School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

Dr David Forrest

David Forrest
  • Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)
  • Adviser of Studies (Science and Engineering College Academic & Student Administration)

telephone: 01413305401
email: David.Forrest@glasgow.ac.uk


I have broad interests in cartography & GI research.

The main theme focuses on the improvement of interfaces to GIS to help non-cartographers design and produce sensible maps. This involves the development of knowledge based systems, the theoretical issues that underpin them and the necessary data and meta data structures to make data more accessable and usable.

Another main interest is the content and design of topographic maps, especially at medium scales, and the representation of topographic information on maps.

I pursue a number of issues related to tourist mapping and other maps for public information, including the historical development of tourist map design; the provision of tourist/public information on the Internet; and the design and use of maps in mobile GIS. Some of this ties in with the ICA Commission on Use and User Issues.

Over the years I have published several articles on cartographic & geomatics education.

Recently I have been involved in projects related to Geographic names and their use. One investigation looked at the change of names of sea areas over time and the application of dual naming of sea areas.

In the past I have been active in perceptual research, but now tend to concentrate on how such work can be applied to cartographic systems to assist non cartographers to produce sensible maps.

Although currently not active in these fields, I keep up to date with research in generalisation, automated name placement, visualisation and geospatial data structures.

I gained a Geography degree from the University of Dundee in 1995 and a PhD in that same subject from the University of Edinburgh in 1999. After a year at Cardiff University, I headed north to the University of Aberdeen where I worked for 9 years (as Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer)before arriving in Glasgow in March 2009.

Jump to: 2012 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2003 | 2001
Number of items: 8.

2012

Li, Z., Pasquali, P., Cantone, A., Singleton, A., Funning, G., and Forrest, D. (2012) MERIS atmospheric water vapor correction model for wide swath interferometric synthetic aperture radar. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 9 (2). pp. 257-261. ISSN 1545-598X (doi:10.1109/LGRS.2011.2166053)

2009

Forrest, D. (2009) Naming of the North Sea and other European coastal waters. In: Pae, C. (ed.) Territorial issues in Europe and East Asia : Colonialism, War Occupation, and Conflict Resolution. Northeast Asian History Foundation, pp. 139-176. ISBN 9788961870849

2008

Cornelius, S., Medyckyj-Scott, D., Forrest, D. , Williams, A., and Mackaness, W. (2008) The virtual placement: an alternative to the traditional work placement in the geographical sciences? Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 32 (2). pp. 287-302. ISSN 0309-8265 (doi:10.1080/03098260701514165)

Scrimgeour, R., and Forrest, D. (2008) Conveying geospatial public transport information on the world-wide web: a review of the United Kingdom sources. Cartographic Journal, 45 (2). pp. 117-128. ISSN 0008-7041 (doi:10.1179/174327708X305111)

2007

Maguire, David et al. (2007) Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time. Series: Innovations in GIS. CRC Press. ISBN 9781420008609

2003

Collier, P, Forrest, D , and Pearson, A (2003) The representation of topographic information on maps: The depiction of relief. Cartographic Journal, 40 . pp. 17-26. (doi:10.1179/000870403235002033)

Forrest, D (2003) Cartographic education and research in the UK. Cartographic Journal, 40 . pp. 141-146. (doi:10.1179/000870403235001494)

2001

Forrest, D, and Kinninment, E (2001) Experiments in the design of 1 : 100 000 scale topographic mapping for Great Britain. Cartographic Journal, 38 . pp. 25-40.

This list was generated on Thu May 24 16:34:01 2012 BST.

Forrest, D. 2007-8. Dual language names in areas of international extent North East Asia Historical Foundation

Forrest, D. 2004 Terrain modelling & communal tenure in Egypt £420 (Carnegie Trust)

Tom Hastings (PhD candidate)

  • Programme Director MSc in Geoinformation Technology & Cartography
  • Most of my teaching focuses on cartography and GIS on the MSc in Geoinformation Technology & Cartography. I also teach GIS to undergraduate geographers and an Honours option in Geovisualisation.