Dr David Kidd
Contact
- Email: david.kidd@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- School: School of Engineering and the Environment
- Department: Department of Geography, Geology and the Environment
About
I am a Geographical Information Scientist with a wide range of interests related to the integration, analysis and visualisation of diverse and disparate data to address complex environmental and historical questions and problems such as, climate change, the evolution of the planet and life, place names, and the 19th Centaury Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
Academic responsibilities
Senior lecturer
Qualifications
- PhD Applications of Geographical Information Systems to Phylogeography , University of St. Andrews, 2005.
- MSc Geographical Information Systems, UNIGIS University of Huddersfield, 1998.
- PG Diploma Environmental Impact Assessment, University of Aberystwyth, 1990.
- BSc (Hons) Plant and Environmental Biology, University of St. Andrews, 1989.
Gallery of work
The Ghost of Happisburgh, Norfolk. Coastal Erosion 1970 - 2022.
Visualising change can be tricky. This ArcGIS 3D Scene uses high-resolution 50cm lidar point cloud, 1m lidar DEM, 25cm aerial photography, OS Mastermap building polygons 2020, and a 1970 historic OS 1:2,000 Country Series map. 2020 building are multipatch features built from the Mastermap building footprints and the lidar point cloud. Buildings not on the 2020 map were digitised from the historic map.
Building Use and Age in Kingston upon Thames Town Center
Combines Ordnance Survey LIDAR 3D point cloud, Verisk UK Buildings, and Historic England Listed Buildings
The Global Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1759-1869)
Explorer, naturalist, geologist and diplomat, Alexander von Humboldt was once one of the most famous people in the world. He reputably has more things named after him than anyone else in history. He is my hero.
Our Demonic Landscape
Density of places named after The Devil or Hell
Places with Beech in their name and the distribution of Beech trees
Hot spot analysis reveals regions with high density of Beech trees also have high density of places with beech in their name.
The Age and Bearing of Mammalian Evolutionary Relationships
Lines are connect the nodes of a supertree of all Mammals with the tips located at the center of the range of each mammal range.
Videos of my work
Kingston University GIS in Action
Geospatial visualisation by students and staff in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Kingston University London
Kingston University GIS in Action
Geospatial visualisation by students and staff in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Kingston University London
GeoPhyloBuilder the Movie
3D evolutionary trees over geography from my Postdoc at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC.
Hogsmill River (Demo in Geovisionary)
Testing KU's Geovisionary system to the limit with a trip down the Hogsmill River. 19,200,000 cells of gridded data, over 1000 2D and 3D polygons, all rendered with shading and other visual effects. You can see it straining, but it is much smoother when not recording video and could be better optimized.
Pitcher Piano Pub, Richmond upon Thames
3D model of Pitcher Piano pub in Richmond by Peter Harmston BSc GIS, Kingston University London.
Evolutionary cartography
Fly-by movie of 3D spatial evolutionary trees (geophylogenies) created in ArcScene.
Geophylogeny of all Mammal
Tree nodes elevation is proportional to age of divergence. Nodes located by spatial centroid averaging of subclade ranges.
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