Prof. Dr. Thomas Brinkhoff
Institute Board Member
Professor for Geoinformatics
Professor for Geoinformatics
Affiliations
- Member of the Institute for Applied Phogrammetry and Geoinformatics (IAPG)
- Chair of the Society of Geoinformatics in Northern Germany (GiN)
- Member of the Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Computer Science (OFFIS)
- Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Pipeline Construction (IRO)
News
- The Kezhia H. murder case and the IAPG's contribution to solving it is shown in a 25-minute MDR program, which is available in the ARD media library.
- New episode of the audio podcast “Hirn gehört” published: Geoinformatics in action: From criminal cases to dragonfly occurrences to ancient sea routes
- The joint project ProSaDi (Provenance and Collection Research Digital) has started.
Teaching Activities
Modules
- Big Data
- Database Systems
- Spatial Data Management
- Geographic Information Systems: Standards and Services
- GIS Programming
- Project Geoinformatics
- Web Engineering
Theses
Program Manager
Further Education
- 2013-2023: Certificate of Advanced Studies: Spatial Informations Systems, ETH Zürich
Research
Research Interests
- Spatial database systems: storage and retrieval of spatial and spatio-temporal data
- Spatial data management: geospatial services, standards
- Geospatial sensor data: processing and analysis
- Geospatial applications: location-based services, mobile and web-based applications, volunteered geographic information (VGI)
Projects
Publications
- Books and papers in books, journals and proceedings
- Text book "Geodatenbanksysteme in Theorie und Praxis"
- Presentations (since 2006)
Reviewer for Research Grants
- 2003-2012 BMBF program "Forschung an Fachhochschulen mit Unternehmen" (FHprofUnt, FH³, aFuE)
Reviews for International Journals and Conferences
- Member of the editorial board of the gis.Science journal
- Computer Journal, GeoInformatica, GIS.Science, Information Processing Letters, JLBS, JPRS, PFG, TGIS, TKDE, TODS, VLDB Journal etc.
- BTW, EDBT, ACM SIGMOD, VLDB etc.
Member of Program Committees (selection)
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: ACM GIS 2002 - ACM GIS 2005 - ACM GIS 2006 - ACM GIS 2007 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2008 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2009 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2010 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2012 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2013 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation: GeoSim 2018 - GeoSim 2020 - GeoSim 2022 - GeoSim 2024 - GeoSim 2025
- AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: AGILE 2010 - AGILE 2011 - AGILE 2012 - AGILE 2013 - AGILE 2014 - AGILE 2015 - AGILE 2016 - AGILE 2017 - AGILE 2018 - AGILE 2019 - AGILE 2020 - AGILE 2021 - AGILE 2022 - AGILE 2023 - AGILE 2024 - AGILE 2025
- BTW-Workshop on Big (and Small) Data in Science and Humanities: BigDS 2015 - BigDS 2017 - BigDS 2019 - BigDS 2023 - BigDS 2025
- Geoinformatik 2009 - Geoinformatik 2010 - Geoinformatik 2011 - Geoinformatik 2012 - Geoinformatik 2013 - Geoinformatik 2014 - Geoinformatik 2016
- International Conference on Geographic Information Science: GIScience 2023
- International Conference on Mobile Data Management: MDM 2007 - MDM 2014 - MDM 2015
- International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases: SSTD 2001 - SSTD 2003 - SSTD 2007 - SSTD 2009 - SSTD 2011
- International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: W2GIS 2008 - W2GIS 2009 - W2GIS 2011 - W2GIS 2012 - W2GIS 2013 - W2GIS 2014 - W2GIS 2015
Administration
- Member of the department council
- Data protection officer for Oldenburg and Elsfleth campus
Curriculum Vitae
- 1964: born in Bremen
- 1985-1990: Studies of computer science, University of Bremen, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- thesis: "Map Overlay of Thematic Maps Supported by Spatial Access Methods"
- 1990-1991: Research assistent, University of Bremen
- topic: Database System of Biological Indications
- 1991-1995: Research and teaching assistent, Database and Information System Group of the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Munich in Munich
- topic: query processing in spatial database systems
- 1994: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in computer science
- thesis: "spatial join in spatial database systems"
- 1995-1999: Project manager in the information system department of the Mannesmann Autocom GmbH in Düsseldorf
- GIS for traffic information and emergency & breakdown services
- dynamic traffic information via web
- since 1999: Professor for geoinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Oldenburg
- 2008-2012 Dean of studies of the Department of Geoinformation
