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I teach Geoinformatics at Osaka City University, Japan and
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also work as an Adjunct Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology,
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==About==
Thailand. Have been involved with FOSS4G since the 1990's.
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Venkatesh Raghavan (aka Venka) is Professor of Geoinformatics at the [http://www.gscc.osaka-cu.ac.jp/E/index.html Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan]. He coined the [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G FOSS4G] acronym in 2004 to denote Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics and has been promoting FOSS4G ever since. He is also one of the founders of OSGeo and currently serves as President and also plays active role in OSGeo Local Chapters in Asia.  
Also involved in OSGeo since its inception in 2006. Presently,
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carrying out my academic duties and research using OSGeo software.
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Research interest includes Geospatial Services, Sensor Web and Remote Sensing for change detection. Recently, involved in [http://www.zoo-project.org ZOO WPS Platform] Project. Team leader and member in several Geoinformatics projects and vast experience in conducting national and international training programs and development of learning materials for RS/GIS using FOSS4G.
Current interest include Sensor Observation Service, Community GIS,
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Distributed Geoprocessing.
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On 2012-10-25, Venka was named as the recipient of the [http://www.osgeo.org/news/solkatz2012 2012 Sol Katz Award], at the inaugural FOSS4G-India event, in Hyderabad.
Contact [http://www.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~raghavan Venkatesh Raghavan]
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Latest revision as of 08:03, 25 August 2019

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About

Venkatesh Raghavan (aka Venka) is Professor of Geoinformatics at the Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan. He coined the FOSS4G acronym in 2004 to denote Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics and has been promoting FOSS4G ever since. He is also one of the founders of OSGeo and currently serves as President and also plays active role in OSGeo Local Chapters in Asia.

Research interest includes Geospatial Services, Sensor Web and Remote Sensing for change detection. Recently, involved in ZOO WPS Platform Project. Team leader and member in several Geoinformatics projects and vast experience in conducting national and international training programs and development of learning materials for RS/GIS using FOSS4G.

On 2012-10-25, Venka was named as the recipient of the 2012 Sol Katz Award, at the inaugural FOSS4G-India event, in Hyderabad.

contact:

email venkat(at)osgeo.org
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/venkatesh-raghavan/14/7b2/597
OSGeo Experience
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