Bruce Gittings

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• 2024

  Location Data Scotland: Geospatial Skills Roadmap

  Stewart, A., Gittings, B. & Janes, T., 2024

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

  • Skills 100%
  • Location 100%
  • Industrial Sector 60%
  • Specific Industry 60%
  • Professionals 50%
• 2023

  How do we address the skills shortfall?

  Gittings, B., Stewart, A. & Janes, T., 11 Sept 2023, GeoConnexion International Magazine, 22, 3, p. 54-55.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

  Open Access

  • Situation 100%
  • Industrial Sector 100%
  • Skills 100%
  • Professional Personnel 100%
  • Toms 100%

• Exploring Historical Links between Scotland and India using Geoparsing

  Tyagi, C. & Gittings, B., 19 Apr 2023, GISR UK Conference 2023.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

  • Spatial Data 100%
  • Web Page 100%
  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • Links 100%
  • Digital Archive 100%

• Gazetteer for Scotland

  Gittings, B., 2023

  Research output: Non-textual form › Data set/Database

  Open Access

  • Spider Web 100%
  • Towns 100%

• The Gazetteer for Scotland

  Gittings, B., 2023

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

  • Towns 100%
• 2022

  Definitive Place Name Gazetteer - Scotland

  Gittings, B., 25 Oct 2022

  Research output: Other contribution
• 2020

  Erskine Beveridge: the Dunfermline Geographer

  Gittings, B., 28 May 2020, Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access
• 2018

  Is Shetland a Cartographic Compromise too far?

  Gittings, B., 22 Mar 2018, Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

• Visibility analysis of the Roman communication network in southern Scotland

  Murphy, K., Gittings, B. & Crow, J., Feb 2018, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 17, p. 111-124

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Communication 100%
  • Analysis 100%
  • Visibility 100%
  • Tower 40%
  • Viewshed Analysis 20%
• 2016

  Predicted Pleistocene-Holocene range shifts of the tiger (Panthera tigris)

  Cooper, D. M., Dugmore, A. J., Gittings, B. M., Scharf, A. K., Wilting, A., Kitchener, A. C. & Elith, J. (ed.), 15 Sept 2016, In: Diversity and Distributions. 22, 11, p. 1199-1211

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Holocene 100%
  • Pleistocene 100%
  • Late Pleistocene 75%
  • Last Glacial Maximum 75%
  • Condition 50%
• 2015

  Mappit: The Geography of Books

  Mackie, A. & Gittings, B., Feb 2015, GIS Professional, 62, p. 19.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

  • Geography 100%
  • Map 100%
  • User 100%
  • Goal 50%
  • Research 50%
• 2014

  Do it yourself Drones – experimenting with low cost UAVs

  Gittings, B. & Avery, S., Oct 2014, GIS Professional, 60, p. 12-14.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

  • Industry 100%
  • Oil 100%
  • Low Cost 100%
  • Gas 100%
  • Construction 100%
• 2011

  Giving the 'Right' Route Directions: The Requirements for Pedestrian Navigation Systems

  Schroder, C. J., Mackaness, W. A. & Gittings, B. M., 1 Jul 2011, In: Transactions in GIS. 15, 3, p. 419-438 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Route 100%
  • Navigation 100%
  • Requirement 100%
  • System 100%
  • Research 66%
• 2009

  A Method for Automating Geospatial Dataset Metadata

  Gittings, B. & Dunfey, R. I., 2009, In: Future Internet. 1, p. 28-46 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Describing Scotland: Experiences of Creating an Online Gazetteer for Scotland

  Gittings, B., 2009.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Getting Beyond The Silos

  Gittings, B. & Carter, N., 2009, In: Geoconnexionuk. 7, 1, p. 14-16 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• GIS in Scotland: Past, Present and Future

  Gittings, B., 2009.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• People, places and maps: reflections on online maps in a Scottish context

  Gittings, B., 2009.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Reflections on Forty Years of Geographical Information in Scotland: 'Standardisation, Integration and Representation'

  Gittings, B., 2009, In: Scottish Geographical Journal. 125, 1, p. 8-94 87 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Serving the Public by Breaking down the Silos

  Gittings, B., 2009.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• 2008

  Breaking down the Silos: Developing the GI Strategy for Scotland

  Gittings, B. & Easton, C., 2008.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• The Benefits and Limitations of Geographical Information Systems Thirty Years On

  Gittings, B., 2008.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• 2007

  Some Reflections on Gazetteers and Placenames

  Gittings, B., 2007.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Tephrabase: tephrochronology and the development of a centralised European database

  Newton, A., Dugmore, A. & Gittings, B., 2007, In: Journal Quaternary Science. 22, 7, p. 737-743 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2006

