Martin Charlton BA FRGS

Position:	Senior Research Associate
Office:	TF07, 3rd Floor, John Hume Building
Telephone:	+353 (0) 1 708 6186
Fax:	+353 (0) 1 708 6456
email:	martin.charlton@nuim.ie

Disciplines:	Geography, Geocomputation, Town Planning

Research Areas:	Spatial Statistics, Geographical Information Science, Environment

Other Keywords:	Geodemographics, Geographically Weighted Regression

Background:	Martin is an expert in the use of Geographical Information Systems and has been a leading researcher in this area for over 20 years. Until recently he was a lecturer in GIS at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Research:	Martin, together with Stewart Fotheringham and Chris Brunsdon, is one of the originators of Geographically Weighted Regression, for which he has written much of the software.

Selected Publications:	A. Stewart Fotheringham, T. Barmby, C. Brunsdon, T. Champion, M. Charlton, S. Kalogirou, A. Tremayne, P. Rees, H. Eyre, J. Macgill, J. Stillwell, G. Bramley and J. Hollis Development of a Migration Model: Analytical and Practical Enhancements. Report prepared for the office of the Deputy Prime Minister (formerly Department of Transport, Local Government and Regions) 2003. C. Brunsdon, A. Stewart Fotheringham and M.E. Charlton Geographically Weighted Summary Statistics -- A Framework for Localised Exploratory Data Analysis. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 26: 501-524 2002. C. Brunsdon, A. Stewart Fotheringham and M. E. Charlton Geographically Weighted Local Statistics Applied to Binary Data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2478: 38-50 2002. A. Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon and Martin Charlton Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships. xii and 269 pages, Wiley: Chichester. ISBN 0-471-49616-2 (hardback) 2002.