Z_GIS announcing 2 prof positions

The Inter-Faculty Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS at the University of Salzburg is advertising two tenure-track positions of assistant/associate professors in Geoinformatics / GIScience. With expected starting dates in the fall of 2015, these new positions have been awarded to Z_GIS recognizing its outstanding achievements in research and graduate education.

The new faculty are expected to contribute to Z_GIS' research agenda as well as to its Geoinformatics education programmes on MSc and PhD levels (including the GIScience doctoral college), plus teaching into the Geography Bachelor and other curricula.

Successful candidates are expected to have completed a PhD in a relevant discipline, have started to establish an innovative research record and a documented teaching experience. The full job advert is published in the June 4th university gazette (item #90, page 6). German language skills are essential.

At least one of the following research areas is expected to be at the core of candidates' track record:

• Softwareentwicklung im Bereich der Geoinformatik, mit Schwerpunkt auf Applikationsentwicklung auf aktuellen GI-Plattformen im Kontext verteilter Architekturen. 
• Kartographische Kommunikation und Geovisualisierung. Georeferenzierte Medien auf unterschiedlichen Plattformen einschließlich partizipativer Paradigmen. 
• Geodateninfrastrukturen, verteilte Geodatenbanken und offene Standards. Konzeption und Entwurf von Dienste-basierten GDI-Komponenten sowie Einsatz von OGC-Spezifikationen. 
• Erfassung, Organisation und Auswertung von Geodaten aus dem Gesamtspektrum an Sensoren. 
• Räumliche Analysemethoden zur Extraktion und Abstraktion von Information aus Geodaten, unter Berücksichtigung entscheidungsunterstützender Verfahren und WPS.

Successful PhD defense within the Doctoral College "GIScience"

May, 28, 2014: Bakhtiar Feizizadeh successfully defended his PhD Thesis, entitled "Uncertainty, sensitivity and fuzzy sets in GIS Multicriteria decision analysis”.

Bakhtiar Feizizadeh convincingly presented and defended his research work. Prof. Blaschke served as the chair of the examination panel, Prof. Michael Leitner (Lousiana State University, USA) and Prof. Michael Hogson (University of South Carolina, USA) acted as discussants. After the presentation of the major achievements by the candidate a lively and challenging discussion examined the major achievements of the research work.  Nearly 45 visitors followed this interesting defence, and some participants took the chance to actively engage in this discussion.

This was the third defence in the context of the Doctoral College “GIScience”, since it was established in 2011. Bakhtiar Feizizadeh was an associated student of the DK. His defence offered him the opportunity to establish himself as an expert in the field of his work of research. With this degree Bakhtiar has achieved the next step in his career and we congratulate him to his performance. We wish him all the best for his future career when starting with his professorship at the University of Tabriz, Iran in fall 2014!

GEOBIA conference 2014

This year more than 10 highly qualified researchers represented the department of  Geoinformatics – Z_GIS at the GEOBIA conference in Thessaloniki / Greece  with challenging presentations.

Ivan Tomljenovic, a PhD student of the Doctoral College “GIScience” gave his presentation about “Potential and idiosyncrasy of object-based image analysis for airborne LiDAR-based building detection.  

With more than 130 presentations overall, we are proud of Ivan having been the recipient of the “Best presentation Award”. We congratulate him to this success!

The GEOBIA conference demonstrates the world-wide interest in the emerging field of Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis. GEOBIA events bring together the technical and scientific community of remote sensing and environmental sciences, promoting the development of GEOBIA concepts, methods and applications. 

More than 240 participants coming from the fields of environment and mineral resource management, agriculture, forestry and urban development, had the opportunity to communicate new research results, share technical information, network with fellow experts, and build communities of common interests.

Further information about the conference: http://geobia2014.web.auth.gr/geobia14/

Oracle Excellence in Education Award for UNIGIS

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AGIT & GI_Forum 2014: Early bird extended!

Geoinformatics Forum Symposium and Exhibit -
Salzburg, July 1-4
Early bird extended until May 28!
It's paying off - register now and take advantage of the early bird fee - it's extended until May, 28! We are looking forward to your participation!

Symposium und EXPO für Angewandte Geoinformatik
2. bis 4. Juli in Salzburg
Frühbucherbonus verlängert!
Der Frühbucherbonus wurde bis einschließlich 28. Mai 2014 verlängert!