Geospatial Data Science

Peter Atkinson
- pmalancaster.acuk
- Lancaster Environment Centre - Distinguished Professor
- Centre for Sustainable Soils
- LIRA - Environmental Modelling
- STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science - Distinguished Professor
- LIRA - Fundamentals
- Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
- Geospatial Data Science
- DSAIL- Environment
- Earth Sciences
Person: Academic and Related
19872026
Alex Bush
- alex.bushlancaster.acuk
- Lancaster Environment Centre - Lectureship in Environmental Remote Sensing
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science
- Data Science and AI @Lancaster
- Geospatial Data Science
- Ecology and Conservation
Person: Academic and Related
20082026
Juan Manuel Escamilla Molgora
- Lancaster Environment Centre - Visiting Researcher
- CHICAS
- Data Science and AI @Lancaster
- Geospatial Data Science
Person: Honorary/Visiting, MPhil/PhD, Academic and Related, PhD
20182024

31 Finished

Mapping geographically co-occurrent cancers in the Morecambe Bay area for designing targeted community-based interventions.
Sedda, L. (Principal Investigator), Keegan, T. (Co-Investigator), Atkinson, P. (Co-Investigator) & Mendes, J. (Researcher)
1/02/22 → 1/12/24
Project: Research
Can Image Analysis and DNA sequencing be integrated to describe ecological structure?
Bush, A. (Principal Investigator)
The Royal Society
31/03/21 → 30/03/22
Project: Research
DSI: 4DGreenland
McMillan, M. (Principal Investigator) & Leeson, A. (Co-Investigator)
European Space Agency
19/11/20 → 18/11/22
Project: Research

303 Journal article
10 Doctoral Thesis
8 Conference contribution/Paper
4 Conference paper
More

A hybrid spatial-temporal data model for indoor dynamic path planning in a 2D/2.5D environment
Ding, X., Liu, L., Zhang, C., Jiang, W., Cao, S. & Fu, C., 7/01/2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geo-spatial Information Science. p. 1-24 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Open Access
DGL-RSIS: Decoupling global spatial context and local class semantics for training-free remote sensing image segmentation
Li, B., Zhang, C., Timmerman, R. M. & Bao, W., 28/02/2026, In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 146, 105113.
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Open Access
Forest-Chat: Adapting vision-language agents for interactive forest change analysis
Brock, J., Zhang, C. & Anantrasirichai, N., 31/05/2026, In: Ecological Informatics. 95, 103741.
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Open Access

10 Publication peer-review
1 Editorial activity
1 Membership of committee

Remote Sensing (Journal)
Zhang, C. (Guest editor)
1/12/2020
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Advances in Space Research (Journal)
Zhang, C. (Peer reviewer)
2018 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Remote Sensing of Environment (Journal)
Zhang, C. (Peer reviewer)
2018 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review

Dean’s Award for PhD Excellence
Silva, C. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Leveraging AI and Earth observation for societal good
Morrison, N. & Atkinson, P.
10/03/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Newspaper Article
Environmental Research; Reports on Environmental Research Findings from Lancaster University Provide New Insights (A network-based approach for estimating pedestrian journey-time exposure to air pollution)
Whyatt, D. & Davies, G.
9/07/14
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research

Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) concentrations in the marine Arctic environment collected between 26-Aug-2019 to 28-Aug-2019
Garnett, J. (Creator), Halsall, C. (Creator), Vader, A. (Creator), Joerss, H. (Creator), Ebinghaus, R. (Creator), Leeson, A. (Creator), Wynn, P. (Creator), Halsall, C. (Contributor) & Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 2022
DOI: 10.5285/eba8654f-fdc8-4d69-91f9-e43aa4bcfe26, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01633
Dataset
Observations of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica from 1974 to 2020
Arthur, J. (Contributor), Stokes, C. (Contributor), Jamieson, S. (Contributor), Carr, J. (Contributor), Leeson, A. (Creator) & Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation, 18/09/2020
DOI: 10.5285/649bbe03-8109-45be-92e5-bcef44a4703a, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php%3Fid=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01376
Dataset
Observations of supraglacial lakes on the Larsen B ice shelf in the decades before it collapsed, 1979-2002
Leeson, A. (Creator), Rice, A. (Creator), Leeson, A. (Contributor), Foster, E. (Contributor) & Centre, U. P. D. (Contributor), UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation, 21/01/2020
DOI: 10.5285/90cde9d9-bc80-41d4-8102-d3d0bb58a029, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php%3Fid=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01282
Dataset