Claire Ellul
Research Fellow
+44 (0)20 7133 5190
c.ellul@londonmet.ac.uk
Interests and Expertise
- 3D Topology in GIS (with particular application to the built environment)
- 3D spatial data structures and querying
- Spatial Databases and Spatial Database Administration
- GIS algorithm design and software development
Research interests/expertise:
Claire Ellul has a first degree in Electrical Engineering and had ten years’ experience as an Information Technology and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) consultant before moving into academia. Her research interests include 3D GIS, and in particular the identification and rapid querying of topological relationships between objects in 3D (are objects above, next to, inside each other) within spatial databases. Interests also include applications of 3D GIS, and in particular the process of navigation within buildings and the built environment. Other interests include databases and spatial databases, dissemination of spatial data in a multi-user environment and GIS algorithm design and development. She also teaches principles of databases and spatial databases at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Current/recent projects and awards
EPSRC PhD Doctoral Training Award (2003-2006), University College London, co-sponsored by 1Spatial Ltd. (Cambridge) - "Functionality and Performance - Two important considerations when Implementing Topology in 3D"
Committee for Scientific Enterprise, London (2005-2006) - Award to Undertake Research into Commercialisation of the PhD
Publications
Ellul C and Haklay M (2007) - The Research Agenda for Topology and Spatial Databases, Guest Editorial, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 31 (4): 373-379
Ellul C and Haklay M (2006) - Requirements for Topology in 3D GIS. Transactions in GIS 10(2): 157-175
Ellul C and Haklay M (2005) - Beyond 9-Intersections - Modifications to a Boundary Representation Topological Structure to Identify Additional Relationships in 3D. Proceedings of the 4th ISPRS Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-dimensional GIS, Glamorgan.
Ellul C (1999) - Extracting Value from GIS Data via the Web. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Geographic Information (UK).
Presentations
Ellul C (2005) - Topology and Geographical Information Systems. Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, September 2005.
Ellul C (2005) - Topology in Three Dimensions - Applications and Implementation. Laser-Scan (Cambridge) User and Partner Conference, June 2005
Ellul C (2005) - Deriving a Generic Topological Data Structure for 3D Data. Workshop on Topology and Spatial Databases, held in conjunction with the GIS Research UK Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, April 2005.
Ellul C and Haklay M (2004) - 3D Topology and GIS - Where are we now? Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, April 2004
