Talk:Markus Neteler

Markus Neteler

Markus Neteler

Markus Neteler is head of the GIS and Remote Sensing unit at the Research and Innovation Centre of the Edmund Mach Foundation, Trento, Italy. His main research interests are remote sensing for environmental risk assessment, epidemiological GIS modelling and Free Software GIS development, the latter since 1993. He is principal GIS analyst in several European and national project related to vector-borne diseases and biodiversity. He is author/co-author of two books on the Open Source Geographical Information System GRASS and various papers on GIS applications. He is founding-member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) and served in its board of directors from 2006-2011.

Location: Trento, Italy

OSGeo Experience

• OSGeo.org - former member of the Board of Directors (2006-2011) and of some committees since 2006
• chair of the GRASS PSC and hence spending too much time on GRASS GIS :)
• co-founder and member of FOSSGIS.de (formerly GRASS-Anwender-Vereingung e.V. - GAV), D-A-CH and GFOSS.it, Italy
• co-founder of GDF Hannover, Germany
• Sol Katz Award for 2006
• Author of the first book on Open Source GIS together with Helena Mitasova, http://www.grassbook.org
  
• enjoys FOSS4G conferences and community sprints
• offers training courses

Contact

Email: neteler DOT osgeo dot org

http://www.grassbook.org/neteler/

Spoken Language(s)

German, English, Italian

Profile last updated

24 Sept 2012