User:WernerLeyh
Werner Leyh
Postdoctoral researcher, AGORA - A Geospatial Open collaboRative Architecture for building resilience against disasters and extreme events
Location: Department of Computer Systems, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (show on OpenStreetMap)
- Short Bio
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)
- Research
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, PNUD, WHO, OPAS) and the federal Brazilian government administration in the field of spatial data infrastructure, public health management and environmental monitoring network. He also participated in various R&D- projects funded by the European Union.