Southampton Geospatial

Our people

Meet the geospatial experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Simon Kemp

Professorial Fellow-Education

Research interests

  • Education for Sustainable Development
  • Waste Management
  • Carbon Footprinting
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Dr Somnath Paramanik

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Crop disease/stress detection; Hyperspectral, LiDAR Remote Sensing
  • Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) and Carbon Credits
  • Climate smart precision agriculture and imapct of extream weather event on vegetation phenology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Songyan Zhu

Lecturer of Geospatial Data Science

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mrs Thea Woods

Enterprise Fellow/GIS Analyst

Research interests

  • geospatial analysis
  • migration mapping
  • human mobility
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