Expertise Summary
Professor of Geospatial Science and Director of the Centre for Geospatial Science. 30 Years commercial, government and academic experience in spatial data infrastructures (SDI), location-based services (LBS), geospatial intelligence, geographic information systems (GIS), computer-based mapping, and remote sensing. Appointed to Chair of Geospatial Science in 2005. Previously Director of the Space Division at QinetiQ. Head of Location Platform at Hutchison 3G ("3") between 2000 and 2002 with design responsibility for the 3-G location-based services for Hutchison Wampoa's global telecommunications companies. Earlier he was CEO of geospatial software developer Laser-Scan Holdings plc. and he held research/management posts at the Natural Environment Research Council (during which time he was a Principal Investigator for NASA) , the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell and the Department of Environment. Mike has a 1st in Geography, a PhD (Civil Engineering) from Manchester University and an honorary doctorate of Technology from Kingston University. He is a non-executive director of the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc (OGC).
Research Summary
Spatial data Infrastructures, LBS, Gespatial Intelligence and geospatial interoperability.
Current and recent research contracts (:
DSCENT (EPSRC) 2007 -2010
GIS4EU (Eu - eContentPlus) 2007 -2010
EuroGEOSS (EU FP7) 2009 - 2012
SWIMA (TSB) 2008 - 2010
Ordnance Survey Data Management Futures 2008 - 2011
Digital Economy Hub (EPSRC) 2009 - 2014
Towards Pervasive Media (EPSRC) 2009 - 2011
eSoter (EU FP7) 2008 - 2012
SPACER (JISC) 2009 - 2010
ELOgEO 2010-2011
THE ISSUE 2011 - 2014
Selected Publications
LEIBOVICI, D.G. BASTIN, L AND JACKSON, M, 2011. Higher-Order Co-Occurrences for Exploratory Point Pattern Analysis and Decision Tree Clustering on Spatial Data Computers & Geosciences. 37.(3), 382-389.
LEIBOVICI, D.G. AND JACKSON, M., 2011. Multi-scale Integration for Spatio-Temporal Ecoregioning Delineation International Journal of Image and Data Fusion. 2(2), 105-119
JACKSON, M.J, HOBONA, G, BERNARD, L and BRAUNER, J. AND HIGGINS, C., 2011. The role and development of a persistent interoperability test bed for geosciences research.. In: SINHA, A. K and ARCTUR, D. JACKSON, I. AND GUNDERSEN, L., eds., Societal Challenges and GeoInformatics Special Paper 482. Geological Society of America. 1-8 (In Press.)
