Giles Foody#
| Membership Number: | 5821 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Affiliated section(s): | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/people/giles.foody |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6464-3054 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Member of the Data and Measurement theme, Rights Lab, University of Nottingham
- 2007 - present Professor of Geographical Information Science, University of Nottingham
- 1997 - 2007 Professor of Geography, University of Southampton
- 1996 - 1997 Professor of Physical Geography, University of Salford
- 1989 - 1996 Lecturer in Topographic Science then Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Wales Swansea
- 1986 - 1989 Lecturer in Geography, Kingston Polytechnic
Fields of Scholarship
- Citizen science
- Geographical information science
- Remote sensing
- Land cover and land cover change
- Cartography
- Geography
Honours and Awards
- 2020 GEO Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award for the Sectoral category, Academia, Group on Earth Observations (Award to The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham)
- 2020 Taylor and Francis Award, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
- 2019 Global Peer Review Awards, Top (1%) reviewer in geoscience, Publons/web of science
- 2019 Global Peer Review Awards, Top (1%) reviewer in ‘cross-field’ category, Publons/web of science
- 2019 David Landgrebe Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE-GRSS), ‘for outstanding contributions in the field of remote sensing image analysis’
- 2016 65th Lovatt Lecture, Institute of Science and te Environment, Worcester
- 2016 Founder's Award, International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA), ‘for substantial and lasting contributions to the foundations of spatial accuracy’
- 2013 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ‘for contributions to the remote sensing of land cover’ (FIEEE)
- 2012 Cuthbert Peek Award, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers), ‘for innovation in the remote sensing of land cover change’
- 2012 Merit Award, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
- 2009 Certificate of appreciation, Canadian Remote Sensing Society
- 2009 The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Award, ‘for services to remote sensing and photogrammetry’ (Gold medal and honorary life membership); the Society’s most senior award
- 2006 Merit Award, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
- 2005 Leica Geosystems Award (first place), American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- 2001 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- 2001 The Edinburgh Award, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
- 1995 President’s Prize, Remote Sensing Society
