Dr Nicholas Tate

Books and monographs

Harris, R.J., Fitzpatrick, K, Souch, C, Brunsdon, C, Jarvis, C, Keylock, C, Orford, S, Singleton, A, and Tate, N.J. (2013) Quantitative Methods in Geography: Making the Connections between Schools, Universities and Employers. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

Unwin, D.J. Foote, K.E., Tate N.J. and  DiBiase, D. (2011) (eds) Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. 496 p. 

Tate, N.J. and Atkinson, P.M. (eds) (2001) Modelling Scale in Geographical Information Science, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.  292p.

Atkinson, P.E. and Tate, N.J. (eds) (1999) Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 273p.

Kitchin, R.J. and Tate, N.J. (1999) Conducting Research in Human Geography: Theory, Methodology and Practice, Prentice Hall, Harlow, 330p

Journal papers and book chapters (since 2011)  

De Sabbata, S., Ballatore, A., Liu, P. and Tate, N.J. (2023). Learning urban form through unsupervised graph-convolutional neural networks. The 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Methods, Models, and Resources, September 12th, 2023. Leeds, UK.

Blanford, J. I., Bowlick, F., Gidudu, A., Gould, M., Griffin, A. L., Kar, B., Kemp, K, de Roiste, M., de Sabbata, S., Sinton, D., Strobl, J. Tate, N.J. and Unwin, D. (2021). Lockdown lessons: an international conversation on resilient GI science teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 46(1), 7–19  10.1080/03098265.2021.1986687.

Easton, S., Lees, L., Hubbard, P. and Tate, N.J., (2020). Measuring and mapping displacement: The problem of quantification in the battle against gentrification. Urban Studies, 57(2), pp.286-306.

Tate N.J., and Jarvis C.H. (2017) Changing the face of GIS education with communities of practice. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 41 (3): 327-340. 10.1080/03098265.2017.1315534.

Papke, J., Strozzi, T., and Tate N.J. (2017) Mapping Land Surface Displacements in the Swiss Alps with Radar Interferometry. in:  Balzter, H.  (ed) Earth Observation for Land and Emergency Monitoring, Wiley-Blackwell, pp.  209-222.

Wheeler, J., Rodriguez-Veiga, P., Balzter, H., Tansey, K. and Tate, N.J. (2017)  Forest Mapping of the Congo Basin using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). in:  Balzter, H.  (ed) Earth Observation for Land and Emergency Monitoring, Wiley Blackwell, pp. 57-74.

De Sabbata, S., Tate, N.J., and Jarvis, C. (2016). Characterizing volunteered geographic information using fuzzy clustering. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Canada: Montreal.

Powell D.M., Ockelford A., Rice S.P., Hillier J.K., Thao N., Reid, I. Tate N.J., and Ackerley D (2016) Structural properties of mobile armors formed at different flow strengths in gravel-bed rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 121 (8): 1494-1515. 10.1002/2015JF003794 http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38387.

Schuffert, S., Voegtle, T., Tate, N., and Ramirez, F.A. (2015) Quality assessment of roof planes extracted from height data for solar energy systems by the EAGLE platform. Remote Sensing 7: 17016–17034. 10.3390/rs71215866

Jarvis, C.H., Tate, N.J., Dickie, J., and Brown, G. (2015) Mobile learning in a human geography field course. Journal of Geography. 115 (2): 61-71 10.1080/00221341.2015.1026373

Balzter, H., Tate, N.J., Kaduk, J., Harper, D. Page, S.  Morrison, R.,  Muskulus, R.  and Jones, P. (2015) Multi-scale entropy analysis as a method for time-series analysis of climate data. Climate 3(1):227-240.  10.3390/cli3010227

Fisher, P.F., and Tate, N.J. (2015) Modelling class uncertainty in the geodemographic Output Area Classification. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 42(3):541-563.  10.1068/b130176p

Tewkesbury, A., Comber, A.J., Tate, N.J., Lamb, A., and Fisher, P.F. (2015) A critical synthesis of remotely sensed optical image change detection techniques. Remote Sensing of Environment 160:1-14. 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.006

Hillier, J. and a group of 29 authors including Tate N.J. (2014) Manual mapping of drumlins in synthetic landscapes to assess operator effectiveness Journal of Maps. 10.1080/17445647.2014.957251

Harris, R. Tate, N.J. Souch, C. Singleton, A. Orford, S. Keylock, C., Jarvis, C. and Brunsdon, C. (2014) Geographers count: a report on quantitative methods in geography. Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences 6(2): 43-58. 10.11120/elss.2014.00035

Pandey, P. Tate, N.J., and Balzter, H. (2014) Mapping tree species in coastal Portugal using statistically segmented principal component analysis and other methods. IEEE Sensors Journal. 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2335612.

Aplin, P., Boyd, D.S., Danson, F.M., Donoghue, D.N.M., Ferrier, G., Galiatsatos, N., Marsh, A., Pope, A., Ramirez, F.A., and Tate, N.J., (2012) The Earth Observation Technology Cluster. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing XXXIX-B6: 31-36.

Mount N.J., Tate, N.J., Sarker M.H., and Thorne C.R. (2012) Evolutionary, multi-scale analysis of river bank line retreat using continuous wavelet transforms. Geomorphology. 183: 82-95. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.07.017

Papke J., Strozzi, T., Wiesmann A., Wegmueller U., and Tate, N.J. (2012)  Rock Glacier monitoring with spaceborne SAR In Graechen, Valais, Switzerland, IGARSS 2012, Munich, 22 Jul 2012 - 27 Jul 2012 pages 3911-3914.

Alexander C, Tansey K, Kaduk J, Holland D, and Tate, N.J. (2011) An approach to classification of airborne laser scanning point cloud data in an urban environment International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(24): 9151-9169.

DiBiase, D.,  Foote, K.E., Tate, N.J and Unwin, D.J. (2011) Ways forward for GIS&T education  in:  Unwin, D.J., Foote, K., Tate, N.J. and Dibiase, D.  (eds) Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education, WileyBlackwell, Chichester pp. 453-468.

Foote, K.E., Unwin, D.J., Tate, N.J. and DiBiase, D. (2011) GIS&T in higher education: challenges for educators, opportunities for education  in:  Unwin, D.J.,Foote, K., Tate, N.J. and Dibiase, D.  (eds) Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester pp. 3-16. 

Tate, N.J. (2011) GIS is dead, long live GIS&T: an educational commentary on the opening of Pandora's Box  in:  Unwin, D.J., Foote, K., Tate, N.J. and Dibiase, D.  (eds) Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education,  Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester pp. 345-358.