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, information 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 MScs in Geographic Information Systems and Management.
Some Selected Publications
- Wood, J., Dykes, J. and Slingsby, A. (2010) Visualization of origins, destinations and flows with OD maps, Cartographic Journal, 47(2), pp.117-129
- Slingsby, A., Dykes, J., and Wood, J. (2009) Configuring hierarchical layouts to address research questions, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15(6), pp.977-984
- 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
- Arciniegas, C. and Wood, J. (2006) Collaboration networks revealed by IJGIS. in Fisher, P. (ed.) Classics from IJGIS: Twenty Years of the International Journal of Geographic Information Science and Systems. CRC Press, pp.547-553.
- 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.
Some Useful links
- LandSerf - Free GIS for the visualisation and analysis of terrain
- Where am I? - Online diary
- The giCentre at City
- How to get to my office at City University
Recent News
Our work at the giCentre was mentioned in the latest Cartographic Journal editorial ; "[work at the giCentre] is an antidote to much of what we are seeing currently and unless we see more like theirs, it is questionable whether an exhibition or televsion series in years to come will have much to say about the quality of the cartography of the start of the 21st century"
As a member of programme committees for EuroVis, Geographic Information Science, Geomorphometry, Spatial Accuracy and IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology I've been pretty busy reviewing papers in the fields of GI Science and visualization.
2009 was a year of prizes for us in the giCentre including GISRUK 2009 AGI Best Paper, IEEE VAST Challenge, IEEE Infovis Honourable Mention, Google Research Prize. 2010 got off to a good start winning a commendation in the City University Staff Prize for Excellence in Research, the AGI Best Paper at GISRUK (fourth year running) and the UKMap Challenge.
There have now been over 50,000 downloads of LandSerf, since its release in 1998.