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{{OSGeo Member
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|Name=Peter Löwe
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|JobTitle=Head of Research Infrastructure
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|Company=DIW Berlin
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|Country=Germany
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|City=Potsdam
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|Coordinate=52.4, 13.066667
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|LocalChapter=FOSSGIS
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|Email=ploewe@osgeo.org
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|InstantMessaging=skype: peter.loewe;
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|SocialMedia=https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterloewe/;
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|Website=www.gisix.com
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|Photo=[[File:Peter_loewe.jpg|thumb|right|Peter Löwe]]
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|Languages=German, English;
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|Info=Peter is a Geographer ([https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2257-0517 ORCID]).
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In 2000 he became the first person to join the newly founded german GRASS User Society (renamed in 2008: [http://www.fossgis.de/ FOSSGIS.de]).
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He actively advocates FOSSGIS in Science in the Earth and Space Informatics ([http://www.egu.eu/essi/ ESSI]) chapters of both the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been organizing [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU OSGeo Townhall events] at the annual EGU General Assembly since 2014.
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He initiated the acquisition and preservation of OSGeo releated scientific film and conference recordings at the German National Library's of Science and Technology (TIB) [http://av.tib.eu TIB AV-Portal], including the [https://doi.org/10.5446/12963 GRASS 1987 video]. The current (2017) annual acquisition rate is about 100 hours of OSGeo-related conference recordings.
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During FOSS4G-Europe 2015 he participated in the launch of the [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee], which he is currently chairing (since August 2015) together with Maxi Cannata.
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He served as a member of the GRASS GIS steering committee from 2016 - 2021.
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In 2017, Peter and Maxi were appointed OSGeo Vice Presidents for Open GeoScience bei the OSGeo Board, while negotiating the [https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-and-agu-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding/ Memorandum of Understanding] with the American Geophysical Society.
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Since 2018 Peter is serving as chapter editor for the open source GIS chapter in the second edition of the [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-72680-7?page=2#toc Springer Handbook of Geographic Information] (release scheduled for mid-2022).
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In 2019, Peter initiated the [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOSS#MOSS_Codebase_Search_.26_Rescue_Effort_.282019_-_2021.29 MOSS search and rescue effort], which led to the recovery of the MOSS codebase and MOSS being recognized as a OSGeo heritage project.
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In 2021, he supported [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI 16 OSGeo projects] to mint Digital Object Identifier ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier DOI]) for their software repositories.
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=== [[User:Peter Loewe|Peter Löwe]] ===
 
=== [[User:Peter Loewe|Peter Löwe]] ===
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[[File:Peter_loewe.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Peter Löwe]]
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* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOSS MOSS GIS Search and Rescue effort (2019 - 2021)]
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*  GRASS GIS PSC (2016- 2019)
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* [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee Open Geoscience Committee (Chair)]
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* Member of German Chapter [http://www.fossgis.de] since 2000. FOSSGIS Deputy Chairperson from 2008 - 2009
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* Member of GRASS GIS (Add-on Developer) [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns]: '''g.infer''', '''v.out.kml''', '''r.mandelbrot''', '''g.citation'''
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=== Presentations, Multimedia and Reach Out  ===
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==== Data Animations (Youtube) ====
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blgAVshlcrg Weather Radar Data Space Time Cube (xz=lat/lon y=Precipitation + Intensity(red)) done with GRASS/ParaView]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdFLESy99hQ Weather Radar Data Space Time Cube (x=droplet size y=elevation z=time]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PW9p4v1ZHg v.trees animation]
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==== Recommended OSGeo-themend scientific videos (please reuse and cite by DOI link) ====
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* [http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/12963 GRASS GIS Promotional Video (from 1987)]
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* [http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/14652 GRASS GIS Code Evolution]
  
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Location: Potsdam, Germany
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==== [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Peter_Loewe_Videoquotes Favorite Video-Quotes] ====
  
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Peter is a physical Geographer. He learend the ropes of GIS at UT Austin in 1994 (Geographers Craft Project by Ken Foote) and ventured into FOSS GIS during his PhD study (Radarmeteorology/Soil Erosion in South Africa), which relied heavily on GRASS GIS.
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=== Reach Out Activities ===
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* '''[http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/ Enabling FAIR Project]''' (2017 - 2019): Stakeholder for OSGeo
  
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In 2000 he became the first member to actually join the newly founded german Grass User Society (now: FOSSGIS.de).
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* '''[https://eufordigital.eu/discover-eu/eap-connect/ EAPConnect]''' (2016 - 2019): Presentations at EaP conferences about OSGeo in Minsk (2017), Chisinau (2018) and Yerevan (2019).
  
