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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. | 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. | ||
| − | In 2000 he became the first member to actually join the newly founded german | + | In 2000 he became the first member to actually join the newly founded german GRASS User Society (renamed in 2008: FOSSGIS.de). |
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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 04:03, 29 June 2012
Peter Löwe
Location: Potsdam, Germany
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.
In 2000 he became the first member to actually join the newly founded german GRASS User Society (renamed in 2008: FOSSGIS.de).
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.
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.
For the development of 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. His current FOSS-related work focuses on FOSSGIS-themed business process workflows (-> ITIL), large scale FOSSGIS computing on the GFZ High Performance Cluster and data visualisation.
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).
Current reach out activities also include the launch and hosting of the annual GFZ GISDAY in November, which comes with a strong FOSSGIS flavour.
On the side, he supports the Geoinformatics Department of the U of Potsdam by teaching Computational Visualisation and does FOSSGIS-related consulting.
- OSGeo Experience
- OSGEO Meeting Participation (excerpt)
- GRASS Users Conference 2002
- FOSS/GRASS Conference Bangkok 2004
- FOSS4G Lausanne 2006
- FOSS4G Cape Town 2008
- QGIS Community Sprint Wroclaw 2010
- FOSS4G Barcelona 2010
- WGUG Meeting Wroclaw 2011
- FOSS4G-CEE Prague 2012
- GRASS Community Sprint Prague 2011
- Contact
- Email: peter DOT loewe AT gmx DOT de
- Spoken Language(s)
- German (native speaker), English (fluent), Spanish (basic), Hessian, Lisp, Python, Perl, Java
- Profile last updated
- 29-06-2012
Born and raised in the lovely Odenwald (Michelstadt) on 24 June 1969, now living in Potsdam, Germany.
Present position
Researcher / Senior Geoinformatics Troubleshooter Centre for Geoinformatics Technology (CeGIT) at the German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany.
Work experience
- 2008 - 2011: Project Manager in the Product Development Group of Rapideye AG
- 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.
- 2003 - now: General Manager of Geomancers.net(Würzburg)/GISIX.com (Potsdam), Germany.
- 1999 - 2002: Research Assitant (Geography / Computer Sciences) at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Education
- Dissertation: "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.
- 1994/95 Exchange Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Focus: GIS (The Geographers Craft), Urban Studies, Geoarcheology, Scuba-Diving
- Languages: Python, Perl, Lisp, R, C, Java, bash, SQL, COOL.
- Software: GRASS GIS, Quantum GIS, Clips, POV-Ray, Blender, Google Earth, R
- LSF-based High Performance Clusters
- Memberships:
- FOSSGIS.de
- American Geophysical Union
- European Geosciences Union
- Interessengemeinschaft Odenwald (IGO)
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