User:WernerLeyh

Location: Department of Computer Systems, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (show on OpenStreetMap)

Werner Leyh received his PhD in Robotics at the Technische Universitat München (TUM): Chair of Building Realization and Robotics

He's a co-leader of USP´s research group for "Spatial data infrastructure" (SDI): Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Infraestrutura de Dados Espaciais (GEPIDE)

Werner Leyh started his GIS-related research activities working on methodologies for SDI nodes and GeoPortals, but from 2014, he started focusing his activities on the GIS embedded environmental modeling, geospatial Web technologies and interoperability.

He conducted a large number of consultancies for UN agencies (UNESCO, UNDP, WHO, OPAS) and the federal Brazilian government administration in the field of spatial data infrastructure, public health management and environmental monitoring. He also participated in various R&D- projects funded by the European Union.

Natural disaster management with FOSS and OGC: http://www.agora.icmc.usp.br/site/components/
Integration of LOD/W3C (Linked Open Data) and SDI/OGC (Spatial Data Structure) for Disaster Managment: http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/events/45270
OSM and Darwin Core Standard (DWC) for interoperable biodiversity data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Biological
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d987ce61-5b9b-4dd7-9776-b5443d8b8dcc

2006-09-12, FOSS4G2006, Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics, Lausanne, Suisse (Presentation)

2007-05-11, III Encontro Nacional de Usuários MapServer, Brasilia, Brazil - invited keynote Tyler Mitchell/OSGEO (Organization, Presentation)

2007-10-16, MPOG, Seminário Padrões para Intercâmbio de Informações Espaciais, Brasilia, Brazil - invited keynote Athina Trakas/OGC (Organization, Presentation)

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