Upcoming Events

The intention is to broaden the scope of the 2018 conference on “Earth Observation & Copernicus Technologies and Solutions for User Applications” to include the technology fields of “Navigation” und “Geoinformation  Technology”. The conference will function both as a marketplace and a platform for knowledge transfer between technology experts, service  providers and manufacturers as well as users in application sectors and in so doing boost the development. An optional matchmaking session with international participants from business and science provides the…

Geographic Information Science as a science and Geoinformatics as its methodology are not focused on any particular subject domain, but rather on a perspective. As a transversal discipline, an explicitly spatial view is applied to economy, society and the environment. Across traditionally “spatial” subjects, such as planning, resource management and logistics, GIS have long been established. Others, such as the humanities, currently experience the additional benefit of a “spatial turn”. Geoinformatics today provides an increasingly integral and highly important approach…