K. Lawrie
British Geological Survey
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Environmental Earth Sciences | 2012
C. Foster; Catherine Pennington; M.G. Culshaw; K. Lawrie
Landslide inventories are essential because they provide the basis for predictive landslide hazard and susceptibility assessments and because they allow for the manipulation and storage of temporal and spatial data. The National Landslide Database has been developed by the British Geological Survey (BGS). It is the most extensive source of information on landslides in Great Britain with over 15,000 records of landslide events each documented as fully as possible. This information is invaluable for planners and developers as it helps them investigate, avoid or mitigate areas of unstable ground in accordance with Government planning policy guidelines. Therefore, it is vital that the continual verification, collection and updating of landslide information is carried out as part of the Survey’s ‘National Capability’ work. This paper describes the evolution from a static database to one that is continually updated forming part of a suite of national digital hazard products. The history of the National Landslide Database and associated Geographical Information System (GIS) is discussed, together with its application and future development.
Computers & Geosciences | 2009
Andrew Howard; Bill Hatton; Femke Reitsma; K. Lawrie
Geological survey organisations (GSOs) are established by most nations to provide a geoscience knowledge base for effective decision-making on mitigating the impacts of natural hazards and global change, and on sustainable management of natural resources. The value of the knowledge base as a national asset is continually enhanced by the exchange of knowledge between GSOs as data and information providers and the stakeholder community as knowledge users and exploiters. Geological maps and associated narrative texts typically form the core of national geoscience knowledge bases, but have some inherent limitations as methods of capturing and articulating knowledge. Much knowledge about the three-dimensional (3D) spatial interpretation and its derivation and uncertainty, and the wider contextual value of the knowledge, remains intangible in the minds of the mapping geologist in implicit and tacit form. To realise the value of these knowledge assets, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has established a workflow-based cyber-infrastructure to enhance its knowledge management and exchange capability. Future geoscience surveys in the BGS will contribute to a national, 3D digital knowledge base on UK geology, with the associated implicit and tacit information captured as metadata, qualitative assessments of uncertainty, and documented workflows and best practice. Knowledge-based decision-making at all levels of society requires both the accessibility and reliability of knowledge to be enhanced in the grid-based world. Establishment of collaborative cyber-infrastructures and ontologies for geoscience knowledge management and exchange will ensure that GSOs, as knowledge-based organisations, can make their contribution to this wider goal.
Geomorphology | 2015
Catherine Pennington; Katy Freeborough; Claire Dashwood; Tom Dijkstra; K. Lawrie
Archive | 2010
H.C. Bonsor; Stephanie Bricker; B.E. O Dochartaigh; K. Lawrie
Archive | 2013
H.C. Bonsor; D.C. Entwisle; S. Watson; K. Lawrie; Stephanie Bricker; S.D.G. Campbell; David Lawrence; Hugh F. Barron; I. Hall; B.E. O Dochartaigh
Archive | 2016
Emily A. Tracey; N.A. Smith; K. Lawrie
Archive | 2013
Colm Jordan; K.A.M. Adlam; K. Lawrie; Wayne Shelley; J. Bevington
Archive | 2012
H.C. Bonsor; K. Lawrie; S. Watson; Diarmad Campbell; David Lawrence; I. Hall; D. Hay; Hugh F. Barron
Archive | 2009
Colm Jordan; E.J. Bee; N.A. Smith; K. Lawrie; A.P. Marchant; Geraldine Wildman; J. Bow; Wayne Shelley; Paul Turner
Archive | 2008
Andrew Kingdon; Don Aldiss; K. Lawrie