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After receiving research prices for his PhD and spin-off work, he founded GEOMANCERS.net (now: GISIX.com), producing GISIX, the first portable FOSSGIS workbench based on on a live-linux CD/DVD.  
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* '''European Geoscience Union General Assembly (EGU GA)'''
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** ESSI: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Geoinformatics and Geosciences (Convener): 2022,2021,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015,2014,[http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12088 2013]
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** OSGeo Townhall Event Organizer (2014 - 2019): [[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU]]
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** Splinter Meeting Organizer (2012-2013): FOSS in Science: [http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223 2013] ([https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/2013-splinter-meeting-fossinthegeosciencesv02 Presentation]), 2012
  
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He also worked as a Ranger in the UNESCO Geopark Bergstrasse-Odenwald (south of Frankfurt a.M., Germany), developing prototype WebGIS-solutions and Globe-Browser interfaces for the trail network.
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* '''American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting'''
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** Full session of FOSS in Science (Convener): 2013, 2012
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** Representation of OSGeo within the [http://www.copdess.org/home/enabling-fair-data-project/ Enabbling FAIR data] project
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** 2018: Preparation of a MOU between AGU and OSGeo
  
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For the development of crisis management and early warning systems triggered by the Sumatra Tsunami of 2004, he joined the National German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam in 2006. After a two-year excursion into the remote sensing satellite industry (Rapideye.de), developing GRASS/Google Earth based visualisation tools, he returned to GFZ in 2011. There he continues work on FOSSGIS-based business process workflows (ITIL), large scale FOSSGIS computing on the GFZ High Performance Cluster and knowledge modelling.
 
  
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He actively advocates FOSSGIS in Science in the Earth and Space Informatics (ESSI) chapters of both the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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* '''GIS Day''' at Albert Einstein Science Park, Potsdam: 2011 - 2015 ([https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/gis-day-2015-geoinformatics-open-source-and-videos-a-library-perspective Pres 1], [https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/gis-day-2015-guerilla-globes Guerilla Globes]) ,[https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/3d-printing-gis-day-2013-work-in-progress-reportgisday-2013-3dprinting005mediumres 2013], [https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/gfz-gis-day-2012-tangible-printouts-from-gisdata 2012]
  
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Current reach out activities also include the launch and hosting of the annual GFZ GISDAY in November, which comes with a strong FOSSGIS flavour.
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* Other:
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** 2017: [https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2017/03/22/star-trek-universitaet-hannover-and-the-origins-of-computer-cartography/ TIB Blog: Star Trek, Universität Hannover and the origins of computer cartography]
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** 2014: Lectures on FOSS-based Tsunami Early Warning Systems, remote Sensing and 3D Printing @ Osaka University, Japan
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** 2005: [https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/gis-eine-bersicht-fr-lehrkrfte Universität Würzburg: GIS - Eine Übersicht für Lehrkräft]
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** 2004: [https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/foss-freiburg2004 Des Kaisers neue Kleider: Potentiale und Chancen von FOSSGIS für die Forschung und Ausbildung (GAV e.V.) ]
  
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On the side, he supports the Geoinformatics Department of the U of Potsdam by teaching Computational Visualisation and does FOSSGIS-related consulting.
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=== Teaching ===
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* Humboldt Universität Berlin: Research Data Management (2017)
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* Universität Potsdam: Geoinformation and Visualisation (2011 - 2012)
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* Universität Würzburg: Open Source GIS (2004 - 2005)
  
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=== OSGeo Meeting Participation ===
  
