Massimiliano Cannata

Professor in geomatics, SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland)

Location: Canobbio, Switzerland

Massimiliano received his PhD in Gedoesy and Geomatics after his master degree in environmental engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. He's currently the head of the geomatic division within the Institute of Earth Sciences (www.ist.supsi.ch) in Switzerland. He's member of the project steering committee (PSC) of the projects GIS GRASS (http://grass.osgeo.org) and ZOO (www.zoo-project.org). He's group developed the istSOS (http://istgeo.ist.supsi.ch/software/istsos/) and Geoshield (https://sites.google.com/site/geoshieldproject/) project. His interest is mainly in (i) natural hazards, (ii) GIS embedded environmental modeling, (iii) geospatial Web services developement.