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Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Perrat, B., Li, X., Jackson, B., Landman, T., Ling, F., …Foody, G. M. (2021). Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z

This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

FIMS: Identifying, Predicting and Visualising Food Insecurity (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Lucas, B., Smith, A., Smith, G., Perrat, B., Nica-Avram, G., Harvey, J., & Goulding, J. (2020). FIMS: Identifying, Predicting and Visualising Food Insecurity. In WWW '20: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020 (190-193). https://doi.org/10.1145/3366424.3383538

Food insecurity is a persistent and pernicious problem in the UK. Due to logistical challenges, national food insecurity statistics are unmeasured by government bodies - and this lack of data leads to any local estimates that do exist being routinely... Read More about FIMS: Identifying, Predicting and Visualising Food Insecurity.

Quality assessment of an Ultra-Wide Band positioning system for indoor wheelchair court sports (2015)
Journal Article
Perrat, B., Smith, M. J., Mason, B. S., Rhodes, J. M., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2015). Quality assessment of an Ultra-Wide Band positioning system for indoor wheelchair court sports. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, 229(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1754337115581111

Ultra-Wide Band radio positioning systems are maturing very quickly and now represent a good candidate for indoor positioning. The aim of this study was to undertake a quality assessment on the use of a commercial Ultra-Wide Band positioning system f... Read More about Quality assessment of an Ultra-Wide Band positioning system for indoor wheelchair court sports.

Activity profiles of elite wheelchair rugby players during competition (2015)
Journal Article
Rhodes, J. M., Mason, B. S., Perrat, B., Smith, M. J., Malone, L. A., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2015). Activity profiles of elite wheelchair rugby players during competition. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2014-0203

To quantify the activity profiles of elite wheelchair rugby and establish classification-specific arbitrary speed zones. Additionally, indicators of fatigue during full matches were explored. Methods: Seventy-five elite wheelchair rugby players from... Read More about Activity profiles of elite wheelchair rugby players during competition.

The validity and reliability of a novel indoor player tracking system for use within wheelchair court sports (2014)
Journal Article
Rhodes, J. M., Mason, B. S., Perrat, B., Smith, M., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2014). The validity and reliability of a novel indoor player tracking system for use within wheelchair court sports. Journal of Sports Sciences, 32(17), https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2014.910608

The aim of the current study was to investigate the validity and reliability of a radio- frequency based system for accurately tracking athlete movement within the wheelchair court sports. Four wheelchair specific tests were devised to assess the sys... Read More about The validity and reliability of a novel indoor player tracking system for use within wheelchair court sports.