Chair of Geoinformatics

The Chair of Geoinformatics is a cross-cutting Professorship in the Department of Geosciences at Technische Universität Dresden, with an interdisciplinary team. Research and Education focuses on various topics within the discipline of Geoinformatics (Geoinformation Science).

Geoinformatics deals with the design, development, and application of information technologies to offer the methodologies and tools for tackling geoscientific problems and especially to support the management, analysis, and exploration of spatio-temporal information. The current research is focused on Geoinformation Systems and Spatial Data Infrastructures, spatio-temporal simulation modelling, Spatial Decision Support Systems and Geoprocessing on the Web. Therefore, aspects such as interoperability, usability, and the adoption of new technologies in data acquisition and processing play a major role.

The Professorship offers lectures for students from geoinformatics, geodesy, geography, informatics, hydrology, cartography as well as spatial development and natural resource management. Besides the basics of geoinformation science, the focus is on geosoftware development and geodatabases, the practical application of GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructures.