Prof. Dr. Maik Thomas

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Germany

Earth System Modelling - A new challenge for Geoinformatics?
(Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 09.30am)

Maik Thomas is Head of Section 1.3: Earth System Modelling at the Department 1: Geodesy and Remote Sensing of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. He is Professor of Global Dynamic Geomodelling at Freie Universität Berlin and Vice-President of Commission 3.3 "Geophysical Fluids" of the International Association of Geodesy. The main focus of Maik Thomas’ scientific research lies on the simulation of spatio-temporal variations of mass distributions within and mass exchanges among the Earth´s fluid subsystems as well as on the integration of geodetic monitoring data into numerical model approaches. Please visit Maik Thomas’ official website at GFZ for further information.

Ron Lake

Galdos Systems Inc.

Canada

Collaboration and Publishing of Urban 3D City Models
(Thursday, November 4, 2010, 9.00am)

Ron Lake is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Galdos Systems Inc., a world leader in the secure, automated, and real time sharing of geospatial and geospatially-related information. Mr. Lake is the original creator of GML, and has made important contributions to other standards including WMS, WFS, SLD, WCS, CSw-ebRIM etc. Galdos Systems provides technology and solutions for the realization of sustainable 3D city models, and for their publication, sharing, and exploitation.