Archived projects

List of completed and archived project from the GIS Unit at Kew.

Garden routing

Towards a cost-based routing system for visitors to Kew Gardens.

GIS Unit - Itigi thicket project

This project is a collaborative project between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Department of Geomatic Engineering at University College London, monitoring the vegetation of the Itigi thicket using Landsat TM images.

GIS Unit - Princess of Wales Conservatory, virtual tour

The virtual tour enables you to follow a route through the Princess of Wales Conservatory. By viewing a series of 360 degree panoramas, an interactive tour of the ten climatic zones of the conservatory reveals images and botanical information of the plants living inside - through a combination of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and multimedia visualisation techniques.