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CATEGORIES:Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series
SUMMARY:Issues of scale and uncertainty in landscape scale
  data products - Ben Marchant (British Geological 
 Survey)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T121000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190705T123000
UID:TALK126907AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/126907
DESCRIPTION:<span>Policy-makers often exploit gridded data pro
 ducts when making land-use decisions. These produc
 ts provide information about the spatial variation
  of many factors associated with geology\, natural
  resources\, soil health\, climate\, topography an
 d the potential occurrence of natural hazards. The
 se products might be integrated within mathematica
 l\, statistical or machine learning models to answ
 er specific questions regarding the need to protec
 t the land because of its value for productive agr
 iculture or mineral exploitation\, the potential h
 azards associated with developing the land and the
  suitability of sites for particular types of infr
 astructure. The British Geological Survey produces
  many two- and three-dimensional data products (se
 e <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://
 www.bgs.ac.uk/data/mapViewers/home.html)">https://
 www.bgs.ac.uk/data/mapViewers/home.html)</a>. We a
 lso integrate these products in decision support t
 ools addressing many land-use questions such as th
 e suitability of land for sustainable drainage sch
 emes\, the need for remediation of brownfield site
 s\, the suitability of land for renewable energy p
 roduction and queries regarding the cost and envir
 onmental impacts of major infrastructure projects.
  I will describe examples of such decision support
  tools particularly focusing on the issues of unce
 rtainty in the products used to create them\, the 
 propagation of this uncertainty upon integration o
 f these products and the potential for a mismatch 
 of scales between the different products and the p
 olicy question being addressed. I will discuss str
 ategies to address these issues and the informatio
 n and metadata that must be provided with data pro
 ducts to facilitate such strategies.</span>
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
CONTACT:INI IT
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