Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information

Contact Details

• Tel: 0116 252 3808
• Email: chj2@le.ac.uk
• Fax: 0116 252 3854
• Office: Bennett Building F51
• Personal Homepage

Research Interests

I am a geographer, with an initial career focus (NERC InterMet) on the use of spatial analysis techniques in environmental modelling within an agricultural and climatic domain. This research base led to an interest in e-computing, both from the perspective of managing and integrating data from multi-sensor networks and the need to tap into significant processing power to run complex process models for wider landscape-scale perspectives on pest and disease invasion. This focus also led to my involvement in the ESRC small grant project entitled ‘grid-enabling geographically weighted regression’ with Professor Brunsdon, led by Dr Harris of the University of Bristol and in partnership with the Centre for e-Science at the University of Lancaster.

The need to communicate the results and benefits of a geographical approach to often locally perceived or modelled issues has resulted in an on-going interest in visualisation and participatory engagement with modelled outputs using a variety of visualisation methods. Funding as part for the Spatial Literacy In Teaching & learning (SPLINT) CETL, for which I am the lead Co-PI and Site Manager for Leicester, has enabled a more recent and developing stream of research looking at mobile, virtual and augmented reality visualisation methods for communicating and developing spatial understandings. Working within the broader context of spatial literacy, these interests are both pedagogic and research related.

In 2009/10 I was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship for supporting and developing excellence and innovative approaches to teaching and learning in Geography.

Recent and Ongoing Projects

Recent or ongoing research & teaching projects in the past five years include:

• Geography Undergraduates INtegrating NEo-geographies and Social Science (GUINESS), funded by the University of Leicester New teaching Initiative Fund (project co-PI)
• Supporting experiential field-based learning: Interfaces and archives (GeoPods), funded by the University of Leicester Teaching Enhancement Fund (project PI)
• Spatial Literacy in Teaching and Learning (SPLINT) CETL, funded by HEFCE (project co-PI)
• Grid enabled spatial regression models (with application to deprivation indices) ESRC National Centre for e-social science small grant (project co-PI).

I am co-Director of the newly established MSc Geographical Intelligence.

External Activities

• I am the external examiner for the BSc Geographical Information Science at the University of Kingston.
• Co-organiser of the Agile pre-conference workshop on Spatial Thinking, Guimarães Portugal 11 May.

PhD Supervision

Current

• Ziab Khan (2008 - ) 'Local Indicators Of Spatial Association For The Object-Oriented Classification Of Forest Stands Using Combined Lidar And Multi-Spectral Remotely Sensed Data ' (Principal supervisor, with Dr Lex Comber)
• Adam Rousell (2008 - ) 'VR Navigation and Distance Perception: Improvements using visualization and interaction techniques' (Principal supervisor, with Prof Chris Brunsdon)

Completed

• Lubna Al Kharusi (2006) ' Spatio-temporal patterns of Lethrinidae distribution in Omani Waters'

Research Areas for PhD Supervision

Virtual and augmented realities; 3D visualisation; spatial literacy; mobile GIS.

• Geographical Information Science Research Themes

Enquiries: If you are interested in studying for a PhD in one of these research areas, please make informal enquiries via geogPhD@le.ac.uk

Most Recent Publications

Burwell, C., Jarvis, C. & Tansey, K. (2012): The potential for using 3D visualization for data exploration, error correction and analysis of LiDAR point clouds, Remote Sensing Letters, 3:6, 481-490

Jarvis, C.H., Dickie, J. (In Press) Podcasts in support of experiential field learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Li, J., Jarvis, C.H., Brunsdon, C. (In Press) The use of immersive real-time 3D computer graphics for visualisation of Dilution of Precision (DOP) in virtual environments. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Jarvis, C.H., Li, J., Brunsdon, C. (2009) Exploring spatial uncertainty of GPS coordinates and DEM interpolation in virtual environments, In Lin, H., Batty, M. (Eds.) Virtual Geographic Environments. Science Press. p211-220.

Alexander, C., Smith-Voysey, S., Jarvis, C., Tate, N., Tansey, K. (2009) Integration of OS MasterMap with elevation data from LiDAR to classify roof structure and visualise buildings. Computers, Environment & Urban Systems 33, 285-292

Jarvis, C.H., Dickie, J., Li, J. (2008) Blended learning as a dynamic process: Embedding immersive visualisations within the Geographical Information Science curriculum. In Jekel T, Koller A and Donert K (eds.) (2008), Learning with GeoInformation III, Wichman Verlag.

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