Mrs Caroline Keay
Senior Database Administrator (LandIS)
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: c.keay@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2771
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
- Oracle database administration
- Relational database design
- Manipulation and derivation of new datasets
- Understanding of Soil Information Systems
Clients
Defra
Background
Caroline Keay is a trained Oracle Database Administrator in the National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI). She is responsible for the management of the Land Information System (LandIS), maintaining a range of reference documents and a comprehensive knowledge of the soil data holdings of NSRI.
Caroline undertakes project management for the LandIS support contract funded by Defra including writing project proposals and reports including hardware and software specification and procurement. She manages a small team to meet the requirements of the LandIS support contract and the data lease activities of the LandIS group.
Selected publications
- Hallett, S.H., Jones, R.J.A., and Keay, C.A. (1996). Environmental Information Systems Developments for planning sustainable land use. Int. J. Geographical Information Systems, vol 10, No.1, 47-64
- Breach, R.A., Porter, M.J., Court, A., Hollis, J.M., Keay, C.A. and Hallett, S.H. (1994). CatchIS - A New Computer Based Catchment Planning and Information System to Assess the Vulnerability of Surface and Groundwater Catchments to Contamination. Proceedings
- Hallett, S.H., Keay, C.A., Jarvis, M.G. and Jones, R.J.A. (1994). INSURE: Subsidence Risk Assessment from Soil and Climate Data. Proceedings, Association for Geographic Information AGI '94, Markets for Geographic Information, Paper 16.2. pp 16.2.1-16.2.7