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* '''FOSS4G''':
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** 2017 (Baltimore) Towards OSGeo best practices for scientific software citation: Integration options for persistent identifiers in OSGeo project repositories ([https://oc.diw.de/index.php/s/tburcjT9rvSLTi9 Presentation][https://vimeo.com/236783163 Video])
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** 2016 (Bonn) OSGeo conference videos as a resource for scientific research: The TIB|AV Portal ([https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/the-tibav-portal-osgeo-conference-videos-as-a-resource-for-scientific-research Presentation / ][https://doi.org/10.5446/20452 Video (English)]),
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** 2014 (Portland)
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*** GRASS GIS, Star Trek and old videotape ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/fosgrass-gis-star-trek-and-old-video-tape-a-reference-case-on-audiovisual-preservation-for-the-osgeo-communitiessgis-portland-2014oldvideotapemidresreleaseppt Presentation]);
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*** Public screening of GRASS 1987 video ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/foss4-g-portland2014movieannouncement01hiresppt Presentation] [https://doi.org/10.5446/12963#t=00:01,00:32 Video]);
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*** Scientific 3D-printing with GRASS GIS ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/fossgis-portland-20143dprintingmidresrelease Presentation]),
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** 2010 (Barcelona),
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** 2008 (Cape Town) GRASS Development with Eclipse/CDT ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/foss4g-2008 Poster]),
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** 2006 (Lausanne)
  
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* '''FOSS4G-(C)E''': 2015 (Como) [https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/acquisition-of-audiovisual-scientific-technical-information-from-osgeo-a-work-in-progress-report-2015 Presentation] , 2014 (Bremen), 2012 (Prague) [https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/gi/article/viewFile/gi.8.2/2432 Proceedings]
  
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* '''FOSSGIS''':
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** 2015 (Münster) Das audiovisuelle Erbe der OSGeo-Projekte ([https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/fossgis-2015-das-audiovisuelle-erbe-der-osgeoprojekte Presentation / ] [https://doi.org/10.5446/17601 Video],
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** 2014 (Berlin): Scientific 3D Printing with GRASS GIS ([https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/fossgis-2014-3dprintingrelease Presentation / ][http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/14843 Video (German)]),
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** 2012 (Dessau) (Poster: [https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/2012-fossgis-dessaukatzenbuckelv10 Network Optimisation - Katzenbuckel])( Poster:[https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/fossgis-2012-rapideye-satellitenbildkarten-und-grass-gis-neue-optionen-der-krisenkartierung-in-tridec Rapideye Satellitendaten und GRASS GIS]),
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** 2009 (Hannover) (FOSSGIS e.V. keynote)
  
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* Member of German Chapter [http://www.fossgis.de] since 2000.
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* '''Assorted''':
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* Member of GRASS GIS (Add-on Developer) [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns]
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** European Geosciences Union /Earth and Space Science Informatics
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*** 2017: Community software projects for Open Science - Bridging the gap between EGU and OSGeo ([http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-9907.pdf Abstract])
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*** 2016:Audiovisual heritage preservation in Earth and Space Science Informatics: Videos from Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conferences in the TIB|AV-Portal ([http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-5827.pdf Abstract])
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*** 2015: Globes from global data: Charting international research networks with the GRASS GIS r.out.polycones add-on module ([http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-5138-1.pdf Abstract])
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*** 2015: Publishing Platform for Scientific Software – Lessons Learned ([https://presentations.copernicus.org/EGU2015-13068_presentation.pdf Poster])
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*** 2015: Mining the Geophysical Research Abstracts Corpus: Mapping the impact of Free and Open Source Software on the EGU Divisions ([http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-8512.pdf Abstract])
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*** 2014: Tectonic Storytelling with Open Source Tools ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/2014-egu-essitectonicshalfsphere13300dpi Presenation] [http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/EGU2014-7457-1.pdf Abstract])
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*** 2014: Data Science - History repeated ? ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/2014-egu-datascience07300dpi Presentation] [http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/EGU2014-10027.pdf Abstract])
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*** 2013: The new g.infer add-on for GRASS GIS ([https://de.slideshare.net/loewe/egu-general-assembly-2013-the-new-ginfer-addon-for-grass-gis Poster])
  
