Autor: Matt Duckham

Dr. Duckham is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia. He also currently (2012) holds a prestigious Australian Research Council research fellowship, an ARC Future Fellowship, for research into ambient spatial intelligence. Previously he worked at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, USA, as well as in the UK (Universities of Edinburgh, Leicester, Glasgow, and Keele). He is a coauthor with Prof. Mike Worboys of the significant advanced undergraduate/postgraduate textbook “GIS: A Computing Perspective” (2nd ed., CRC Press). He has many further related journal and book publications, and he is the Editor‐in-Chief of the Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS).