in short.I'm a student (-assistant) in Geoinformatics at the
ifgi in Münster, Germany. Currently
I am employed at the open-source initiative 52°North
and as a member of the Sensorweb & Simulationlab (swsl)
team I'm responsible for the OGC-
SPS development/maintenance/support.
diploma thesis.In my diploma thesis I did a research about the
OLPC XO laptop and how to develop geospatial learning applications for children on it. The thesis
is part of the GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool project of the ifgi including the
ESRI Deutschland GmbH and 52°North.
Have a look at the project blog if you are interested in updates.
sensor planning.The Sensor Planning Service (SPS) enables easy integration of new sensors into an
SDI
by providing a standard interface to a wide variety of collection devices (i. e., sensors,
and other information gathering devices) and their support systems. This tasking service
makes interoperable sensor control and maintenance possible.
→ If you want to have a closer look at SPS please visit the
project page
on the 52°North website.
→ If you are interested in development have a look at the
development Twiki
(current release: version 1-00-00).
ows-{5,6,7}.I'm involved in OGC's OWS phases. While bringing the SPS through the Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE) thread in OWS phase 5, I supported OWS-6 with a Video on Demand (VOD)Service and contributed two videos (1. scenario (52MB)) showing the interplay of an SPS and a VOD (2. interplay (34MB)). Also, in OWS-7 a VOD will play a role in the video change detection scenario.
sos adapter.The ArcGISSosAdapter offers a step-by-step wizard to obtain sensor data from an SOS. The user enters required parameters and downloads the data of interest into a geodatabase which holds ESRI's ArcHydro datamodel. Thus, users do not need any expertise on the underlying SWE architecture. The Adapter is designed as hidden extension, being able to hold important session data in memory during the whole work on a project. This allows to provide service management of bounded SOS instances.
A storage mechanism is implemented and allows to save the current session status into the mxd project file. Therefore, sensor data can always be updated to the most current point in time.
The ArcGISSosAdapter provides a valuable enhancement of ESRI ArcGIS, as it allows for the first time, the interoperable standards-based integration of sensor data. This new means for accessing real-time, as well as historic, time-series data, opens up a new field of ArcGIS applications.
typesetting.
I am a fan of the
typesetting system LaTeX.
As the former (La)TeX-representative
for the student body of geoinformatics (geofs), I'm looking after
the TeX-corner (german).
olpc.
I currently write my diploma thesis in context of the One Laptop Per Child project trying to investigate if the XO laptop provides a learning platform for spatial thinking. This is quite challenging due to a lot of requirements I have to consider (technological and educational). But it is fun working with these laptops, since they provide a different system environment than we are normally accustomed to.