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* OSGEO Meeting Participation (excerpt)
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** GRASS Users Conference 2002
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** 2011: WGUG Meeting (Wroclaw)
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** FOSS/GRASS Conference Bangkok 2004
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** 2004: FOSS/GRASS Conference (Bangkok) (supported by the [http://www.eiselen-stiftung.de/index-en.php Eiselen Foundation]
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** FOSS4G Lausanne 2006
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** 2002: GRASS Users Conference (Trento) A spatial decision support system for radar meteorologic data in South Africa [https://doi.org/10.5446/21775 Video (English)]
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** FOSS4G Cape Town 2008
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** QGIS Community Sprint Wroclaw 2010
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=== Details  ===
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** FOSS4G Barcelona 2010
 
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** WGUG Meeting Wroclaw 2011
 
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** FOSS4G-CEE Prague 2012
 
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** GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2011
 
  
 
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;Contact:
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: Email: peter DOT loewe AT gmx DOT de
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: Email: ploewe AT osgeo DOT org
  
 
;Spoken Language(s):  
 
;Spoken Language(s):  
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:  German (native speaker), English (fluent), Spanish (basic), Hessian, Lisp, Python, Perl, Java
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:  German (native speaker), English (fluent), Spanish (basic), Lisp, Python, Perl, Java, Bash
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;Profile last updated: 2021-07-23
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====Background Info ====
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Peter is a Z Physical Geographer ([https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2257-0517 ORCID]).
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He learend the ropes of GIS at UT Austin in 1994 ([http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/contents.html Geographers Craft Project] by [http://www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/foote.html Ken Foote]) and ventured into FOSS GIS during his PhD study (Radarmeteorology/Soil Erosion in South Africa -  [http://www.amazon.de/Niederschlagserosivit%C3%A4t-Fallstudie-S%C3%BCdafrika-basierend-Wetterradar/dp/3836450186/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405528362&sr=8-1&keywords=Niederschlagserosivit%C3%A4t+L%C3%B6we book][http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/664 free pdf][https://www.slideshare.net/loewe/artificial-intelligence-techniques-applied-to-radarmeteorology-and-soil-erosion-research-studies-regarding-a-soil-erosion-parameter-in-south-africa Summary presentation]), which relied heavily on GRASS GIS.
  
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In 2000 he became the first person to actually join the newly founded german GRASS User Society (renamed in 2008: [http://www.fossgis.de/ FOSSGIS.de]).
  
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After being awarded research prices [http://www.umweltdialog.de/de/umwelt/klima/archiv/2002-12-17_230.php 1][http://www.universitaet-wuerzburg.de/intern/w050601b.html 2] for his PhD and spin-off work, he founded [http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/12698/ GEOMANCERS.net] (now: GISIX.com), producing [http://portal.mytum.de/wimes/messekalender2005/cebit2005 GISIX], the first portable FOSSGIS workbench based on on a live-linux CD/DVD.
  
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Born and raised in the lovely Odenwald (Michelstadt) on 24 June 1969, now living in Potsdam, Germany.
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He also worked as a Ranger in the [http://www.europeangeoparks.org/?page_id=455 UNESCO Geopark Bergstrasse-Odenwald] (south of Frankfurt a.M., Germany), developing prototype WebGIS-solutions and Globe-Browser interfaces for the trail network.
  
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For the development of early warning systems, triggered by the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRv76yMMdDQ Sumatra Tsunami] of 2004, he joined the National German Research Centre for Geosciences ([http://www.gfz-potsdam.de GFZ]) in Potsdam in 2006. After a two-year excursion into the remote sensing satellite industry ([http://www.rapideye.com/ Rapideye AG]), doing project management and developing [http://de.slideshare.net/loewe/fossgis-2012-rapideye-satellitenbildkarten-und-grass-gis-neue-optionen-der-krisenkartierung-in-tridec GRASS/Google Earth based visualisation tools], he returned to GFZ for work at the [http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/cegit Centre for Geoinformation Technology] in 2011. His  FOSS-related work focused on FOSSGIS-themed business process workflows ([http://de.slideshare.net/loewe/intergeo-2012-presentation-of-the-foss-gis-aspects-of-the-tridec-project-german ITIL]), large scale [http://ebooks.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:100071:1FOSSGIS computing on the GFZ High Performance Cluster] and data visualisation, including [http://de.slideshare.net/loewe/scientific-3d-printing-gfz-geoinformatics-kollquium-april-2012 3D Printing].
  