  Towards an open architecture for vector GIS

  Dunfey, R. I., Gittings, B. & Batcheller, J. K., Dec 2006, In: Computers and Geosciences. 32, 10, p. 1720-1732 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Information Systems 100%
  • Vectors 100%
  • Open Architecture 100%
  • Geographical Information 100%
  • Graphics 66%

• Advanced Intervisibility Analysis (Poster)

  Gittings, B., Caldwell, D. R. & Mineter, M. J., 2006.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Avenues for developing the UK?s National Geospatial Metadata Service

  Gittings, B. & Batcheller, J., 2006.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Gazetteer Services: A Scottish Perspective

  Gittings, B., 2006.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Mapping with Google: A lot of fuss over nothing?

  Gittings, B. & Maslen, J., 2006.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Scotland: an encyclopedia of places & landscape

  Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Munro, D. M. & Gittings, B. M., 2006, Glasgow: Collins. 494 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Performance of Vector Oriented Data Storage Strategies in ESRI's ArcGIS

  Gittings, B., 2006, In: Transactions in GIS. 11, 1, p. 1-47 47 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2005

  Tephrabase: a European tephrachronological resource.

  Newton, A., Dugmore, A. & Gittings, B., 2005.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

• 2004

  Scottish Palaeoecological Archive Database

  Gittings, B. & Newton, A., 2004

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• World Wide Earthquake Locator

  Gittings, B., 2004

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
• 2003

  Analysis and Visualization Of Visibility Surfaces (Poster)

  Caldwell, D. R. & Gittings, B., 2003.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

• High-Throughput Computing To Enhance Invervisibility Analysis (Poster)

  Caldwell, D. R. & Gittings, B., 2003.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
• 2002

  A Multicomputing Software Environment for ArcInfo Intervisibility Analysis

  Gittings, B. & Caldwell, D. R., 2002.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

• Explorations in Visibility Analysis: Applying ArcInfo in a Distributed Computing Environment (Poster)

  Caldwell, D. R. & Gittings, B., 2002.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• 2000

  Dynamic landscape visualisation and delivery over the web: An illustration utilising Java Servlets and VRML

  Morrison, K. W., Purves, R. S. & Gittings, B., 2000.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Towards a framework for High Performance Geocomputation

  Gittings, B., 2000, In: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 24, p. 471-486 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Towards a HPC Framework for Integrated Processing of Geographical Data: Encapsulating the Complexity of Parallel Algorithms

  Gittings, B., 2000, In: Transactions in GIS. 4, 3, p. 245-262 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Towards portable parallel algorithms for GIS software

  Gittings, B., Darling, G. & Mulholland, C., 2000.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

• 1999

  Introduction

  Gittings, B., 1999, Integrating Information Infrastructures with Geographic Information Technology. Gittings, B. M. (ed.). Taylor & Francis, p. 1-9 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Partitioning of vector-topological data for parallel GIS operations: Assessment and performance analysis

  Sloan, T. M., Mineter, M. J., Dowers, S., Mulholland, C., Darling, G. & Gittings, B. M., 1999, EURO-PAR'99: PARALLEL PROCESSING. Amestoy, P., Berger, P., Dayde, M., Duff, I., Fraysse, V., Giraud, L. & Ruiz, D. (eds.). BERLIN: Springer, p. 691-694 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • System Operation 100%
  • Information Systems 100%
  • Partitioning 100%
  • Vectors 100%
  • Performance Analysis 100%

• To interpolate and thence to model, or vice versa?

  Jarvis, C. H., Stuart, N., Baker, R. H. A., Morgan, D. & Gittings, B. M. (ed.), 1999, In: Innovations in gis 6. p. 229-242 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Towards a framework for High Performance Geocomputation: Handling Vector Topology within a Distributed Service Environment

  Gittings, B., 1999.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

• Towards Portable Parallel Algorithms for GIS Software

  Gittings, B., Sloan, T., Darling, G. & Mulholland, C., 1999, p. 42-48. 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review

• Web-based geospatial data conversion tools

  Pradhan, A. & Gittings, B., 1999, Integrating Information Infrastructures with Geographic Information Technology. Gittings, B. M. (ed.). Taylor & Francis, p. 39-52 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 1998

  Introduction

  Healey, R. G. & Gittings, B., 1998, Parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS. Healey, R. G., Dowers, S., Gittings, B. M. & Mineter, M. J. (eds.). Taylor & Francis, p. 1-9 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Parallel Database Management for GIS

  Healey, R. G., Gittings, B. & Tranter, M. J., 1998, Parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS. Healey, R. G., Dowers, S., Gittings, B. M. & Mineter, M. J. (eds.). Taylor & Francis, p. 333-349 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter