Pip Forer

Pip Forer's academic work at the University of Auckland includes geography and the representation of human activity in space and time. His research profile records a doctorate in geography from Bristol. His publications explore time-geographic prisms, data quality and uncertainty, connecting GIS methods with questions about people's movements and opportunities.

A near-contemporary review by John P. Wilson and Pip Forer records the University of Canterbury’s Geography Department entering GIS teaching in 1987 with a graduate course. In 1989 the department acquired workstation ARC/INFO and ERDAS capability. The acquisition put a general vector GIS and a major raster image-processing system into the same teaching and research environment, allowing students to work with geographic databases and remotely sensed imagery rather than treating the two as unrelated specialities.