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Researcher / Senior Geoinformatics Troubleshooter [http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/cegit/Mitarbeiter/Staff/Peter+L%C3%B6we  Centre for Geoinformatics Technology (CeGIT) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ)], Potsdam, Germany.
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He actively advocates FOSSGIS in Science in the Earth and Space Informatics ([http://www.egu.eu/essi/ ESSI]) chapters of both the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been organizing OSGeo Townhall events at the annual EGU General Assembly since 2014.  
  
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In 2011 he started the [http://ebooks.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:100093:2/component/escidoc:100091/GFZeitung_2012_12_4.pdf GFZ GISDAY] events at GFZ Potsdam.
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On the side, he supported the Geoinformatics Department of the U of Potsdam by teaching Computational Visualisation and does FOSSGIS-related [http://de.slideshare.net/loewe/2012-fossgis-dessaukatzenbuckelv10 consulting].
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From 2013 till 2017 he led the Development Department of  the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) and served as E-Science Group Leader at the [https://www.l3s.de/home L3S Research Centre] in Hannover.
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He initiated the acquisition and preservation of OSGeo releated scientific film and conference recordings at the German National Library's of Science and Technology (TIB) [http://av.tib.eu TIB AV-Portal], including the [https://doi.org/10.5446/12963 GRASS 1987 video]. The current (2017) annual acquisition rate is about 100 hours of OSGeo-related conference recordings.
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During FOSS4G-Europe 2015 he participated in the launch of the [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee], which he is currently chairing (since August 2015) together with Maxi Cannata.
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==== Present position ====
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[http://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.396864.en/about_us/services_at_diw_berlin/research_infrastructure/research_infrastructure.html DIW: Head of Research Infrastructure]
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==== Work experience ====
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* 2017 - now : German Instute for Economic Research, Head of Research Infrastructure
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* 2014 - 2017: E-Science Group Leader at the L3S Research Center, Hannover
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* 2013 - 2017: Head of Development at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).
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* 2011 - 2013: Project Manager / Senior Geoinformatics Troubleshooter @ Centre for Geoinformatics Technology (CeGIT) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany.
 
* 2008 - 2011: Project Manager in the Product Development Group of [http://www.rapideye.de Rapideye AG]
 
* 2008 - 2011: Project Manager in the Product Development Group of [http://www.rapideye.de Rapideye AG]
 
* 2007 - 2008: Scientific Project Manager (Distant Early Warning System Project: DEWS) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ)], Potsdam, Germany.
 
* 2007 - 2008: Scientific Project Manager (Distant Early Warning System Project: DEWS) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ)], Potsdam, Germany.
 
* 2006 - 2007: Geoinformatics Specialist (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System: GITEWS) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ)], Potsdam, Germany.
 
* 2006 - 2007: Geoinformatics Specialist (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System: GITEWS) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ)], Potsdam, Germany.
 
* 2003 - now: General Manager of Geomancers.net(Würzburg)/GISIX.com (Potsdam), Germany.
 
* 2003 - now: General Manager of Geomancers.net(Würzburg)/GISIX.com (Potsdam), Germany.
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* 2003 - 2006: Ranger at the [http://www.geo-naturpark.net/deutsch/index.php Geopark Bergstrasse-Odenwald]
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* 1999 - 2002: Research Assistant (Geography / Computer Sciences) at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
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* Dissertation: [http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2004/759/ "Artificial Intelligence Methods in Radar-Meteorology and Soil Erosion Research"] Geography Department,  University of Würzburg, 1998. [http://www.amazon.de/Niederschlagserosivit%C3%A4t-Fallstudie-S%C3%BCdafrika-basierend-Wetterradar/dp/3836450186/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405528362&sr=8-1&keywords=Niederschlagserosivit%C3%A4t+L%C3%B6we book]
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* Dissertation: [http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2004/759/ "Artificial Intelligence Methods in Radar-Meteorology and Soil Erosion Research"] Geography Department,  University of Würzburg, 1998.
 
