The Defence Context, Geospatial Standards for Data Science - Dr Paul Cripps, Dstl
About the event
Advances in geospatial technologies have led to a significant increase in the role of geospatial data across sectors such as agriculture, aviation, energy, utilities, hydrology, smart cities, government, health and others. As more geospatial data has been collected and analysed to support these sectors, so has the need increased to enable efficient and effective sharing of geospatial data. International standards are a key enabler of such efficient and effective sharing of data. The aim of this workshop is to examine the growth of geospatial data sources and the international standards that enable these sources to be leveraged by data scientists. The workshop will also explore what geospatial standardisation in Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Discrete Global Grid Systems, Linked Data and other areas will mean for Data Science.
The workshop is being organised in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) - an international industry consortium of over 520 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial interface standards. Attendees of this workshop will hear about Geospatial Standards for Data Science and also about the role such standards play within the Defence context.
About the speaker
Dr Paul Cripps is part of the Cyber & Information Systems Division at Dstl. Paul has worked extensively with geospatial information across a range of sectors, including the civil service, academia, third sector and commercial consultancy in each case combining technological horizon scanning with a pragmatic take on sectoral requirements, user needs and capabilities. His doctoral research investigated the fusion of geospatial and semantic information to support innovation in research methods in the humanities.