A major multidisciplinary research centre, the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) conducts pioneering studies across a considerable range of areas related to geospatial science and technology.
Working closely with partners from across industry, within academia, and various government departments, staff from the Centre have research strengths in a range of areas in geospatial science including:
- geoinformatics and data modelling
- geospatial intelligence
- interoperability and standards
- location based services
- semantics, reasoning and cognition
The Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG) has been closely involved in the rapid technological revolution in this field. It has earned global renown for its cutting-edge research in satellite navigation and positioning systems, photogrammetry, remote sensing, sensor integration and geographical information systems. The diversity of its work, spanning engineering surveying to unmanned aerial vehicles, has led to exciting and innovative collaborations across departments and with other institutions.
Our postgraduate programmes generate interest worldwide, and current research themes include:
- geospatial engineering
- GPS (global positioning system) geodesy
- integrated sensors
- photogrammetry and remote sensing
- ubiquitous positioning and autonomous systems
A new Horizon Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) for the Digital Society opened in 2009. It will explore how the millions of location enabled computers embedded in the world around us will transform the ways in which we work, shop, travel, learn, socialise and play. Its work will help to drive the growth of the digital economy in the 21st century. Supported by almost £20m investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and over 30 industry partners, the DTC will recruit more than 50 PhD students over the next five years.
The Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) is located in the Pavement Research Building and provides internationally leading research, education and laboratory facilities for transportation infrastructure and related applications including pavement engineering.
The Centre has state-of-the-art research and development laboratories and current research themes include:
- paving materials
- transport and highway asset management
- rail track
- sustainable construction
- material & infrastructure modelling
- physicochemical interactions
The Coastal Dynamics & Engineering Group (CoDEG) is an internationally focused research centre. The main research emphasis is on fundamental theoretical and numerical studies of processes that are of importance to practising coastal engineers. A further key element is increasing research impact through collaboration with existing centres of excellence in related fields. The group has particular expertise in
- morphodynamics
- nearshore wave propagation
- wave-generated currents
- coastal structure design
- shoreface nourishment
Present research includes bore collapse on a beach, accurate prediction of hydraulic performance of structures, sediment sorting, numerical modelling of nearshore wave propagation (nonlinear shallow water and Boussinesq equations), and developing practical numerical models for coastal engineering applications. The group has access to high performance computing facilities and state-of-the-art scientific software.