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Presentation:Research & Education at the Institute of Cartography TU Dresden

With a focus on Geovisual Analytics in Location-Based Social Media Data

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dirk Burghardt

Institute of Cartography Dresden University of Technology

Helmholzstr.10

D-01062 Dresden, Deutschland

Tel.: +49-351-463-36200

Fax: +49-351-463-37028

e-mail:dirk.burghardt@tu-dresden.de

Dirk Burghardt is a full professor since 2009 at the Institute of Cartography, TU Dresden. He holds a PhD degree in GIScience from Dresden University of Technology and a Habilitation degree in GIScience from the University of Zurich. From 1998-2001 he worked as a software engineer and product manager in a map production company in Switzerland. Between 2002 and 2008 he was lecturer in the GIS Division at the University of Zurich (CH). Prof. Burghardt was chair of the ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation of the International Cartographic Association from 2009-2017. Currently he is the coordinator and speaker of the VGIscience priority program funded by the German Research Foundation. His main research interests include geovisual analytics and cartographic communication, automated generalisation and map production, geographic information retrieval and multi-scale representations with focus on location-based social media data.This time, he will talk about research and education at the Institute of Cartography, TU Dresden.One focus will be on "Geovisual Analytics applied to Location-Based Social Media data", but he will also introduce other topics and his department.

Time & location

2018-02-28

10:00 – 11:30 am

Room: 220

School of Resource and Environmental Science