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A/PROF GARY JOHN HUNTER



Contact Details

Organization: Geomatics
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND READER
Email:
Homepage: http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/people/gjh.html
Work: 83446806
Fax: 9347 2916
Room: B204
Level: 02
Building: Engineering Block B
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Spatial data quality and usability Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Denmark Aalborg University Exchange, Research, Teaching
Netherlands Wageningen University and Research Centre Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Surveying (with Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1982
Master of Surveying Science (by research) University of Melbourne 01-Mar-1987
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 30-Mar-1994

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
LS (LS)
Member of the Institution of Surveyors Australia (MISAUST) 31-Dec-1982

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), Chicago, USA URISA GIS Hall of Fame award 30-Sep-2006
Other (Award) Spatial Sciences Institute, Canberra, Australia Honorary Fellow 01-Nov-2004
Other (Award) Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (AURISA), Canberra, Australia Life Member 01-Nov-1999

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
RESEARCH TO SUPPORT LITTORAL OPERATIONS, CRC-SI PROJECT AGREEMENT 5.3 -COMMUNICATING SPATIAL DATA QUALITY Chief Investigator CRC FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Improving the Usability of Spatial Information Products and Services
    Year: 2007
    Book: The European Information Society: Leading the Way in Geoinformation, Lecture notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • A Spatio-Temporal Population Model to Support Risk Assessment and Damage Analysis for Decision-Making


    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 935-953
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  • Testing the effects of Positional Uncertainty on Spatial Decision Making


    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 645-665
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  • Testing the effects of Thematic Uncertainty on Spatial Decision Making


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cartography and Geographic Information Science
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 199-214
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Cadastral Upgrade as a By-Product of Spatial Data Collection: A Case Study from Regional Victoria
    Year: 2007
    Event name: SSC 2007 Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial Conference SSC 2007
    Page numbers: 36-45
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute
    Author(s):
  • Facts or Fiction: Consumer Beliefs about Spatial Data Quality
    Year: 2007
    Event name: SSC 2007 Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial Conference SSC 2007
    Page numbers: 721-727
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • A Case Study in the Use of Risk Management to Assess Decision Quality
    Year: 2006
    Book: Fundamentals of Spatial Data Quality
    Publisher: Hermes Science(Paris)
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  • Implementation of a Prototype Toolbox for Communicating Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty using a Wildfire Risk Example
    Year: 2006
    Book: Progress in Spatial Data Handling
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Do Spatial Data Consumers Really Find Data Quality Information Useful?


    Year: 2006
    Event name: 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Page numbers: 215-224
    Publisher: Instituto Geografico Portugues(Lisbon)
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  • Improving Positional Accuracy and Preserving Topology through Spatial Data Fusion


    Year: 2006
    Event name: 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Page numbers: 675-684
    Publisher: Instituto Geografico Portugues(Lisbon)
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  • Modeling spatial variation in data quality using linear referencing
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Page numbers: 225-235
    Publisher: Instituto Geografico Portugues(Lisbon)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Quality and Decision Making
    Year: 2005
    Book: Quality in Geographic Information
    Publisher: Hermes Science(Paris)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Next-Generation Research Issues in Spatial Data Quality
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The National Biennial Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute: SSC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovation and Praxis
    Page numbers: 865-872
    Publisher: Spatial Sciences Institute(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Application of Neural networks for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Turkey
    Year: 2004
    Book: Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Where's the fire? Quantifying uncertainty in a wildfire threat model.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 17-25
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Fuzzy Optimization of Spatial Data Quality Metadata for Datasets.
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 3rd International symposium on spatial data quality
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on spatial data quality
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 155-168
    Publisher: Technical University of Vienna(Vienna)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Lost in the Mail: the Inherent Errors of Mapping Australia Post Postcodes to ABS Derived Postal Areas
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Geographical Studies
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 171-179
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Making the Trade-Off between Decision Quality and Information Cost
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 69
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 91-98
    Publisher: American Society for Photogrammetry(Bethesda)
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  • Understanding Spatial Data Usability
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Data Science Journal
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 26 Feb 2003
    Page numbers: 79-89
    Publisher: International Council for Science(Paris)
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Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems:Spatial Data Management: Topic Overview
    Year: 2003
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
    Publisher: Eolss Publishers Co(Oxford)
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  • Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems:Spatial Data Quality
    Year: 2003
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
    Publisher: Eolss Publishers Co(Oxford)
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  • Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems:Spatial Data Standards
    Year: 2003
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
    Publisher: Eolss Publishers Co(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Automatic Updating of Spatial Data Quality Information
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 2nd International Symposium of Spatial Data Quality 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium of Spatial Data Quality 2003
    Page numbers: 210-214
    Publisher: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • A GIS with the capacity for managing data quality information
    Year: 2002
    Book: Spatial Data Quality
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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  • A theory for communicating uncertainty in spatial databases
    Year: 2002
    Book: Spatial Data Quality
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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Journal Articles

  • A Self-Learning Multimedia Approach for Enriching GIS Education
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Geography in Higher Education
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 67-80
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstoke)
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  • Responding to the consequences of uncertainty in geographical data
    Year: 2002
    Journal: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 405-417
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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  • Riding the Storm: a comparison of uncertainty modelling techniques
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Applied Geography
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 308-330
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Understanding semantics and ontologies: they're quite simple really - "If you know what I mean!"
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Transactions in GIS
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 83-87
    Publisher: Blackwell(London)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Proceedings of Accuracy 2002: 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences


    Year: 2002
    Event name: Accuracy 2002: 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Accuracy 2002: 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Page numbers: 450
    Publisher: Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Ensuring the Survival of Geomatic Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Surveying and Land Information Systems
    Volume: 61
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 255-267
    Publisher: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping(Washington DC)
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  • Towards a Methodology for the Evaluation of Multimedia Geographic Information Products
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Geoinformatica
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 291-315
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Intelligent System for Managing Spatial Data Quality Information
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (AURISA) 2001
    Conference Publication: AURISA 2001 Conference
    Page numbers: 1-13
    Publisher: Australasian Urban & Regional Information Systems Association(Canberra)
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  • Keynote Address: Spatial Data Quality Revisited
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 3rd Brazilian Geo-Information Workshop (Geo 2001)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian Geo-Information Workshop (Geo 2001)
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Brazilian Computer Society(Rio de Janiero)
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  • Keynote Presentation: Issues and Prospects for Spatial Data Quality
    Year: 2001
    Event name: International Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS/GPS (ICORG)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Remote Sensing and GIS/GPS (ICORG)
    Page numbers: 40-45
    Publisher: Indian Association of GIS and Remote Sensing(Hyderabad)
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  • Quantifying Uncertainty in a Wildfire Threat Model Using Risk Management Techniques
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Bushfire/FRFANZ 2001 Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Bushfire/FRFANZ 2001 Conference
    Page numbers: 112-119
    Publisher: New Zealand Forest Research Institute(Rotorua)
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