Research

The scientific activities professorship can be characterised by being titled Geoinformation Services for Spatio-Temporal Modeling. Current research foci are:

• development of open, interoperable, service based Geographic Information Systems
• setting up of Spatial Data Infrastructure (regional, national, international)
• interoperable & interdisciplinary spatio-temporal simulation modelling
• development of scientific SDI
• architectural design and methods for distributed and efficient geoprocessing and spatial data integration

Current use cases comprise sustainable land management, climatology, environmental medicine, environmental planning, water management, risk management as well as urban and regional planning. The professorship especially focuses on the information technology profile for the development of a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Faculty of Environmental Sciences.