Peter M. Atkinson
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Peter M. Atkinson is Distinguished Professor of Spatial Data Science at Lancaster University. He previously served as Executive Dean of Lancaster University’s Faculty of Science and Technology for 10 years from 2015 to 2025, and was also interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medicine from 2018 to 2019. Before joining Lancaster in those leadership roles, he was Head of the School of Geography at the University of Southampton from 2007 to 2012. He is known for research in spatial data science, including Earth observation, geostatistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and he is Editor-in-Chief of Science of Remote Sensing.
Updated 4 September 2026
Public sources: lancaster.ac.uk
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