Geomatics Open Lecture Series
We depend on geo-information, but do YOU know what it is?
The Geomatics lecture series is organized for students in order to make the importance of geo-information for our modern day society better known.
Geo-information is often invisible, but it controls the functioning of more technical devices than you would think.
For example, it provides the necessary information for safe navigation and the offshore industry, it enables dike deformation monitoring through satellites, 3D modelling for urban space management and building tunnels, and location based services such as TomTom and Google maps. It is also used for traffic monitoring, risk assessment of areas that are vulnerable to flooding, and for much more...
Coming lectures:
19 March, Dr.ir. Friso Penninga, Simplicial homology for 3D modelling
Dr.ir. Friso Penninga (municipality The Hague) will give at March 19th, 13.34-15.30, an open lecture within the course Geo-DBMS on the topic “Simplicial homology for 3D modelling”. As this lecture is “open” everyone who is interested in the MSc Geomatics is invited. However we ask participants (except students enrolled in the course and staff members) to register by sending an e-mail to Elfriede Fendel.
Location: Faculty of Architecture, Room R
Past lectures 2011:
6 June, Xuan Wang, Augmented Reality, the next mass media
30 May, Olivier Courtin, 3D support, inside coming PostGIS 2,0
21 March, Thijs Brentjens, National critical geo infrastructure runs on open source database PostGIS (PDF)
Past lectures 2010:
8 June, Ed Parsons, Does Google Earth reflect our needs? (collegerama)
4 May, David Wortley, Serious gaming (ppt)
20 April, Andy Hooper, Volcanic activity in Iceland
15 March, Han Wammes, Oracle (pdf)
24 March, Pieter Jonker, Augmented reality (pdf)
