Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Earth Observation for SDG1: Spatiotemporal poverty mapping using deep learning and statistical models
Research: Gary's main research focus is in the development of approaches for geographical targeting of scarce government and NGO resources across the planet but particularly in low and middle income countries. Gary’s research supports the UN’s call for a data revolution in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help monitoring progress and contribute to geographic targeting of scarce resources. The majority of projects Gary has worked on recently have been co-designed with UN agencies and they are directly dealing with gaps in knowledge and providing required outputs for practitioners as well as furthering scientific knowledge.
Gary specialises in developing proxy metrics for measuring poverty using multi-source non-traditional data such as very-high spatial resolution satellite imagery (<1m) and open street map data. Gary is particularly interested in developing methods for using satellite imagery to map and monitor aspects of human livelihoods and how this could be used to support the targeting of resources to areas that are in specific need.
Current research projects as principal or co-investigator: (1) Improving prediction of trends in prevalence of child wasting at country level: Exploring the impact of survey timing; (2) Mapping gender related barriers for immunisation using Geographic Information Systems (GIS); (3) Developing a childrens climate risk index with UNICEF.
PhD Opportunities: Places for September 2023 currently advertised:
Past/Completed Projects:
Teaching: Gary teaches the following postgraduate courses in 'EO4SDGs', ‘Applied research skills in environment and society’, ‘Research practice and project planning’, ‘Principles and Practices of Remote Sensing’ and undergraduate courses in 'Key Methods in Physical Geography'.
Deputy Director for SENSE Centre for Doctoral Training
Co-chair of the Inclusive Wealth Working Group of the ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
Steering Committee member for Belgian Science Policy funded project
B.Sc. Lancaster University, Geography
M.Sc. Southampton University, Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis
Ph.D Southampton University, Exploring the spatial associations between socioeconomic variables and remotely sensed environmental metrics in Assam, Northeast India.
FHEA: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
personal teaching and research webpage: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gwatmoug/
Consultant Research Scientist, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
2015 → 2018
Visiting Researcher , Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability, International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
30 Sep 2001 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Gary Watmough (Advisor), Alan Duncan (Advisor), Geoff Simm (Advisor), Philipp Barthelme (Advisor), John Mutua (Advisor), George Mayenga (Advisor), Peter Ballantyne (Advisor), Isabelle Baltenweck (Advisor), Guyo Roba (Advisor), Dominic Moran (Advisor) & Fiona Borthwick (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Gary Watmough (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Gary Watmough (Advisor)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Watmough, G., Agarwal, S., Seth, S. & Panciera, R.
1/01/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Watmough, G., Agarwal, S., Seth, S., Hutton, C. & Odipo, V.
1/09/22 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
1/10/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
1/02/22 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
Woodhouse, I., Donovan, K. & Watmough, G.
10/02/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Watmough, G. (Creator), Hagdorn, M. (Creator) & Brumhead, J. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 9 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3085
Dataset
Watmough, G. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 9 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3074
Dataset
Watmough, G. (Creator), Hagdorn, M. (Creator) & Brumhead, J. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 9 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3088
Dataset
Watmough, G. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 9 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3080
Dataset
Watmough, G. (Creator), Hagdorn, M. (Creator) & Brumhead, J. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 9 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3093
Dataset
Gary Watmough, Sian Henley, Massimo Bollasina & James Mollard
25/10/22 → 26/10/22
4 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research
Gary Watmough, Sian Henley, Massimo Bollasina & James Mollard
19/08/21 → 20/08/21
4 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research
Gary Watmough & Jens-Christian Svenning
7/01/19 → 9/01/19
7 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item