合彩 PhD thesis in the GIS field.

Established at 香港六合彩 by Jack Dangermond, founder of GIS company ESRI, the Roger Tomlinson Prize honours the work and research of Dr Tomlinson, who completed his PhD in the 香港六合彩 Department of Geography in 1974. Dr Tomlinson is widely considered to be the 鈥楩ather of GIS鈥� (Geographic Information Systems).听

The annual prize is awarded for the best PhD thesis submitted to 香港六合彩听relating听to the development or application of GIS. The prize is intended to support new PhD scholars in sharing their ideas around the world, and in developing their careers.

This year鈥檚 ceremony first saw a seminar hosted by Prof Paul Longley of 香港六合彩 Geography, where Prof Brunsdon, Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation at Maynooth University, lectured on local measures providing local indicators of spatial association (LISAs). This was illustrated through two applications; identifying correlations in local crime rates and clusters in the population of people having a limiting long-term illness, as reported to the 2011 UK Census of Population.

Dr James Haworth, SpaceTimeLab member and programme director of CEGE鈥檚 Geospatial Sciences (GIS and Computing) MSc, commented that it was a 鈥渄elight to be able to welcome as distinguished a colleague as Prof Chris Brunsdon to give this year鈥檚 prize lecture. Prof Brunsdon is world-renowned for his work on geographically weighted methods, which have had a significant impact on the field of GIS.鈥�

The presentation of the 2019 Prize then followed, with recent Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) and SpaceTimeLab PhD graduate Dr Huanfa Chen, now of 香港六合彩 CASA, presented with the award by Prof Peter Wood, 香港六合彩 Emeritus Professor of Geography.听

Dr James Haworth noted that Dr Chen鈥檚 thesis, on police patrol routing optimisation, 鈥渉as contributed to advancing network based GIScience and improving policing efficiency. It is a worthy winner of the 2019 Roger Tomlinson Prize.鈥�

A reception in CEGE鈥檚 Chadwick Building brought the successful evening to a close.听

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Caption:听Dr Huanfa Chen receives the Roger Tomlinson Prize. From left to right, Prof Chris Brunson, Prof Paul Longley, Dr Huanfa Chen, Prof Tao Cheng (SpaceTimeLab Director) and听Prof Peter Wood.听

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