  
 
* Masters thesis knowledge-based reomte sensing classification: "Knowledge based classification of geographic spatial elements applied to a test site in southern Namibia", Geography Department,  University of Würzburg, 1998.
 
* Masters thesis knowledge-based reomte sensing classification: "Knowledge based classification of geographic spatial elements applied to a test site in southern Namibia", Geography Department,  University of Würzburg, 1998.
  
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* 1994/95 Exchange Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Focus: GIS ([http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/about/penngeog/penngeog.html The Geographers Craft]), Urban Studies, [http://sites.utexas.edu/butzer/geoarchaeology-and-environmental-history/ Geoarcheology and environmental history]
  
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OSGeo Member
Name: Peter Löwe [[File:
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Job Title: Head of Research Infrastructure
Company: DIW Berlin
Address:
City: Potsdam
State:
Country: Germany
Local Chapter: FOSSGIS
Email: ploewe@osgeo.org
Phone:
Instant Messaging: skype: peter.loewe
Website: www.gisix.com
Language(s): German, English
Personal Description : Peter is a Geographer (ORCID).

In 2000 he became the first person to join the newly founded german GRASS User Society (renamed in 2008: FOSSGIS.de).

He actively advocates FOSSGIS in Science in the Earth and Space Informatics (ESSI) chapters of both the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been organizing OSGeo Townhall events at the annual EGU General Assembly since 2014.

He initiated the acquisition and preservation of OSGeo releated scientific film and conference recordings at the German National Library's of Science and Technology (TIB) TIB AV-Portal, including the GRASS 1987 video. The current (2017) annual acquisition rate is about 100 hours of OSGeo-related conference recordings.

During FOSS4G-Europe 2015 he participated in the launch of the OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee, which he is currently chairing (since August 2015) together with Maxi Cannata.

He served as a member of the GRASS GIS steering committee from 2016 - 2021.

In 2017, Peter and Maxi were appointed OSGeo Vice Presidents for Open GeoScience bei the OSGeo Board, while negotiating the Memorandum of Understanding with the American Geophysical Society.

Since 2018 Peter is serving as chapter editor for the open source GIS chapter in the second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geographic Information (release scheduled for mid-2022).

In 2019, Peter initiated the MOSS search and rescue effort, which led to the recovery of the MOSS codebase and MOSS being recognized as a OSGeo heritage project.

In 2021, he supported 16 OSGeo projects to mint Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for their software repositories.
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Peter Löwe

| ]] [[Info::Peter is a Geographer (ORCID).

In 2000 he became the first person to join the newly founded german GRASS User Society (renamed in 2008: FOSSGIS.de).

He actively advocates FOSSGIS in Science in the Earth and Space Informatics (ESSI) chapters of both the European Geoscience Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and has been organizing OSGeo Townhall events at the annual EGU General Assembly since 2014.

He initiated the acquisition and preservation of OSGeo releated scientific film and conference recordings at the German National Library's of Science and Technology (TIB) TIB AV-Portal, including the GRASS 1987 video. The current (2017) annual acquisition rate is about 100 hours of OSGeo-related conference recordings.

During FOSS4G-Europe 2015 he participated in the launch of the OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee, which he is currently chairing (since August 2015) together with Maxi Cannata.

He served as a member of the GRASS GIS steering committee from 2016 - 2021.

In 2017, Peter and Maxi were appointed OSGeo Vice Presidents for Open GeoScience bei the OSGeo Board, while negotiating the Memorandum of Understanding with the American Geophysical Society.

Since 2018 Peter is serving as chapter editor for the open source GIS chapter in the second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geographic Information (release scheduled for mid-2022).

In 2019, Peter initiated the MOSS search and rescue effort, which led to the recovery of the MOSS codebase and MOSS being recognized as a OSGeo heritage project.

In 2021, he supported 16 OSGeo projects to mint Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for their software repositories.| ]]

OSGeo Experience and Roles:

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Peter Löwe

Presentations, Multimedia and Reach Out

Data Animations (Youtube)

Recommended OSGeo-themend scientific videos (please reuse and cite by DOI link)

Favorite Video-Quotes

Reach Out Activities

  • EAPConnect (2016 - 2019): Presentations at EaP conferences about OSGeo in Minsk (2017), Chisinau (2018) and Yerevan (2019).
  • European Geoscience Union General Assembly (EGU GA)
    • ESSI: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Geoinformatics and Geosciences (Convener): 2022,2021,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015,2014,2013
    • OSGeo Townhall Event Organizer (2014 - 2019): [[3]]
    • Splinter Meeting Organizer (2012-2013): FOSS in Science: 2013 (Presentation), 2012
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    • Full session of FOSS in Science (Convener): 2013, 2012
    • Representation of OSGeo within the Enabbling FAIR data project
    • 2018: Preparation of a MOU between AGU and OSGeo


Teaching

  • Humboldt Universität Berlin: Research Data Management (2017)
  • Universität Potsdam: Geoinformation and Visualisation (2011 - 2012)
  • Universität Würzburg: Open Source GIS (2004 - 2005)

OSGeo Meeting Participation

  • FOSS4G:
    • 2017 (Baltimore) Towards OSGeo best practices for scientific software citation: Integration options for persistent identifiers in OSGeo project repositories (PresentationVideo)
    • 2016 (Bonn) OSGeo conference videos as a resource for scientific research: The TIB|AV Portal (Presentation / Video (English)),
    • 2014 (Portland)
    • 2010 (Barcelona),
    • 2008 (Cape Town) GRASS Development with Eclipse/CDT (Poster),
    • 2006 (Lausanne)
  • Assorted:
    • European Geosciences Union /Earth and Space Science Informatics
      • 2017: Community software projects for Open Science - Bridging the gap between EGU and OSGeo (Abstract)
      • 2016:Audiovisual heritage preservation in Earth and Space Science Informatics: Videos from Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conferences in the TIB|AV-Portal (Abstract)
      • 2015: Globes from global data: Charting international research networks with the GRASS GIS r.out.polycones add-on module (Abstract)
      • 2015: Publishing Platform for Scientific Software – Lessons Learned (Poster)
      • 2015: Mining the Geophysical Research Abstracts Corpus: Mapping the impact of Free and Open Source Software on the EGU Divisions (Abstract)
      • 2014: Tectonic Storytelling with Open Source Tools (Presenation Abstract)
      • 2014: Data Science - History repeated ? (Presentation Abstract)
      • 2013: The new g.infer add-on for GRASS GIS (Poster)


    • 2011: WGUG Meeting (Wroclaw)
    • 2004: FOSS/GRASS Conference (Bangkok) (supported by the Eiselen Foundation
    • 2002: GRASS Users Conference (Trento) A spatial decision support system for radar meteorologic data in South Africa Video (English)

Details

Contact
Email: ploewe AT osgeo DOT org
Spoken Language(s)
German (native speaker), English (fluent), Spanish (basic), Lisp, Python, Perl, Java, Bash
Profile last updated
2021-07-23


Background Info

He initiated the acquisition and preservation of OSGeo releated scientific film and conference recordings at the German National Library's of Science and Technology (TIB) TIB AV-Portal, including the GRASS 1987 video. The current (2017) annual acquisition rate is about 100 hours of OSGeo-related conference recordings.

During FOSS4G-Europe 2015 he participated in the launch of the OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee, which he is currently chairing (since August 2015) together with Maxi Cannata.


Present position

DIW: Head of Research Infrastructure


Education

  • Masters thesis knowledge-based reomte sensing classification: "Knowledge based classification of geographic spatial elements applied to a test site in southern Namibia", Geography Department, University of Würzburg, 1998.

Computer skills and related activities

  • Languages: Python, Perl, Lisp, R, C, Java, bash, SQL, COOL.
  • Software: GRASS GIS, Quantum GIS, Clips, POV-Ray, Blender, Google Earth, R, GMT
  • LSF-based High Performance Clusters


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